the long awaited continuation

and then there was . . .

sunday:

sunday was the morning that we got up and went to one of our favorite little brunch places at its new location with some of our most beloved people. (from l -> r, that's aaron, matt, me, andrew, amelia, and rhiannon. i'm not sure why it looks like everyone paid for their meals but matt and i , by the way). and then it started to snow. . . it was already white and a little bit slick when we left the cafe. so we - of course - decided that sunday would be a great day to spend inside.

oh, wait! i forgot that cafe berlin actually provided me with one of my favorite pictures of the weekend. try to get past how ridiculously adorable rhiannon is in this picture and note the awesome sign in the window. so. . . our loved ones can rest assured that anytime that we go to cafe berlin, we are somewhere that is taser free.

i believe that sunday was also the day (or maybe it was saturday? i don't know - in this story it is going to be sunday, okay?) that matt got the details of what will be his "official" job offer. i'll write more about that when things are for sure for sure, but if you're wondering what someone looks like when the go to school for 20+ years and then finally realize that they have a job, they look like this mixture of shock, disbelief, and relief. this trifecta is quickly followed by exuberant excitement (not pictured here). it was a wonderful moment, indeed.

so we ended up having a nice, relaxing day inside involving job offers, a little bit of work, and a lot of staying in, making dinner, and starting to watch this tv series called mad men, which is one that bill simmons (a.k.a., the sports guy) has touted as one of the best. it's been interesting in a few different ways, i think; the details for that are a different post, though, i think.

in any case, it was a pretty great day.

monday:

since i didn't leave missouri until around 6:00 on monday, we got what felt like another full day together (though this was not the case in practice). matt had to get up early to go teach his class. i got up shortly after he left to go meet lindsay for tea at kaldi's, in downtown missouri. i actually rode the same bus in that i used to ride from my old apartment (it's awful, but i can't remember what the name of that place was. . . .).

after that, matt and i went for what turned out to be a wonderful, delicious lunch at the cracker barrel, courtesy of peggy's generosity and love. of course we knew that this meant that a picture was in order! it was wonderful, yummy, and we even got to sit relatively close to the fire. i tried to get a bit of the cracker barrel sign in the background, but that didn't really turn out. it's clearly a learning process. but it was wonderful and we looked forward to it all weekend and were not disappointed.

and now it's still a time of trying to recover from being away and then having a busy few days of visitors to the program. i just got up after sleeping for about 11 hours and i can honestly say that i still feel tired. that's going to be fun. ..

work has to happen today, though i promised myself not until after i got this post up! i owed it to the people :)

love you all.