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Well, I have to say that this past weekened rocked muchly.
Friday was spent in the dredges of the Bookshop until it was finally time to go. After that, I visited around, collected cards and packages from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
astor_apatosaur and lazarusrat. Thanks a lot guys.
Friday was spent in the dredges of the Bookshop until it was finally time to go. After that, I visited around, collected cards and packages from
astor_apatosaur and lazarusrat. Thanks a lot guys. [Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<:)>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]
Well, I have to say that this past weekened rocked muchly.
Friday was spent in the dredges of the Bookshop until it was finally time to go. After that, I visited around, collected cards and packages from <user site="livejournal.com" user="astor_apatosaur"> and <user site="livejournal.com" user="lazarusrat">. Thanks a lot guys. <:)
OK, so I had gotten shaving materials for a better shave, according to <user site="livejournal.com" user="cargoweasel">; namely shaving soap, a mug and -- because I couldn't find a proper badger-hair shaving brush -- a powder brush for stirring up lather. I was pretty confident that it would make a good substitute. As it turns out it was the worst thing ever; the bristles weren't strong enough and the dye kept leaking out everywhere. Still, since I didn't have any actual shaving cream I had to muddle through with it. I cleaned all the black off my head (yeah, yeah, laugh it up bastards) and got out the door with like...a dozen or so people waiting angrily for me to get done. I guess I had to do the whole fashionably late thing. :)
The birthday dinner was *awesome*. Almost everyone in NARFA showed up! :) We all descended upon Applebee's, where I got my presents out in the parking lot. (We had to do something while we waited for all the returning sorority sisters to leave.) I got an awesome book from Hethe (The Dogchen Primer), a writing journal from Kevin, The Trivial Pursuit Book Lover's edition from Sherri and Virginia(!), a little assinine but cute drawing from Aubrin (he specializes in those!), chocolate caramel Ghiardelli things from Sherri (drool), a little stuffed black kid from Delphi and...a *real* shaving set from Brian! Yahoo! :D He also gave me a box of wheat and gluten free waffles. I think they're made from recycled petroleum or something.
The dinner was amazing...had my first Mudslide, and ate their little steak and chicken Take Two thing. The steak took a lot of work, even though it was medium well. Maybe my little noodle arms aren't well adapted to cutting tough meat. :) After that we went home where we all cake and played Trivial Pursuit. Well, they played, I kind of fell asleep on my playing partner. <:) Hethe did valiantly, though! It was only a matter of time before he was taken down, sadly.
Saturday we kind of messed around for a while, watched bad television and ate out...somewhere (it's kind of a blur, that day), until the Weekly Beating. There, we ate *more* cake, bovine-scatted around and generally made merry until a few of us wandered down into my room to talk some more. That was a very...interesting experience as well. I'm not sure what happened most of the time, because I fell asleep shortly thereafter. There was some really *good* Pink Floyd in there, though.
Sunday, Kevin, Hethe and I went to see "The Village," which I thought was a really good movie. I want to write a more...formal review of it sometime later, but the short of it is he's not really a horror movie director. His movies are only peripherally in that genre, and the sooner people realize that the more open they'd be to the kind of things he pulls. Don't go expecting to be scared, go expecting to be (perhaps only mildly) surprised.
After that, there was dinner at Taco Bell and my first ever Gnostic Mass, which was quite surprising. Hethe and Kevin, if you didn't know already, are into alternative means of worship, and from what I understand fairly...ritualistic stuff. I want to say Hermetic, but I'm sure that refers to a specific thing that doesn't apply here. Anyway, it was quite participatory, and there was nudity. I went up to receive sacrament from a naked woman, which I didn't expect to be as mind-blowing as it was. But you know, I guess I just haven't seen naked people in quite some time, unless it was some kind of porn someone was using to squick me. :) To see her there, and to kneel before her and take a (really dry) cookie and spiced wine, was something else entirely. I was trying very hard not to stare, but I think I did anyway. It was sort of awkward. :)
After *that*, we all went down to the Copper Bar on Dickson Street and bovine-scatted some more. The World Series of Poker was on, and Hethe and Kevin filled me in a bit about all the variations and intricacies of Texas Hold 'Em and its players. I really like the game, but I tend to bomb out if there's more than two or three people. :)
And then we went home, where I spent the rest of the evening in solitude. I woke up yesterday morning, and it was quite obvious that the magical aura of birthdayness had passed on...but that's a story for another campfire.
