Milestones

I'm never going to forget this weekend.

On Friday, a panda and I headed out of town to visit an old friend of his near Harrisburg. We got out of Pittsburgh kind of late and took our time driving, and so got there at around 11:15 or so. Yesterday was a really relaxed day. I got a lot of reading done for one class, and started formulating answers for graph theory.

In the afternoon, Tom took a long nap and I got to spend a few hours talking to Patrick (the friend), which was wonderful. They say that friends tend to be part of the most significant influences on a person's attutides and personality, and I saw some of that. Then later when the men (boys? ha.) went out to get stuff to make chili, I got to talk with Patrick's wife, Mary Ann, for awhile. It usually talkes me awhile to come out of my shell with people, but she's really easy to talk to. Later when we were making the chili, she played the piano for awhile and it was absolutely incredible.

Tom and I stayed up awhile last night after the other two headed off to sleep. It was nice; sometimes it feels like with us being so busy with school and meetings, etc. we don't always have that much time to just "be" around each other.

So, that was the fun part of the weekend. I learned a lot, relaxed a lot, got to spend time in a real house and help cook real food, and other good things that don't really lend themselves so well to an internet summary of my life. :-P

On the drive back, I got a fairly upsetting call from my Mom, and I'm still turning it over in my head. Sometimes it feels like people, or situations, get so far removed from reality, and seeing what happens when they're forced to snap back isn't always pretty. I almost feel like I'm looking at the people involved through some kind of filter that's taking their weaknesses and magnifying, distorting, them - making it hard to understand them for who they were (or who i thought or hoped they were). I'm not sure how things are going to "turn out", and in time all things do blow over, but right now I'm just kind of shocked and a bit disappointed.

So, on that note. Time to finish off graph theory...?