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30 June 00 I'm one of those people that, when something isn't going well in my life, tries to stay as busy as possible to distract myself from the situation. Well, I've been doing a great job at staying busy! For instance, last weekend - I had the best weekend! Susan was husband-less for the weekend, so we kept each other company by spending just about the whole weekend together. Friday night was chill as we hung out, drank beers, and got caught up on "girl talk". Saturday, however, was a little different! Ray had sent out mail saying to meet on the lawn behind the Metreon for Chicken Races. Well, knowing Ray, I half expected real chickens, racing. And lo and behold, the man came through! Ray showed up wearing bright yellow overalls and carrying a box with four chickens (well, technically baby chicks), and we proceeded to begin with the races. Needless to say, we attracted a bit of attention, and all the kids in the park ran over to see the chicks. It was during the third heat that we were asked to leave by park security. Apparently, chickens are considered "pets", and pets aren't allowed in the park, so we wandered down to South Park where the chicks and the mechanical dog could play together unmolested by psuedo-law-enforcement types. Michael chronicled the event, and Ray also has some good photos up. Saturday night we hung out at Greg's place one last time before he sells it. He has a beautiful place in Rockridge that's he's done so much work on, and now he's ready to move onto another house/project. After an evening of beers, stupid jokes, and freeze-frame, zoom-in, dvd action, Susan and I motorcycled back across the bridge to SF. Sunday we went to see the movie "Groove". I really liked it! I thought it was a great description of the rave scene, and it really caught the mood you feel when you're at a good party. Plus, it was the first time I ever got to see my friends' names prominently displayed on the big screen! Part of the reason I like the movie so much was that it was a "San Francisco movie". Just seeing that kind of movie in SF made it a little more special :) After the movie, Susan took off for home and I met up with Stefanie, and we headed over to John & Brady's place for our very own Iron Chef cook-off. Everyone who came over to their place made some sort of dish with tofu as the key ingredient, and then we all munched down a delicious dinner! That was a really great idea for a dinner party! All-in-all, that was a really great weekend; it was such a great distraction that the other crap in my life didn't even bother me! And it lessened the stress of Monday. Monday night, Mike & I had plans to go out to dinner with a large group of friends. But he & I were not doing well - he literally woke up the other morning and realized he had gotten too close to me, freaked out, and decided he no longer wanted a girlfriend. We had spent the past several days apart, in some sort of relationship-limbo. So I wasn't really looking forward to seeing him. Dinner ended up going well and I had a good time, but I'll attribute that to the full bottle of wine I drank. After dinner, many people headed back to Mike's place for a bit. Once we got there, I pulled him aside and we had our last "talk". We broke up. It sucks because there was nothing wrong with our relationship. It may have not been a storybook, knight-in-shining-armor relationship, but it was really good. It's hard to hear someone say they really like you, like spending time with you, like being around and doing things with you, they don't want to break up, BUT... Sigh. The rest of this week was spent with friends. If I haven't said it before, I'll say it now: I really value my friendships. My friends are the people that really matter to me, and I love spending time with them and gathering up new friends whenever I can! I've spent time with various people these last few days - hanging out, talking, drinking beer, socializing, and seeing "Groove" for the second time. I'll spend as much time as I can with people over this upcoming long weekend, and then I'll kinda see where that leaves me. *sigh* 23 June 00 You know, it's still fun to play on swings, even when you're no longer eight years old. Jen & Da5id were about to go away for a couple of weeks on vacation, so they had a little get-together Wednesday evening in Dolores Park before leaving. The three of us, plus Vanessa, Brady, Cathy, Kate, and some other friends of theirs whom I just met for the first time - Rooney, Ed, and Nick - all met up in the park, sat in the fading sun, ate dinner, and just enjoyed being outside. We watched the plethora of dogs running and playing; the dogs really look like they're having fun as they race after their ball/frisbee at top speed! We met two of the cutest puppies - one Samoyed and one black & white fluffball. We played in the playground. It was happy and fun, and it made me realize that I need to spend more time in the park! As far as the rest of my life, well, there is now impending one large, gaping hole which I'm attempting to deal with, but I don't really feel like talking about it right now. Give me some time... 20 June 00 You know, it doesn't take much to make me happy. So, when things go wrong, it makes me very unhappy. Especially if I'm unable to find out exactly what has gone wrong. I wish people would find it easier to communicate; I guess that many people don't communicate well and share the feelings because they're scared. That's