you look so defeated lying there in your new twin sized bed

Crazy day.

1. drove to brighton to pick up E, A, and C.

2. drove to Dennis cape cod.

3. had lunch (or everyone else did) at Captain Frosty's.

4. Went kayaking for an hour and a half.  thoroughly enjoyed it.

5. went to dinner at the Swan River Restaurant.  had a salad.  didn't eat most of it.

6. went for ice cream at Sundae School.  vanilla with hot butterscotch, whipped cream, and a cherry.

7. drove back to brighton.

8. hung around at A's for a bit, went to Victoria's Seafood for a late night snack at 11 pm.  had hot & sour soup, bok choy, and part of a scallion pancake.

9. went back to A's.

10.  Stood around and got really tired.

11. came home, listened to Narrow Stairs on the way.

all dead white boys say god is good

The temperature today was over 90 degrees.

I was sweating by the time I got to the office.  I walked from Central, and it didn't help that I forgot my iPod at home and had to go back for it after about three blocks.

I spent the morning doing tech research for our design project.  I spent the afternoon coding up a integration prototype.  The second half of the day went much faster.  I've discovered that if I try to write a document for eight hours straight, somewhere around hour five I start to get really tired.  Somewhere around hour seven I completely lose the ability to get anything done.  

At lunch, I went to Darwin's with EP - it was the first time in over two years that I'd been there.  The Brewer was still there, and I decided that I wouldn't get it a second time around.  The place has changed.  Their menu has improved.  It now appears to have more vegetarian options.  It's also prettier.  I got the special vegetarian sandwich, which was a veggie burger, tomato (watch out for the salmonella, boys and girls) , lettuce some sort of mayo/salsa sort of dressing, and whatever else.  Black beans in the burger.  Red onion.  It was worth going back for.

During lunch I played Ricochet Robots for the second time in two days.  It's also the second time I've played it in months.  I'm still not so bad at it - I think I tied someone for the win.  Or maybe I won.  I wasn't really paying attention at that point.  Regardless, once I got back into the groove, I did fine.  EP, LG, DM, TW, JL, and DR were playing.  Good people.

I still don't know where I'm going to move.  I've told my landlords (perhaps a month ago) that I'm going to be leaving.  I think I can do better.  The new kitchen looks great and makes me wonder if I'm making the right decision, but I've complained for so long, I don't see how I can be wrong.  I'm going to move, and I'm going to like it.  I just need to find a place, and that doesn't seem to be that easy.

I think I might like to stay around Central.  I like it here.  It's dirty enough and busy enough that it makes you feel like you're really in a city.  I met DM on the T yesterday, and he suggested I look at Davis.  He said if he were going to move again, he'd go back there.  I like Davis... maybe I should consider it.