Thursday, January 05, 2006

recent events

friend beth came to visit last thursday and left today. we ate at the hole in the wall, made pelmeni and had vodka with friend marc, and went to a new year's eve party in austin on saturday. the party is a story in itself, which i was tempted to vividly depict on this blog. but i have since thought better of that idea, deciding instead to mention three carefully chosen details from the evening's revels:
1. a half-drunken psychic healer cleansed my pineal gland by sucking on my forehead while we were stopped at a red light (she was driving);
2. near the river, i walked through a big, long hallway of scaffolding which had many long strands of white twine hanging down and was dreamy and seaweed-like in the evening breeze;
3. at some point during the spectacular show of fireworks, i made a conscious effort to look around at people's faces, lit up in joy and wonderment.
beth and i also ate sushi, laughed, played with the cat, smoked cigarettes on the back porch, and saw brokeback mountain-- a tender, terribly sad movie.

going back to school has been slightly hard, but only because of the physical change of getting into the groove again. classes themselves have been fine, and i actually do feel refreshed after the holiday.
i went to barnes and noble and ordered mugison's mugimamma! is this monkey music?. i had downloaded it and paid ten bucks, then accidentally erased it from my iTunes. i'm looking forward to hearing it again, and having the packaging to look at.

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