understandable; everyone is scared of something or other. I've certainly had times in my life where I have been scared of letting others know how I feel - the more of yourself and your feelings you expose, the more you're opening yourself up to be hurt, and no one wants to be hurt. But on the other hand, the more of yourself and your feelings you open up to others, the more you allow others to really know you and like you for who you are. I'm just waiting around, waiting for this week to pass me by. I've got a couple of get-togethers with friends planned for this week - that's good because it allows me to spend time with people I like, and it has the added advantage of keeping me busy. 15 June 00 I love warm weather! To me, the perfect temperature is about 80 degrees Farenheit (26 degrees Celsius). Yesterday in San Francisco, it was 103F/39C which was a little warm, even for me, although I wasn't complaining. The main reason I wasn't complaining is because I was stuck in an office building all day long where the bloody air conditioning was just blasting! I had to turn on a space heater because It was so friggin' cold! That's just not right. Stuff is progressing on the job front, but it's still a little too early to say anything. I don't want to jinx my new job. But it better come through since I've just given notice at my current job! My last day in the office here will be June 30, then I have a week vacation before I move on to greener pastures. I'll have to enjoy this extra free time I've got at work while I still can, because before long, it's gonna be busy! Susan and I got together the other night to hang out and talk. It was the second time since March that just the two of us had spent time together. Quite a change from months past where I would see her several times a week. We spent some time talking about our little group of friends, and how they all seem to have gone off in their own directions, and we no longer spend much time together - the "cycling" theory I talked about here, a couple of months ago. We were trying to come up with ideas to help bring the group closer together, but as we were doing that, we also realized that there are several people in our group who seem to have no desire to perpetuate these particular friendships. That was a sad realization. The weekend is coming up, and none too soon. The closer my last day of work gets, the more difficult it's gonna be for me to come in every morning. So the more time off in the meantime, the better :) 12 June 00 Writing this would be easier if my mind wasn't currently mush :) I'm looking forward to just going home and being a vegetable tonight. Well, that's pretty much all I did yesterday, but it sounds like such a good idea that I think I'll do it again. We went to a huge party on Saturday night - the party took up all three flats of a Victorian house; people were just packed in there and spilling into the backyard. Out of all of the people at that party, I only knew about three other attendees; what's funny about that is that I think I know so many people and everywhere I go, I expect to see someone I know. When I'm around so many strangers, I wonder what's wrong :) Anyway, we had fun at the party, and finally made it home about 6:30 am. Slept all day and then watched TV until about 11 when I went back to sleep. I've been spending a lot of time with friends during the week. I'm one of those people who thinks that just because you're dating someone, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't abandon all of your other friends. So I'm making an effort to spend extra time with my friends in order to stay in touch with them. A couple of weeks ago, Stefanie and I went to dinner then out for a beer, last week Charlotte & I did the same, and later this week I'll spend some time with Susan and probably John A. as well. My friends mean a lot to me and I don't want to let them slip away. Oh wow, I almost forgot about last week! Wednesday was Mike's birthday, so we had a big birthday dinner at Harris' Steak House. (It's amazing - there were no vegetarians in the group!) I think we had 17 people there - Mike, me, John L., Joe, Seth, Erin, Mike L., Maggie, Raph, Sether, Greg L., Brad, Allison, Mike H., Matt, Lisa, Eric. We had a great dinner! Afterwards, a smaller subset of us headed off to a strip club. It seemed like the thing to do, and I had always wanted to go and see what it was like. After a bit of trial & error (the first place we went to was so boring!) , we ended up at a place on Market Street. It was pretty wild, but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, including Mike who was brought up onstage and embarrassed for his birthday. Raph's girlfriend Stacy flew down from Vancouver on Friday. She wasn't able to make it for the big Wednesday night meat dinner, so me, Mike, Raph, Stacy, Greg L. and John L. all went back to Harris' for another dinner. Afterwards we decided on something a little more tame than strip clubs, and we headed over the a karaoke bar in the Marina. John got up and sung a couple of songs, and he really has a good voice. The rest of us just sat around observing. It seems like I should have more to write about, but I can't think of it right now. I'll come back to it when I do. 31 May 00 I rode a coworker's motorcycle yesterday. It was a um, uh, a Harley-Davidson. Yup. But at least it wasn't one of those huge pig^H^H^H hogs that the ugly "biker-types" ride; it was a new Sportster 883. It was weird riding it too - the footpegs