Now, I should like to point out that when one of your jobs lives in the interwebs and can be worked on wherever, whenever, and the other is retail with no predictable schedule or ever more than a week or week.5's notice, and your social life is more likely to include coffee shops and board games than bars and... well, whatever the "partying" sorts do, weekends are apt to pass more or less unnoticed.

Obviously, sometimes I do weekendy things on the weekends, but neither the schedule inflicted upon me nor the ways I choose to fill in the blanks make the fun stuff any more likely to occur on a Friday or Saturday night than any other time in the week! (Particularly since most of the time, I'm not entirely sure what day of the week it actually is.)

So for me to have 4 legitimately weekendy weekends in a row is kind of epic.

   

This fourth weekend of awesome featured another awesome Marian Call show! (Crazy, several years of waiting/trying to get to one of her shows, and now I swing two in eight days!) This one was rather closer to home, at the MilkBoy Coffee just over in Bryn Mawr! I used to go to the MilkBoy in Ardmore all the time when I took the train home from school, (since it was just across from the train station, and I'd walk over for a coffee and a warm place to sit until my Dad came to get me,) but I'd never been to the Bryn Mawr one before... and frankly didn't remember it existed, so it's a good thing I checked the address!

   

Once again, I helped with the selling of stuffs, but it's a tiny place and she didn't bring much this time, so I was mostly free to just enjoy the show. And once again, a great show, complete with Jayne hats, the TSA-friendly rainstick, typewriter percussion, a feather boa and kazoo, and lots of witty, geeky, folky, jazzy goodness!

Afterwards, I was invited to join Marian; her very talented guitarist, Brian Ray; their host for the night, Donna; and another couple, for drinks and "Nibbles", as the menu called it, at the conveniently located Verdad Restaurant and Tequila Bar next door.

That's a place I definitely want to get back to - can't speak as to the tequila, but the sangria was tasty, the atmosphere lovely, and the food was friggin fantastic. I had a Black Truffle Flatbread, which was smallish-but-not-unreasonably-so for the price, and absurdly delicious. The kind of thing you force yourself to eat slowly so the flavor will be in your mouth longer. Mmm... and everything I didn't taste looked delightful too!

The highlight of the evening, of course, was not the meal, but the company! Marian is just as lovely to chat with as to listen to her music. Donna, it turns out, is from the same town as my family and works with the Bethlehem Mounties(!) on social media. Somehow a conversation about shoes revealed that Brian and I have both been to and loved Taiwan! All in all, a seriously fun evening with a group of seriously fun, intelligent, snarky, very nice people! Can't wait 'til the next tour swings our way!