Dammit! I must've left my stereo on auto-wake up, but forgot to set the auto-turn-off bit so that it would turn itsel off after an hour or so... While I was out of town I got a warning from my landlord and next door neighbor about my stereo blasting throughout the night... grr... Mah bad... I don't blast my stereo... that hurts my precious ears. :) Dang, I'll go apologize tomorrow morning.

Eeenyway, I'm back in the burgh. Home sweet home. Two straight weekends of venturing outside the burgh seeking for some adventure has finally come to an end. I'm actually kinda glad, cuz I need some rest. Short trips always drain you out. I think I will spend this week taking it easy with work and excercise. Then when Friday comes around I'm thinking of renting a car so I can brush up on my manual transmission driving technique before I go test driving next week to finally settle on a car. If the weather forecast seems good enuf, I might even get a convertible... :) hee hee.

Oh yeah! about the trip to the city of brotherly luv. I had a really good time there. Most of the time was spent looking for a parking space downtown, pigging out (good food, mind you), and watching graduates march in, and march out of the stadium.. :) I think I can dig philly if I didn't have to drive downtown too much. I really like the vibe I got from the South street. Simply walking through that jam-packed street makes me just wanna let myself loose and have some serious fun. It usually takes some time for me to get to know the people enough so that I will be comfortable, and same goes for places; I always have this somewhat lengthy period of awkwardness that I have to go through to get a feel for stuff, but once i do I totally let myself loose and just bond with the people and the place. If you're gonna party, you might as well party hard, ya know. :) South street seems like a place I can eventually relate to and have some good hard fun. I didn't really get to do much there this time around, but I'll make sure I do the next time I drop by. The streets around Upenn is also very nice. Lots of little cool places to sit down and talk over a cup of smoothy or what not. This place called the Pod looked pretty cool. I didn't get a chance to dine in, but it looked like a pretty cool spot. I think the overall cost of living theres is rather high. It's just the vibe I got... parking, rent, insurance (although, this seemed to be primarily due to the fact that the town which UPenn is located in happens to be somewhat dangerous), all seemed to be quite a bit higher than the burgh. I guess the suburbs are much better in that regards.

So my first time in Philly has given me a good idea of what the city is like. I think it's certainly worth a second trip just to get more involved in the scene. Oh, oh, oh, and I wish I could revist the Philadelphia museum of arts with somebody who has a clue. Sure I can enjoy walking around looking at the pieces in awe, but it's so much more to have somebody next to me being able to fill me in on the history of the individual pieces. Are YOU that somebody????? ;)