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work to home: (outdoor-)door-to-door walk = 1 hour and 8 minutes [~3.7mi, rly?, which is an ~18min/mi]

Edit: Were I to take busses from Fields Corner to Harvard (so as to have cell phone signal the whole time) it would only take me little over an hour, depending on what time of day it is (ten minutes on the #19 to Warren St. & Quincy St. [which is *checks* ~1.8mi from Fields Corner, and I'm starting ~1mi from Fields Corner in the opposite direction], #28 to Dudley, #1 to Harvard).

I woke up after ~9hrs of night sleep (during which time I dreamed I was spending time with Laura Ruth, critiquing worship services I think), so this afternoon I took a nap, and my dreams included (1) my dad remembering better than me the "planning ahead" stuff I'd posted to my LJ , and (2) a conversation with some folks at HBS about which cases I had read.

I'm not quite like liz_marcs, but I've noticed that it's better for me to get out of the house and get some actual physical activity in my day.

The book group formerly hosted at Micah House is doing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance next, and I got an email on Friday suggesting we start this coming Friday. SOM/WEST has a copy, but they have limited hours. Today I looked at other local libraries to see if maybe I could just pick one up today. Medford didn't have any, and Arlington's copies were out/missing, but I decided to just walk to Arlington because I could. I took GoogleMaps' right-angle driving route (College Ave. to Broadway), which it said was 3.2mi. I did it in 52min. For the return, which would be more uphill, I took a more diagonal route (Broadway to Powder House -- via North -- to Curtis to College -- via Professor's Row) which also took me 52min (GMaps Pedometer says that route is ~2.9738mi vs. ~3.2035). It occurred to me now to tell it to give me Walking Directions. This gives me a 2.7mi route, though it's lots of side streets. It also tells me that will be 54min, so clearly I walk faster than average. Which surprises no one. (Interestingly, I hadn't wanted to go all the way to Somerville Main Branch, but GoogleMaps driving directions say it's 2.8mi from my house -- almost a half mile closer than Arlington.)

And having gotten home I didn't wanna do anything. /o\

My facebook status is: My mom just said "trufax :)" in an email reply to me. \o/

CAUMC-Meredith emailed me: "This made me think of you - despite the url, it's not porn."

Edit: Ari emailed me:

I totally namechecked you at Seers tonight.

Also, I bought Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition by Steve Harper for free at a yard sale for whichever one of us wants it. It looks like of interesting, but you're the one who !is Methodist.

My mom emailed me this morning:

Happy Birthday Beautiful!

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday, dear Elizabeth ,
Happy birthday to you!

Did we get a gift? Yes
Send a card? Yes
Bake a cake? Saturday

I think we got you covered :-)

Hope people are lovely to you today!
[if not, those mama bear claws will come out and git ‘em]

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Unsolicited, Greg wished me a happy birthday and gave me a hug.

Ben picked up chocolate coffee cake at the grocery store (in honor of the incoming doctoral students, I think). We each had 3 slices.

Rey the mail guy (37 tomorrow) gave me a hug. \o/

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I feel like I know very few people outside of my department, but the list of people I invited to lunch was actually really long -- except everyone had a summer class or a deadline or a doctor's appointment or was home sick or whatever, so that got deferred to next week. Sigh. (I was really kind of in the mood for Le's' peanut ginger tofu. Boo. I ended up having trail mix instead. I thought about getting Spangler stirfry and eating outside with a book, except I just couldn't bring myself to -- I dunno, I had spates of weird today. I came home and had leftover tofu stirfry and a banana, though, so I feel okay about my body.)

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All the cheap hair places in Davis close at like 6pm, so I decided fuck it and went to Salon Cu. Birthday present to myself, or something. Fixing last month's haircut.

I forgot how nice it can be to get my hair cut at a f'real salon. ("You have awesome hair," Lauren-the-stylist said.) And they style it so it looks way nicer than it ever will on my own -- so arguably I should have done it Saturday before our big party. Oh well.

