Support

I’ve been losing the support game for three straight days now, and it’s starting to piss me off. Thus, I shall now blow half an hour on LJ.

My sister is coming into town today to interview at Boston U.. I plan to meet her after the interview tomorrow and bring her back to Providence for Sushi and conversation. It’s such a trip to see how independent and successful both of my siblings are becoming. They’re both significantly younger than me, so it’s taken a while.

Going to see another concert in the Boston Early Music Festival series on Sat. This one is the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra performing Rameau and Vivaldi. Good to get a little culture from time to time. Plus, it’s at a church near Harvard Square … and there’s some sort of elevated and intellectual pre-concert lecture beforehand. I’m psyched. Been buried in stoopid filesystem stuff for long enough that to be really, really appealing.

It also occurred to me that Valentines Day is coming right up on us. If that matters to you, or to your significant whatsit … it’s a decent idea to not forget. If you hate it, or it irritates you, I encourage you to put it from your mind. Dan Savage of the Savage Love advice column has some nice thoughts on it. Namely:

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine’s Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

–UPDATE–: Forgot to mention, my sound canceling headphones rock. They have two volume knobs. One turns the music up, the other turns the outside world down. Plus, the bass is perfectly balanced and punchy all the way down to the bottom of the Underworld Evolution soundtrack.