Friday, October 17, 2003

Abs workout at home with Patrick. Breakfast at work: sausage, whole wheat toast, scrambled eggs, hash browns. Stopped in at MSB9—there was a work crew drilling the entry point for the data lines. White Coat Ceremony today. Joel's planning was flawless, near as I can tell—everything went very smoothly. Claire Lee made two giant arrangements of tall stems of yellow orchids and some other red-orange flowers which I found stunning. In between helping with the ceremony, I worked on the student database on the web project, got a sandwich at Subway (6-inch roasted chicken boob on wheat), did some listserv maintenance, made minor updates to other Web pages. Left work around 7:30 pm. Nearly all of Claire's flowers were left in the office as I was closing up, so I packed them all up and took them with me—they wouldn't have gotten enough water to live through the weekend otherwise. Patrick met with Yasuto for dinner tonight, so I went to Brian, Kelly, and Jesse's place. Gave them 2 big bunches of the flowers—they look great in their mustard-walled living room. Brian and Kelly and I went to dinner at Four Season: potstickers, kung pao chicken, vegetable deluxe, sesame beef, steamed rice. Yummy! My fortune: You will have good luck in the summer. Returned to their place. Patrick showed up, then all of us and Jesse and his new boyfriend James went to Yerba Buena for bowling because Jesse wanted to bowl. I asked him if he wanted to go bowling because that's what he did in Michigan and he said no, but I didn't believe him and I think Brian didn't either. Eventually, Jesse said, "That's not all we do in Michigan" or something like that. Brian said he only bowls once every 6 years, and I guess the time was about right. It was thought that we wouldn't get a lane because it would be crowded, but there was no wait at all at about 8:30 on a Friday night. Jesse proved to be the top bowler, but Kelly had the best form. Kelly was happy just that he broke a hundred, and afterwards Brian said , "Okay, that's it for me—you can ask me to bowling again in 2009." I thought it was fun even though I didn't bowl that well. Patrick did better than I did. We returned to their place and eventually Big Brian dropped by and so did Nico. We sat around and talked. Nico laughed because Brian used the word "rigamarole." Everyone laughed at our collective erotic fantasy of Monster Garage Bukkake filmed from within the woman's welder's mask. Jesse wanted to get his blood sugar tested so Nico left to get his kit from home but after a long time he didn't come back and Brian joked that he had had a Towlie moment. Patrick and I were tired, so we left for home ourselves.