pitt

i'm back

i must say that my cousin heather makes a gorgeous bride. she looked every bit a princess but without any "better than you" attitude of any sort ;-P

her husband is a couple FEET taller than her, so the joke is that he's going to have major back problems in his future, but they're so perfect together. i visited them on spring break in march and would have said that after hanging out with them together then though, so that's not a surprise.

one cool thing during the service was that denny (heather's new husband) is very open about emotions and whatever more than most guys i know are willing to be in public, so you could actually see him choke up when heather came down the aisle with my uncle, etc. and it was totally cool.

one funny thing was that denny's groomsmen took tape and wrote "i love" on the bottom of one of his shoes and "heather" on the bottom of the other, and didn't tell him, so during the parts of the service where the two of them were kneeling up front, the rest of the church could see it, and denny had no idea it was there until after the service.

one thing i especially liked was that heather and denny included every single family member in the service in some way or another. my mom and my aunt priscilla sang a duet... my cousin rachel helped hand out bubbles (instead of rice) after the service... various other people were readers... i got to be the assisting minister for communion. that meant that during the communion liturgy i was off to the side of the altar area where heather and denny (and the wedding party if they cared to look up) could see me but not the rest of the congregation, so heather and i could make faces at each other :-P... other than secretly being silly with my favorite cousin in the middle of her wedding, it was really cool to be a part of the service in that way too. :)

i plan to finish my roll of film off in the morning so i can get pics back tomorrow, and i'll post them then.

paul and i had a decent trip. we talked way more than we ever have before (that would have been hard to avoid unless we both had resolved to be silent the whole trip)... so that was cool. it was actually good i had company today. i was tired from being up early and running around all day, and when we made wonderful time up until 30 miles before allentown and then we went under 5 miles in over an hour as the sun went down,... i was exhausted, and that loss of good pace had me beat and ready to crash. after listening to the pitt/new england game all afternoon on various AM radio stations too, it was disappointing to hear it come down the last few seconds and have the one team i HATE beat my absolute favorite... that was frustrating and not helping my happy/pay attention/stay alert quotient either... so it was good i had company to help keep me going...

meeting with my advisor tomorrow... i don't have anything exciting at all to show, but whatever. we'll see how this week goes.

for now, here's the summary: i'm TIRED.

later dudes