what a beautiful Pi day

ok, now that I'm done with the rambling sad entry, I will write the happy bouncy today entry. (I kinda limited access on the rambling sad one. If you don't see it, consider yourself lucky.)

Today started at 9am. I got up. I went to campus. I met up with Carl. We visited Takahashi. I'm an idiot. We got Indian food for lunch after that. I played cards and then Settlers with Carl, Mlahut, and Christina Dinwoodie (see, and she didn't even get to answer the poll saying "mention me more!") Christina had a wreath of ethernet cable around her head, which she also wore at the Kiltie Band concert. Whee.

I decided to hang out on campus for the day because it was a good day. I played my recorder a lot in the lounge, mostly final fantasy music. Jennifer Lin came by at one point and was like "I want to go outside and play games! Come outside and play games!" so she and Noble and Martin and I went outside and played Settlers on the mall. It was nice out, just a little bit of wind and stuff. Oh yeah, for random shoutouts, I saw fleaplus as he wandered by on the mall. I also went and played some pinball. Sam Pinansky was there again. Medieval Madness pisses me off - the machine is tilted.

There were a ton of people outside because it was so nice out. I ran into Jacob and Kevin and Ann and shared WB gossip (which Jacob has since confirmed for me as true. Whee). I heard a lot of people talking about the pi numbers. One group was like "I didn't even realize our campus had a calculator club... they were the people who did the chalking..." another was like "What are all the numbers?" "Pi." "Huh?" "You know, like this number, you use it to find out how long a circle is..." It was really fun to see people I knew, smile and say "Happy Pi day!" cheerfully to them.

Nick and Drew and I went for dinner at ToI, for the AYCE special, at like 5:45. It was nice because I like Nick and Drew a lot and they're seniors who will leave in May and all, and I've known them longer than any of the other seniors I hang out with now. So it was a happy thing. The problem was, AYCE Indian food half an hour before you have to fit into a kilt is a REALLY BAD IDEA. Oh well.

I got kilted (adding my new Pikachu and Hello Kitty buttons to my jacket, but I can't find my "I *heart* my Baritone" button!) and came to the lounge as a walking advertisement for the concert. Then I played in the Kiltie concert. mrpeck showed up! Yay! It was good to see him there, and I think he enjoyed it, even if most of it is silly stuff he played in band a few years ago. I screwed up a bit in the concert, but overall the band pulled together a lot better than I thought we would given some recent rehearsals.

After the concert, I walked to the lounge with bpr, and there were people there gathering for a game of Twilight Imperium, so I got into that. Brian, Dave, Neal D. Martin, Carl, me, and Kevin were the players in the game. I was the merchant race this time. I did much better this time. Kevin and I allied together, which worked out pretty well. Unfortunately, we called the game around 2:30am, and I never did get to send my huge fleet of dreadnoughts out to kick Neal's butt. Officially Brian had the furthest progression when we called the game, but people said that I probly would have won if I'd played out things as I was already playing. Oh well. The good part is, the more people who play TI, the easier game setup and quicker game play will get.

I wish I could invent a recorder (the woodwind instrument, that is) that you could play and plug earphones into. I really like playing around with it, but I do worry about disturbing other people. It's like an idle thing, and I forget how loud it can get. I accidentally disturbed jcreed and combinator with it, and I'm glad they told me, so I knew to stop, but I guess I should have figured it out sooner. Bleh, that's the real problem with instruments - they don't have volume control per se. I guess in general I really don't want to annoy other people, but it's hard to figure out when I'm doing so. Blah.

I really wish I could remember why I think I have something to do tomorrow (err... today.. March 15). I know plenty of things for Saturday and Sunday, and next Friday is Capture the Stuff With Flags, but tomorrow... besides the Ides of March, damned if I can remember what's going on. I hate when that happens.

Whee

I remembered what's tonight. Anyone want to go see Ocean's Eleven in the UC? I'm figuring probably the 10pm.

Life, being weary of these worldly bars...

Ok, this entry will be terse. I spent most of today feeling like my body was in one place and my mind was a million miles away anyway. Sort of surreal.

Subway lunch, ran into Deryck on the way to campus, played bridge for several hours in lounge, walked to Dave&Andy's with Drew and Nick and Noble and Jen and Martin, played some more bridge, had this really funky 6NT hand, Charlie showed up and dragged Noble off to the unit game, played Arkenoid on jcreed's laptop for a while, Eli came to the CS lounge to meet me, Carl showed up randomly, we and Nick went to see Ocean's 11 at the 7:30pm showing, it was pretty good, I liked it a lot, now I am home. I made tuna salad for dinner.

I guess amusing parts of the day that deserve a little more detail: Mark Stehlik showed up at one point like "Ok kids, LOADING TIME!" and 90% of the people in the lounge went out to help him load the Coke machine. Cool. The 6NT hand; I opened 1D with 18 points and a pretty balanced hand; Drew as LHO called 3C over my 1D; Noble bid 3NT, showing 13-17 points and mostly balance; I decided to just raise to 6NT (the correct bid was 4NT) because it seemed like a funny idea (and we had 31-35 points or something). 6NT was on, but barely. Noble did a really obnoxious play and got Nick to duck a diamond trick, which in the end, he didn't even really need. whee. My brain cut out of bridge around 6pm and I got out of the game.

On the way back from Dave&Andy's, we were making up ice cream flavors for people. Mostly involving Drew, whose andrew userid is "agh", which is pronounced a lot like a gutteral "ogg". So it was like "agh ripple!" "chocolate agh swirl!" and stuff. Afterwards I came up with "agh-en dahs", even. :) "Hockenberry crunch" was one for Martin, and "Chaud-berry" for Kaustuv, and so on.

Bleh, I don't know why I felt so blah all day. I cheered up a lot during the movie, but I guess there was an hour or two where I was just totally "argh"ing my brain out at everyone. Maybe it's just the necessary blah period that accompanies long periods of being too happy for my own good. Overall, I'm still pretty darn happy, I think. It's funny, but I often forget how old I am. I was thinking about what I should do for my birthday party this year and was like "dang, I'm turning 25, that's fucking ancient" and then realized that I don't even really feel like there's all that much of an age difference between me and this year's current seniors. Like I remember Nick as a freshman, and feeling like I was four years older than him or whatever, but now it's like we're the same age or something, even though I know he's 3 years younger than I am. On the other hand, you know, when I look at pictures of me from the last five years, I don't notice that much of a difference. Maybe it's just me. I dunno. Wonder when the years are going to catch up. Ugh, this is getting a lot longer than I wanted it to be, so I'm going to cut it and go do something else.