What a night. It finished just now, with me writing this, but before that I went to a party. It was a regular UN over there. There was a couple, he fresh off the boat from Russia, she from two off the grid crazy parents, both studying for physics phDs. Then there was a Lybian lady, born in Austria, raised in England, and Ahmed, a black guy whose dad got into muslim religion and moved family from Los Angeles to Saudi Arabia to raise them. He is an architect.

Then there was a white guy who works on the water system who is teaching himself to bagpipe and his half asian girlfriend, who is at UCSF. Then a couple more arabs, one from new jersey, who I think was Egyptian originally and told me his father curses Israel every night. She was from Austria, but I think originally Lebanese.

Anyway, without going through the whole cast, it was quite a crowd. Apart from the zionist bashing, I think it was an interesting crowd. As part of my efforts to be open minded I didn't say a peep when it turned out the half german half lebanese woman had put beef broth in the noodles that were specifically supposed to be vegetarian. I think that was a cultural difference, not a deliberate attempt to mix the meat broth with the cheese and thereby violate both kosher rules and vegetarians.

Before that, I ran into Mike who suggested I climb Mount Shasta with him. It sounds sort of interesting, though the last six hours of the climb are on ice and you have to do it with an axe and crampons, and that sounds a little rough to me. But maybe.

Before that, I went and looked at a house, which was quite nice, though I had the unpleasant experience of seeing another guy who was looking at the house coming out of the bathroom, before discovering he had made a number 2 in it. I don't think that is appropriate behavior. If you ask me.

Before that, me and my honey took a stroll down to the water, where I attempted, unsuccessfully to do some chin ups. There was a kind of homeless looking guy doing endless sit ups. He was wearing overalls with no shirt on, like a farmer might. He was very skinny.

To jump back to yesterday, I got an odd, debilitating affliction. I'm not sure what it was, I never had anything like it. Kind of like a migraine I guess. I was just sitting, working at the computer and I started to get a headache. And it got really intensely painful really fast. And I got feverish and chills and nausea. So I took some asprin and got into bed. And the headache was searing for about an hour and I got all sweaty. Then it all just passed and about three hours later I felt fine again. Quite odd.

My affliction might be related to being dehydrated, which I may or may not have been from my various exertions earlier in the day. But I don't think so. I think I got some kind of poisoning.