one loooooooong day

so today was really good but feels about a week long... probably because i've been up 17.5 hours or so...

first week to help with altar guild at church... this means i need to leave by 7:30am every saturday for the month of march, but i'm excited to help out.

after i got back, roommate and i headed for NYC... we went in the empire state building but didn't have time to wait to go to the top, visited the times square toys r us,... then we had tickets for phantom of the opera with scott and his friend liz who's visiting this weekend from wisconsin...

phantom was absolutely amazing... the same guy plays the phantom now who played it when the show opened in 1988 and he was spectacular... the staging was awesome, and after listening to the soundtrack all week it was awesome to *see* it in person... definitely the highlight of the day.

after phantom, went to rockefeller center, st. patrick's cathedral, and the NYC disney store (roommate's obsessed w/ disney)... she got various and sundry stuff, i got the brother bear soundtrack. =)... go phil collins.

then, we met up with scott, liz, vicki, john, and ben for dinner and went to some cute greek place in west village... it was quality, and came with entertainment too since the waiter was flirting with scott the whole time. (scott's comment: "i've picked up waitresses before... not quite sure what to do about this one though") dude...

everyone else went clubbing but roommate and i were exhausted... we ran by starbucks and then tried to take advantage of the brief opening in the clouds to use my telescope... i found jupiter and saturn before it clouded over but something in the alignment got screwed up and we couldn't see anything with it but reflections of the inside of the telescope -- this makes me mad (at the telescope)

that mission failed, we curled up and watched 2 hours of trading spaces, and now it's definitely bedtime.

moral of the story?
(1) apparently i can't plan things well anymore... telescope, today's nasty weather, and a couple other things i didn't mention anymore
(2) i have no idea when my homework's getting done... i keep working on stuff when i have a few spare minutes, but somehow it has to get done by tuesday and that's looking ill-fated
(3) best conclusion of all: it's completely refreshing to hang out with a friend for a few days, regardless how stressed or busy you are, who you know completely where you stand with them, you're not busy convincing yourself you're not mad at them, and you completely trust them... my math people are great, but i don't know that i'm superly close to any of them yet... it's definitely quality to just hang with old friends. =)

on that note, sleep time. vislat.