Sunday, November 10, 2002
Woke up early—6:30 AM. Uploaded Tina's photos to Ofoto, organized albums. Created several new albums including photos of Tina, Tina's photography, and photos of Patrick. Wrote in my journal. The leaks in our ceiling seemed to have stopped dripping finally. Yesterday it didn't rain much, but we trust that our landlord had done the sealing he said to prevent the problem in the future. Perhaps soon we'll pull out the plastic tarp from our front living room and start putting things back in order again. Patrick can't work well at home when things are in such disarray. Today's my birthday—I'm 33! Patrick and I did some shopping on Castro Street. I got a dark blue dress shirt from Body Body Wear and a dark blue Stussy ski cap from Rolo. The ski cap is reversible—on the inside it says (for some unknown reason): WORLD WIDE. Napped. Birthday dinner at Watergate with Patrick, Amy, David, Middle Brian, Kelly, Nico, Adrian, and Little Brian. Amy and David got me a steel and glass tealight holder with a set of 12 mulled wine tealights. Nico, Adrian, and Little Brian returned my red sweater which I had left at their place a long time ago. Middle Brian and Kelly gave me a CD-R of "Frank and Patrick thru the years - 2002"—photos that they had taken here and there. They also gave me a bouquet of orange and yellow mums. Dinner was wholly satisfying, and everyone there was new to the place except for Patrick and I and it pleased me that they all enjoyed the food as much as we knew they would. Watergate does not disappoint. Afterwards, Amy and David went home and the rest of us hung out at Middle Brian, Kelly, and Jesse's. We mostly just talked and Eric and Big Brian also stopped by to join us. The evening's highlight: when Jesse opened up the laptop and visited ratemypoo.com. I didn't see the site myself, but I agree with Middle Brian's assessment that it was probably better to just watch the expressions of people looking at the site rather than the site itself. Adrian saw one page and said, "That's just wrong!" Later Middle Brian put on Thievery Corporation. Patrick and I went home exhausted, still full of food, and very satisfied.