I am a Utensil

Hey, no one’s yelled at me to update yet. Awesome!

So what went down yes­ter­day? I woke up nat­u­rally at around 9:30, but Peggy insisted I sleep until at least 11, so I kept forc­ing myself back to sleep until about 12:30. Of course the first thing I do is to hop online and write a post for Dinh-​starved fans. Checked other people’s blogs, too.

Then I started read­ing Crypto­nom­i­con again, but it was slow going, because I kept one eye on my mon­i­tor for stray IMs. Thu H mes­saged me and insisted my “Read­ing for plea­sure” away mes­sage meant I was read­ing porn. When I asked how that was pos­si­ble, she said I was read­ing trashy romance nov­els with porno­graphic illus­tra­tions. I didn’t even know those existed.

Read for a cou­ple more pages, and then Peggy started dis­tract­ing me. I chat­ted with her until it was time for Jason G’s BBQ. Damn, I’m never going to fin­ish that book! Good thing I’m not really in a hurry, hav­ing read it already and all.

Again, I was one of the first to get to the BBQ. But no grilling for me this time, Will Oh han­dled that. Stepped inside the lounge, where the guys were play­ing Magic and the girls were doing cross­words. It’s just like CoHo!

Slowly, more and more peo­ple came, and the cross­words and Magic cards were packed up, and things got a bit more social. Except for me. I did a lot of sit­ting and watch­ing. Just didn’t feel like talk­ing much.

The BBQ was prob­a­bly the biggest APhiO event yet this sum­mer, which is ironic, since it was unof­fi­cial. I hadn’t seen a lot of these peo­ple around. Like Vince! He is yesterday’s quote.

Poor Trung. Mommy Tang thinks that just because she had so many of us, we’re expend­able.

BUt going back to what I said, so many peo­ple there I haven’t seen in a while. Why aren’t you guys sign­ing up for ser­vice? Man, if half the peo­ple there did duck sales, we’d be get­ting a lot closer to our goal of 500 ducks a day. I hope that doesn’t mean you guys aren’t going to be doing ser­vice when the term really starts again. Another irony is that the BBQ was sup­pos­edly for Jason G, but he was gone for the major­ity of it. He was busy pack­ing and lying to peo­ple about being stuck back in Oak­land. I don’t think he even ate any of his food.

Left the thing around 9 to go back to my place for Victoria’s thing. It’s funny how Vic­to­ria com­plained that she needed more girls and told us to invite them, but her party was major­ity girls. Had the oblig­a­tory birth­day shot with her and then I ran upstairs. It’s weird… I just didn’t feel like drink­ing when there was liquor in front of me, and plenty of peo­ple to drink with. The night before was the exact opposite.

So yeah, just stayed at my com­puter and chat­ted with Peggy. It was really nice up here. The AC was on for the first time this year, because it was so hot down­stairs, but we didn’t want to open the doors and win­dows and risk a noise vio­la­tion. Ran down occa­sion­ally to say hi to peo­ple I knew, and to sing Happy Birth­day to Vic­to­ria. Not that she would have noticed if I wasn’t there. She was pretty messed up by that point. I hope she feels alright for the begin­ning for her LONG drive to Ohio today.

So yeah… chat­ted with Peggy until 4 in the morn­ing, and then we passed out.

Jason G, have fun in Japan. Vic­to­ria, I know you’re gonna kick ass in law school!

Tags: Computer, Food, Jason G, Law, Peggy S, Romance, Thu H, Will O