the weekend in review

I hate doing these divided posts....

-=BUT=-

...I'm going to anyway.

1.) Last night was my wife's 5 year high school reunion. I knew a surprising number of people (3/150, not counting my wife), so some of us "significant other" guys formed a little club in the corner and talked about things other than a school we didn't go to, people we didn't know, and who got Jen Sullivan pregnant (who is Jen Sullivan?) I spent most of the night talking to an Indian British fellow named Nadium. He was simply fantastic, really amazing, absolutely brilliant, and totally schooled me in politics. He went on for 10 minutes about how we can't justify the Iraq war (I didn't try) and cited supreme court cases left and right. Luckily he's a law student at Georgetown, which means I was able to walk away with some little confidence in my intellect despite my inability to say anything even vaguely impressive. The Guinness didn't help.

2.) Tonight for my brother-in-law's birthday, we went to see "The Great Books (abridged)", which is an hour-ish theater performance satirizing many famous parts of western literature. I was in the front row, which naturally meant that by the end of the performance I was on stage wearing a wig pretending to be Virginia Wolfe. It was a great time - I really feel like the universe has provided a path for me, and that I'm to forsake my current career be an ac-tor. If you've never seen Arrested Development, you can ignore that last line.

I feel pretty....

We fly home tomorrow. Pray for "traveling mercies", and that whatever the hell a traveling mercy is, that it will include a better in-flight movie than "Bad News Bears."