<2218>

Fuck you, dog next door. Every damn day and night you're out there barking your goddamn head off AT NOTHING. I have never wanted to bludgeon/poison a creature so very much. And I've known some fairly nasty creatures.

SHUT THE HELL UP.

<2305>

Doggie went inside. Sweet silence.

It's getting nicer outside, so I'm feeling more walky lately. I wandered down to Fell's Point from school this afternoon, which was fun... the walk south is surprisingly non-sketchy, given the amount of sketch in every other direction from school. I then made my way up to the Shot Tower/Market area for a meeting at this communication center. I dunno if I really want to do an internship there or not.

Anyhoo, my point was that I'm still pondering whether to get a car. I sort of felt like a dork last week when boy 1 kept having to come pick me up so we could go places. Not to mention having to also drive me home. Then again, there's a lot of good with not having to deal with a car, including not contributing to taking up street space, using fuel, adding to air pollution, etc. I mean, I'm in a city, sort of. I should be able to live without a car.

<1344>

I was pondering two things on the bus this morning. The first was an argument device that seems to crop up a lot on email discussions. Essentially, if someone makes the statement, "If people just knew all the facts..." or some other comment about people's lack of knowledge or fact accuracy, you can almost guarantee that their subsequent claim will not only be stupid, but probably also riddled with errors. It's a copout, a claim that clearly once you have presented all the facts, reasonable people will be forced to agree with you. Let your claims stand for themselves, instead of tacking on that kind of bull.

Another thing that irks me is the issue of personal attacks. It's a personal attack if I up and call you a bitch in a conversation about something else. But if I find the tone of your writing to be bitchy for x, y, and z reasons... well, the issue is your bitchiness, and, sorry, but it's not the same thing as the above thing. It may not be particularly nice, but if you're acting like an ass, people will call you on it. It's all the more obnoxious when, instead of challenging that assessment, you just get pouty.

This is why I've reduced my listserv participation: people make me crazy with shit like this.

My whole body hates me today. My quads are still like stiff blobs of pain and hate. I tried to run on the treadmill yesterday, but after a few minutes it became clear that my quads were not going to stop hurting like a mof. Adductors too. Ow. So I went to the weight room (the women's weight room, with all the machines upholstered in a sort of pink), and I did everything but the quad machine. So now my arms are a pile of hate, but those are easier to ignore. So then I came home last night and drank a bit too much of the wine I bought, and then had a big bowl of Cheerios way too late. So I'm all gassy and head-sensitive today on top of the full-body pain.

It's lovely and 60 out. Still kind of a stiff breeze, though... I keep waiting for a warmer breeze.

<2146>

I finally saw Kill Bill, and I thought it was awesome... the violence I didn't mind so much, because the only people you see killed or maimed are people who are assassins. There's a lot of interesting gender and motherhood stuff going on that I found fascinating.

I feel like I should make a separate reality show page to mask my terrible taste in television, but I swear, it's only apparent because all the seasons are lined up this year. By May there will be no more TV. Anyhoo, Top Model was ridic, and I was glad to see Noelle go home a) because STOP talking about how much you miss your damn kid. Lame. and b) she's the one that started off the whole scare with the flesh-eating virus thing, which was hugely ridiculous. Props to Tiffany's grandma for telling them all to get a life and read a book of something. Dang. I wish that bitchface Rebecca didn't photograph so well, because she is a huge bitch. Naima is still the best!

Then on Idol... bottom three was like jigga-wha? There were easily three worse people that were safe. So annoyed.

I'm not really feeling school yet... it's like, I go to class,come home and do a few things, but mostly my brain is still on break.

<1344>

So, I went to the gym yesterday. Today OW MY LEGS! But I'm going again. I wish it were nice enough to walk outside... the temperature claims to be decent, but the wind would have us believe otherwise.

