So how I said the weekend was going to be great?

IT TOTALLY WAS.

Friday was good, I slept in pretty late and then people started arriving. hearts_blood's brother Ryan arrived earlier in the afternoon, her and l_loire's friend Sara came later in the evening, and... honestly I don't remember too much about Friday because I got super stoned with Ryan and we watched Brian play video games until almost 2 AM. He almost beat Sonic! He made it to the second to last board and then just couldn't get the timing of a jump and burned through all his extra lives. It was still pretty epic to watch. I haven't watched someone play Sonic since Dennis used to play it back when we actually had a Sega, and Dennis never made it past the fourth or fifth stage.

Then Saturday was Tanglewood! We spent most of the day getting ready to go. April made EPIC food, it was truly amazing, I have never had a sandwich that good in my life. We left around 3-ish, made it to Tanglewood just after the gates opened at 5:30, and got ourselves set up with some nice real estate in view of the screens hung outside of the stage. Lawn seats: best idea ever. We had a whole picnic spread, including super delicious spice cake, and basically lolled around for three hours enjoying excellent company before the concert started. The first half of the show was dedicated to the music of Westerns, which was actually really cool even though I don't like Westerns very much, and then Morgan Freeman came on and narrated a story set to music and just, fuck, I want to have a voice like his, I want to read stories like that and have people be amazed. The second half of the concert wasn't thematic, it was just more film scores, but that was still so awesome. I haven't really ever heard professional orchestral music live before, just high school orchestras, which are not the same thing as the Boston Pops in the same way that a caterpillar is not the same thing as a butterfly. By the final piece-- which was music from Star Wars-- I was mostly asleep, slept almost the entire way back (although I was conscious enough to hear Brian and April singing along to the Repo soundtrack), and passed right the fuck out as soon as we got back home.

Sunday was very low-key. We played the game of Life, and I kicked serious amounts of ass. I love winning at board games, it's got nothing to do with skill but I still feel special when a winnar is me. We went to Bombers, which is a burrito bar and I have never seen a burrito that big or that delicious in my life, I couldn't finish the damn thing, it was massive. Sara left after dinner, and the rest of us watched Doctor Who, the very first episodes of Doctor Who, and it is unbelievable what that show has become from what it used to be, I'm really amazed. It was so slow-paced! And so black and white! And the Doctor was such a crotchety old man! I have to say I approve of the trend of the Doctor getting younger and younger as he regenerates, we all know how I feel about Eleven.

Monday was also a low-key day. Brian and April had to go to work, so I spent the day with Ryan, who is really very pleasant company. He strongly reminds me of a puppy. In a good way. Then when they came home, we all went out for dinner at Koto. THERE ARE FUCKING KOTOS EVERYWHERE. There used to be only the one in Burlington, and now there's one in Plattsburgh and two in Syracuse and one in Albany, which is the one we went to. And we had hibachi, and it was fantastic. Then Ryan left, and Brian and I watched four episodes of the Fourth Doctor, who is really very entertaining and I like him a lot, and now everyone is asleep and I am updating my LJ for the first time in three days, and this is just to say that I have been having a marvelous time.

Seriously, I cannot think of a better possible way for me to have spent my last week before going back to school. I have been in the best of company all the time, I have been better fed than I think I have ever been (and tomorrow April is making lasagna, omfg), I have been well rested and having fun.

Tomorrow I have to do my thesis research, which I have been putting off, but six hours should be long enough for me to find five articles, maybe not to read and annotate five articles, but at least to get the meat of the assignment done. And then when Brian and April get home, it will be lasagna time, and then there will be drinking Scrabble and more Doctor Who, and then it will be Wednesday and I will be going back to Wells.

I am just... really almost entirely happy. It's a nice feeling.