are way out in front of you, and that doesn't feel right. And it doesn't corner too well. But I guess Harleys weren't made for city riding, eh? I liked riding my other friend's Ducati better...I guess I'm just not a Harley person. I like my bike a lot. It runs well (knock on wood), and it has enough speed and pick up for riding around town. It's perfectly fine, until I get on someone else's brand-new bike which has sooo much more power! (Never mind that the bikes I'm comparing mine to have 50%+ more displacement :) ) <repeat to self> My bike is paid off. My bike is paid off. My bike is paid off.... I've gotten into an interesting email conversation with Tim. For anyone who may be reading this, Tim (EvilTim) is an ex of mine who I went out with for a year. We broke up in July of '97, and it was an extremely difficult and painful time for me. Since then, Tim and I have had alternating periods of being close and friendly, and then putting distance between us and not talking. For the last several months he and I have been pretty close (even though he's physically in another country) and I think we've over most of that post-relationship-weirdness stuff. Now, for the first time in almost three years, I've started to talk to Tim about a post-Tim relationship, and it's a little weird. I'm not having difficulty talking about it, but at the same time, it almost feels like I'm confessing to something I shouldn't be doing; like, I feel a little guilty or something. Hmpf. I guess I'll get used to it. I don't know if I'm ready to have Tim tell me about his love life; I know I would be too upset actually seeing him with someone else. Weird, this whole love thing, you know? 30 May 00 Mmm, I'm full of hot'n'sour soup and lemon chicken. Garden of Tranquility is a Chinese restaurant near work that has very good, inexpensive food, and I eat there frequently. Normally I hardly ever eat Chinese food because it's often so greasy, but this place isn't bad; maybe that's the difference between cheap Chinese and a better-quality restaurant. How about a recap of the past week... Tuesday evening was spent at Suriya with Jen, Da5id, and Rob, dining on some of the best Thai food around. Jonathan & I had discovered this restaurant a couple of years ago, but I hadn't been back since. They have a dish called Evil Jungle Prince, which we originally ordered simply because of the name, and it's the most wonderful Panang curry I've ever eaten. Needless to say, we stuffed ourselves there, and afterwards I was just too full to do anything else :) Wednesday evening I spent an hour or two hanging out with Sam. He has on ongoing photo project called Operation Soulcapture, where he photographs various friends of his, and this time I was the one whose soul was captured on film. It was fun being a model of sorts, and he took some nice photos which I actually like! Last Thursday was a get-together for a bunch of people from this all-girl mailing list that I'm on. (Note: I want to explain that I'm usually against all-girl things, because I find that so many times all-girl things are also anti-boy things. While I think women should have the same rights and opportunities as men, I also do not think that women automatically do things better than (or worse than) men. I like and participate with this particular group of people because they're all a lot like me; as diverse as they are, they're out of the ordinary and many of them normally also avoid "all-girl" things, which I see as a good thing :) ) Anyway, I showed up at the Voodoo Lounge and sat with Stefanie, Susan, and Angela and said "hi" to a few others, but for whatever reason, I just didn't feel like socializing with people I didn't already know. It wasn't that felt antisocial, and it certainly wasn't because I didn't like those around me; I guess I just didn't feel like dealing with the small talk that would probably be involved in meeting new people. I enjoyed sitting with friends and talking about what was going on in our lives, and just relaxing for a bit. Sometimes you're just not in the mood the deal with strangers. Three-day-weekend time! Mike, Joe and I left town early Friday afternoon on our way to Pyramid Lake. Pyramid is located on an Indian reservation about an hour northeast of Reno, Nevada (not far from where Burning Man is held). After dealing with the long-weekend traffic jam, we finally arrived at the lake and met up with Mike's family and many friends of the family. We camped there for a couple of nights, jet skiing during the day and sitting around the campfire at night, and headed back to Reno Sunday afternoon for a much-needed shower! I got the drinking tour of Reno that evening when Mike, Joe, Kris, and I headed off to a couple of bars, then out to Reno's best (that's a relative term!) nightclub, Reno Live. There we were just having fun dancing to whatever funky pop songs the DJ decided to play. I think we all appreciated SF clubs just a little bit more after that! I got back to SF Monday, and now it's Tuesday I'm back at work. Tonight I'm going to go home, unpack and kick back for awhile. If I'm feeling particularly adventurous, I may even cook some dinner! Woo-hoo! May 22 00 Another week, another entry. Some things are starting to happen in regards to my employment, but I don't want to say too much too soon and jinx it. More on that as things firm up a bit. I just found out my boss is quitting! This is sad; he's the best boss I've ever had, and he's a really cool person as well. (Heh, I recently found