thursday: arrive pittsburgh 1:30pm. my sister (chris) picks me up and i go hang out at hers and mark's place. dick around with motorcycle stuff for a while when mark gets home. drive to campus from bridgeville with mark to drop off carb sync for jeff dowley. talk with jeff about motorcycle stuff. takes me 5 minutes to recognize this jeff as the sigma nu jeff i met like once freshman year at an autocross (he races/raced? a spitfire) and is now getting into bikes. (good choice, jeff :)

i have no phone #'s for anyone and have no idea who's staying where so i just go to the upstage that night. that was ok except it was like retro night and the music was not so hot (thanks to mark and chris for letting me borrow one of their cars pretty much the whole time i was there). leave upstage at ~1:30, go home, sleep.

friday: get up at like 2pm. jon calls and leaves message on answering machine while i'm taking a shower. but doesn't leave a number. i use handy/evil *69 to autodial the last number to call our phone and surprise jon. go to PHI and hang out with jon and jolie. get some beer and show up for marcus's party. play with cute 10-week-old kitten. more people show up. meet fleur and rapier and mandy. cool!

i am not who fleur thought i was, rapier gives me shit about a raise i might be getting, and mandy seems way too normal to have anything to do with arrogant-bastard rapier :)

hang out at marcus's for a while and go to upstage with jon, jolie, brent, kelly, kathy. rapier, mandy, and fleur also go to upstage. i think fleur picks up/drives faisal and i meet him.

dance. cool!

leave upstage when they CLOSE at 2AM (shyeah). go back to marcus's and on the back porch is (i'm gonna forget people here) elliott, dan applepie, mike darweesh, karen, uh.... everyone shoves business cards into my hands. (i work for IBM - we don't have business cards. or something.)

go to eat/park with dan, karen, jon, jolie. cool! dan (drunk) and karen (embarrassed) do quick swing demo in crowded eat/park so i can quick learn something for my next dance class/stress session with axel the alien girl from dimension psycho. creepy guy in eat/park keeps staring at everybody. i secretly wish he'd try something so i could, oh shit, i'm not armed! damn.

go home, sleep.

saturday: get up at 1pm. go to pomona's bbq at 2. see will frank and dan (soon to be assimilated into the evil empire), pomona, jeff (again), fleur, rapier (if you haven't noticed, i think "rapier" is a way cooler name than "chris" :) talk bikes with jeff (some more) and pomona sez she's may be getting a bike. cool! check out EX500 and '89 944 turbo.

go to dan&eric pizza thing. nate! wow, all these people i never thought i'd see again in 1 weekend! talk guns with nate, faisal, and others. many people at pizza thing, many i didn't connect names with (sorry). cool! d&e beer! cool!

leave at 9 wondering where fucker slenk is (can't get brent's # from information...) and go to upstage. rapier and fleur show up after a while. meet, uh, elise? (sp?). fleur complains of being "tired" as chris says mandy is (what the fuck is up with getting up at 6am?!?! are you NUTS?) so they don't stay long. leave with them. go home.

while driving home reflect on weekend. i managed to see everyone i planned to except steve and robb. get home and robb's there hanging out with mark. yes! hang out for robb for like 3 hours. cool!

so this weekend was really cool - it was totally awesome to see everyone. and it's really depressing cuz it was so short. people i know from school i wanted to hang out with more, people i know only from this list i didn't get to really talk to beyond random bullshit, totally unexpected people i never thought i'd see again...

fuck. :(

oh well. guess that's what i get for moving to texas :) and no, emacs, the smilie doesn't offset the unhappy-smilie above.

it was really great to see everyone!

axe

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