Philip, an old friend from UVA, visited me this past weekend. It was a weekend of birthday dinners, salsa dancing, sprained ankles, fraternizing with the Blue Man Group, Dr. M, ghetto rabbits/frogs, meeting ee of ees, chopsticks, stalkers, spheres, trying not to watch 24, pittsburgh & carolina, beers with 9.5% alcohol content, keyboards, clam chowdah, cab drivers who don’t know their way around, glamour shots, and a whole lot more alcohol than we should have had.

The highlight of the weekend was probably us hanging out until 2:30 in the morning with Meridian and Shaneca of the Boston Blue Man Group. In addition to being incredibly talented percussionists, actors, dancers, performers, they’re also just a couple of super sweet, laid-back guys who know how to enjoy the moment and have a good time. Many thanks to Billy, the Charles Playhouse Lounge bartender/assistant manager for introducing the boys to us!

The highlight residual of the weekend has got to be the list of toasts that we now have. Every drink that Phil and I had, we drank to something. We tried to keep a record of all of them (which became quite difficult sometimes), and in turn documented the people, the events, the jokes, and just how much we actually drank in 2 days…

the things that phil and I drank to this weekend:
1. to 1 out of 30
2. to getting phone calls from people we like
3. to tillett - teaching us what not to do in the future
4. to getting wet on saturday night (get your mind out of the gutter)
5. to bouncing hug checks
6. to never giving up - restoration ball 2006
7. to moving up on shan’s list of guys
8. to the monkey
9. to being above ground and sucking on the grass roots
10. to bartenders
11. to making every hour count, every minute worthwhile, every second last
12. to blue men
13. to yushenkov’s poison
14. to shankar’s shot
15. to meridian & shaneca
16. to old flames
17. to not speaking chinese
18. to looking good with black
19. 2 years 2 long
20. to monkeys and frogs and rabbits
21. to not being taken
22. to listening to your heart but following your brain
23. to jaeger
24. to another jaeger, and-in phil’s case-to finishing karen’s drink
25. to stroking the f-key
26. to being admired, but never loved (so depressing, but probably true)
27. to greatness and bitterness
28. to being/getting on top
29. to not being desperate … and still drinking triple sec
30. to sexing it up with Maxim (by Phil)
31. to not talking
32. to always having fun and having limited responsibilities
33. to shan being naked in public*

* clarification: this didn’t actually happen; we just drank to it **
** further clarification: shan did not endorse this toast. she lost a bet ***
*** author’s note: yes, shan does speak about herself in the third person

Thanks for coming Phil; I had such a blast!! Next time, we will go for the nation’s capital :)