Saturday, December 7, 2002

Spent most of the day sleeping and working on Lodestar—a new issue is due in 2 weeks. Dinner at Warakabune with Patrick. We sat down not 2 minutes before Brian and Kelly walked in the door and took the 2 empty seats next to us like we had planned going to dinner all along. It was most fortuitous because we've all been so busy recently that we hadn't hung out in a while. Brian told how it was Jesse's first time to (secret place) today. Kelly: "He said, 'Take me before I lose my nerve.'" We had dinner and caught up. Brian and Kelly have both been working like dogs to get projects finished at Apple and City Carshare. We talked about Powerpuff Girls; the new home of our friends Nico, Adrian, and Little Brian; shopping for sushi boats; pre-threaded microwave popcorn for Christmas trees; how we spent Thanksgiving (they went to visit family in the East Bay and took Jesse with them); how we plan to spend Christmas (they don't know—might fly to Europe or might stay around here). We invited them to crash the party to which we were going, but they both had to code or code in the morning so they regretfully declined. I gave Brian the address in case they finished early or changed their minds. We went to Jamie's party at his place on 14th Street. It was mostly Jamie's friends who we didn't know, but Aaron was there and we had a great time seeing him for the first time since he moved to New York. We also saw Kai, Daphne, Tom and Sue (tho we didn't get to chat), Nicole. We left around midnight and on the way back to the car we said hi to Brian through the window but I suddenly got stomach cramps probably from drinking too cranberry juice so we quickened to the car and drove home. Patrick wrote a bit before we both crashed in bed.