With only Elbow Room, we celebrated Justin\’s birthday yesterday night. It\’s amazing how birthdays take so much precedence here. I have never experienced so many \”surprises\” as I have at CMU. Last year, it was all about remembering your own. People were so disconnected in Berkeley. There was this self-absorbed tendency to get caught up in your own work, your own life, your own issues…that you often forget to open up yourself to others, forget to share.

I can say that I left that on purpose.

This weekend, I am planning to do the 6 lb burger (maybe?), live music at the Quiet Storm Cafe, and my own self-created ice cream tour.

My new music fascination is the Scissor Sisters. Such great gay disco of New York. I first saw them on SNL, but discovered them again as I was browsing the iTunes shared playlists. Favorite song so far: \”It can\’t come quickly enough\”