hello once more

mood: sleepy
music: i don't the song, but the tufts girls group that came to midd the end of the year sang it "staring at the blank page before you...etc"
random word: bastille

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well hello friends! it's been a few days since I looked at this lovely page last and I must say, seeing all the fun stories was great (including the THREE IN A ROW from becky)

so yeah, this friday and saturday I was in the great New Jersey visiting the stellar Laura Budzyna and it was awesome!

I arrived friday evening right on time to get yanked through the door, dash upstairs and catch "breaking free" from "high school musical"!! It was like a sign or something :)

We then proceeded to Sidney's house for dinner where I tried salmon and, I must say, I actually enjoy it. Look for a salmon-eating Dan Kelley at all your local Middlebury dining halls (patent pending). The night was passed at the Olefson's playing all sorts of mentally-oriented games such as Set, Text Twist and Scrabble. Needless to say, our brains were feeling quite stretched. Then Laura and I went back to her house where we chatted for a while and then went to bed around 1 in the morning. Rather early for a one night visit for two close friends who haven't seen each other in a long time, right? Right. But that's because we were getting up at 7:30 the next morning.

Why? I don't know. I still don't believe it myself.
DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A HOAX. THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOW ARE REAL, HAVE OCCURRED AND WERE DOCUMENTED BY HUNDREDS OF EYEWITNESSES. CONTINUE ONLY IF YOU ARE PREPARED TO EXPERIENCE THE TRUTH.

That morning at 9 am, in jean shorts and a pair of tired, worn Converses, surrounding by hundreds of people way more hardcore than he, Dan Kelley ran a 5K road race.

I know. I'm still stunned. I don't know how they convinced me to do it. Honestly, though, I'm glad I did it. Minus the almost dying bit since I'm way wicked out of shape, I had a lot of fun. I should do more stuff like that. So that was a new experience that I'm still feeling the aftereffects of slightly (watching me attempt to walk on Sunday was hilarious). Then we had a massive brunch, went back to the house, swam in the pool for a while, taught the effervescent Christyn Budzyna and her beau to Lindy, chatted it up for a while and then it was back off on the road for me to avoid the inclement storms, which I mostly did. All in all, it was a wonderful visit.

It also made me really, really sad. It hit me that that visit will probably be the last time I see this girl until she gets back from Chile which made it a little more real for me that a lot of people aren't going to be around next year. I'm really going to miss all of you folks who are heading out to the wide world. Those who will be around, I clearly can't wait to see all of you again.

Whew, this entry has dragged on far too long. I really should go work. I have 215 envelopes to mail out! Postal service go!