spacekadet blog

last week there was a webserver emergency. my website disappeared briefly, and then the cgi was BUSTED. now it’s back, and so am i. here’s what you’ve missed…

so it seems that there were a lot of busy parents-to-be during the autumns of the 70s — this july, 6 of my friends celebrate their twenty-something birthdays. happy birthday to Rommel: we’ll always have The Globe. happy birthday to ryan whose late night conversations on the porch and park swings i miss dearly. happy birthday to dan fog-t, whose midwestern style will never go out of fashion. happy birthday to my friend and former roommate, Jiggy Dave Diode, who I’m sure partied like a rock star on the anniversary of his birth. happy birthday to my cuzin chris — kinship!

and happy birthday to me. last week i turned 24, hence losing the privilege of claiming myself to be in my “early-twenties”. this makes me mildly upset, but i confess that i’m quite relieved to have twenty-three behind me (see Blink 182: “nobody likes you when you’re twenty-three”). shit, i can’t even say i liked myself very much that year. there were clumsy moments (that i don’t expect to change), excessive imbibing, and lax academic performance. bad photos. bad karma. and way too much cheese. fortunately, one of my gifts was a book of quotations from the teachings of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (thank you pater).

those who enjoy physical happiness stuff themselves until sated. those who enjoy spiritual happiness overcome their hunger by controlling the senses until they are extinguished and calm.

strangely enough, this gift came from a man who’s said that eating indian food is the closest he’s ever been to heaven.

so the party line is: i a had a pretty wicked awesome birthday . tim graciously spent his day with me. there was champaign, good food, and way too much wine. many thanks to tim for the iSight. i’m fairly impressed with this thing — the iChatAV-iSight videoconferencing system is pretty sweet, and fairly midless to use (always a good thing). and the image quality is the best i’ve seen in a camera of this kind (see image above). my only hope is that more of my friends get one of these things (Dawid, i hope you’re reading this.

the rest of my weekend was similarly BOSS. i helped tim move into his new place, which has a lot of potential and i’m psyched to see the finished product. pizza. coffee. laundry. beer. my weekend was a healthy balance of productivity and relaxation.

you’d think i’d be pumped for a rockin’ week.

the plan is to bust out my master’s report in record time. but that was the plan last week. monica = failure. so i’m a little stressed out about this. and my apartment is a mess to boot. maybe i’m feeling a little overwhelmed. and i’m trying not to compensate with alcohol. i wonder how that will pan out.

Related posts:

1. happy 2006 (i hope i hope)
2. pimpin ain’t easy
3. working for the weekend
4. friday again
5. happy birthday to my sista