Today I am a Rubik's Cube
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bnewmanThree 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.
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Date: 2005-11-18 02:07 pm (UTC)We didn't do this until the beginning of our second year, but my friends and I ended up using the university e-mail group system to make a list similar to the fun list for ourselves (we called it phys.rev.lunch). We are one of three such lists among the physics grad students (one belongs to the year above us, and one belongs to a mix of the year above that and the popular clique), and each list has at least one person who's on one of the other lists, so there's always cross-forwarding for big things.