halibuts
Originally written 04.30.2002.
spoke with tim on im today. maybe we’ll live together next year. that is, if he gets packed like a sardine 4-to-a-room at osu. he told me he thought my web journal was pretentious. he also said that he would read it if i changed the name of the journal to “g’s harangue of hilarity” and mentioned halibuts. i’ll placate him because despite the normal sibling bickering, i respect his opinion more than just about anyone. ok. so i think that this project is pretentious. and of course tim would think it was pretentious because he is one of the least pretentious people i know. most everything i have ever done is to gain accolades, notoriety, or attention, and tim doesn’t operate like that. but, at the same time, every day i hear lots of things that i can’t identify with or that i think are downright ugly, and every day i meet people who never say anything about what’s going on in their lives and the world and i think that’s really sad. at least i’m going to record the state of my life and what’s in my head because i think that i mean something in the world and i want other people to know that they do too. what i write and what i say might not always be right, and it might not always be kind, but at least it’s something.
updated the old web page in general, fixed the search so people can go ego surf and find out if i slagged them off.
waded through tons of e-mail. seems like i got a scholarship from the cis department, but that i have to go to some awards ceremony to receive it, but i can’t because i’m in scotland. hope i don’t have to forfeit the money.
spent way more time than i should have buying football (the american variety, not the good kind) tickets for erin d. apparently the e-commerce server couldn’t handle the load of students rushing to buy football tickets. at least a term of distributed systems lectures gave me something to think about while the pages took ages to load before spitting out useless error messages. i eventually was able to buy the tickets, and erin sent me payment via paypal which is always a cheap thrill for me. paypal might be my favorite web technology save for blogger. it’s just a really clever idea and i find it to be incredibly useful. next year i’ll finally be able to pay my share of the rent without messing around with checks. awesome.
got home in time to watch the man utd. game where man utd. played to a disappointing draw and had their final dreams dashed on away goals.
after the game played some poker with rob and marco. rob was pretty drunk as he had been drinking away his sorrows over his team’s loss. still, he was sober enough to take our money. we played no limit texas hold ’em, a type of poker that i hadn’t played before, but was pretty fun. it’s the kind they play on late night poker on the bbc, and as rob puffed away on his cheap cigars, he either fancied himself one of the professional gamblers on the show or one of the gangsters in his novel.