Jinx!

Observation: Pittsburgh is a wonderful city, and it's even better when one gets to actually hang out in the city when school is not a concern.

The drive on Saturday wasn't too bad. I was really tired, but it was good to be on the road just thinking and listening to music. Saturday night I discovered that Brian cooks excellent lasagna.

Sunday was great, too! It involved: sleeping in, having time to lay around reading, Mass at the Cathedral, jumping on a city bus and going to the zoo only to decide that the zoo wasn't worth it, jumping on another bus and going to the Point (which WAS worth it!), eating at Max & Erma's downtown, and busing back up to campus-ish and walking through Schenly for a few hours, then watching Real Genius and falling asleep exhausted shortly thereafter. (The Point is a huge fountain at Fort Pitt, right down by the river.)

After we finished at Schenly, it was more comfortable to just kick off my flip flops and wander back to the apartments barefoot. The city and Oakland were pretty empty because it was a Sunday, and the sun was fading into the horizon (although it wasn't nearly dark yet), and the walk back to Webster felt relaxed and casual. I felt like I was relatively at home in Pittsburgh - which makes sense, given the number of months I spend there each year - but it was one of the few times when I felt like I really belonged there, like I was a part of it. I remember glancing over at Hamerschalg as we walked behind the Carnegie museums and thinking that it had been the sort of day that one always keeps to think about when the going gets rough.

Alas. I am lucky.