like a fish needs a bicycle...

the weekends that make life good

wow, i love my friends. this was a good weekend. seeing as how i'm almost never in chicago on a weekend (because i travel so much), i thoroughly enjoyed taking advantage of being home this weekend. it was a really nice few days... on friday afternoon, some friends at the office conspired to help alissa surprise aaron for valentine's day.* lacey helped arrange the secret arrival, then nassim and michael and i distracted aaron. when he finally walked into the surprise, he was soooo shocked (see exhibits A and B above), and alissa had made brownies for everyone, and it was all so cute! yay for them. :)

friday night, a bunch of us went to see the neo-futurists. weird and totally hilarious. the pic of me and mojan with our glasses was taken in the funky theater we went to.

saturday night, i went to see my friend greg schweitz play in a basketball tournament, which was cool on many levels... schweitz played well, i got to watch an entertaining game, and there were several attractive basketball players around. definitely a good situation. then, we went to see talib kweli perform at northwestern, which was fun. talib is cool. finally, we met up with sarah and bushra and two of schweitz's friends to get some food. very nice evening.

and today, i volunteered at the house of worship for the interfaith prayer service dedicated to the victims of the tsunami. that was really nice. also, in an attempt to circumvent impending illness, i spent much of the weekend sleeping and lying around. what a welcome change. i must say that, every once in a while, i truly enjoy being a bum. yay for good weekends. :)

*i don't hate v-day. i really don't. i just resent that, whether single or taken, hallmark and their imposed constructs are trying to prescribe how the american populace is supposed to feel and act on a given day of the year. but i'm still happy for aaron and alissa and their enjoyable weekend. :)

Posted by naseem at February 13, 2005 10:24 PM