<0707>

I thought I would have trouble going to sleep last night, thanks to totally screwing up my sleep schedule over break. I went to bed at 10, read some Jon Stewart until 10:30, fell almost right asleep! Woke up at 11:15, cuz I had to pee. Didn't fall asleep for at least another 3, maybe 4 hours.

Now: soooooo tired.

<1326>

I went to the gym today wooooot!

I still have one more interview report to do booooooo.

PuTTY is now on my flash drive so I can write things here while on the PCs at school.

In news, there's a tsunami warning out in all the places that got hi in December... big ass aftershock just happened.

In weird news, if you twist your ankle playing basketball, that's a hell of a lot better than this.

<2239>

WARNING! REALLY GROSS ONCE YOU GET IT! Mr. Hanky lives!!!

You can look up "severe fecal impaction" and "manual disimpaction" if you're really not sure. But I think you are.

<2315>

I made it to the Farmer's Market today, but then I came home and went back to bed. :-/

But, I got my taxes all done! They weren't too painful to actually complete, though the monetary result isn't so hot. I wish they would just withhold from my stipend... it's so much more painful to pay all at once (and then 2005 first quarter on top of that!). But, me being all socialist, I guess I can't complain about taxes, except that rich people don't pay enough of them.

Tomorrow: TASP reports. Seriously. Only one more day of break!

Harvard students are a bunch of whiners. Seriously, the dining halls are vastly better than when I started school, like, by a billion. I also don't understand how brand name cereal can possibly be *that* much more tasty. I suspect the bulk of the whiners are people who've never had to buy generic food ever because mommy and daddy were loaded. If you really want your damn brand name cereal that much, I'm sure they have it at CVS, or, god forbid, Star Market.

<0144>

I've decided undergrads annoy the fuck out of me, and I don't want to talk to them anymore.

In the world of people who do not annoy me, I had a lovely time tonight chilling with that philosophy boy. He's cool. We had dinner and hung out at this quiet pub in Fells Pt for a long time, and then we walked around. Fells Point is pretty cool. I might hang out with him again tomorrow.

<0217>

You know, people just aren't interested in a good joust anymore. They're interested in being coddled. I don't want to coddle. I don't like seeing coddlement. But I'm clearly in the minority, so fuck it, I don't need that bullshit in my life. I have bigger fish to fry.

<0232>

Already my inbox feels quieter.

<0344>

Or not. Nice work, cinderblock. DELETED.

<1231>

Everyone is better in the morning!

<1925>

The movie I rented and watched last night was The Incredibles, which was very fun. I think I'm going to get a lot of use out of this movie pass.

So, they fucked up the Idol voting, meaning they have to do a revote tonight. First of all, I guess it's the fairest thing to do, but second, it's only fair because I'm sure so many of the fans are too fucking dumb to realize even after all this time how the numbers work. They had the number everyone uses right (IDOLS-xx), but the numerical translation was wrong for 3 people, all of who happened to have been bottom dwellers in prior weeks. So now it's going to be all screwed up and dumber than normal.

I love to watch the Idol, but it's incredible dumbitude does not escape me.

Two items of the irked: 1) does it make any sense to IM someone when they have an away message up, but never when they don't? I guess maybe I should write an IM back to this person, but I sort of don't feel like it. 2) A big fat pbbbbbbbbt to people who don't give a damn everywhere. Show some damn interest in my life!

But one item of the good: I'm going to hang out tomorrow night with the guy I went out with Sunday. That I'm actually excited about this is at least somewhat telling. Since I usually hate people. :-)

<2108>

Top Model tonight: see ya Bitchface! It took two weeks too long, but I'm glad to see ugly Brandy head home. Next week: disease! I love that damn show.

<2101>

I wandered around the harbor today, which was fun, even though it was windy. I'm such a wuss, though, my feet hurt so much by the time I got home.

I caved to the man and signed up for Blockbuster's movie pass. Even though I can only have one movie out at a time, the store is really close. And per month it's the cost of like 4 rentals, which I can easily outdo, esp now that HBO went away.

