Weekend

Friday

1st day on temp job. Replacing Admin type person for internet group (donna donovan type position for those from computing services) though my duties will just be answering phones, scheduling a couple of conference rooms, and printing out and filing web pages (brilliant, eh?) I think at the end of the week I’ll be more than ready for the research assistantship thing I signed up for, but I’d feel tremendously bad about agreeing to cover and then not doing, besides which, I could certainly use the money _now_.

BART home, immediately make pasta, immediately chow down on it, walk to training, oh look, I’m a few minutes late. Stupid San Leandro job. Sit down and voicemail goes off, I turn it off. Class on non-std dermatology. Interesting, relevant, collaborative atmosphere, expert instructor, responded well to questions. Woo!

Afterwards, Rohan grabs food. I join, we chat, he walks back to my place, we continue to chat. We drop stuffs off, and continue to walk and chat. He clarifies that he is not using job offer as a back door to a romantic relationship, which fits with the available evidence. I tell him I’m slightly disappointed, but agree we wouldn’t be great as a couple. Desire to touch/snuggle without implications is expressed. This is all against a back drop of ‘armchair’ sociological analysis and sharing of many similar (disturbingly parallel!) thought processes. We come back, he picks up stuff, we walk to BART, and say byebye. I go home, am tempted by warcraft, but resist, and sleep.

Saturday

Early morning bike ride with Joshua (see the anonymous poster from a few back on the 12 step subject) on the iron horse trail from the pleasant hill bart station to the pleasanton/dublin bart station. 23ish miles, 1.75ish hours. bout 13 mph on average, not bad considering the significant stretch where we walked our bikes, blah, blah, blah.

Yay significant exercise. Not mega, but significant. Must do more often. Longer distances. Woo!

Burrito lunch at the place right next to the “Best Burrito in the East Bay”. This place has significantly better burritos 😉 Go. I lost the first game (13×13) with a two stone handicap (in my favor) against Jeremy. Won the second, a 19×19 against Matt. Again with the two stone handicap. It was very close. Important principles, territory not stones, think ahead, don’t be afraid to sacrifice in one area to gain more in another, remember the big picture, don’t make stupid little mistakes. Donate stones to widows and orphans. Back home, resting, shopping (yay crunchy vegan bread), cooking (yay lentil soup), munching, go strategy consultations.

wc3. Consistent losing streak against the computer. Go us?

Sunday more gmhc training followed by a gmhc shift, will probably get home around 11 or midnight, taking some soup, and remains of crunchy bread with. Have to do the cooking thing for GMHC peoples at some time. Also must make apple pie soon.

um, whee.