Night prayer with Tall
Pete
This was the first time
I ever lived in a ‘Catholic’ household, and I loved it. It was such a blessing to be able to
talk to your roommate about theological questions, reflect upon the season or
mass readings, and even do night prayer every now and then. I had only previously done night prayer
with the men’s group in Boston, and really enjoyed it, so I was pumped when
Pete started asking me if I wanted to join him.
Weirdos in Rittenhouse
Square
Rittenhouse Square is
such a fun park! Although it’s
surrounded by some of the most expensive real estate in Philly, the park has an
eclectic mix of people. There are
groups doing yoga, public dance lessons, and breakdance team practices. I’ve seen a guy yelling a sermon into a
tape recorder, a lady reading a book topless, an incredible beatboxer, dueling
trumpets and dueling hula-hoopers.
It seems that every other person in the park has a dog too, so it’s a
good spot for both dog and people watching.
Rittenhouse library
How lucky/blessed was I
that the library closest to me had an entire floor dedicated to children’s
books?!
Noodle gym
The first Philly
apartment I lived in had a basement with 6ft. ceilings with rafters hanging
down another foot. I was determined to put my workout equipment down there
nonetheless. After chipping away
at uneven concrete, and then filling in any dents, I had a decent floor to
place all the equipment. The
problem however was that if you weren’t always paying attention, you would slam
your head into the rafters. I
tried to solve this problem by gluing and taping foam pool noodles to the
undersides of the rafters. The
result was something that looked like an 80’s aerobics studio vs. dungeon
basement gymrat lair…
Meeting Ace
The guy at the bus-stop
with the weird sneeze actually ended up being a really interesting guy and
eventually a friend.
Tuna fishing with
Dimitry
Ranstead Room with
Danielle
A dirty, dark back alley
has a plain, old door with only a small ‘RR’ on it. If you go in, you’ll find yourself in the super-posh waiting
room of an even shnazzier Speakeasy-style bar and lounge. Drinks were made with alcohols you’ve
never heard of and the bartenders were exact in everything they did. I only went there once, and I’m afraid
to ruin the memory with a potentially mediocre second time!
Chris' Jazz with
Danielle
Sexy date night!
Hipster bars
Resurrection, Ranstead
Room, Devil’s Den, Sidecar, Devil’s Alley, Franklin Mortgage, Hawthorne’s…
Motorcycle, hot rod,
and foodie talks with Rocco
Rejected marriage
proposal
see http://ajbloggeroni.blogspot.com/2011/03/st-pattys-day-at-fwot-last-night.html
North Bowl bday
What a ‘scene’ that
place has!
The Hives concert with
Steve (tix bought by Danielle)
Great show! Thanks Danielle!
Learning how to use
urban landscape as gym equipment
Writers group and SCBWI
Pool hustling, horse racing, and gambling at FWOT
‘Hustling’ may be a
strong term as I really didn’t win enough to claim that I was hustling… But it
was a blast playing pool for dough, especially on the slow days! With live horse racing on even in the slowest of summer days, there was always something to bet on. I believe I still have an open wager that NASCAR drivers (specifically B. Keselowski) have personal trainers..
Drawing prompts with
Skye
Vad the cabbie
St. Ritas Shrine
What a blessing!
Reverting back to a
flip phone
The Verizon lady did a
double-take when I told her I wanted to go from my Droid ‘back’ to a old school
flip phone!
Poker nights at FWOT
It’s not so much that
these were a ‘highlight’, but more ‘memorable’ due to the characters that would
show up every week for free poker.
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