Awakening.
Saturday after an absolutely ludicrous amount of ‘primping’ I ventured off to Patrick’s in Harrisburg using the Festiva. 
The goal was to ‘look sharp’ and of course I did my best, hah… I did realize somewhat too late that my pants were rather on the overly large side, apparently they were mislabeled or I had some sort of blow to the head while purchasing them, considering they were basically two sizes too large! I still love the pants though so I’m considering altering them so they actually fit properly, imagine that. We picked up his friend Angie on the way to the party, she’s quite amazing. 
The party ‘thing’ itself was interesting too, I kept thinking I was glad I knew about about printing, otherwise I’d probably have been rather lost in the conversation.
Patrick was dressed so swank, I felt rather underdressed compared to him and Angie, lol… This is him next to this amazing fireplace at the hotel, of course. 
Of course, as compared to some of the people there, well, I wasn’t so concerned about being underdressed, lol. :-)
There was this ’straight bar’ in the hotel where the party was at to which we migrated to after the main festivities were concluded… it was so hilarious how this one guy was totally wasted, dancing around… sadly. At this point I’d only had one cosmo during the party, so I was quite the sober boy compared to most, heh, which made the drunken people all the more hilarious. Later on we headed to The Cobblestone where I proceeded to have two Long Islands to make up for my lack of drinking beforehand, heh… I still didn’t feel anything though, oh well. I have this general rule about not drinking when it could ‘make a scene’ anyway, lol… of course it takes A LOT of alcohol for me to appear intoxicated.
Due to lateness, and, well, mostly because I wanted to, I stayed up in Harrisburg Saturday night, which was nice as predicated. Sunday morning it was, err, well, Sunday afternoon we sort of doddled around a bit, went to Best Buy, Target, and BB&B (where I FINALLY found the warmer that’ll work with my tea & coffee presses!!!). When it came about time for me to leave the woman called and told me the snow was already laying on the roads and somewhat urged me to spend another night, which of course I didn’t mind at all, more Patrick! ;) I started into his music collection, which is vast and awesome, basically having an mp3 ripping extravaganza, whoo! We had a spectacular night, ahem. The next morning, err, afternoon of course, well, honestly I can’t really remember what we did, lol. The snow had not abated in the slightest, he called off work, and we just hung out, being trapped, the term being relative, in the apartment together. I spent a third night, which was again, spectacular. It’s truly amazing how the two of us, both Scorpios (which I didn’t realize until the weekend), both so easy to annoy to incredible levels, could find nothing about one another between Saturday and Tuesday morning bothering.
It was really nice to just be able to spend so much time together without much of any outside distraction, because we got to spend a great amount of time just getting to know each other. I did my work as usual, and, of course, as usual, Monday’s work load was ridiculous…. and I did have a phone call from Cole, which ended up with me getting quite… ehhh… agitated, so in a way Patrick got to see me being my special kind of articulate pissy. I really want to take a 2×4 to that kid’s head sometimes! I also exchanged a couple emails with Jon, which was just nice. At least he’s better at replying to emails than most people, heh.
The only bad thing about the weekend was that I had only the clothing that I was wearing… I *almost* packed a change of clothes, but figured since I’d at ‘most’ be spending a single night it wouldn’t be a big deal, hahaha… I’m glad I took my overnight ‘kit’ though, and, well, I had my iBook, thereafter five gigs heavier, and all my other technology.
I did take several amazing photos of Patrick Monday night, he’d wanted some ‘nice’ photos of his tattoos, and well, we worked from there. 
That one is definitely my favourite, the beginning of a smirk, the colour, lighting, and, well… everything, it’s just perfect.
I ‘finally’ …not that I was relieved to leave of course, left Tuesday afternoon. The trip home was still a bit terrifying, though not overly so. The over & underpasses were sheets of ice, ack! Since I knew I’d probably be stuck at home considering the state of the roadways, I decided to stop at the Pipe Shoppe, figured at least I could get a decent pack of cigs… Nat Sherman Mint, yum! I also picked up a Colibri Quantum Talon lighter, with an indigo blue butane chamber, it’s so awesome! Yay, I finally have a lighter worth using with my Colibri case and of course the occasionally pretensious Djarum Blacks I tend to often smoke.
It was decidedly odd to sleep alone… it’s always weird to go from sharing a bed with someone to not, and apparently this is a mutual weird feeling. The weekend felt like an awakening. I’ve been feeling thus far this month, this year, an awakeness I’d not felt in a very long time, at least all of last year, and it’s just nice, that’s really the only way I can describe it.