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i rushed to dc for a friend's wedding this past weekend and then rushed back 36 hours later for technical rehearsals. busy in the extreme, but also a lot of fun-- i got to see sarah for the first time in four years, i got to hang out with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_fremedon and her lovely roommate sanj and check in on scary (the evil polydactyl cat who will one day rule the world), and i got to see lots of mantids at the wedding itself. zaph_redmantis was glowingly happy, and as always i had fun with fish_tie, piratelemur and captain_squid. i wish i could see them more often! i always feel just a little out of place because i didn't actually go to college with them so i don't share in the stories, but they're so much fun it doesn't matter much. i have determined that come hell or high water, next time i will absolutely not be flying out at 8am the next morning! i hate having to leave the festivities early so that i can be safe to drive at an appallingly early hour the next day.
i was thinking, it seems to be more and more the case that getting a bunch of old friends together requires a solid reason such as a wedding--you can't just email and say 'hey, come here on this date' and expect to get everyone now that they've got jobs (and/or kids) unless they can justify it to themselves as something they have to do. and this is a strange thing about weddings, because you actually get everyone to come from all over and then (at most of the ones i've been to recently) you're so busy that you don't get to see them much. zaph spent a fair amount of time with folks beforehand, which was really nice because at least i feel like i saw him, unlike kris' wedding where i only saw her for ten minutes when they came by the table. interesting.
ellen_fremedon and her lovely roommate sanj and check in on scary (the evil polydactyl cat who will one day rule the world), and i got to see lots of mantids at the wedding itself. zaph_redmantis was glowingly happy, and as always i had fun with fish_tie, piratelemur and captain_squid. i wish i could see them more often! i always feel just a little out of place because i didn't actually go to college with them so i don't share in the stories, but they're so much fun it doesn't matter much. i have determined that come hell or high water, next time i will absolutely not be flying out at 8am the next morning! i hate having to leave the festivities early so that i can be safe to drive at an appallingly early hour the next day. i was thinking, it seems to be more and more the case that getting a bunch of old friends together requires a solid reason such as a wedding--you can't just email and say 'hey, come here on this date' and expect to get everyone now that they've got jobs (and/or kids) unless they can justify it to themselves as something they have to do. and this is a strange thing about weddings, because you actually get everyone to come from all over and then (at most of the ones i've been to recently) you're so busy that you don't get to see them much. zaph spent a fair amount of time with folks beforehand, which was really nice because at least i feel like i saw him, unlike kris' wedding where i only saw her for ten minutes when they came by the table. interesting.
