Veggie dinner, Some bar hopping, some final fantasy xi, some cleaning the place, some hitting the gym.
Veggie dinner: Compassionate action for animals had a holiday potluck. I enjoyed it. I found it remarkable just how low the waistlines of young ladies’ jeans have fallen. I was also bemused to see a britney spears wannabe corner at a veggie potluck. Bemusing. The food was good, and the company not bad.
Bar hopping: Bolt Underground shirtless night wasn’t that exciting or populated. But it was good to meet
Gym: Got up too late for swim team, but I did go into the gym in the afternoon. Upper body, woo. =) I freely admit to vanity over the definition I get while I’m actually lifting the weights. Plus it feels good, in the end. And via the sauna, I have a date at a nearby coffeeshop in a couple hours.
ffxi: Mesharr began her bardtastic and rangerriffic careers over the weekend. Gobbie bag size was also increased to 40. And I discovered that my uncooperative moogle still hasn’t decided to grant me the mog safe increasing quest, despite having a nice bronze bed to sleep in. grrrr. That fuzzy little punk doesn’t know how good he has it. I took away his bed and will put it back after the next region update, but before the next one I’m around for after that. Goldsmithing up to 3. Will likely do more mining runs after classes are over.
cleaning: I finally put all the excess paper that grad school generates into a little recycling bag. I feel I ought to do a summary post on topics of interest from my classes, for my own memory, if nothing else. But that will be later. I’ve done half the dishes, but of course, it’s the older half that remains (it was on the bottom after all). Some laundry catching up. And I’ve finally purchased some hangers to help organize my room. Slowly but surely.
It’s good to see that my socialization is far from suffering from my abdication of gay.com etc. Bars seem not quite right. I may shoot for the gay men’s chorus (and the like) instead.
Plans for the holidays proceed apace, all stops have confirmed hostliness waiting for me. Now I just need to buy tickets, and advertise my impending arrivals more broadly. =)
And via the sauna, I have a date at a nearby coffeeshop in a couple hours.
I’m sure I won’t be the only one to ask for a more in-depth description of how that happened.
And, of course, a follow-up and how it went.
You have no idea how whitewashed these entries are. Before he even thinks about describing the sauna to you, he’d have to define “popping in for a bit”.
>:)
You must have missed my halo:
0=)
You met?!
*boggles*
My world IS getting smaller – I know him from LISA conferences, introduced us.
Heh. I’m glad 😉
The connection isn’t entirely coincidental here. I’d noticed Stephen’s livejournal through friends-of-friends browsing as a fellow Minnesotan with gay friends/interests. Then I saw that you and Moose were both on his friends list (an easy enough thing to see, the way the userinfo pages appear with your own friends in bold). From there I started reading him and when I saw that he was planning to check out a dance club that’s downstairs from the bear/leather bar that has become my weekend late-night hangout I commented in his livejournal to introduce myself.
So it’s not even a particularly interesting story, although he is an interesting guy. Still, you have a place in the story itself.
The following night, I went to BU, and it was much more hoppin’ …
I’m glad you went back at a better time. I was back as well, or at least upstairs mostly, because as I’ve said heading out to the Eagle/Bolt this has become my … er, habit. It had been an evening of guerilla Morris dancing at various spots in the Twin Cities (an Art Crawl in St. Paul and the contra dance at the Tapestry Folkdance Center) and instead of heading to sleep afterwards I decided to go hang out with my boys. It turned out to be an unusually flirtatious and silly night, so I guess both upstairs and downstairs were full of some sort of energy. (Even for those of us for whom bars never did “seem quite right”.)
I spent most of my time chatting with Alex, one of the people who’d been cruising me (and cruised in return) while I was talking with unzeugmatic the night before.
I miss so much. (But I make up for it in what I catch.)
Well I did comment on it at the time. Alex also pointed out you walking towards the stairs at one point, and I saw your back, but decided not to fight the crowd to say hi =)
AHHHHH FRIENDS GROUPS COLLISIONS.
Wheee.
Stephen meet Steven.
MOMMMY!!!!!!!!
I was going to leave that alone, but I just have to say: “It is not a date if you don’t see him again.” Technically I suppose, you had the contents of a date in the sauna, so this would be your second date. Do tell.
Well, the 2nd date (to my mind at least. Sauna != date) is scheduled for this evening. And I just remembered my econ review session. Since I haven’t been going to class, those are actually kind of valuable. =)
You must have (a) great head (on your shoulders) if the sauna counts as a date.
I’m not sure if you’re C/C++ fluent, but ! means not, so != is not equal. So, the sauna was not a date. I may be trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, just wanted to make sure I was clear. =)
C is not my forte, BASIC was about all I mastered. Why the sucking eggs? You gotta break eggs to make nog 😉
I found you randomly and I added you. Let’s get this out of the way first: I’m a Christian, but unlike your past experiences, that has nothing to do with why I’m contacting you. I’m actually moving to Minneapolis soon, I hope, and I was excited to see that you’re interested in simple living. I’m assuming you’re referring to the movement associated with Duane Elgin, Vicki Robin, Amy Dacyczyn, etc. I was introduced to simple living by Your Money or Your Life and it really put a lot of things together for me.
I can identify with a lot of what you say in your written bio, too, so I added you, kindred spirit.
I hope it’s clear that while I am debatably anti-christianity, and definitely anti-being-evangelized-to, I am not at all anti-christians. Love the sinner, hate the sin & all that. 😉
Haven’t read that book, nor do I recognize those authors (thanks for the recommendations, I’ll have to check them out). I have read Affluenza, and found it inspiring, but simple living ties into a number of things in my life, including veganism, anti-materialism, my interest in public policy in general, deliberate non-car-ownership, volunteering for the berkeley free clinic (when I did) etc.
Welcome. =)
If I have my history right, Duane Elgin helped propel the modern “voluntary simplicity” movement into the fore. Your Money or Your Life was my introduction to the movement. It was groundbreaking for me, in that it holistically tied how I spend my money with what I value and helped me see my consumption’s impact on the Earth. Sounds easy enough, but I was always a spending addict, so this book gave me the jolt I needed. It sounds like you figured these things out much earlier in life.
It’s nice to “meet” you. Kudos on not having a car. That would be completely impossible for me in Des Moines.