So suddenly I notice that I'm at the Royal Danish Ambassador's residence all dressed up and shmozing with physicians and this economic counselor to the ambassador while eating h'orderves and drinking wine. I share my knowledge of Danish culture (regarding the h'orderves) with the group with a funny story from my Copenhagen visit, everyone laughs and the Dane is impressed with my butchering of Danish pronunciation. Wait.

What the fuck?

Somehow reality occurs to me - I lean over and whisper to someone who might be sympathetic, "I graduated high school in this suit."

Yeah. Awesome.

Moving to Denmark for a few years... It's on the agenda!

I went to the March for Women's Lives today – it’s the first big pro-choice rally in America since 1992. It’s the first time I've been to a political protest/rally. Depending on who you ask, there were 500k-1m people there. It was pretty incredible. Here’s a GPS triangulated marker showing my location:

I’m the dude with the gray shirt and ‘fro, oh yeah: look at all those fucking people!

yeah, good times.

who says wednesday nights have to be boring?
cooking class [i was a superstar!], loungin', dancin', meetin', dancin'. and some cold beverages somewhere in there.
rockin'. awesome. yeah.

Okay, I wasn’t gonna name names, but Elisha made her existence known in the last post, and she’s who I visited for 12 hours today (Sunday from 5am to 5pm) – (her take before the visit). Elisha is cool and an internet rockstar. The trip was fun and a wonderful departure from my standard weekend activities. The last week or so has been challenging my fairly soft living since I started work and it’s good.

Misc:
It’s funny how I think almost nothing is weird about visiting people I only know through the internet.
State College, PA is a pretty nice college town.
Mmm, waffles.
iPod is a better car companion than some people.
Someday I will know enough people where I will have a couch in every city ACROSS THE WORLD. Yeah.
Awesome.

one of my rules is: if one of your friends suggests something that's crazy stupid fun and your inital reaction is "no" but there's no actual logistial reason not to do it is to then insist that it be done inspite of it's craziness. driving to PA now...

spring in maryland has been beautiful or raining - it alternates. this weekend is one of the beautiful ones. yay.

the last few months, i’ve felt so devoid of meaning. if i were a casual observer of my life, i’d answer the question i put out on march 29th: the purpose of Alex is?
the purpose of Alex appears to be the following (in no order):

fly around the country while passed out

be a cheap-skate and read books at book stores

meet and alienate people fast

dance like an idiot

write terribly

play backgammon at computer

cook and clean and all that other domestic crap

go to work and half-ass it

complain about lack of meaning

walk around without a clue (now with an ipod)

go to concerts / listen to music

eat well

sleep a lot

get drunk and do some dumb shit

talk to friends

gamble and play games

fulfill minor obligations to family and friends
...

does any of this really add up to a meaningful life?

meaning just seems stalled. i cant honestly say what i’d rather have in place of what i have now. do something ‘good’? do a different set of self serving things? try to find the middle ground? (i anticipate this answer to be popular)

ever seen Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

blah. everything’s pretty good, but.

stupid ‘but’

...

existential agony is a sure sign that you've got too much time on your hands and need a better hobby than sitting around examining your life on lonley weekends.

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Air was pretty excellent – I feared they would not have a good live act, but I was pleasantly surprised (and for 36$, I should be). Many bands who have a large synth components to their music give shows I just don’t enjoy as much – The Crystal Method just sounded... exactly like their CDs except in one or two cases. However, Air played every note and sung every lyric in their performance and the music was just... more ‘meaty’ than The Crystal Method could be. Mmm, meat.

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Today at work I got a call from my neighbor and they’re all like "come to the Red Sox vs Orioles game tonight" and I was like "okay!" and after work I cooked good and ate and then went to the game and parking was not hard when I got home and we walked to the game so I didn’t have to drive and that makes me happy and it’s really nice outside and tomorrow I’m going to see Air at the 9:30 Club and it’s the third time I’ve been there in three weeks and this weekend I have sketchy plans but it will turn out well and I sent in my taxes today and I was over-taxed so I’m getting some of my money back and man I really like the new Modest Mouse album and I think I’m going to go to some more games at Camden Yards this summer because it’s a really nice field and yeah. good times.

After 17 years underground, millions of periodical cicadas (Brood X) will emerge throughout the eastern United States in late spring 2004. Periodical cicadas, which are unrelated to but often confused with locusts, are harmless to humans or animals but their egg-laying may cause some plant damage. Those who experienced the last emergence in 1987 will remember populations as large as 100,000 per acre disrupting outdoor events and sounding off with loud – almost deafening – mating calls. Marylanders are encouraged to plan ahead and to learn about cicadas so that they can experience this spectacular event as a wonder and not a calamity.
Maryland Department of Agriculture

it's going to be an exciting summer...

Next time you're on a date and you don't know what to do, I suggest you pull out some of your 36 individually wrapped rolls of toilet paper (13.59$ from Costco!) and start pelting your date with them.

weapon of choice

If she's not into it, don't worry, after a few more she'll be having fun.

Ok. Well not everyone has a sense of humor like you.
Try shouting "toilet paper fight!" in as excited a voice as you can muster.

Ok. Uh, try a war cry, yeah! Like "Ai! Yi! Yi! Yi! Yi! Yi! Yi!" - or be inventive, you know.
Just so long as your rolls have 425 sheets of soft quilted two ply bath tissue between the hard cardboard roll and your date, she's safe from harm.

If she kinda gets crazy - but not in the toilet paper fight sorta way - and shouts "monkeys!" I recommend you tell her to just settle down a bit.

the aftermath

Next time in dysfunctional dating with Alex...
Meet and talk to a cool girl, get a kiss goodbye, but fail to retrieve her phone number. DAMNIT!

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I can't make this stuff up people!