out that he once got kicked out of Disneyland because he was caught swimming in the Pirates of the Caribbean!) Of course, since I may be leaving as well, I can't complain too much about him going. Maybe someday I'll have the chance to work for him again! Last Friday it was someone's last day at work, and at the end of the day we had cake and champagne. Some of us had more champagne than others :) After work, me, my boss, and a handful of coworkers went to a little bar in the Mission and had a few more drinks. I do like my coworkers! At my previous job, most of the people I worked with were just awful, and I never did anything social with them. It's such a nice change to work with people you can also call friends! Well, after hanging out at that bar for awhile I met up with Raphael, and we headed to the Metreon to grab some dinner (and more drinks) with Joe, Stefanie, Susan, Ashley, and a few others. I was pleasantly surprised when Seth & Erin showed up with Mike in tow! We finished off the evening by closing some little dive bar over by Union Square. I had planned on having a quiet weekend, not going out at all. Obviously that didn't happen on Friday night! Saturday evening there were three different parties Mike & I wanted to hit, and again we expected to hang out a bit, maybe have a beer, then head home early. We spent about an hour at the first party, but it was a little too boring, so we left. We stopped by the second party, held by Dave, a former coworker of mine, and his current business partner Mike, and ended up enjoying ourselves so much that we didn't leave until way too late (too early?). Needless to say, we never made it to the third party :) It was good to see Dave & Mike and have them meet my Mike. I'm looking at my last entry and it's hard to believe the big house party was only a week ago! Sheesh, where does the time go? Life hasn't been incredibly busy or anything, but for some reason it seems like that was a long time ago. Hmph. The guys are already looking ahead for a date for the next party, so watch out! Along those lines, do you ever notice how you often wish time would hurry up and pass so you could celebrate some upcoming event? But then you end up complaining that life is going by so fast, and before you know it, weeks, months, and years have slipped by. Someone once said that you shouldn't wish for the time to go by faster, rather, you should try to sit back and enjoy each and every day while you can. If you're not excited about a particular day, then change something! Turn it into something that makes you happy! Remember, you're the only one that can make your life good! 16 May 00 Wow! I think that was *the* party of the year! (so far!) Mike & his housemates threw a HUGE party at their place last Saturday night. Raphael, Dave Z. & Curt all spun some excellent music; I spun for just a bit at the beginning of the night. There must have been as many as 70 people there, and at one point, it was so crowded that it was difficult to walk through the downstairs. A whole lot of people I knew showed up, as well as a whole lot of people I didn't know! Everyone was nice and well-behaved, but man the house was a total mess afterwards! We stayed up until about 10am Sunday morning before finally getting some sleep. I was pretty tired & trashed the next day, but I slept a lot last night so I'm ready to go again! Woo-hoo! I'm going to be a good little consumer tonight and go shopping! I need a tent and a sleeping bag because we're going camping on Memorial Day weekend. It'll be the first time I've been camping (with the exception of Burning Man) since I was a teenager, so I'm looking forward to it. I need to call and see if I can bring my dirt bike :) Okay, time to go write a resume... 11 May 00 Well, I think the time has come for me to start looking around for a job. I'm realizing that the way things are progressing, they are going to negatively impact my future career growth if I don't do something about it. So, if you know of any operations openings at a cool SF Internet company, please let me know. I've had the chance to spend some time with Susan last week, and that was good. I told her that I had just written something saying I missed her, as she hadn't even read the bit below. Contrary to the popular statement, Susan doesn't think "absence makes the heart grow fonder". Rather, she believes it pulls people apart, and she doesn't want us to drift away as friends. Good :) Oooh, fun things! A couple of Friday nights ago, we went to a birthday party at Mike & Maggie's, and I was pleasantly surprised by seeing several people there whom I didn't expect to run into. After a couple of hours, Mike, Raph, his ex-gf Jen, Dave Z, and I took off to meet Jae and some of his friends at a nearby bar. We met another couple there and played darts until they kicked us out at 2. Saturday night was the Thump Radio party which I had been looking forward to for quite awhile, for several different reasons - I love the music they play at the Thump parties, I was going to be going with a group of friends and then meeting several other groups of friends there, and I was looking forward to spending time with some people I don't see too often. So, Saturday night comes around and me, Mike, Joe, Raph, Jen, Jae, and a couple of others head down to the club and meet up with Brian, Jen, Mike, and Wendy (BJM&W) and proceed to party the night away. I really like BJM&W and it's cool hanging out with them again after not having seeing them for a year & a