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Welcome to Philly.
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Off to Philadelphia

At noon today and after running some last minute errands, I'll be off road trippin' to Philadelphia where I'll be staying with friends until Sunday-ish.

I am so anxious, oh my god. Mostly because not only will I be seeing NIN again (that's like, what, 7 times I think), but I'll be meeting up with more people from the interwebs. A whole slew of 'em this time. Should be interesting...

What I find amazing is that most people that you get along with online are the same in person. They're posts really reflect how they are in real life and chances are that if they're a wackadoo online, they probably are in person too. Fortunately, most of these people are wicked awesome on the board or online so I'm looking forward to a great meet up in person. *fingers crossed*

Now let's see if I make it there without getting pulled over on the Jersey Turnpike..."FCUK THE POOOOOOOOOOLIIIIIIIIICE!"

What I'm Doing Right Now

This mobile photo blogging is awesome. Here's a look at what I'm doing right now.
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Crackberry Photo Test

Testing...
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*WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I can mobile photoblog!!!

Glorious Randomness

So last evening driving home for work I was contemplating various ways of passing the night away either sulking in front of the TV or going for some retail therapy, when all of a sudden I get a little ringy on my cellphone. "We bought a bunch of food and wine, where are you?" This coming from my two friends, one of which is moving back to Canada.

So already in my car I haul a U-ie and hightail it to the Haven for a nice healthy dinner of whatever happened to be at a local grocer and a magnum of Yellowtail.

So after many glasses of wine and great picking food, we three ladies of varying relationship status were discussing pretty much anything and everything about past relationships, past run ins with the law, and with bitchy people, and of course our dabblings with the various "scenes." Now that pertains to the clubbing world, the British scene, the hippie scene, the protest scene and of course, from where this famous quote came from, the drug scene.

I think the best quote ever EVER was made by my friend when she was discussing how we three ladies definitely differ from the norm and got out of various "scenes" before our souls were eaten alive. She proudly and loudly proclaimed "thank GAWD for all that acid I did back then." To which someone else proclaimed "yeah, thank god for smokin' all that grass." To which we all raised our glasses.

Such a great night and a pre-bon voyage to my friend moving back to Canada.

Update-ness!

Better known as the recap post because I've been to busy/lazy (yes, those both can happen at the same time) to do a proper post (let alone Twitter).

'Tis better to have crushed than have lost my rep. as an engineer. My friends are awesome and my instincts rock and I'm so thankful to have listened to them and not actually responded to any of the ham-handedness that's been going on for the past few months or so with someone we have referred to as CC. *whew* "Missed it by THAT much..." It was kind of a bummer today to find out about things, but I was so glad to here about it because it was not going to come from CC at all and I'd rather experience a quick band-aid getting pulled off of me than an open-heart surgery without anesthesia. I owe some mofos some drinkies! *points*

Since breakfasteries (yeah, I'm making up a new word, that's right) are few and far between in New Haven, I checked out one first with some friends then with my sister. It's on State Street and it's called Menu, but it's actually pronounced "Me 'n You." *collective "awwwwwww"* Great food, great coffee and stuff is actually able to keep for the next day. I had my pastrami omelet quesadilla (oh that's right, you read that right, it was a beautiful thing) this morning fresh out of the microwave and it was just as good!

I also saw "Hamlet" over the weekend at Edgerton Park's Shakespeare in the Park series. OK, yes, Hamlet is a bit long, but it's made so much better when you actually see it as it was meant to be seen: outside in the open air with food that you smuggled in along with smuggled in booze on collapsible chairs. Now THAT'S how the Brits of old would have seen it! The actors need to make you want to stay there and fence convincingly as well as go nuts convincingly! They have to make you care about this imaginary thing even over booze and food (and annoying dogs barking...eesh...). *raises a glass*

"I Pick Things Up..."

"...I am a collector..."

Here's a cool thing that was outside by my car when I pulled back in from lunch.


I love finding weird objects and if they are deemed cool enough or unique, they get kept by me for an eternity.

NIN: Lights in the Sky 2008

Such a great show, I can't even go into all of the details of how epic it was, but I attempt to here. So take a look.

Here's my Flickr set for the night. I totally should have snapped more, but I did see some people getting hassled about taking photos even though pretty much everyone else was. I guess it was whoever the security guards could gain access to from the walkways, thankfully I was safely in the center seat of the center row of the almost center section. Oh yeah...suck it!



The best way to sum up the night is: \m/