i'm baaaaack :-P

hello people :-P

greetings from memphis!

had a long, but good drive down here....

sunday: dropped heather miller off at the newark airport, where it was at least mid-50s (temperature wise) when i let her out of the car... drove straight to just west of harrisburg, PA before getting out of the car... when i did -- in the teens for temp and below 0 for wind chill... FREAKIN COLD!... pretty soon after that, it started snowing... hard... at once point i skidded 10 feet down the exit ramp to one of the PA turnpike rest areas... doht... nonetheless, i eventually made it safely to aunt pris's house.

monday: woke up early to still crazy snow.

see? (taken out my aunt's kitchen window)



then drove from pitt (took forever to get out of town), and on to columbus, ohio, where i met up with travis for the first time since july... it was a fun afternoon... we got lunch, he showed me around his corner of the world, we hung out for awhile at his friend alex's house (one of the other members of his band) (there we watched an hour of the simpsons and i got to hear travis play guitar in their studio for a bit :-) ),... and then we just hung out for quite awhile at his place (where i met his parents, his sister santana, his grandma (who liked me quite well :-) ), and a couple other relatives who were visiting... along with the family menagerie... they have ponies and chickens in the back yard :-P)... once we were back at travis's place to stay, one game of chess took over an hour, and otherwise we played with music and movies (i saw "the crow" for the first time and we watched a bunch of other random stuff too)

here's us, late at night, tired and falling asleep :-P (i look tired, travis somehow managed to just look charmingly happy)



tuesday (today):

for some reason i thought that even though we stayed up til 2:30 last night, i'd manage to be wide awake at 9am and set to get my act together for the day... however, to travis turning on all the lights and hollering "good morning sunshine!" at me (his parents had me sleep in his sister's room, next door to his), i grumbled and buried myself further under cover for a bit... then, when i *was* going to get ready, he was getting ready to watch the beginning of "office space", so instead, we curled up on his couch and watched the whole of that before doing anything else... then, lunch at waffle house and i was on the road south... 9.5 hours of driving, and dinner with the family later... here i am in memphis

major qual study time starts tomorrow. woo-hoo... but not thinking about that just yet...

random comment: it's somehow comforting to be back in the land of people who speak with drawls... i miss it when i'm gone :-)

later dudes... night y'all :-)