Friday, December 21, 2012
Breakfast: two kinds of granolas, sliced banana, unsweetened soy milk, 12 ounces of vegetable juice. Rode Muni to work. Linkchecking, kiosk work. SOP IT wiki: submit a surplus pickup request. Calendar management. Office holiday breakfast and gift exchange. Cindy received an FAO Schwartz barking plush puppy from Don. Shirin received a tiger hat-sleeve-mittens from Rodney. Don received a giant cupcake maker from Rick. Rodney received a white elephant in a pink crushed velvet bag from Joel. Lucia received Girl Scout note cards, a Boo calendar, and Polaroid note cards from me. Joel received a New Yorker Magazine desktop daily calendar from Cindy. Rick received artwork depicting candles and it had lights where the flames were from Lucia. Danielle received copies of recent Us Magazine and OK Magazine and dry skin hand creme from L'Occitane from herself. I received a box of ad hoc red velvet layer cake mix and a small red-handled spatula from Shirin. Lisa did not participate. Small web update for Cindy: diplomas. Ordering in BearBuy. Followup with Stephan, Ariel, and Dan about Joel and Rick's network issue. Defrosted and shut down the fridge. Snack from Panda Express: veggie spring rolls with sauce. Left work around 3:45. Rode Muni home. Snack: leftover lasagne. Our landlord Ed replaced our sink because the previous one had a crack in it. The new one is the same model as the old one. Very nice to have a replacement. Nap. Rode Muni to the Castro. Encountered Ping T on Castro Street, chatted with him briefly. The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus is performing on Christmas Eve. Met Neil G and Shawn P at Toad Hall for drinks. Encountered Nathan M, met his friend Rachel. quantum13 joined. After a few rounds of drinks we got dinner. Dinner at K Pop with quantum13, Nathan, Neil, Jim, Shawn P. My first time at K Pop. I had two appetizers: three fried veggie potstickers, veggie jap chae, water. Food was delicious. The giant television showing korean pop videos was unfortunate mostly because it made you occasionally forget that other people were at your table, especially since my seat faced the screen directly. Am I watching music videos or am I dining with friends? The videos felt amateur in production quality which contrasted with the high-definition quality of the images. After a few videos, they kinda all seemed the same. Afterwards we went to Badlands where I encountered Mike B, met his friends Patrick and Paul. quantum13 and I left around 9:45 PM to attend Timmy D's Mayan Apocalypse party which was held at The Treehouse and in (I believe) his upstairs neighbor's apartment. Encountered many from the Syndicate that I hadn't seen in a while.