Birthday

Today is my 27th birthday. Damn, right? 27 seems pretty old. But before I get to being all "what have I done with my life," let's put this into context: This is the fifth birthday that I've been sober, as I quit drinking when I was 22, right before my 23rd birthday (which sucked). I spent my 21st birthday going to the same bar I'd been to the night before with my roommate. No party. Because I was sort of a loser. 22nd birthday isn't memorable in any way. 23rd birthday was spent in a just-post-quitting-drinking fog. I was on probation and had violated my probation. I was sure that i was going to jail. I lived in Denver and didn't have any friends other than people I saw at the bars. I just sat at my house and was bummed out. I think my dad came up and took me out to dinner. My whole 23rd year and the preceeding 24th birthday kicked a fuckton of ass. I was back in Springsteen, sober, getting my shit together, and not a drunken or paralyzed-with-fear wreck. 25th bday was covered by Netanya, then my new friend in Fort Collins, now one of my very good friends. 26th birthday I was too busy studying for the final exams of a semester that i got straight As. And this bitthday is already so impossibly packed full of love and friends and plans (at 1:53pm) that I'm beside myself. I can't believe how good I have it in life compared to my 23rd birthday. So thanks a fucking shitload Fort Collins and all the friends I've met here. Thanks, family. Thanks, Alcoholics Anonymous. Thanks, all my other awesome as fuck friends on every awesome as fuck corner of this goddamned awesome as fuck planet. I don't fucking care how old I sound now. This birthday fucking rules!

Shit!

I'm moving to New York City on January 8th for three months. Then I'm going to Paris in April. I know. Rad, huh?
Meanwhile I have to graduate college and get out my grad school applications out to every school before I leave. I have to sell all this shit (including my beloved seizure bike, in all likelihood). I have to physically move all of my crap somewhere. And don't even get me STARTED on the "trying to make out with all these girls" thing. Horrible idea.

Here's a list of the important things that I have to do in the month of December:
Graduation Party
Where/when?
Invitations!
Doug Ide
Hegerts
Who else?
Who else?
Going Away Party
Invitations
DONE Talk to roommates/announce on bulletin board
DONE Stephen DJ?
Graduate School Applications
Transcripts
PPCC
Metro
CSU
Keep checking/expanding Excel spreadsheet
12-Pitt
15-Ohio State
15-Wisconson
everything else in early Jan
School!
Final draft Idaho Bike Law story
Another story for Literary journalism IS?!
5-Quiz Hist
9 – Presentation for Capstone
9 – Esse Essay
9 – Cuckoo’s Nest Essay
10-all docu worksheets due
11-all worksheets for Capstone due
10-docu worksheets due
17-Capstone Paper due
17-final draft fiction story
18-history essay
18-history test
18-Docu Final
!
Cap/Gown
Plane tickets:
New York – 1/08-3/25 or so
Paris – 3/28?-4/25?
Visa?
Passport current?