In a flash...

This weekend!:

Friday we stayed in and watched Burn After Reading and Fargo while sipping vodka and rum. It was a cheap and relaxing evening. Plus, it was the first time Wesley and I had spent time together, just the two of us, all stinking week.

Yesterday I got Wes up early (10:30am) and we got around and went out for coffee... and a long drive. It was awesome. The weather was great and the tunez were good. We came back, putzed for a bit around the house, then headed down to Philly to meet up with Matt and Sam and go to the car show. Their friends Fank and Jade (Frank'nJade as Matt calls them) came and picked us up (yeah... 6 people in a little four-door). Frank is a valet and so gets free parking at his hotel... a convenient two blocks from the convention center! Plus his work gave him a bunch of tickets for the show... so we ended up NOT spending $16 that we had thought we were going to. Super cool!

Car show was funish. There were A LOT of people there and they all just rushed-rushed-rushed. Plus we were all trying to keep track of each other the whole time. I think it would've been less exhausting if it had just been the two of us. We went back to Sam's where a fight between the roommates broke out. We hadn't been planning on staying in Philly for the night so Wes and I left after a half an hour of yelling. We got back and ended up crossing the street to sit on John's back deck with him and Kyle for some drinks and cigarettes. We ended up being out there for 3 hours I think. It was pleasant... Until Kyle and Johns girlfriends showed up. They were both miserable for whatever reason and misery loves company. The party broke up soon after that.

Got Wes up at 9:30am today (I KNOW!!!) and we loaded up the bike pieces and headed down to Pottstown to meet up with Matt and his workplace, Pollocks. It took a couple of hours to completely prep everything (well... almost everything) for priming, but once everything was cleaned and taped and hanging, the painting went really fast. The wheels didn't get done yet because we're going to do them in one clean shot. Prime; paint; gloss. There will be less "layers" so that it won't chip from stones on the road. The front and left fairings need to be fiberglassed where cracks are and then they'll be ready. The plan, I think, is to paint the bike flat black and then, in a finishing coat, add some red pearl. So... essentially the bike itself won't be shiny or glossy, but it'll have that little something-something that'll make you look twice.

I'm really enjoying being the photo-journalist for the whole bike endeavour. Ultimately, we'd like to do a write up and submit that and a ton of the pictures to a bike magazine and maybe end up with a few page spread. That would be super awesome!

From there we ventured into Pottstown on a mission for lunch. Pottstown is like a zombie town. Literally. When people walk, you half except their arms to be out in front of them and their mouths open in a dumb, hungry gaze. It's ghetto and secretive all at once. There is something strange about everyone. Since we were all dressed to get dirty, we kinda fit right in... which was slighty alarming. It was a gloriously warm, sunny day (for the middle of February) and there were maybe 3 people on the sidewalks. Strange, strange. I wonder if the darkness shows up after sun-down?

Tonight... studying for Stats and Psych tests tomorrow. Blah. We have next Monday off from classes so it gives me an extra night to work... which is AWESOME.

The school is making it difficult to get my refund monday and my parents haven't recieved my W-2 from WaWa yet. Glorious. >:(

Can't believe it's Sunday night already...