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Today I am a Rubik's Cube
Nov. 17th, 2005 04:27 pmThree times three times three.
Today I am 27 years old. This is the middle of a period of nothing birthdays — not nothing because the celebrations were not spectacular, but nothing because what does it mean to be that age, anyway? There's some temptation to measure myself against where a "normal" person would be, should be, at my age. Well, I'm not giving in to it — so there!
This evening it suddenly occurred to me to treat myself to Thai food, so I invited![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tovaks to join me because we are friends and she happened to be on AIM at the time. Ultimately, she couldn't come because of a rehearsal, but — major props for this — she tracked down another mutual friend (this was before we ran late and she didn't have time to join us — the plan was that we would all go), so I had company after all.
I miss the one-email-fits-all simplicity of the SWIL [fun] list. Here, there's no single community of practically everyone I might want to invite over for dinner, so I'd have to track down individual contact information for everyone I know, and decide who that I know count as someone that I know, etc.
With the money that my relatives are probably going to send me, I am going to get myself a Rubik's Cube, even though I have never really gotten into cubing, because they are pretty and somehow it's right because I'm 33, and I just reread Metamagical Themas where Douglas Hofstadter gets very excited about cubing. I am also going to get myself a video game or two and attend a Havurah retreat and some science-fiction conventions.
When I am home over winter break, my parents are taking me to see Corteo, the new Cirque du Soleil show! This will be the fourth CdS show I see live.
Also, I am going to catch up on sleep — but apparently not tonight.
Today I am 27 years old. This is the middle of a period of nothing birthdays — not nothing because the celebrations were not spectacular, but nothing because what does it mean to be that age, anyway? There's some temptation to measure myself against where a "normal" person would be, should be, at my age. Well, I'm not giving in to it — so there!
This evening it suddenly occurred to me to treat myself to Thai food, so I invited
tovaks to join me because we are friends and she happened to be on AIM at the time. Ultimately, she couldn't come because of a rehearsal, but — major props for this — she tracked down another mutual friend (this was before we ran late and she didn't have time to join us — the plan was that we would all go), so I had company after all.I miss the one-email-fits-all simplicity of the SWIL [fun] list. Here, there's no single community of practically everyone I might want to invite over for dinner, so I'd have to track down individual contact information for everyone I know, and decide who that I know count as someone that I know, etc.
With the money that my relatives are probably going to send me, I am going to get myself a Rubik's Cube, even though I have never really gotten into cubing, because they are pretty and somehow it's right because I'm 33, and I just reread Metamagical Themas where Douglas Hofstadter gets very excited about cubing. I am also going to get myself a video game or two and attend a Havurah retreat and some science-fiction conventions.
When I am home over winter break, my parents are taking me to see Corteo, the new Cirque du Soleil show! This will be the fourth CdS show I see live.
Also, I am going to catch up on sleep — but apparently not tonight.
