Brief interlude

It’s Sunday morning, before 8 o’clock, and everyone’s still sleeping at South Main. The house is an absolute mess, and I sort of want to start cleaning up, but I kind of don’t, so I’m writing a few thoughts.

The party last night was fantastic: apple pie, a lot of dancing, and great face to face time with people I very much wanted to see. Only a few moments of heartbreak in the otherwise Very Fun Time.

We also did a good job yesterday with the yard sale, selling two couches, a bed, a trampoline, a chair or two, and a lot of books. Hopefully we’ll sell a few more books today, but it looks like we’ll be missing the early morning crowd.

I saw Ian’s comment and just wanted to say that when I first read The Diamond Age, it totally changed the way I thought. The idea of such a complete work of art is so seductive, and part of the reason that I’m going to school for architecture is my hopes that I can build something half as interesting as the Primer. Also, just to note that what Stevenson describes with the new computer system is the exact way that bit-torrents work, and that the drummers really bring a new meaning to the term collective unconscious. It was sad to finish the book so quickly, but I think it’s one of the few books that I have that I read again and again – I should start keeping track, but I’d say that’s at least the third time I’ve read it.

In other media, the movies just keep getting better. I walked out of Little Miss Sunshine thinking that it trumped all of the movies I saw in Florida; I walked out of Half Nelson thinking that it trumped Little Miss Sunshine. I think Half Nelson hit home for me in part because Ryan Gosling reminded me so much of Mike Levin, one of my favorite teachers in high school (although that in no way implies that Mike was a heavy drug user). I agree with the critics that both Gosling and Shareeka Epps were excellent. As always, more thoughts on both of those films, but I think that, in fact, writing about movies isn’t my strong suit, so I’m going to bow gracefully out of that pursuit.

I am going to do something which I’ve never done before, however, and that’s point you, dear reader, to an interesting piece of news. This article was brought to my attention by Degs. No surprise, really, but fun to see something that we in the game already knew to be true. I wonder if this will lead to a whole new kind of rankings game in which colleges try to support their Frisbee teams in order to boost their appearance to the populous…worse things could happen.

So, I made it to Vermont, enjoyed my very chill time in Massachusetts, and I’ll probably write up a little summary at some point, with a big influx of pictures on Flickr since I won’t be uploading anything else till then. Right now I feel like I have so much to do here, so many people to see and spend time with, that I’m really regretting that time is short here. But, I’m hoping that the short time will bring major intensity.

Speaking of which, I’m now really excited to go back to school in the fall. Yay, that was the idea of going away for vacation, and it worked!