Thanks to everyone for making my birthday so awesome. I'm really glad to have friends like you. :)
Friday was spent in the dredges of the Bookshop until it was finally time to go. After that, I visited around, collected cards and packages from <user site="livejournal.com" user="astor_apatosaur"> and <user site="livejournal.com" user="lazarusrat">. Thanks a lot guys. <:)
OK, so I had gotten shaving materials for a better shave, according to <user site="livejournal.com" user="cargoweasel">; namely shaving soap, a mug and -- because I couldn't find a proper badger-hair shaving brush -- a powder brush for stirring up lather. I was pretty confident that it would make a good substitute. As it turns out it was the worst thing ever; the bristles weren't strong enough and the dye kept leaking out everywhere. Still, since I didn't have any actual shaving cream I had to muddle through with it. I cleaned all the black off my head (yeah, yeah, laugh it up bastards) and got out the door with like...a dozen or so people waiting angrily for me to get done. I guess I had to do the whole fashionably late thing. :)
The birthday dinner was *awesome*. Almost everyone in NARFA showed up! :) We all descended upon Applebee's, where I got my presents out in the parking lot. (We had to do something while we waited for all the returning sorority sisters to leave.) I got an awesome book from Hethe (The Dogchen Primer), a writing journal from Kevin, The Trivial Pursuit Book Lover's edition from Sherri and Virginia(!), a little assinine but cute drawing from Aubrin (he specializes in those!), chocolate caramel Ghiardelli things from Sherri (drool), a little stuffed black kid from Delphi and...a *real* shaving set from Brian! Yahoo! :D He also gave me a box of wheat and gluten free waffles. I think they're made from recycled petroleum or something.
The dinner was amazing...had my first Mudslide, and ate their little steak and chicken Take Two thing. The steak took a lot of work, even though it was medium well. Maybe my little noodle arms aren't well adapted to cutting tough meat. :) After that we went home where we all cake and played Trivial Pursuit. Well, they played, I kind of fell asleep on my playing partner. <:) Hethe did valiantly, though! It was only a matter of time before he was taken down, sadly.
Saturday we kind of messed around for a while, watched bad television and ate out...somewhere (it's kind of a blur, that day), until the Weekly Beating. There, we ate *more* cake, bovine-scatted around and generally made merry until a few of us wandered down into my room to talk some more. That was a very...interesting experience as well. I'm not sure what happened most of the time, because I fell asleep shortly thereafter. There was some really *good* Pink Floyd in there, though.
Sunday, Kevin, Hethe and I went to see "The Village," which I thought was a really good movie. I want to write a more...formal review of it sometime later, but the short of it is he's not really a horror movie director. His movies are only peripherally in that genre, and the sooner people realize that the more open they'd be to the kind of things he pulls. Don't go expecting to be scared, go expecting to be (perhaps only mildly) surprised.
After that, there was dinner at Taco Bell and my first ever Gnostic Mass, which was quite surprising. Hethe and Kevin, if you didn't know already, are into alternative means of worship, and from what I understand fairly...ritualistic stuff. I want to say Hermetic, but I'm sure that refers to a specific thing that doesn't apply here. Anyway, it was quite participatory, and there was nudity. I went up to receive sacrament from a naked woman, which I didn't expect to be as mind-blowing as it was. But you know, I guess I just haven't seen naked people in quite some time, unless it was some kind of porn someone was using to squick me. :) To see her there, and to kneel before her and take a (really dry) cookie and spiced wine, was something else entirely. I was trying very hard not to stare, but I think I did anyway. It was sort of awkward. :)
After *that*, we all went down to the Copper Bar on Dickson Street and bovine-scatted some more. The World Series of Poker was on, and Hethe and Kevin filled me in a bit about all the variations and intricacies of Texas Hold 'Em and its players. I really like the game, but I tend to bomb out if there's more than two or three people. :)
And then we went home, where I spent the rest of the evening in solitude. I woke up yesterday morning, and it was quite obvious that the magical aura of birthdayness had passed on...but that's a story for another campfire.
Thanks to everyone for making my birthday so awesome. I'm really glad to have friends like you. :)
