December 18, 2005 22:58

I'm sitting on the floor at the departure gate, listening to The House of Love. I'm in a funny sort of mood, sort of reflective. I'm not sure whether it's the music or the fact that I am 50 minutes away from being on a flight back to New Zealand. But it is an odd sort of feeling.

A couple of things right off the bat: my psoriasis is acting up and Crazy Rebecca crashed on the couch last night. Both are related to alcohol. Heheh. Anyway, today is her birthday (happy birthday, Rebecca). Yesterday was Lea's birthday, and a bunch of us met up at the Local for drinks. I also was somewhat of a social butterfly, jumping around the place saying hi to people. Actually, last night was the first time I had seen Birmingham Gary for quite some time. I believe there were "going overseas" shots with Steve and Patrick. There were a good amount of cute girls at the Local. It's not really somewhere that I consider picking anyone up, but...

Friday night was a lot of fun. The drive home from Charlotte went well and then I spent the afternoon cleaning my apartment and paying bills and billing my client. And then I went to the Local (now that's a surprise). I played darts with Jamie (we lost) and with Tom (we also lost). Colleen gave me hassles for my misbehavior last weekend.

On Saturday I finished my Christmas shopping. I don't know that I'm completely happy with everything that I got, but this sure was an expensive Christmas. I'm quite pleased, and a little shocked, at the gifts I got myself for birthday and Christmas. I'm taking both back to NZ with me; in fact, I'm listening to the House of Love courtesy of one of those presents. I will try to record my trip using the other gift.

My flight leaves in 35 minutes and we haven't started boarding yet. That seems kind of odd. At least, I don't think we've started boarding yet. I could be wrong there. I lie - business class and rows 60 and higher are boarding. I'm in row 40, so I should think about milling around like everyone else.

I guess I'll leave it at that for now and update again when I'm settled in on the plane.

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