So this weekend was ... everything. Everything, I tell you!
A very Readers Digest version:
Hanging out with
Then Saturday was The Pittsburgh area Antioch Alumni/ae Gathering at Tavia's gallery. The gathering was good times. A whole bunch of Antiochians showed up -- alums from both from the college and from the now defunct Antioch Law School. People from the 1950s on through now, graduates and drop-outs, and friends and partners ... a good mix.
Favorite things overheard: "This is Antioch -- we HAVE to recycle," and "The hallway smells like Antioch" (a joke I didn't understand until I walked back to the hallway and smelled the weed).
One man who entered as a physics major described how different Antioch was from the other school he looked at by saying "The Science Building smelled like a zoo and the guy who gave me a campus tour was barefoot." And
I had a hard time just relaxing and enjoying it because I was still in planning mode -- making sure the food people brought all had "meat," "vegetarian" and "vegan" tags, making sure the chip bowls were never empty for long -- but by the end, I was sitting and schmoozing and just generally having a good time.
Anyway, you might notice that I'm restarting the quitmeter yet again, because yes, I was smoking again this weekend. Actually, I think I decided that I've become a weekend smoker, which, while it's not exactly what I was going for, is still better than what it was when I was smoking full time. I did also notice that this weekend I smoked less than I usually do -- bought two packs and they lasted me a lot longer than they usually do, until about fifteen minutes ago -- so maybe that's a good sign as well. So here I am, without any more cigarettes, and willing to give it yet another try. We'll see how it goes.
Random other stuff: Dan called and wants to go check out Bob's grave next weekend and see what needs to be done headstone-wise. H.W.S.R.N. emailed and apologized for not attending the Antioch event. Saprina made me ridiculously happy by switching shifts with me for this coming Sunday -- I was scheduled for 8:00 am -- ulp! And when I was five minutes late to work yesterday, everyone was apparently really concerned because I'm always really freakin' early -- I suppose that's a good thing, right?
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