I guess if I had to describe this weekend in one word it would be Exhaustion. I was unbelievably sleepy the whole time and I didn’t sleep well at all. I was restless and distracted a lot. Friday night the guys came over, which was cool. We played some DDR and Brian spilled the beans about his new girlfriend. :-D I’m so happy for him, he’s been so sad for so long and it’s great to see him a bit happier. I didn’t sleep very long that night…I was having this really involved dream about riding in a car with the Aussies. Ross was driving, Jules was in the passenger seat, and Rose was in the back with me. We were in Oshkosh and headed to a bank. Jules had a really tricked out ipod that he didn’t even need to touch to control, he just waved his hand in front of it and it responded. Most of what I recall is him being really excited about it and showing it off. But the interesting thing is that yes, I awoke twice during this dream, but both times when I went back to sleep, the dream continued on. Hmm. I got up for good at somewhere around 9 AM after waking up at least once before that.

I chatted with Ross until I had to get ready for Justin’s wedding. Brian came to get me and we bought some cheap DVDs and had lunch together (I had my $6.66 meal) before rushing to the wedding. We were a minute late and the bride was already going down the aisle. It was the quickest ceremony I’d ever seen (~20 minutes!) Brian and I listened to the Tripod CD in the car on the way there and on the way to the reception, and he seemed to quite like it, which pleased me since I really enjoy it. We stopped off at a mall for awhile because we had some time to kill and Brian took some pictures of me dressed up (since it happens so rarely) so if that interests you, you’ll have to go digging for them because I’m not going to link them here. XD The dinner was pretty good and we got to talk to Jeff, Erin, and Rene quite a bit. When they began clearing out the tables for the dance, I began feeling increasingly restless so Brian and I left. When I got back, the PS2 -> USB adapters had arrived so I spent the night trying to get them to work properly with Stepmania. I had limited success and eventually gave up in frustration.

Again, restless sleep…I awoke several times before finally getting up. Talked to Ross again until Jon began bugging me to get over to his house for chicken. I called Will and woke him up (or so it sounded), referred to Hiroko as “Ryoko” by accident, then Brian dropped by and picked me up. Jon’s sister was having her high school graduation party so there were cars and people everywhere. We hung out in Jon’s room for awhile, had some delicious food and some extremely delectable custard cake and cheesecake (Jon laughed at my orgasmic sounding yummy noises as I ate it) then got Stepmania going on his laptop. Worked just fine with a different version of SM so we decided my version was teh suck. After a bit more hanging out I was falling asleep. The room was extremely warm and I’d been drinking wine coolers so it was a perfect environment for a nap. I suggested going to supper so I could get up and move and try to shake off the sleepiness but that didn’t work too well. We went to Nakashima’s and had a crapload of sushi. It was soooooo yummy. :3 We taught Hiroko the correct way to pronounce “orange” as the waitress didn’t understand her when she ordered orange sherbet for dessert. It was somewhat late when we finished dinner so we drove around looking for a place that was open, and nothing was. The sky was absolutely gorgeous so we found a relatively open area for me to take some photos of the sunset and clouds. Will said “It should be a crime for the sky to look this awesome.” We did an exchange of goods; Will gave Jon a memory stick for his camera and gave me his old Dreamcast and the book “Pattern Recognition” that his roommate Jon (not to be confused with hachiJon) has been recommending to me. We parted ways with promises of hanging out again soon. Jon is going to YAPC in Buffalo this week and Peter is on vacation with his family so it will probably be sometime next week when we get together.

When we got back to my place Jon helped me figure out what was going on with my computer and Stepmania…and as it turns out, upgrading the version of the game and moving the adapter to a different USB port fixed the problem(s). We talked about his business cards and then he went home. I played around with the Dreamcast a bit and found myself utterly lost as everything was in Japanese and I couldn’t figure out what was what. I got one of the games I’d downloaded to work, which was cool, but I had to figure out everything by trial and error as I couldn’t read any of the text. I chatted for a bit before bed and then fell into a restless sleep in which I experienced a quasi-nightmare about being in Fleet Farm (a farm supply store located in the Midwest US) and someone was following me with a knife. Also, because I was feeling really angsty about not being able to understand the text on the Dreamcast, I was getting afraid I’d have to give Will his DC back. But I dreamt I found the language option and then I was able to sleep somewhat decently, for a few hours at least. I could barely pull myself out of bed when my alarm went off, and after my shower I began searching the DC options to find a way to change the language from Japanese to English and was overjoyed when I located it. whew

So many exciting things to do now, but I’m so tired. I hope I can get some restful sleep soon…this is too hard on my body.