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I went out last night! I socialised!

I also heard a poem by David Kirby performed from memory. And it's much better hearing it spoken aloud with appropriate comedic timing, but it's still a damn fine poem to read. So here is my offering to all of you who couldn't be at the awesome party I went to last night.

The Afterlife
by David Kirby

Shots and drafts? Ken would ask, and I'd say,
Shots and drafts, and off we'd go
to some bar on Greenmount Street for jiggers
of cheap whiskey and ten-ounce brews,
fresh from the tap, or just the beer itself:
most days we had to get up early
and prepare for class or at least shuffle
our note cards so that when our advisors asked,
How's the dissertation coming?
we could say, Fine, I was just working on it,

and while a few beers never interfered with
our scholarly activities, such as they were,
there is something about cheap whiskey
that makes you want to throw furniture
through the window after a while --
which we never did, although fighting,
that impulse can be just as exhausting --
( so we'd usually save the shots for an occasion... )

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I have made THREE ATTEMPTS at dinner tonight and all have failed.

Admittedly the first attempt at dinner was some candy that a coworker brought back from China; I imagine dragon's beard tea cakes are an acquired taste, but it was a bit like chewing on finely-ground styrofoam sprayed with flowery perfume.

So I thought, I have some spicy shrimp steamed buns I bought from Trader Joe's in the freezer, I'll make those! Which was fine until I took them out of the microwave and smelled them. They smelled like raw shrimp, which is not the most appetising of scents, but I thought perhaps that was just a quirk and bit into one.

I think possibly the shrimp that went into mine didn't get cooked? At any rate I couldn't finish chewing the first bite, so into the trash those went.

Then I opened a tupperware tub of meatballs I had in the fridge, the last substantial food that was defrosted, and found mold on the top.

OKAY FATE I GET IT I WILL ORDER SOME SUSHI.