On Idol tonight, Carrie sang Alone, and it was AWESOME. Usually I think that girl is boring like none other, but she totally nailed it. Then again, the last person I heard sing that song was Loren... it was, uh, enthusiastic. Jessica sang Total Eclipse of the Heart at the end, and not a single judge noticed that she completely lost her place and botched the lyrics. I guess she hid it pretty well, but it very much ruined the song for me. I love that song!

<0301>

Hung out with Roxanne today. First we had lunch at school, then headed to Mt. Vernon. After dealing with the cold for not too long, we went to Brewer's Art for happy hour, which was insanely cheap and great. Then we met up with the peeps for some Helmand deliciousness.

Later on, I met up with *another* boy who was pretty cool for some drinks. That was fun. It's nice to go out, esp since I have no classes!

But tomorrow! Laundry and laziness! Though it's supposed to be nice. :-/ Maybe a bit of a walk, grocery shopping and such.

<0038>

Tonight I hung out with a boy! Who damn near missed me because he got lost and I was almost ready to give up and leave. I'm glad he got there just in time because he was cool and fun to talk to. We even stayed until closing, which was later than I expected, which meant my troops all started calling me rapid fire, as requested. I told them to call me at midnight if I hadn't checked in, just in case he was some kind of slasher.

Which he wasn't, he was cool.

I may hang out with another boy tomorrow or later in the week. Boys boys boys!

But for sure I will see Roxanne tomorrow afternoon, and then my SBS chicas for dinner tomorrow night.

<0006>

Today was a loooooooooooooooong day of not watching basketball. Instead, I helped with four interviews, along with extensive pre- and post-meeting. Last year we managed to dispatch the same number of interviews in like half the hours, but we gave these kids more time. Which is probably good. It was also awesome to see Lynn since the first time since TASP! I def gotta hang out with that girl.

<0037>

I just want to put it out there, in print, on the internet, that if I'm ever in any kind of irreversible vegetative state, I don't want to be on life support of any kind. And if Congress or the President tries to stop you from enacting this order, kick them in the junk.

<0015>

Woooooo Harvard! And wooo Bucknell! And wooo CBS for actually showing it this time!!!

And wooo sleep!

<1532>

BOOOOOOOOO!!!! Why am I watching a 1-16 game? I don't care about UNC-Oakland!

Then again, from the Yahoo scoreboard, it seems that the UNM-Nova game is a) sloooooooow, and b) UNM is already sucking. Maybe I would prefer to pretend they're not playing.

<1554>

I've gone from "Switch over, dammit!" to begging, "Please don't switch over, pleeeeeeeeaaaaase." UNM may not score 20 by halftime.

<1720>

Well, thanks to Nova going icey, UNM actually almost made a game of it.

<1805>

Okay, of all the outrages going on in politics right now? Congress is granstanding about steroids in baseball? Who the *fuck* cares? Seriously, Congress, make yourselves worthwhile.

<2305>

Sports overdrive! Hoops on the TV, hockey on the computer... I went to see what the Harvard final score was, but it turns out they're going into double overtime and there's a webcast. Woot!

CBS inexplicably showed my the Duke game, peeked into the Vermont-Syracuse game at the end of regulation, and then failed to ever go back for any of the overtime. Other than that or they did it so quietly that I didn't look up from the TASP apps I was reading, because there was no point in me watching the stupid Duke game which was already more than over by then. Stupid CBS, usually they're so good, but today has been marginal in their slavish devotion to showing me ACC-related games just cuz Maryland is in the ACC. Seriously, I would just prefer to see whatever game is most awesome, thanks.

<1945>

I didn't end up getting a Q&A for my presentation today, meaning I am the sole person who got totally shafted in my presentation time and response. I better friggin get a 100%.

Biostats final was a-okay.