I also feel really badass, 'cause coming home I was approaching the Boston Ave. intersection and it had a walk light and so I jogged across to make the light and I just kept jogging/running until I got home. I remember when I lived in Norwood I'd be walking somewhere and would get in the mood to run and I'd probably more like sprint for a block or two and then have to stop so I didn't die. So tonight I felt like, "Hey, this is what one is able to do after one has done the treadmill three times a week for months. \o/" (GoogleMaps Pedometer tells me the distance from the intersection to my house is ~0.488mi, so it's totally not wicked badass, and I was definitely breathing heavily by the end, but whatever.)

And wow, my whole mood was so improved by having happy hair.

And I laundered my winter sheets and put my spring sheets on my bed, and I washed dishes. And I got to talk to my bff, and it was substantive and easy and just good.

And my housemate read me a bunch of #1stdraftmovielines.

I heard fireworks around 9:30 and 9:50. I had forgotten that Somerville's fireworks were tonight until the hair stylist asked me if I was going. I suppose I could have gone for my birthday, but I am very okay with my decision to not go.

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Jeremy wished me "Happy "43 notifications from Facebook" day!" so of course I did up the stats:
facebook: 8 (plus Jeremy plus one early one from Alexis in Finland, and a facebook gift from another friend)
LJ: 3
email: 5 (not counting all the replies to my birthday lunch email that said things along the lines of "sorry I can't come to lunch, but have a happy birthday")
also: phonecall from my brother

Edit:
Following the posting of this (which was not a plea for more happy birthday wishes, I swear -- though I certainly will not reject them):
3 6 LJ comments, 3 LJ posts, 1 2 facebook Wall posts

L. called me as I was walking to Harvard T after work today. I stopped in at CVS to pick some stuff up and she was still talking when I got to the T station. I stood around for a bit and then opted to just walk home (it was nice out, and I wasn't in a rush). I was still on the law school campus when she hung up, but whatever. I forgot how long it takes to walk from Harvard to Porter, but I still got home at like quarter past six. [Edit: Gmaps Pedometer says it's about 3.84mi from my work to my house.]

Housemate and I were going to the same party tonight (Green Alcohol Party II at the house of Cate/Jason/Rachel/Ricky), so she drove me to and fro, which was nice since there's no efficient T route from where I live now to where the party was. (She has a Saturday morning meeting, so she warned me she wasn't gonna stay wicked late. In practice, this meant we were there from about 8:30-12:20.) I walked in and basically immediately got a big hug from Cate and sat down to catch up with her, and then I got to cuddle with Jason which was yay. [Edit: At one point, Rachel (who's legally blind) asked, "Jason, who's sitting in your lap? Not that it matters, I'm just curious." He answered, "Cate's friend Elizabeth," and she clapped and said, "Oh, Elizabeth, I've met you! Carry on!"] I've been to enough of their parties that a lot of the attendees feel familiar, and even though I didn't chat with people as much as I might have liked, I felt comfortable just being around people, as opposed to feeling all awkward and withdrawn like I sometimes do at parties when I'm not directly engaging with people, so that was nice. I think the cuddling was probably the best part, though. And I met people like eponis. And there was an extended Jonathan Coulton etc., um, performance I guess would be the word -- complete with Carolyn doing ASL for portions. [Edit: Oh, and I got to watch someone do a flaming shot.]

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"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
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"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." -Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

Five good things about today:
1. I got in to the office before 9am.
2. I didn't feel depressive, and I think my avoidance was just my normal level.
3. I got to have a nice long phone call with Ari. It's nice when we have long stretches of time so after we've done the catch-up stuff we can just enjoy each other's company and slip into any number of topics as we think of them.
4. I had yummy leftovers from church, so I didn't have to think about dinner.
5. Party! With cuddling!

Three things I did well today:
1. I did my requisite morning stuff and went to the ( gym )
2. I did PrintScreen magic.
3. I was proactive in getting something from Prof.B. before he went away for a week.

Two things I am looking forward to (doing [better]) tomorrow:
["anything that you're looking forward to, that means you're facing tomorrow with joy, not trepidation," as Ari says]
1. sleeping in (At one point this week I was seriously considering going to Temple Shalom Medford -- because nice people are nice, and also to ask the rabbi if he'd seen Kings -- but then I decided that sleep might be a better plan.)
2. Coriolanus with Cate

Current Music: "The Only Gay Eskimo" in my head

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