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January 04, 2004
night
oh man, it is such a beautiful night.
i'd be ashamed to admit even to my closest friends just how much telly i've watched during the holiday (i go back to work tomorrow for the first time since the 24th). but the gorgeousness coming through the living room window right now has made tv and all other forms of noise seem quite tacky and unnecessary.
i also saw 'lost in translation' again tonight, on impulse. it just seemed like the sort of night for it. and a good way to salvage my last day of freedom. i happened to see rick, up in the booth as i was walking in. it's nice when someone you know is the projectionist. like they're showing the movie just for you.
this holiday hasn't slipped through my fingers like others have. i've gotten a lot done, and i've spent a lot of satisfying time alone. (perhaps a little too much.)
last night we went to mary's birthday party. phone cam pics are up here. worth noting is the rather amusing cake, on which mary's name is spelled wrong. (but it was delicious cake, and everyone found it quite funny.) Mary was serenaded by her gothy friend whose name i should know, but don't.
it was distressing at times to be one of only two single people at this fairly well populated party, and i fucked myself up pretty well by drinking wine, eating cake, and not much else during the time between 6:30pm and 2am. i woke with a bizarre sort of hunger hangover, but nothing a liter of water and a good breakfast couldn't fix.
there was a guy there named steven who i used to know about eleven years ago. he dated one of my housemates for a few months, and i haven't seen him since. he actually moved away a year or so after that, and only recently moved back to the area. he's now married to one of mary's old college friends. it was interesting to catch him up on what's happened to those people since then, and to recall certain very specific memories i have of him, both of which actually involve me feeling embarassed. as is almost always the case, when i told him where i worked, he said he had a friend who works there too. however, it almost never happens that the friend works in my department (as his does). so that was odd.
i don't think i've ever seen christa and ray stay to be the last people at a party. i kept waiting to get the sign that they were ready to go, and it wasn't until well after all the other guests had left that ray came over to say they were ready. at some point scott had moved the coffee table out of the living room, and started with the dancing. when was the last time i've seen christa dance? jeez, i don't know. we all were. and ray and scott bonded over kiss, yelling the lyrics, waving fists, and air guitaring furiously.
it was nice, in a way, that in the end it was just us. me and ray and christa and scott and mary. well, scott's roommate sean and his girlfriend were there too but you know what i mean. like, just the core scoobies :)
(and btw, ray is so totally hooked on buffy now. i've told him to pace himself, though, since the season six dvd's won't be out til july. he's about to start season three. i think once he gets to four, sarah and i will want to watch 'hush' with him. and we'll definitely want to watch 'once more, with feeling' when that rolls around.)
Posted by lisa at January 04, 2004 09:54 PM | TrackBack
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