Katie & Megan, Carnaval, February 2006I am so, SO excited for the next couple of days. Tomorrow afternoon, PJ and I are driving up to Rochester to go see Bruce Springsteen (or rather, "The Boss"--whichever you prefer) with PJ's brother, Rob, and Rob's girlfriend Nikki. Originally, their uncle and his girlfriend were supposed to go, too, but something came up at the last minute, so instead, my long-lost friend Megan is going with us! I really couldn't be more excited. Megan and I lived together during our last year and a half of college and then moved to Rochester and lived together for another year and a half. Our busy lives have gotten in the way, though, and we haven't seen each other since just after I moved away last July. It seems crazy to me that it's already been longer than half a year-- I got so used to seeing her everyday and now we only talk once in a while. I still remember meeting her in college. We were "set up" by our mutual friend Rob, who knew that we were both looking for roommates and thought that our personalities would mesh well (ohhh, if only he had really known what he was getting himself into!) We clicked almost immediately, with our shared senses of humor and shared dislike of the whole sorority scene at our college. Now that we're living four and a half hours apart, we've managed to keep in touch through random messages, but haven't seen each other in what feels like forever and haven't really caught up on each other's lives in a while. Did I mention I'm excited for tomorrow?
I'm also excited because I'm going back to Corning on Friday, and at some point during the weekend, I'll get to see my friends Shawn and Dwayne to celebrate their 25th birthdays (happy birthday to both!) Oh, what a fun, old friend-filled few days it's going to be!
In other news, last Saturday night I went to Soldiers and Sailors memorial to hear one of my favorite authors, Anne Lamott, give a reading and a discussion. While I'm obviously not uber-Christian (as noted by my lack of church-going activities during the past couple of years), something in her writing really connects with me. The books that I have read (Traveling Mercies, Plan B, and Bird by Bird) discuss with issues that she has dealt with throughout her life-- alcoholism and drug abuse, being a single mother, trying to find a place in this world to fit in-- but she writes about all of it with such a funny sense of humor. Meeting her after reading her books for the past few years was awesome-- what a kind, intelligent woman. Plus I got her autograph on Traveling Mercies, which was pretty neat.
That's it for now...and don't forget, March 8 is International Women's Day. Go hug your mom, your sister, your grandma, your aunt, your best friend...you get the point :o)
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