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Travel plans:

• This weekend, I’ll be spending all day saturday and sunday morning in zanesville.
• Next week I’ll be working in DC thursday and friday (maybe staying over part of saturday.)
• final weekend of june I’ll be in columbus for origins
• the following tuesday I have training in dc.
• for an as yet indeterminate, maybe two weekish, span in late july, I’ll be out in SF. Work and play will both take place. Vacation days will likely be used for some of it.

Parties interested in seeing me whilst I’m in your town are encouraged to indicate as much so that plans or plans to make plans can be made.

I love transcendence stories.

The gospels of the new testament are a classic example. The movie powder would be another. Stranger in a strange land another.

The basic elements are a naive/pure outsider with an important life-and-paradigm changing message. Some hear and follow, including some wise and jaded, others do not.

But the ending is always the same. Death, dispersal, ascension, whatever. Removal from the material world made physical. Maybe it’s commentary on the impermanence of transcendence. Maybe it’s expressing a fundamental truth that it is to be valued and perhaps even cultivated, but that it does not sustain life.

I’ll say this for bujold in her chalion series. She shows people changed but still there after transcendence. Yay for partial transcendence, I suppose. Even if it is impermanent.

I went to the green festival for the first time this weekend. I’m of two minds about the event. On the one hand, I think it’s great to see popular interest in environmental issues. On the other hand, the snake oil salespeople (many of whom doubtless believe in their products), purveyors of misleading psuedoscience, and overall lack of a broader framework or perspective for thinking about such important issues distresses me.

It was approximately what I expected.

Talking with Doug, who lacks a livejournal to the best of my knowledge, I described my emotional state as a trifecta of angst over a possibility I intend to pursue, ennui over a possibility which I tried for and I’m expecting to hear a negative back from, and frustration over the possibility I’ve made into a reality over the past 3 years. All related to work.

Years ago a friend of mine told me he didn’t think he was as intelligent as me, and he was glad he wasn’t. I was surprised this particular friend thought himself less intelligent, and surprised that he would be grateful for it. He pointed out my frequent dissatisfaction and said another really intelligent friend had the same problem.

I think the fundamental problem is that I have a very active imagination, and there are so many things I want to be doing, but there’s only so much time and only so much me to go around. A smarter person would be better at prioritizing. =)

Well, it seems my roommates will all 3 be departing our current home in a few short months. My two now-former pilot roomies (aka, the ones I’d sooner keep) are moving to baltimore at the end of June. I won’t be following.

The one who has been living in the same spot for 7 years is apparently [likely] moving out a month or two later.

If I liked my place more, I might try to repopulate it. But it is a bit out of the way, and a bit small for my needs.

So what to do next?

This seems like a reasonable time to look into my interest in intentional communities (stay over a night or two at a few of them, maybe).

I might check out one bedrooms, but that’s really not my style. I have a few months. We shall see.

Down:

• See wolverine with Dan, Tom’s brother.
• Hit guerrilla queer bar with Emery, Sneeper, and others
• board games with Rice, Guy, Phillip, and Josh A.
• 1 day of work
• An okcupid date
• Drinks with Ted in the Castro

Up:

• 3 days of work
• Dinner with Tom, Lili, and Simon in Berkeley
• Dinner with Aaron right upstairs from where I’m staying
• Board games in the east bay with Tom, and probably Stephanie, Eric, Nathan, and others
• quality time with Angie in Berkeley, doubtless including Herbivore.
• sfgayhikers’ may hike
• fly back to chicago.

Potential:

• See this American Life Live (on repeat) – maybe not, but anyone who hasn’t seen it should.
• Attend Leo’s show.

In summary, just another bay area trip… =)

Boarding the plane to SF

The less I broadcast about my love life the better it seems to go. I suspect that neither one causes the other, but that there is a third variable underlying both. Maybe I should quit playing horse dentist, particularly for gift horses.

Thanks for all the well wishes on the occasion of my 33rd year.

Also, it seems the damn kids would not get off my lawn, so I am now frollicking with them in the magical land of facebook.