tomorrow marks two years exactly since i met spencer. it seems incredible that it was two years ago already, but it was. this was when i was still working with clifford on byzantium (which closed a long time ago). i think cliff and i were coming from a byzantium meeting and decided to walk over to mother (which has also since closed) and check out contempt. we got to the club a bit early, so we stopped in at dizzy izzy’s bagels (also closed!) for a snack. spencer showed up with jean (amazing cool photography chick from fit) and since he knew cliff we all got introduced and everything. and then of course six months later i was working at a designer at the same company he’s a sys admin for and we were sharing his place in brooklyn, in which i still live. life is nutty like that. we’re going to dinner tomorrow night to be all nostalgic and stuff.

it’s also been almost a year since i met gundam - the seventeenth will be the exact day. we’d talked on irc for a while before that but i didn’t actually meet him till i went to sphere for the first time. i’ll be in seattle on the seventeenth this year, but the night i get back we’re also going out to celebrate.

the fall, specifically halloween, has always been much more of an occasion for me than january first. maybe it’s because i’m still thinking in school patterns, but i mark my years from october to september, and late fall is when i tend to think about the past twelve months and get all sentimental. new year’s itself, if i celebrate it at all, tends to be something of a letdown because it’s always struck me as sort of redundant. i feel like i’m celebrating a year that’s already a couple months old. not that i don’t like an excuse to go out or what have you, but it’s just not that big a deal. halloween is new year’s eve as far as i’m concerned.

i got another bouquet of mystery roses today - these are a vivid pink and i found them wrapped in tissue paper and tied to my front gate. no note. this isn’t the first time this has happened, so i think it’s probably time for me to comment on the fact that while i do love flowers (especially spray roses), i find the whole anonymous thing to be just the littlest bit creepy.

other than that, sort of an uneventful day. i hit the farmer’s market to get more greens for the iguana and picked up a teeny pumpkin pie for gundam, which i dropped off at his office and hung around for a while. i like the atmosphere at team5. everyone’s really friendly. i wasn’t feeling that great today (in fact, i’m about to go curl up with some vanilla ice cream and a handful of midol) so i didn’t stay too long, and since i had to go through the market again to get to the subway i got a bag of apples and a mushroom quiche to take home.

a couple little things before i forget: i bought invader-zim.net a couple weeks ago, on a whim, and although there’s not much there yet i’ve been having fun with its various alias possibilities. i can now be reached at gir@invader-zim.net as well as my other addresses. also, since villainous.org is finally being used by the ever-adorable gundam, you can also mail me at super@villainous.org. more randomness: check out a few photos from halloween right here.