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| 25 nov 2001 "...maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen..." ha!� i'm 26 today!� not that my birthday is a big deal, but i did let out a little happy "it's my brithday!"-type announcement when it hit midnight last night.� i was at gwen's house down in SLO, and we were giving each other brain teasers (yes, a litte dorky, i admit).� her parents stuck a candle in some of barden's brownies and they sang me the song.� yay. i drove back up home with barden at 9am (hella early), and luckily, that place where traffic usually slows down to a dreadful crawl near coyote creek was pretty much perfect... just a very minor negligible traffic slowdown, and within a minute or two, it was over.� *sigh*� nice!� that's exactly the reason why we got up to early... to avoid sunday thanksgiving traffic on the 101. when i got home, jay was home, and i was happy to find that he left a banana republic bag on my doorknob for my brithday present... he gave me an optical mouse!� ha ha.� it's funny because that must mean he hates using the mouse on my computer because it's got a mouseball, and all the shit on my mousepad accumulates in the rollers, making the mouse all hard to maneuver. i was so tired that i turned on the football game on tv and promptly fell asleep on the futon.� i woke up around 3 and took jay and margaret to SFO.� they're going to costa rica for almost two weeks. so... yup.� i will be alone here until next friday.� *sniff*� i'll miss jay.� it's not like i see him that much, but just knowing that my roommate is around is comforting.� but we'll see.� maybe this will force me to get out and do stuff.� *shrug* but anyways, i was prepared to just go home and have a peaceful birthday all to myself, but on the drive back from SFO down 101 south, i started calling people just to chat with them.� i talked to alan, and he suggested i flip a bitch and head back up to SF.� so i exited on 92 west and went back up to rainbow's place.� i know i say i didn't expect anything grand for my birthday, but i have to admit that i was kind of happy that i would be doing something with friends.� yay! rainbow asked me where i wanted to go to dinner, and i just mentioned japantown because i wanted some place that was easy to get to, easy to find parking, and not too fancy or anything.� i really don't like making a big fuss over myself.� i'm totally low-maintenance, and something as quaint as a simple dinner with my friends is just perfect for me to celebrate.� rainbow kept asking me if j-town was ok, and if i wanted to go to some place fancier.� and i just declined. mellow yellow.� that's me. so jack and amy joined us (they live in the city), and peter, bless his poor tired, post-call soul, drove up from stanford to round out the six-some.� after dinner, alan bought me this crepe (i LOVE crepes) in one of the j-town buildings, and we spent the next few minutes piling into the photo booth and taking the picture up above.� sorry, i don't have a scanner! for some reason, i look like i was photo-shopped in.� it looks like i'm transparent or something.� weird. but yeah.� 26.� i'm kinda bummed.� that makes me officially "late twenties."� i really liked being 25, and now it feel like i'm starting the inevitable snowball roll to 30.� ack. but anyways, SLO was nice.� we got there around 5, and after having dinner, we sat down for the continuation of the Y-family thanksgiving slideshow... pics from japan!� yay!� i was really happy to get to relive japan again, and this time through the eyes of the other people... they took a lot of pictures of buildings and stuff, which may seem boring, but i really liked the fact that i got to refresh my memory about simple stuff, like how the hotel room looked and stuff like that.� my favorite picture was one of me lighting up a cigarette right in front of a sign that said, "no smoking."� yeah, it's silly, but for some reason, i found it hilarious even though the humor is rather obvious and dumb. what else did i do in SLO?� not much, i guess.� in some way, you can call it boring, but i was simply enjoying the fact that i completely forgot about my jobless state and that whole mess.� the unemployment thing has singlehandedly taken over my brain for the past month or so, so it was so refreshing to get away from it all for a while. but yeah.� the drive sucks.� 200 miles there and 200 miles back.� yuck.� i figure that that distance is just near my theshold of pain for driving.� i mean, it _is_ painful, but i'll tolerate it as long as i have somebody with me or some really really good music.� beyond that (i.e. a drive to LA), i will NOT do unless i get to sleep or something.� too painful. *smile*� eric just wished my happy birthday with 3 minutes to spare. um.� yeah.� i chatted with scarfgirl (i forget her URL) for a bit tonight.� what is UP with all these people switching to blogging?� sheesh.� it's like a superfad or something.� but then again, it_is_ a good way of journalling.� but anyways, i'm glad she's back. so.� the really BIG question is whether i'll get run around naked all day now that jay's gone.� i've thought about it.� but the looming issue is whether it's sanitary.� i mean, would YOU sit on a cushy futon knowing that my naked ass had been lounging on it for days?� if i were living by myself, i would be typing this entry butt-naked every single day.� but as for what i'll be doing while jay's gone... i'll have to think about it some more before the clothes start flying off.� i don't want to make anybody feel gross, you know? yup.� that's the big question.� it makes me really relish the time i had in japan when i had that single at the meiji international house.� naked smokes... *swoon*� such good times. ok.� i'm getting sleepy.� been up since 8.� and it's past midnight, but i'm still gonna post this up as the 25th. |