Gilgamesh

I have woken up the last two mornings with the supposed anthem of my undergraduate degree entitled, "Gilgamesh". Two alumni sang it at the reunion this past weekend and it is so catchy! Of course only a group full of nerdy liberal artsy farts like us would find it funny and amusing, just like many moments of the weekend. It was really nice to catch up with people and everyone looked great and seemed at a pretty good place in their lives. The best part was seeing all of the professors again as they were wonderful teachers and just so damn approachable as far as professors go.

Thankfully there were some highlights of my weekend because there were some low moments that were just so out of character for me, or my luck rather. I got a $75 parking ticket on Friday. I followed this up with a hefty bumper scrape in Sugarplum's driveway on Saturday. Yuck. I hate mishaps involving cars. Ms. D was in the car with me for the scrape incident and she reassured me that I seemed very calm and handled the situation with ease instead of rage or frustration. Cars are not worth my rage! But I understood what she meant as I think many of us grew up with parents (okay, fathers) who just may have reacted far worse than I had. I managed to go on to have a great evening...

This is a busy week coming up. The cleaning lady managed to show up this morning so she's here right now. The highly anticipated Yo-Yo Ma concert is tomorrow night. My sister is moving out on Thursday and through all of this there is a dear friend in town from Japan for the week. I will have to make sure to get some visits in with him before he goes!