Since then, lots of hoops! And now I'm trying to get some of the refs into a library so I can dump them in when I eventually get the paper. I have to say, overall this was a very successful group project. But it's amazing how one dumb person can really make things much more aggravating. Seriously, get it up to par.

<2028>

I need 4 TVs.

<0119>

You know, I feel kinda bad for Larry. Short of resigning, I think he's done all he can do to try to make things right after his dumb comments, but it's clear that there is a body of faculty that will not be content with anything short of resignation. And maybe they're not wrong about that, maybe he's really so flawed that his follow-up words and actions can't compensate for overarching terrible leadership skills. But, I dunno, there are so many people in this world who do not follow their mistakes with any kind of attempt at remedy, at understanding the other side. I feel like Larry has listened to what people in the field had to say, admitted he spoke beyond his knowledge, and has at least put some actions forward on the issue. It kinda stinks if he gets the same or worse treatment as some jerk who just maintains that he's right and won't listen to anyone and continues to reassert uninformed nonsense. But maybe the problem really just is too large, I can't say.

Okay, seriously, time to sleep.

<0929>

I got all my projects done! So now all I have is probably a few remaining minutes tweaking our booklet for class, biostats to study, a short little case study to write, and the politics presentation to help write. Easy!

<2240>

I am a little annoyed about my presentation today... I was last of five, but the first four groups took *90 minutes*. Maybe even more. Mostly because they all went on for a while, which was okay, because my presentation wasn't the shortest ever. But then the prof and TA let the q-and-a go on *forever* for each group. Rar. So, then I had to rush through mine (because we have even more to cram in next class), and I have to wait for my q-and-a until next time. By which time I'm sure everyone will have completely forgotten the hurried points I tried to get across. Lame. On the other hand, the prof was chatting with me a little about the topic after class, so maybe he actually thought it was interesting.

I'm so sad that today was my last lecture with my Biostats prof... we have a different prof for 4th term, since it's kind of a different class. Some people bailed to the other section first term when things seemed kind of slow, but I'm really glad I stuck with my section, because the prof is actually really great and one of the nicest and most approachable people at the school.

So, Saturday, my first real day of break, is not going to be very breakful, because it's TASP time! Because I remember the process from last year, I am willing to miss over half a day of hoops to get these four kids interviewed, because I definitely don't want to leave the chair having to do them by herself, and I can't be finicky about scheduling given the kids' restraints with spring break. But, we'll have a nice brunch and then the interviews are always really interesting.

I went to outpatient for lunch, and there was a USA Today sitting around, so I perused the sports page. Who knew Villanova almost all died in a plane crash? They had a big ol' weather plane emergency type thing that scared the crap out of them and made them feel closer as a team. I hate hearing that kind of thing about a team UNM has to go play.

I also read about the Idol switch... persuing further materials once home, it seems that ol Vasquez (who doesn't pronounce his name right, I'm sorry) has too pressing personal demands for the Idol, but not to interview all over the planet about it. Also, like, dude, tell your mom before the press does, could you? Anyway, I was glad to see Nikko back, because he's cool, and I always liked Ozzie Smith, so good to see his kid. He won't win by any means, but I like him. I wasn't that fond of the Vasquez kid, even though he did deserve to be top 12.

Look at me? TV is ruining my brain!

Another article from the sports page was on Pat Summitt, head coach of the Vols, and she is the super awesomest. In another life, I want to coach basketball and be awesome.

<1939>

Lobos play Friday afternoon, which is rawk.

The women play Sunday night 180 miles away from the men.

Who I hope will also be playing Sunday too.

I felt so bleargh on the way home. Maybe just hungry.

Things are going okay with my school work, and I think I may actually be able to get fully back on track, which is amazing. My psychosocial factors project is actually not taking that long.

<0007>

LOBOS!!!!

Just you watch, the men will play in the first set of games Thursday, the only ones for sure I'll miss due to class.

WOOT!

