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all-in-one post, because i can. well, to be honest…there’s only three bullet points in this post.

the first point…i hadn’t mentioned this earlier, but i’d actually quit world of warcraft, didja know? i’d quit four months ago, but my subscription didn’t actually end til august 20th. now that august 20th is past, my quitting of is official! which was a long-time coming. nothing against world of warcraft, but i’d played it for 6 years. and the game mechanics grew old a long time ago. i didn’t notice…or didn’t care to notice, until one night in a raid i came to the cathartic and sad realization that i spent more time staring at the action bars than i did at the actual action happening on screen. from then on i just decided to quit. to be honest, my life didn’t change drastically. i think i’d always been pretty good about not letting my mmo gaming life adversely affect my social life. so no longer having the mmo time sink bore little influence on my day to day (except now having even more free time). i played other games during my free time now…including torchlight, dragon age 2, mass effect 2, and the current flavor…deus ex human revolution. the game is seriously boss (the second point). damn the game is gorgeous. i’m already in my second go-thru…already finding numerous things i missed completely the first time around.

if you haven’t played the game, the above image is of heng sha, one of the cities featured in the game. it’s essentially shanghai on steroids.

speaking of august 20th, the third point is that i actually did something for my birthday this year. and when i say something, i mean the same as i did for my 30th and 31st (but not last year…i was feeling anti-social). sake and food at en…word.

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hello mid-life

i wonder if 30 is even considered the “mid-life” anymore. doubt it, right? so yer…um, im “officially” 30! official as in ive made peace with it. shit, its not that bad. actually, its just another day i get an excuse to throw a big party for myself. but i have to rewind a little bit because while ive (surprisingly) been posting, they havent actually been journal posts. whups.

for the most part i cant remember what i did…but last week greg did come up to visit noo yerk from austin. woot! the g-man was my roommate second and third year of college, and is honestly the only friend i kept from my freshman year dorms (class of ’22 word!) and one of the few non-architect friends from college in general. wahoos! he came up with his friend tom, and we hit up the moma with some other friends of theirs to check out the prefab exhibit. we pretty much just bummed around central park afterwards, then headed to croxleys for stonkin’ wings and to watch michael phelps win his 8th gold (which he did…yay!)

THE BIG 3-0
fast forward a wee to this past week. my official partying started friday. lysha and alice were visiting from amsterdam, so i took the day off to show them around this ginormous city. the “day off” seemed a little inconsequential tho, considering by the time we got out of brunch at delicatessen, there wouldve only been about an hour and a half left of work anyway. we had a half day and a company picnic that day (it was originally the friday before, but got rained out). fuckers. well, it was all good then because i brought lysha and alice to the great hill in central park for some bbq, frisbee, and soccer-ball kicking into sides of peoples heads. it was super.

we lazy’d around in the sun for a while, then headed back down to marisa’s place so they could prep for the big partying. steph and kyoko were already at en when we arrived, followed by a long and steady stream of people showing up…wee! it was a pretty big gathering of friends from a variety of circles…cornellians, ex-coworkers, travel friends, and shit…even random coincidences (terence had reservations there that night anyway!) all coming together to get drunk with me. =) we eventually took over the entire front bar area with a ton of sake, food, and good vibes. big big big thanks to everybody who came out to have fun with me. best. berfday. evar.

as an aside. everybodys told me plenty of times before, and its not like i didnt know this already…but shit do i have a disproportionate number of female friends to male friends. it was made all the more apparent with everybody gathered in the same place for once. the night btw, actually started with five girls…and me (not that im complaining!)

THE BIG 3-0, PART DEUX
ya we’re not done yet! saturday was my original party day! except alot of people either couldnt make it, couldnt afford it, or were just scared off by the whole thing…hence how friday came about. ;p burlesque, word! and not just any burlesque, this is burlesque with murray hill and the pontani sisters! and i have to say, everybody who wasnt there missed out. not only did the performances rock (miss saturn…wow), but i got a free birthday cake! it came with tassles. it was pretty good too.

pictures! yay! thanks everybody! extra special hai fives to steph for friday, and gina and renee for saturday!