{"id":1250,"date":"2008-08-24T21:29:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2020-11-04T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:18:33","slug":"hello_mid-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"hello mid-life"},"content":{"rendered":"

i wonder if 30 is even considered the \u201cmid-life\u201d anymore. doubt it, right? so yer\u2026um, im \u201cofficially\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for the most part i cant remember what i did\u2026but 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 \u201922 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<\/i> 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<\/i> for stonkin\u2019 wings and to watch michael phelps win his 8th gold (which he did\u2026yay!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE BIG 3-0<\/b>
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 \u201cday off\u201d seemed a little inconsequential tho, considering by the time we got out of brunch at delicatessen<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we lazy\u2019d around in the sun for a while, then headed back down to marisa\u2019s place so they could prep for the big partying. steph and kyoko were already at en<\/i> when we arrived, followed by a long and steady stream of people showing up\u2026wee! it was a pretty big gathering of friends from a variety of circles\u2026cornellians, ex-coworkers, travel friends, and shit\u2026even 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<\/span>. berfday<\/span>. evar<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as an aside. everybodys told me plenty of times before, and its not like i didnt know this already\u2026but 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\u2026and me (not that im complaining!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE BIG 3-0, PART DEUX<\/b>
ya we\u2019re 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\u2026hence how friday came about. ;p burlesque, word! and not just any burlesque, this is burlesque<\/a> 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<\/a>\u2026wow), but i got a free birthday cake! it came with tassles. it was pretty good too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pictures! yay! thanks everybody! extra special hai fives to steph for friday, and gina and renee for saturday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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i wonder if 30 is even considered the \u201cmid-life\u201d anymore. doubt it, right? so yer\u2026um, im \u201cofficially\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15],"tags":[20,30],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-favorites","category-journal","category-photo-journal","tag-20","tag-birthday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/7299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}