<0102>

As great as it was to play at all those hockey games all those Marches, it's clear to me now that I missed an awful lot of basketball due to that. Well, and not having ESPN during college, but I did have it the last couple of years, and I really never watched any hoops before the tourney, and only sort of limited amounts once the real deal started. This weekend's basketball was actually rather exciting... I'd forgotten that March Madness starts long before the selection show.

Although I still swear the tourney starts at least a week later than it used to, way back in the day.

<1302>

Everyone should note that even though it looks like Storey has posted every day for the past 40 days, he didn't! People who checked his page all those days were DEPRIVED and BORED. Don't be fooled! ;-)

<2350>

Grah, my easy week is getting more compressed. I had a big long meeting today with my politics paper group, and we got a lot done on the paper, but nothing done for the presentation, so we have to meet again to work on that. My other group project ran into some major technical snafus, so instead of getting that done this weekend as I hoped, I now have to cram it in tomorrow and Tuesday, when I, coincidentally, have my other presentation to finish. I got a chunk of it done tonight, and it's only a ten-minute presentation so it can't be too long, but still. Greh.

It'll all fit, it just won't be as leisurely.

<2307>

Lobos won last night (early this morning, rather), and though I slept through some of the second half on the couch, I did watch the whole thing.

Tonight, Utah! Things are looking good at the half.

Got my politics paper reffed and my biostats ps done!

Also got my package from my mom, with awesome CDs, a damn puzzle ring which I spent forever playing with, thanks to online instructions, and other fun. Woot.

<2307>

Damn Mountain time... I went to the MWC website to see what games are on when tonight, and I was like, oh good, Lobos on at 10 on ESPN. But then 'Cuse and UConn were on at 10, and I was like, oh, must be regional. So then I went to Yahoo scoreboard to find the score, only to realize Lobos don't play until *midnight* because the MWC isn't all East Coast biased in their time reporting.

Coffee is my friend.

Today was sort of a long day. I had my morning class, in which I was surprisingly talkative during the discussion portion. The two presentations today set an easy standard for next week, and the feedback on our paper outline was good, so basically I just need to do the refs for my section, and then we're meeting Sunday to set up our presentation.

After the group meeting, I had lunch and went off to the hospital to get my finger pricked so my tissue could be typed for blood marrow donation. Then I basically goofed off on the computer until seminar at 5, meaning I killed a lot of time. Seminar was groovy, and now I'm done with one class.

I kinda wanted to go out after, but people were too busy. Lame. I'm fully aware I won't do anything on Friday night.

<2246>

Pooped out my three pages for my politics project, although I still need to go back and do refs for the whole thing. I basically just put filler words in the outline and transitions and stuff and it was already 3.5 pages, which is way enough. I could write a whole real paper on the topic if I had to, but I don't, so half-assing all the way!

So, I only marginally finished that, but I don't care, refs aren't that hard, and I'm not going to look up that much more stuff.

The quick finish meant I also got half the biostats problem set done, and the rest shouldn't be too horrible. The question now is what to do in the five hours between classes tomorrow. Perhaps the following: lunch, email in HH, exercise at Cooley, back to email and the interweb, review my seminar paper, look over my seminar presentation, tinker with the politics paper maybe, maybe start my psych case study.

That should be enough. Otherwise, goof off.

After seminar will be some serious goofoff.

The rest of the weekend: totally manageable workload. Amazing.

<0016>

Yesterday and the day before: beautiful! Almost 70 degrees yesterday!

Today: shitstorm! Worse in Boston, I hear. It rained here this morning, and then there was light snow this afternoon while I was in class. A good day to be in class all day, I say. Horrific winds all day long... I almost blew away.

Talked to my sister tonight, which was good.

I haven't done any work tonight, though, and I won't because I'm going to bed. I didn't do any work last night (except for all that progress on our group project), because my head killed. Maybe I can get some stuff done before class tomorrow.

<1418>

Slept in late, woke up with a headache! Aleve has alleviated.

