Work has been so busy lately so I haven't had much time to update.  When I started this blog I thought I would have time to write everyday.  Clearly that has not been the case. 
This weekend drove to Maine to see Molly for her thesis art show.  She graduated with her MFA this weekend!  So cool!  Friday's drive was rough.  By the time we got through NYC it was around 7:30 and both Ryan and I were done with driving.  Unfortuantely we had about 5 more hours to go.  Neither one of us had gotten enough sleep on Thurs.  Halfway through Massachusetts Ryan became delirious so I was on my own for the rest of the driving.  We got to Molly's apartment around 12:30am after leaving philly at 3:30.  Such a long day! We gave Molly hugs and immediately fell asleep. 

On Saturday we ate so much delicious food.  My favorite was Japanese dinner.  I always write off sushi as something as I am not crazy about, but that was wrong of me.  Q, Ryan and I ordered a bunch of food to split up.  We got avocado and cucumber sushi, tempura, sweet potato sushi, spring rolls and scallion pancakes.  It was all of my favorite things!  Other food highlights from the day including good coffee, flatbread vegan pizza and a hot lemonade in a pint glass with Maine maple syrup.  The lemonade was an amazing drink.  So good. And it was very appreciated that it was served in a full pint glass instead of a small mug.  So much deliciousness for less than $3.00  Throughout the day we walked around with Molly, her parents and her partner Brian.  It was fun crew.  We went to a few thrift stores.  I tried on a lot of clothes but the mirrors in one store were very unflattering so I couldn't bring myself to buy anything.  We also walked to the water and saw boats.  There was randomly a piece of the Berlin wall by the water.  After so much walking around we went back to Molly's apartment for naps before her opening.  I was still pretty exhausted from all the traveling on Friday. 

Molly's opening was so fun.  There was tasty snacks and a lot of cool art to look at.  Molly's art was the best art.  Some of her classmates had done some really interesting projects.  It was fun to decompress with Molly after the show and get the background on the people and the projects.  Much gossip was said. It was so good to hang out with Molly and Q.  They are some of my oldest Philly friends and whenever we hang out it feels really comfortable and homey.  We have been through so much together.

We ended Saturday by dancing at a Portland gay bar called Styxx.  I loved it.  The dj played a mix of top 40 music from the last decade.  I love going out and hearing songs I know.  They played the Punjabi MC song Beware of the Boys which is a fav to dance to.  I prefer the version with Jay-Z but I'll take it.  I don't think I have heard that song out dancing in over 3 years.  It was a fun time but we couldn't stay super long because we had a long drive back to Philly on Sunday.

We were woken up on Sunday to news that Molly and Brian had bought us a bunch of baked goods for breakfast.  It was a really nice surprise.  We ate scones and muffins and home baked bread (made by molly's roommate Michael) and had coffee.  Then we had to say goodbye to Molly, Q and Brian.  It was so sad.  I'll be seeing Molly soon since she is moving to Brooklyn in a few weeks.  Knowing she would be in nyc is part of the reason I applied to nursing school there.  Since Q is living in the bay area now I never seem to have enough hang out time with him. 

Sunday Ryan and I drove all day to get back to Philly at a reasonable hour.  We stopped for snacks and soup in a bread bowl from pantera bread.  And got home to find out the Dodger left so many presents for us.  Someone flaked on picking him up to take care of him so he was alone for a lot of Sunday.  I was very mad at him since he peed on 2 novels that I had to throw out a couple of other important things.  We have since made up though.  I think he gets anxious when left alone for too long.  We threw out one of his favorite carpets to pee on so hopefully that will help.

Last night I watched the movie Blue Valentine.  My favorite doctor that I used to work with is the abortion dr in the movie.  I had no idea that he was in the movie.  It was kind of freaky.  I guess they were going for realism so they cast a real abortion doctor to do it.  The movie was a little slow for me.  Being that I have a lot of experience in dysfunction relationships (my parents and my own), it didn't offer anything that was eye opening or that struck a chord.  I really like Michelle Williams and I sympathesized with her character a lot.  The Ryan Gosling character seemed sympathetic sometimes, but mostly annoying.  He encompassed a lot of the qualities that annoy me about men.  He carried around a ukulele and plucked it inappropriately, he didn't listen, didn't pay attention to body language, and was in denial about most things.  His intentions were probably ok, but he fucked up a lot.