half. I think my mind has finally gotten around the fact that they are friends of Tim's, so it's no longer awkward being around them when I'm with Mike. I think it's kinda funny though - hanging out with the ex's friends even though the ex is not around. I wonder what will happen when Tim comes back to the US? How will he feel about Mike? Will they get along? (Will I want them to meet one another?) We'll see, I suppose. Last weekend was another low-key weekend, saving up money & energy for the big party coming up this weekend. Mike, Joe & I took a ride out to Antioch last Saturday for Brian & Jen's housewarming party. Man, they have a nice place! A huuuge, beautiful, brand-new home for (relatively) cheap! the only problem is, it's not in SF :) Okay, enough babbling, it's time to download a MahJongg game! 27 April 00 I don't know if Susan reads this, but I miss her. She's my best friend, but I don't think I've seen or talked to her all month. She's been too busy, I guess. I hope to see her again soon as I miss her. Unfortunately I'm not too surprised that Susan is moving out of my life. Not long ago, as she and I were having one of our "girl talks", I mentioned how so many of my friendships seem to go on a two-year cycle, where I'll spend a couple of years with a certain group of friends, then people sort of cycle out and are replaced by others. At that time she assured me we wouldn't drift apart since we were so close. Well, this past fall was when Susan and I hit our two-year mark, and now our interests and lives have changed just enough that we're out of synch with one another and we no longer do anything together. Hmph. The last time I went through a major "cycling period" was 2.5 years ago. Within a very short period of time all my close friends went in different directions, Tim broke up with me and tore my heart into pieces, my dad was in the hospital and we thought he was dying, and last but not least, I had to have my dog put to sleep. Um, I didn't take it very well. Actually, it was the worst, most depressing time of my life and to me there was no proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Worst of all, there were no friends there for me to lean on and help me through it. I am happy to say that Susan or no Susan, I am doing okay at this point in my life :) 26 April 00 Work has unfortunately gotten to be very slow again. Sure, it's nice to have a little bit of extra time during the workday to check email, irc, take care of personal business, and the like, but dammit! I need something to do to keep me from getting too bored! I need to learn things! Am I the only IT person in the world who's not busy and overworked? I wonder if the lull I feel in my life has anything to do with the lull at work? Eh, probably not, because work was really slow last summer while my personal life was crazy. Speaking of lulls, both last week and this week I've spent a lot of time at home. Lately I have not wanted to be home at all, much less home by myself, but this past week I've been getting more comfortable with it. I haven't always felt that way about being alone; I used to love having a lot of time by myself. I think I'm just tiring of it or something. Which is why I want to move, I'd like to have some cool housemates. Jen, Da5id, and Simon were thinking of getting a place together, maybe even some sort of warehouse space, so I may end up moving in with them. That would be wonderful! They're all great people with whom I have a lot in common, but we should all be able to give each other enough space to be comfortable. Now the only trick is finding an acceptable, affordable place in San Francisco. Bah-hah-hah-hah! Last Friday, Mike & Joe came over to have dinner at my place before we met other friends and went out drinking. I hadn't seen Mike all week, and then he showed up at my door with flowers for me! Just because. I thought that was really nice of him. After dinner, we went to the Hyde Out and met Greg and Raph and drank yummy raspberry cider. A few ciders later we ended up at Backflip and drank even more with Jae and his group. I eventually made it to bed about 1am, which normally would have been very early, except I needed to wake up at five frickin' o'clock to go skiing! So, 5am rolls around and Charlotte, Stefanie, Jonathan, Marya, Bernd, and I drive to Northstar for a day of skiing/boarding (conditions weren't great, but there was hardly anyone on the slopes!). We stayed in a very nice cabin that night; heh, after cooking dinner we sat around watching a movie, and I think we all dozed off around 10pm! On Sunday we had a leisurely trip home. With my trips to Tahoe and to LA, I feel like I've driven all over the state recently! I think I'll hold off on the road trips for at least a little while :) My bike's in the shop for a tune-up, new fork oil, and new clutch, and I should have it back tomorrow. Yippee! The clutch was so bad that it was getting difficult to ride, and the front end was all mushy. It will be fun to ride it once it's working well again! I'm looking forward to the weekend! 18 April 00 I've been in a sort of a funk lately. Trouble is, I don't know why. I have a pretty good life - some really great friends, a wonderful place to live, a good job, and I try to do the things I want to do, whenever possible. So why aren't I overjoyed and dancing about? