Wedding & Sox, Part 1
First, my thoughts on the whole Red Sox/Yankees brawling
1) Pedro started it. I concede that.
2) Zim was way out of line, Pedro's response was reasonable
3) tempers were high, which kind of excuses Manny's response
4) no idea what to think of the bullpen brawl. Obviously I'm biased toward my Sox.

But the whole thing was bizarre.

Okay, now the rest of the weekend...

Thursday night in NYC: amazing to be at the game. I wasn't harassed (in my sox paraphenalia) nearly as much as my boyfriend was for being with me (he was decked out in Yankees gear). I wish we'd won, and it was a long train ride back dealing with the loss, but it was great to be there.

Friday night party: SO MUCH FUN. The day leading up to it was a little surreal--helping my mom move furniture, reuniting with 1 high school friend. The party itself went well, but wrapped a little early. My friends who had gotten stuck in traffic (I mostly refrained from "I told you so!s") arrived as everyone else was leaving. Consequently the after-party went until 6am

Most surreal moment? Joining one friend for a cigarette in my back yard while my stepdad was smoking a cigar with my mom looking on. She was amazed to see me smoke, but I was with friends and she saw it as reasonable (hard to say otherwise when my stepdad was there with cigar).

Some amazing conversation with people I haven't seen in years.

Saturday I woke up with the worst hangover of my life, but struggled through pleasantries with my mom. By the time we started playing croquet I was feeling human again...but I don't want to be that hungover ever again.

The whole weekend was punctuated by a series of revelations. That is, one or another of my high school friends would slide something into a conversation that someone else didn't know about. Prime examples: from a female friend: "when I was stripping I would run into guys like that all the time". Collective gasp from most of us, which we all tried to surpress. The next day a different person was analyzing someone else's unexpectedly lovey-dovey relationship: "well, they did get together when he had just learned about the cancer, so probably that is part of it". Another collective gasp, though of a very different kind.

I think that about sums up the surreal aspects.

I'll describe the wedding in more depth later. bottom line, it was great. Lots of fun, a beautiful wedding, and hell it involved showtunes. I demonstrated my usual lack of grace and style, but I think I was forgiven.

Now I'm going to unpack. the marathon NYC-BOS-Concord-BOS-Chicago-work-class is at last over. and the red sox won tonight.

phew.
- posted by Heidi @ 10:24 PM