But, another headache! Called my computer. SecureCRT decided it couldn't play nice with Firefox anymore, and so it had to go. Welcome PuTTY. Of course, this meant I spent hours troubleshooting this piece of shit. It's also supposed to be freezing ass cold outside, and class today is just some guest lecturer. So fuckit. I'm staying home and getting shit done.

<2306>

Booo Top Model! How could you send beautiful Brita home instead of that bitch Brandy! I'd be so pissed! I *am* pissed! So she's not the scrawniest little girl, and so her photos weren't great. She's hot! Give her another week! Sent the clowny bitchface home!

And booooooo Idol! Nikko Smith has consistently rocked the house, and you keep that twatface Constantine instead? What the hell, dude hasn't hit a note in weeks! You suck, America.

At least real reality is good. I knocked out my presentation and final paper for seminar, which means I only have to do my politics paper this week. Well, tomorrow, I guess. It would have made more sense to work on that today, but I was feeling the seminar stuff, and I knew if I tried to do the politics paper first, I'd be sluggish on both.

And I talked to Ms. Courtenay! Boston is cold and work is crazy. :-)

<0019>

This term has really not been so bad, and looking at my list of stuff left to do, it's really quite manageable. Not at all like last term. I think the main problem with this term was just a lack of motivation at times, and some lameass aspects to certain classes. But my two group projects are running smoothly, and I should have fairly minimal work to do to wrap those up, and my non-group project I should be able to whip up fairly quicklike. After that, I just have a 5-pager, which will be only a mild pain to write since I already presented on it and have the articles, and a 3-5 pager worth jack that I can totally halfass. A biostats pset and final studying (I got 100 on the midterm, so I'm not too worried). And that's it. Then only one more term this year! That is so fucking insane.

I went for a walk today, seeing as I felt sleepy and cruddy and it was nice outside. It made me feel better, but the warmth reminded me of summer coming, and made me miss the Boston summer, with excursions and recess club and constant chill time. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself this summer. I'll have to take myself on excursions around town, finally learn how to get around proper, do a lot of walking. It won't be the same, though.

I have to say, though, that despite the little pangs today, I've been getting along a lot better with respect to liking Baltimore and missing Boston and all that it entailed. I've reached my goal of being able to think about those good old days without being devastated that they're past. Having new light shone on things certainly helped, but time is also working its magic, I think.

I do want to go visit the old beantown, though. I just can't figure out when will work.

<0132>

Old school SNL, which they've been showing after regular SNL, is totally smoking. I'm watching some ep from 1975 right now (Rob Reiner, when he was still married to Penny Marshall), and they just had some sweltering black dance troupe on. Man, they ain't got nothin that cool now. One of the last times I watched they had this amazing complilation of piano players singing Misty. Crazy. Check out the old school SNL if you have not before.

My only problem is that I can only last halfway through it... me sleepy

<2250>

I'm really beginning to hate this old, immensely shitty computer.

I remember when you were such a good computer! Now you're an obsolete piece of shit!

<2312>

Another night of not accomplishing very much at all. Ahhhhh.

Tomorrow, my Comm peeps are coming over to photo for our booklet. Thrilling. I hope it won't take too long. Fortunately I have time to tidy up beforehand.

Then I need to do lots of reading.

I wish I could be at the crazy party. :-/ I miss crazy parties.

Then again, email suggests it's not exactly crazy as of right now. I find this very surprising, as I'm generally one to be attracted to a large source of free beer and wine like a bee to honey, which apparently makes me cooler than most Harvard students.

But we knew that.

Okay, how can you be class of '04, from an Ivy League school, and have no web presence? How can you not be on thefacebook? WTF.

Not that I should be stalking boys who have centrist political beliefs at best. I mean, really, even if he is sort of cute.

<2027>

Happy birthday to me, bitches!

