Vilnius...2/3 weekends already this month

Another conference in Vilnius Friday afforded me another weekend of good old vilnius adventure...

Thursday: Bite concert at Artistai (formerly Baras Amerika). i'd never heard this group before, and every time i asked what they're called i understood "Pide," and i was like "what?! pide?! like piderastai?!?!"

also i bumped into jurga, a girl i used to date a few years ago, which was fun; she's all smiles and quite a looker.

Friday: finally, a couple of beers with Evita, a former colleague of darius razgiukas, whom i haven't seen since last summer. then one with tadas vysniauskas, the the two of us took off to my place for a splif an pork chop sandwiches. then off to meet aidas the peg (got lost walking about two miles to meet him in the old city!). and then...some kind of debauchery...oh yeah, a concert at Zalvyksle, the group that does the new version of "suk suk ratelis," which is alot of fun. saw jurga there again.

i'd snagged the last free table when we got in (without paying the cover somehow). a couple people asked if they could join us, and i said yes, of course. aidas and i are chatting in English, and the girl is paying attention, and all of a sudden i turn to her and say in lugan "did you order yet?" shocked. shocked. "what, you're lithuanian?!" we made friends and had the same conversation we have everyday with people surprised to meet lithuanian americans returning to live in their homeland.

i think they might have been a couple, but i wasn't sure. she, vita, and i repeatedly made and held eye contact and just sat there smiling at each other whenever aidas and the other guy, audrius, were deep in conversation. gedas and juste joined us, and when the concert was over we went to aido for pre-game shots. they mentioned my, um, bizarre taste in music, my x-mas 2004 album, and vita said she'd love to hear it. i jumped on that: "oh yeah? gimme your phone number and i'll let you know when i bring it to town! 8...?" she laughs and looks at audrius (this glance, in my opinion, confirms that they're romantically involved) but then give up the digits :)

saturday i went to eat and drink with andrius and his family again, and play cards. this time they taught me to play trinka, a very cool simple quick game, ten cent ante, at which i won 14.90 LTL. then aidas calls me and let's me know diana juskyte is in town: exciting.

i leave andius' dad my mnumber, cause andrius ios going to ireland for a year to work, and his dad's a good time. he immediatly, surreptitiously, calls me. not having seens him, and not recognizing his phone number of course, i just answer. "hello? who is this? gedai? oh what's up, i'll be in town in 25 minutes. no, not in 15, 25. no, i can't, dude. what's your problem, i said 25?" i could hear everyone laughing, but i thought they were laughing at just my end of the conversation, not both! total burn, but i certainly had a good laugh at myself when i realized what had happened. ;)

i meet diana at the post office and when went to aido for a little pregame. then to a skamp concert, where we were joined by audrius from kaunas. blah blah blah, off to aido again...i think...then to cozy, where we were all a little...less than energetic. diana and i had a conversation with the waitress that somehow resulted in us getting unexpected food. my was clams, i think; yummy.

anything else worth mentioning i'm not willing to mention here,) so sayonara, suckers!