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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.
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.
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