Then I returned to campus and decided I wanted to have a little Austria nostalgia, so Monica and I went over to Matt's place to finish off the Chardonnay and watch The Twilight Zone, now my new favorite show. Brilliant. My parents called to tell me they were
After this I returned to my dorm and experienced the Birthday Letdown which I'm sure everyone is familiar with, so I was left pacing my room like a caged animal wishing I'd had my hot air balloon ride. "Only the cause and end of movement:" It's not just the desire to defeat loneliness, it's the desire to discover something God-like in communion with someone else. Then I talked to Sean on the phone lo! and all was well. However, before the time that we planned to meet, Brigid called Sean. I sighed, happy that they finally got to talk, but wishing I could hang out with Sean and talk to Brigid rather than being in my room doing neither. Stupid distance problem. Regardless, after McN. chat Sean and I went to meet the frigid biting cold outside and enjoy a bit of my birthday together. Sean got me a beautiful journal knowing how obsessed with journals I am. He wrote a quote in it from a book I'd lent to him last summer. I always love the presents Sean gives me because in addition to being really nice they are things that actually have a relevance to what we know of each other. And out of the 55 page poem he picked one of my favorite quotes.
Anyway, my night ended with an incredibly nice chat with Angie. I was so glad that we're finally getting to know each other. We'd lived together for a year without really getting to know one another and I always rather felt like I was missing something. So yeah, that was great.
Brigid via email: "I hope you have a beautiful birthday and I wish you health, happiness, many drunken nights without hangovers, minty breath, a voluptuously curvy body, kids with fingers and toes!! and gosh darnit, just the best damn 22nd birthday you have ever had!!" Kalishnikov...you've outdone yourself yet again. Here's to you!
Oh, and manic-depressive camels are never cannibals.
3 comments:
Meggie-bear,..er... Milo,
You made me smile knowing that you had a great birthday! Wish I could have celebrated it with you!
and.. err... I think you omitted one wish I had for you... but, maybe we'll keep that for inside jokes :)
oh yea, and Happy Thanksgiving!!
Yeah...I laughed loudest about that one to be honest, but let's face it: not everyone had such highly developed "humour" as you and I. (Notice I spelled it in the British way to lend it a heightened snobbery.)
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