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So,

Stuff and events that have happened since last I posted, or at least, some of the big things.

I went to Albuquerque for work related stuff, which was not exciting, but highly productive. Over the weekend I was in NM, we went to Los Alamos, and went hiking through a mountain stream. This partially involved jumping off waterfalls taller than me into the murky depths of pools (thankfully) over my head. All in camo pants and a tshirt. On the way back, I traveled solo, and didn’t have the same destination as the rest of the group, oops. But hanging out by the highway, I was quickly found. (had I known the way to go, I would have run in to people more quickly walking, but oh well).

I also had an unprotected bottom in anal sex experience with an off-the-net hookup for the first time in, oh, over two years. It’s slowed me down, but not freaked me out (the way I was freaking out, oh, say, a year ago, right before I came out here).

Oh yeah, the anniversary of my first day in the bay area has passed. Yay that. =)

We have a sublessor for simon and a fifth roommate, Shannon Wu. Shannon is a vegan anthro senior at cal. She has a bf who she met through their internships at tivo. She was arrested during peace protests in sf (and the charges were dismissed). She’s fun, enthusiastic, insightful, tidy, and seems like she’ll be a generally interesting roomie.

Ro and I had several headbutting conflicts over the way the house should be. From my perspective, I’m for not taking a chance on doing something that’ll piss people off, and he’s for expediency. From his perspective, I’m betting I seem lazy, and he’s trying to bring order to the house, and clean up potential sources of conflict. There’s also the throwing away/making space, v saving for (admittedly unlikely) contingencies. Had a better time of things in Albuquerque, and with us settling into relatively independent lives (his very not house-centered, mine very house centered), conflict is reducing.

Ro got an office in soutwest berkeley. It’s spacious, cheap, and not much to loook at, though much more so now that we have a marker-able wall map of the world. He also got an exercise bike to pursue the entrepreneurial effort of setting up a game to link in to an aerobic machine.

I beat final fantasy IX, and am looking for other goals. Perhaps applying to grad school. =)

Volunteering for the Dean Campaign is kinda nerve-wracking, haven’t been keeping up on my duties as the GMHC rep for the HIPAA committee, and what not. But I’ve been surprisingly good about keeping the place clean.

Finished reading ecocities, seen pirates of the carribean, finding nemo, terminator 3, and probably one or two others. Found a guy who I’m kinda surprised that I like so much, but haven’t heard from him or seen him recently.

Really bumped up the workout stuff, (6x/week at the gym), biking 3 miles each way (and the return trip is grueling at the end) to work and back.

Other than that, not much to report. Heading off to men in their 20’s gay group discussion night. Not expecting much, but I’m prepared to be surprised.

more later.

Yay sublessor found, and should have a roommate selected before the end of the day tomorrow.

I was told that I ought to record the following phrase, used to describe the way of geeks:

“the reservation that spills over into passionate intensity, then vanishes”.

It’s kind of lame out of context, but still, it was a good thing at the time.

I still have goals of a real update. Oh, and reading my freaking friendslist at some point in time. So…. sleeepy.

G’night all, gym in the morning.

Perhaps a lame way to return to lj, but better this than nothing. Continuing the search for roomies:

We have a great two-story five bedroom house, with yard, washer, dryer, dishwasher, deck, fireplace, hardwood floors, five minutes walk north of the cal berkeley campus. We have two rooms available until september and one room available after that.

We are four guys (one of whom is out of town), we’re intellectually inclined, politically active and progressive, vegetarian (2 lacto-ova’s, one free ranger, and one vegan), with some unusual hobbies, including strategy board games, intentional communities, urban design, and volunteering as well as some slightly more standard ones including soccer, volleyball, martial arts, yoga, time at the gym, cooking, computer rpgs, and comic books. One computer science grad student, one systems administrator for google, two research contractors for boeing, one of whom is considering grad school for next year.

We’re looking for someone who will be part of a home, not just sharing the rent. We cannot have smoking, children, or pets in our house. We vary in our neatness levels, but try to keep the public areas tidy. Sex and sexuality don’t matter to us (1 bi guy, 2 gay guys, 1 straight guy).

Rooms are of various sizes, rent will be no more than 675/month, depending on the room. We have cable with tivo, and broadband internet, as well as an in house network with wireless access. Utilities are not included, and will be split evenly. Security and last month’s rent total 1350. Near the corner of leroy and cedar.

I was in a foul mood, but talking to two of my favorite buddhists (Nick and ) helped greatly. Thanks, guys.

Garlic-stuffed olives, great for the love life 😉

sparing you the inanity

We have a place in north berkeley for summer sublet for $500/month with hard wood floors a yard, a view, a small deck, large living room, decent kitchen, lots of storage space, washer & dryer as well as dishwasher. For the fall, we would be looking for like $660 (sublet is subsidized by a fall resident, exact price dependent on room size) We have no children, pets or smoking. It’s about a 15-20 minute walk to the downtown berkeley bart station (a little more coming back, as it is uphill) There is also generally onstreet parking available with permit, if that’s relevant.

No utilities are included, so those are split among the tenants. We have a cable net connection and internal house network along with some cable tv. We all have cell phones, so we didn’t get a land line, but have no problem splitting it if somone needs it.

We are three males, two of us in our mid 20’s and the other in his mid 30’s. We all technical professionals, calm and quiet, different types of vegetarian, gay (and all just friends), and relaxed about tidiness levels.

Our place is available to move in now, and we have two spots available. In the fall we will likely have only one spot available. We want to make sure that the personalities we assemble get along very well for longer term residency.

If you’re interested we can arrange for you to take a look at the place later this week.

Penske: Local moves must start mon-thu
Ryder: Nearest location in SF, won’t give price quote
Uhaul: Only reasonable option

Where by “reasonable” I mean “only allows 6 hour reservations for in town moves”. So, I expect there will be a certain amount of stuff moved in other vehicles, at other times. Still deeply irksome.

Do have some help, including Daniel (great guy, medic, with a pickup truck), and Ro. But we could certainly use more, and if any of you could come over and help out with this process either late in the morning or early in the afternoon on saturday, it would be much appreciated, especially given the limited uhaul window. We will provide some material demonstration of our gratitude, dinner on us at an agreeable restaurant, most likely. Plus you get to see the new place, and go ‘ooo’ and ‘aaah’ (it is really cool). And it will probably be a small convocation of gay men who help their friends out in a pinch, so, hey, great social opportunities 😉

If you wanna help, email me. =) Also if you can help at other times this week, that would probably also be helpful. Whee.

blarg!