The Weekend

I just came back from my Whim reunion at Yale. I was supposed to be on call Friday night and Saturday morning, but I only stayed about two hours longer than usual on Friday before hopping a train to New Haven. Becca, Amanda, Jess and I sat around for three hours after I got in just looking at photos and trading reminiscences. And catching up on each others' lives. It was fantastic.

Saturday was all Whim, all the time. We had breakfast (with bagels and... BUTTER?! wtf? they had pats *and* whipped butter, but no cream cheese. fuckin' A!) with all the reunion attendees and people gave some speeches. Then we had little rehearsals. They had put us into little clusters of several years' worth each, so I was in the '99 through '02 group, and since there were three pitches in our group and three songs, we each got to pitch a song. It was so fun to stand up there and wave my hands again. ;) The concert went really well, and I was proud of the current group, proud of Whim as an institution, and especially proud of my year and our legacy. I think I really needed to connect to a previous time in my life (especially one that was so rewarding to me).

Anyway, it was an incredible weekend. The alums were uniformly warm, funny, and friendly (although there were of course some oddballs), and the whole event was a blast.

And tomorrow I go back to my rotation. *shudder*