Fun birthday

Today (yesterday, whatever) was fun.

I got up late. I went over to ‘s place where I tried valiantly to study, with mixed success. I met his roommates or, more accurately, met one of his roommates, and saw one of his roommates for the first time in a long time. A good time was had. I kinda expected I wouldn’t be able to go climbing, but at the last minute Matt called and said he was borderline. I encouraged him to take me.

I embarrassed myself repeatedly at the climbing gym. I only made it up to the top on one route once. Partially, I’m out of shape, partially I’m not that good at climbing, and partially, the fear of heights is strong within me. But I enjoyed it. And some of the climbing was just wow. Like the guy who used the autobelaying simple route like a stairmaster. I’m convinced his calves are bigger than my thighs. And the lead climbers who were literally climbing along the ceiling. I flipped out a couple of times on a straight up and down. It was neat. Assuming I have time I may go again.

WAA was there, we had a couple brief chats. She encouraged me to think about our shared fear on the wall as a more advanced sense of self preservation. She also told me to try the rainbow tassel. Then after a moment’s pause, she told me not to tell “them” she’d told me that. I <3 her. We ran out of the climbing gym and arrived at the thai restaurant just in time, where we had discussions ranging from linguistics through various society's pooping technologies to a painstaking dissection of the bill. Mmm, tastiness. This was followed by a trip back to ‘s place, where hard ciders were had and discussion continued. Someone asked me about final fantasy, and I traced the history of rpgs from their wargaming roots to digitization and the differences between WoW and FFXI. People started dropping off not long after that. Then I came home and won a 2 player game of caylus.

Now, to sleep. ciao.