last night as i drove back down to clear lake from grace and scott’s place, i noticed a bright orange glow on the horizon, and an enormous plume of black smoke that was visible even against the 2 a.m. night sky. something’s burning over by the ship channel. just another saturday night in smog city. lovely.
the bday party for liz was great fun though. i headed up there at 7:00, and next thing i knew it was 2 a.m.–seven hours passed in the blink of an eye! losing track of time is a good sign that i’m having fun. 🙂 we started out with one pot of cheese fondue with bread and fruits, and one pot of oil to cook meat and vegetables in. it was all really yummy; grace and scott, along with their assistants chrissy and james, did a great job preparing everything. (though why do i get the idea it was more grace and chrissy, with the boys watching football? hee hee.) the company was good too. grace and scott, james and chrissy, phil, anisha, liz and i were all back, the same group as last sunday night. and then i met some other cool people–bing, chris, katie, a british guy whose name i can’t remember (hugh?), and another woman whose name i can’t remember (amanda?). damn my memory!
anyway, the final new person was this guy named daniel who was very talkative, very gay, and very entertaining. i sat next to him for dinner and ended up talking to him the most. he’s from charleston, s.c., he went to rice, now works for equistar, and is a big soccer fan who actually got to go to japan and had two tickets for the world cup final. it’s really too bad that he is being transferred to chicago in a month or something, because it seemed like he’d be a fun person to spend time with.
so fondue was had, cake was served, chocolate fondue was enjoyed by all, and we finally cleared the table for a few hours of playing napoleon.
