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entry most overdue.

last weekend i flew out to san diego for yet another wedding. we flew in and drove up the beach looking for a place to eat. since we didn't have much time before the wedding, and i hadn't brought three sets of clothes for two days, i wound up sitting on the beach, eating gyros, and dressed for a wedding.

that was just the beginning of surreality, tho. we got to the wedding with .5 minutes to spare, and got rushed to our seats by the father of the bride, and got seated by matt ravenscraft, one of the kids i used to teach in junior high sunday school. the wedding was really bizarre, since dave's a pastor, and obviously knows the other pastors at the church really well. so instead of the speech-making being more informal, they were formal, with out-of-place random jokes. not to mention the completely out of place "christian" misogyny of the first speaker. all based straight out of scripture, but just put in a completely awkward way that made it even worse. the second speaker was much more intelligent, but less prepared for formal speechmaking to a friend. people need to JUST LET GO. [/random fight club reference]

so, much cringing later, we made our way through the receiving line, and dave cried when he saw me and shook my hand. so very dave. it's nice to know some people don't change. but then that's probably pretty similar to what was going through his head when he started making with the leaky eyes.

outside we got cornered by the kehlunz(sp?) family who gave appropriately insulated dissapproving looks when i mentioned staying out late, my roommate's drinking habits, or my non-attendance of church in the city.

the reception was pretty lame, we hung out with jay's mom, since he was the best man and all. and somehow she's less appalling than jay himself? i dunno. it sucked, so right after the cake cutting and the the first dance we bolted for the door.

we went back to the hotel and changed, and went for a drive through san diego, just to say we'd been there. the housing there is super sexy. the setbacks are really short relative to most of the housing in chicago, and there's a lot more of an adventurous spirit among homeowners there. but that tends to be true of any single client, rather than developer, though.