Weekend Update
If you gathered from the previous six posts that I spent a lot of time recapping the wedding, you’d be mostly right.
Medical school is back in session, so Friday night started off with a happy hour at the Duchess in the U. After polishing off a few beers, we headed to the Elysian’s Tangletown, where our friends Pete and JJ were hanging – we grabbed dinner and some more beer, including their Pumpkin IPA, a sure sign that fall is now here. Fortunately, I like pumpkin beer, so no complaints. I was tempted to complete the Elysian trifecta – I had lunch at Elysian Fields – and head to the mothership in Capital Hill, but we called it a night.
Saturday, Meagan had a dermatology clinic, so I ran errands and then we got breakfast at Portage Bay. Afterwards, I headed home and did bills for the first time in two months – amazingly nothing was late – thank you autopay. Saturday night, we went to Tilth in Wallingford for a late dinner – amazing as usual.
Today, Sunday, Meagan and I were invited to speak at UW’s medical school’s “family day”, a nice event the school puts on for incoming first year students and their families. I believe we were there as the token “recently married” students. After the med school counselor possibly scared all the first years and their S.O.’s into thinking a career in medicine was the end of their lives, I felt it was my duty to reassure them, “it ain’t so bad.” Besides that, my key pieces of advice were to look out for med students at happy hour and to consider the possibility that your girlfriend might not be in the most relaxed state of mind the evening after a final, if you were hypothetically to propose to her then.
Sunday afternoon we hung around Green Lake a bit, having lunch at Soup’s Up and then walking to a running store to get new kicks for Meagan. Afterwards, we returned home, where Meagan continued studying and I continued blogging the nuptials.
I met an old friend from college, Pete, and his wife Allison downtown at Twist for dinner. Pete and I backpacked through Europe after college, and reminsiced about that trip and our recent adventures – my trip to Tanzania, and his one to Tuscany and Chinqueterra. Twist’s food was kinda bleh, but it was great catching up with an old friend.
It’s a bit unfortuante that I didn’t get outside more this weekend, since the weather was gorgeous, but it was a good weekend regardless, and even if I droned on too much about Vermont, I’m happy to have it written, since I hope one day I’ll appreciate it. And now, I’m off to bed.