Monday, December 12, 2005

after spending an hour or so navigating food and people at my department's christmas party, my conversation with friends was interrupted by the door prize raffle. of course i wanted an ipod nano, but considering the hundreds of people present i didn't give it a chance. before i knew what was happening though, my number was called, and i found myself standing on a chair, in front of gobs of people, and opening a package that might contain a nano, but that also might contain a rubber chicken instead. i was completely petrified, because i knew my disappointment would show if i got only a chicken, and that would be totally awkward. but the planets were properly aligned, and my package contained an ipod nano.

improbable events apparently come in bunches; after i got home with my new ipod nano, i got a call from none other than backwards man! amazing. of course this completely destroyed my resolve to be an eccentric machine designing hermit, at least for the time being. instead of working the weekend away in my apartment and in the corners of various cafes, i spent it meeting up with people and being social: going to clubs, watching movies, having brunch, feeding bugs to carnivorous plants, and so on. the grand finale was dinner with hugh and company at tante marie's cooking school. the rule there is that you have to help cook or you don't get anything to eat, so i'm now an expert at cutting cauliflower.

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