I failed to get to sleep at a decent hour last night after my blood donation, so I got up today feeling like le crap. I shoulda just skipped Biostats, because it involved a lot of math I had learned how to do by doing practice problems. Instead I dragged ass, had a headache, and missed my shuttle. Le suck. Biostats was tre boring, and then I went to CVS where a nice but somewhat confused man was trying to get refills on his long list of drugs, for which he didn't really have refills. He had really bad asthma, so bad he could barely talk, and a wealth of other problems, including not really being able to get his prescriptions in order. After that I got some Maryland crab soup, that was only crabby, as far as I could tell, insofar as there was some kind of detrius in the broth that might have been crab threads. Then there was more class, where people gave me lots of little gifts, and where my cell phone rang because I left it on, like a trad.

Then I went home, via the beer store, where they had Sam Hefeweizen. Delicious.

M sent me not only my hat, which is great, but also two fabulous CDs, with which I am entertaining myself. I had mentioned my need for new music on the facebook, and he complied. He's such a good boy.

Then all the members of my family called, all in a row within a few minutes, with no overlap. That is amazing.

I have class early tomorrow, so I will have to visit my favorite place all too soon: my bed!

<2222>

Today I was awoken sort of early by my landline ringing. I decided to ignore it, but it rang again. I finally dragged my ass out of bed to get it, and it was a number I didn't recognize, and when I answered, it sounded like a telemarketer who asked for me, so I lied and said I wasn't home. But then it turned out it was Hopkins security, trying to reach me due to having found some lost property of mine (huh, what could that be?), so then I had to give the woman my cell phone where I could be reached, since I wasn't home. So, then I had to perk up my voice for the cell phone. Turns out I lost my purse and didn't even know it. I had it in my larger bag, and in the reassortment of extra winter clothes in and out of the bag, I must have failed to put my purse in one time. Fortunately, a good person found it and turned it in and no harm was done. I was actually sort of glad I didn't notice last night, because I probably would have freaked out a lot.

So then I went to donate blood and it took and hour and a half because they are soooo sloooooow, and they don't ever seem to have enough people to deal with the numbers who are donating, at least whenever I show up. Also, it doesn't help that my blood is very keen on remaining in my body. The guy started my line, started another girl's line, and we finished almost at the same time even though she started like at 5 minutes after me.

Some of the girls were asking yesterday if I plan to do anything for my birthday, and so far I've just been too lazy and apathetic to make plans. I'm definitely not too much in the habit about caring about my birthday. Last year birthday dinner got postponed, I left my wallet at Tealuxe (man, is this like an annual thing? No, actually, more frequent than that since I've temporarily left my purse at least twice more since September), and so I had to go back to the square from Davis to get it and then back to Davis to pay for the ice cream that caused me to notice I had no wallet. The guy at Baskin Robbins had a huge crush on me for returning to pay. I guess I did have a good karaoke lead-in to my birthday, however, getting to sing twice.

The year before, I was on the diet study, so I had various coffee outings. Sort of lame. The year before that, Jenn threw me an awesome surprise party which really was a surprise (well, until I got to the courtyard and saw the lights snap off in the common room window up above :-D), which was great. But the next day, on my actual birthday, I had the worst stomach bug... I thought it was a hangover until I realized I had a big old fever.

The year before that, I turned 21, and it was a decidedly mixed experience. I guess that was the last time I really personally cared about my birthday beforehand, and I learned it was better just not to be so concerned about making it super great. So, I guess I just don't care.

Also, I'm not having any quarter-life crisis of meaning or anything. I guess, if anything, I've just wrapped up any crisis I was having, about whether it was a good idea to move here, etc. etc. It's clear at this point that I absolutely made the right choice, even if I do miss the Boston crew aplenty. I'm rawking out at school, I have a paper coming out, I generally manage to stay on top of things, and even if my social life is not that exciting, it's not really such a big deal, esp since it's pleasant at home... living by myself never gets old. So there's a lot of good going down right now.