the return of perryspeak.

it feels so strange to be doing a weekend recap in this space, since it's been so long since i've done anything of note here at all (fortunately, now that it's almost the weekend and this entry therefore nearly a week late, it is in keeping with my general MO), but it's a couple of days i desperately want to remember for as long as possible and i no longer keep a paper diary. so, you lucky lucky thing, you get to hear all about it.

last weekend was the great brooklyn wedding celebration, which really translated into 'no really, there's a really good reason to come to the shivs' show this weekend.' and the reason really WAS good--good enough to get my long-lost cousin J out from Kentucky for a long overdue visit (13 years or more, we'd figured), and a special guest appearance from the much beloved carass. yes, almost the whole thing. that means that eight of my favorite people, my closest friends from high school, hauled themselves out here from points west (california and washington state) to come to the show.

i'm sure you can understand why i was mildly overwhelmed.

there is something amazing about having long swathes of time come between meetings with people you love; once you get over the initial disappointment of having not been there as all these marvelous changes took place, having been absent as they transformed into these amazing creatures, you get to appreciate how much everyone has changed. grown up, if you will. and grown up we all have, more or less. and it's a beautiful thing. and, at risk of sounding patronizing, i'm so proud of my friends; how far we have come from the days of ditching class to go to a'roma's and cursing far too much during concert choir. at last our precocity is paying off.

it's funny--i no longer speak with any of the people who were my "close" friends in college; and yet i still have friends from high school who will cross a country to come to a show. i think that says something quite significant, about a lot of things.