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I suppose it's because everytime I achieve a goal, my sights are reset and I then have a different goal in mind. So even though I've recently accomplished a major personal goal, I'm already looking forward to the next one. I'm not a very patient person, so I hate waiting for things! Life for me is also in a bit of a lull right now. This isn't a bad thing by any means! The past year was an incredible year for me! I did so much, travelled a lot, and went through an intense period of personal growth. Now I seem to be at some sort of plateau, where I'm kicking back and just enjoying life as it is and hopefully gearing up for the next set of major life improvements/changes/craziness. I've been told that I'm the kind of person who is hard to get to know. It's not something I do on purpose, rather, I think I just tend to keep to myself until I know someone well enough to begin opening up to them. So, as part of an exercise to learn to open myself up more, I began keeping an online journal. I got the idea after reading a couple of other journals, and I thought it took a lot of guts for people to put their thoughts online for the world to see. Granted, some people open themselves up a lot more than I've been doing here, but, oh well. There is such a thing as t.m.i. :) I'm discovering that it really is no problem writing for strangers. And if I were positive that no one I knew would ever be reading this, I'd probably let loose with some much more personal stuff. But since I probably do know some of the people reading this it makes it more difficult to reveal things. Hrmph. 13 April 00 Whew...work is a little slow today, so it gives me some time to write. Things have been quite hectic here lately, and for the first time since being hired (last May!) I actually have a lot of work to do on an ongoing basis! How novel! My birthday was last week. Yeah, I'm one of those hard-headed Aries :) I just wanted a quiet b-day, so Mike took me out to dinner at Harris' Steak House. I had a yummy buffalo steak (I'm not a vegetarian, sorry) and a couple of yummy lemon drop drinks. Mmmmmm, buffalo. This past weekend was a rock star road trip. Clare, Jen, Da5id and I drove to LA to see Tyler's band Battery Cage perform. Tyler, Ruth, Rob and a couple of friends flew out from Boston, Da5id's bandmate Matt came from Chicago, and we all met up for the weekend. Cathy even showed up one night! We hit a club as we got to town Thursday night, shopped on Melrose on Friday before heading to Das Bunker to see the band, then spent Saturday afternoon drinking margaritas on the Santa Monica Pier. It was a great weekend, hanging out with friends and getting to know people a little better. I realized something this past weekend, something which may not sound like much to others, but is a really big thing for me - I no longer identify with the industrial/goth club crowds. After being heavily involved in this particular club scene as a DJ, promoter, patron, etc. for about a dozen years, I've known that I've been drifting away from the scene for the past nine+ months, but it wasn't until I went to a new club in another town that it sunk in - this is no longer a part of my life, and I'm okay with that. It is a slight bit unsettling knowing that I'm leaving behind something that consumed such a large part of my life for so long, but if I no longer have the connection and the love that I need to hold me there, why should I stay? It's exactly like leaving a long-term relationship, but neither hating nor still being in love with your significant other - the separation is amicable, but necessary. I'm still going out to techno clubs and raves, so it's not like I've abandoned the club life altogether. And I still love industrial music, even if I don't listen to it all that often anymore. It's just the industrial/goth clubs & scene from which I'm divorcing myself. Music has always been such an important part of my life, which is why I became so deeply involved in it in the first place. It will continue to move me and affect me more than the average person. Maybe someday I'll even become involved in a music scene again as a DJ or promoter. But for now, I guess you could say I'm retiring. I'm just going to kick back and enjoy the music, parties, raves and whatever else, and I'm not going to bother with the goths. 'Cause I'm NotAGoth, ya know ;-) 3 April 00 Another fun and crazy weekend of excess! And just in case I wasn't sleep-deprived enough, that stupid time change came along and stole an hour of rest from me :) A group of us hung out at the house Friday night and Saturday afternoon, being silly and having fun. Saturday night about a dozen of us met up and went to an April Fool's party at Ray & Michael's place. They have a beautiful three-story loft in the South of Market area. A few people from the Fiji trip were there, as well as several other friends of mine from a different social group. Everyone got to meet each other, and that was good. Raph and I did a tag-team DJ set, spinning a bunch of psy-trance. It turned out to be a really good, fun party filled with cool people, and I think everyone had a great time. Sunday was spent back at the house with a crowd of people watching (I can't believe I'm actually going to admit this) Wrestlemania. No, I had never really seen it before and no, I am not a fan. But I was sufficiently amused to sit and watch the entire thing. I'll blame it on the cider I was drinking :) I'm tired, and it's been a pretty boring day at work, so I'll have to wait until later to actually write something interesting... | |||
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