Team Dragon Elite

This weekend I finished write-on while also attending a wedding! (I have 46 footnotes on a seven page paper. The words supra, id, passim, and "emphasis added" are scattered throughout, which indicates to me that it is clearly a very scholarly and knowledgeable paper.) That made me the unfun person for most of the weekend, see, e.g., my inability to go out in the evenings and my self-imposed early morning wake-ups. (as a side note, it's important to use e.g. when you are referencing only some of the things that support your main proposition but when the support of the proposition is so evident that you do not need to cite additional evidence)

But enough about things that I disliked doing, I want to remember the weekend for the beautiful wedding of Will and Julia and for all of the friends both old and new with whom I got the chance to celebrate.

Since we were in Baltimore, we of course had to go to the inner harbor for dinner one night. We originally tried to find a seafood place and, being brilliant and able to use the internet, I found a great one. It was closed, of course, but I'm sure it would have been great. No one asked me to check when it was open.

After that initial failure we went to the Bubba Gump seafood restaurant, learned that it was going to be an hour wait, and left the Bubba Gump seafood restaurant. We ended up at a sushi place sitting at an outdoor table with a great view of the harbor and of a guy doing fire tricks below. (I was going to say "magic tricks" but he specifically said at one point in the performance that what he was doing wasn't magic. Then he set a rope on fire and played jumprope while standing on an exercise ball. So... yes, not magic.) The sushi was great and, as is usual, I "encouraged" Kelsey to try new food. If it is possible, I think she liked octopus even less than she liked softshell crab. I admire her for always trying, though.

Our meal completed, we scanned the harbor for our next activity. There was not really a question of what we were going to do, though, because there were people in dragon-shaped paddle-boats and of course dragonboats were going to win.

Dragonboat

Me, Kylie, Jane, and Kelsey onboard our dragonboat.

We dubbed ourselves Team Dragon Elite and made others jealous that they were not with us. 

The next day was the wedding, which was outside at Will's parents' place. It wasn't too warm and the service was very well done. Will and Julia make a beautiful couple- they're always so nice and fun to be around whenever I get the chance to see them. We did the traditional drinking and dancing (not too much of the latter and less than I would have liked of the former since I had to continue writing after the wedding) and had an excellent time.

Also, at some point during the weekend I started getting texts and facebook messages from all sorts of Woodberry people telling me that, the night before Woodberry graduation, the Dozen had performed an arrangement of "Stacy's Mom" that I had written while I was a student. I think it was the second piece I ever actually arranged for any purpose (I remember that it was the piece in which I learned it was possible to write notes that SOUND correct yet are still WRITTEN incorrectly). Anyway, I was honored and it filled me with lots of Woodberry a capella group nostalgia.

This week I think I'm going to try to rest more than anything else. In spite of my internship being full time, it feels like a vacation compared to last week.