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Amul Kumar ([personal profile] amul) wrote2005-06-13 10:25 pm

Weirdness abounds

Cuddling as a form of entertainment? You don't say! Strangely, it turns out I am only separated by two degrees from the guys who started this.

http://www.chicagogallerynews.com





Friday, I hung out with Deedi Dearest and Blue Beard in alternating rounds. First, DD took me to a used book fair, then she left for dinner. BB was waiting for me at the local coffeehouse.

(tangent: it's strange, but every time I schedule time in the darkroom to make prints of Achingly Defiant, someone calls me)

We played frisbee in the rain on this big green lawn at Loyola. I've got a great picture from wandering around there on my cell phone, but I can't seem to upload it to flickr. see?

A Picture Share!

Then, DD appeared again and BB had to leave. We went to a coffeehouse and then strolled up and down the beach in Roger's Park. It was serene.

Saturday, instead of hoofing it all the way down to printer's row (when I'm trying to reduce the amount of stuff I own), I went to the Edgewater Art Fair, and met this guy I'd seen around here. Turns out he makes his own paper. I may be collaborating with him on a project, which really means just using his paper and Liquid Light to make prints.


[livejournal.com profile] laustinthedark was the only one who showed up for dinner, and he arrived late. While waiting outside, i ran into my next door neighbor, this strange guy who always (and I mean ALWAYS) interrupts his own thoughts. We chatted for a while.  None of my non-CGDSG friends came out, either. When [livejournal.com profile] grrremlinski's careful of people (including [livejournal.com profile] deladejavoo, [livejournal.com profile] happyelfling, and [livejournal.com profile] nemesisn72) did finally show up, we headed out to Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. That was really cool.



Afterwards, we hit Neo, where a bunch of other CGDSG folks bought me a giant metric butt load of drinks.
I was extremely trashed when I realized that the red head from last week (and November before that) is here. Again. She never goes out! We make a bit of small talk, she wishes me a happy birthday. I ask her if she's still smitten with the guy she talked about back in November. "No, we just broke up, actually." Oh. Then I should ask for your phone number. "Eh. Give me a month, I'm all bitter right now."

It's the hand that really makes this

(later, Thorn Chain says, "I like how you phrased that. It's like thinking out loud, and gives her a graceful way out if she's not interested." I was just drunk.)

When Neo ends, there's a giant pink lipstick kiss on my cheek, and I don't know how it got there.



Then we headed over to Clarke's and ate a bunch of food.



A few hours later, still mildly hung over, I went to my parent's, and spent the day rollerblading, checking out houses that my brother's thinking about buying, and then dinner at Tsukasa. Today, I went to my first day of classes at Columbia (color photography! for eight hours straight twice a week!). After class, I stopped by my brother's high rise and worked out in his gym.

I was going to spend tonight in the darkroom working on those prints I mentioned earlier, but now my brother wants to eat dinner together.

Hello, thirties.

Edit: Added photos

[identity profile] addiebrowneyes.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry that I forgot to call you yesterday, but happy belated birthday anyway!

*hugs*

[identity profile] ex-pathogen.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently, Berrianne and I look like we're about to make out.

[identity profile] amul.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Looks more to me like she just said something cunningly wicked and you're pouting.

[identity profile] ex-pathogen.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
I don't care what you say! My hair looked great. WHEE.

[identity profile] amul.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Your hair does, indeed, look superfine.

[identity profile] ex-pathogen.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
INDUSTRIAL SHARK FIN HEAD.

[identity profile] happyelfling.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know but that picture rocks.

The ones of me don't suck either. Well, in that last one, I look really... discolored. Sickly, even. Weird. But I like them.

[identity profile] amul.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, low-light coloration on that camera is a pain. I had to manually adjust the color balance, and I'm still not happy with it. Before you were all magenta and covered in haze.
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[identity profile] amul.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Miss you too.

[identity profile] retrodee.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!

[identity profile] retrodee.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Now all you need to do is come back to Pittsburgh to visit and for me to treat you to sushi.

[identity profile] amul.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be in Pgh for the last three or four days of June and possibly for July 4th.

[identity profile] retrodee.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Rock on! Perfect timing too, since I am going into the hospital on July 25th. So, I guess you are coming in around the first of July? Where are you crashing at?

[identity profile] amul.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably Joy Robinson's. I'm looking for crash space that'll help me get up at a decent hour and into the darkroom @ Filmmakers early in the morning. I've still got a bunch of pre-paid visits there that expire in September, so I want to be in there during working hours.

I'm going to Four Quarters for Gaian Mind (http://www.4qf.org) and then Origins the next weekend.

[identity profile] retrodee.livejournal.com 2005-06-14 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish I could help you. At this time I am "still" living with my mother and trying to re-coop from all of my illnesses and surgeries.


About 4qf.com, I've been there once. Not too shabby! So, send me your email address and I can give you my phone number for when you come in. Ciao

[identity profile] amul.livejournal.com 2005-06-17 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Based on my LJ username, and that my website is http://www.amul.biz/, it should be trivial for you to figure out my email address :)

Yes, I'm that ego-centric.