listography: autobio (events + highlights, 2017)

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autobio (events + highlights, 2017)

JANUARY

1 | purchased lifetime membership for Worts + Cunning
8 | Book of Mormon
14 | Steve and I got married; had an upsetting evening out with friends that ended safely and okay-ish
16 | recv'd e-mail from Northwestern, requesting on-site interview
21 | women's march 2017 (houston, TX)
30 | final date at Uchi's

FEBRUARY

1 | rejecton letter from UT Austin
4 | valentine's day → bill murray day; watched groundhog day (1993)
23 | fly to chicago; welcome reception for graduate students in hotel
24 | faculty interviews! (did well);
25 | mom's birthday; chicago cultural museum; late-night meet-and-greet graduate student party at tommy's
26 | flew back from chicago to houston; long happy talk with Marcos @ chicago airport

MARCH

1 | date night ▸ kenny & ziggy's; shared huge chicken pot pie w/ bae, with egg creams and bowls and bowls and bowls of pickles
8 | accepted into U. Chicago's graduated school
9 | oficially accepted into Northwestern's graduate school
10 | "family reunion" = unasked for wedding reception two months after our wedding; cousin's night out w/ bae, ariel, eric, nikki, dom, & renee
11 | fluor's pin party; most awkward dinner of my life
14 | pi day
20 | first day of spring
25 | surprise all-day date w/ bae; magick cauldron + date at aladdin's
26 | museum date
31 | realized that the Star is missing from Wooden Tarot, despair

APRIL

2 | first day planning ACNL ever (never looked back)
8 | cassie's birthday
22 | earth day; grand opening of Evelyn Park
23 | date at the Health Museum ▸ Body Worlds!; lunch/dinner date at Perry's (legendary sausage + mustard obsession starts here); fucking finished Elantris at long freaking last
26 | holley's seafood restaurant and oyster bar ▸ found _whiskey i can distinguish and enjoy a loooot
29 | TAP fest in Dallas w/ cava, mickey, cassiee, miranda, and bae
30 | finished Simone de Beauvoir's a Very Easy Death (1964)

MAY

2 | put in 3.5 weeks at work; briefly obsessed with (Everyday the Same Dream) [
5 | may day; surprise doughnuts ▸ kind of awful
8 | started writing/using livejournal again
16 | 2 dope queens entered my life and is here to stay
17 | (birthday); went to Real for surprise dinner date ▸ had borscht for the first time; pickled cumquatz; hanger steak + "the trudeau" (cocktail); laura kipnis sued for defamation in light of her recent book release
19 | finished gravity falls & wanted to cry about it
23 | int'l turtle day ▸ adopted a turtle in cava's name!
31 | last day of work

JUNE

2 | cousin's night out w/ nikki, bae, ariel, and eric ▸ ginger mule, talking shit, midnight run to Whataburger
7 | date night @ home ▸ bae recreated sausage + mustard delicious dinner from Perry's date
9 | flew out to Toronto!; Steve lost his wedding ring; met Steve's uncle Paul and aunt Tammy + surprise dim sum lunch; Toronto traffic fucking sucks; forgot phone in uber driver's car; explored plaza behind our glorious hotel; secret basement asian grocery store, got shit tons of snacks; eating lukewarm sushi dinner in the dark by the window in hotel, watching the sunset
10 | slept in and missed breakfast, but bae brought coffee back for me; Dom & Renee's wedding!; drove around toronto all fucking afternoon, finally settled on bar, got a fucking sunburn in fucking Canada??; found Steve's wedding ring in my purse! much rejoicing!; wedding reception for Dom & Renee in the evening; steve and i got into a big fight, cleared the air a little; asked a girl to dance with me, literally got rejected because she wanted to be with her mom all night???; dancing like fucking crazy on the dance floor, eventually joined by bae (surprisingly and amazingly romantic)
11 | got my phone back!; visited great grandpa Siu's reserved spot w/ his ashes, paid respects; lunch @ apparently famous hotdog stand; aunt Gigi gave me & nikki two (2) novelty cat pens + a kitty-cat ring dish each, kind of in love with it; cousin's day date out w/ ariel, eric, nikki, whirley, dom, renee, and bae ▸ muji, h&m (white paaaaaants, dark heather gray leggings), worst bar service ever, & steve felt sick as shit (got a MindFuck (shot) and beer, paid, and fucking left), we left everybody at the bar and hid ourselves away in a well-hidden upstairs gaming cafe, played mario+luigi themed connect-4 (the guy there who gave us coffee was super soft spoken w/ a shock of brown hair, very british and nervous); bizarre $ grotesque big ol' family dinner at lobster house, so much seafood
12 | visited uncle Frank and aunt Sue & G²; met my uncle Andrew (a.k.a. "crazy Kaofu"); inadvertently learned everything about family history of mental illness, omg
13 | flight: Toronto ▸ back home to Houston!; surprise hang-out date with poor, tired Cava
16 | Bloomsday; hang-out date w/ Cava!
21 | drove to San Antonio! (sans bae)
22 | cassiee arrived from Dallas!; margaritas with cassie @ chuy's (i take too damn long to drink margaritas apparently)
23 | steve joins us in san antonio!
24 | quiet weekend all around; played Elder Sign ▸ totally destroyed by the Elder Gods, fun, in vain
25 | return to Houston; cats traumatized
27 | Steve confirmed & scheduled in-person interview in Chicago

JULY

1 | surprise date night @ cafe rabelais, hella romantic and affectionate; wrote letters/cards to aunt Lois + my grandparents
2 | vladimir nabokov's deathiversary
4 | inadvertently discovered the Letter Writer's Alliance
6 | pick up cassiee from airport; chill, margaritas, hooray!
7 | parents arrive in Houston!!
8 | lunch w/ family + bae @ the hobbit cafe ▸ fake and weird tabouli, surprisingly delicious bot not-so-special house IPA
10 | wrote in a physical diary for the first time in over a year;
12 | steve leaves for chicago, is an anxious mess about apartment/condo tours in evanston; he finds dream condo; i go to papersource for the first time, not sure if i like it
13 | steve's interview @ noon; coffee date w/ Corby, hanging out and talking shit at Paper Co. Cafe; inadvertently make friends with a cool chica, Alex, who invites me to rando art exhibition that upcoming weekend; steve returns home @ approx. midnight;
15 | Martin Landau dies; go to art exhibition (see wilber force, get off that horse)
21 | suddenly become very invested in the bachelorette (2017) (cheering for: handsome peter)
20 | last dinner in the first fifth of One Fifth, w/ bae + Cava
25 | steve got new job offer from UOP.
26 | the human trumpster fire bans transgender people from the military;
28 | the 100th anniversary of the (the Negro Silent Parade)
29 | isaac visits! fun times eating Filipino food + Hay Merchant beer (Isaac is a beer-weenie)

AUGUST

1 | Lammas 2017; dinner w/ Isaac, who gave me Psy socks & a stupid T-shirt (& Rune Factory, really)
7 | first day of Tanabata; dinner w/ Cava and Megan
8 | created new ACNL villager: Mimsy
9 | int'l cat day; big fight over social justice re: Tracey and Ian; date night @ A'bouzy's
25 | Hurricane Harvey

SEPTEMBER

noooo furniture all month pretty much, wah

OCTOBER

28 | Tommy's Halloween party; watched the Shining, dressed as rabbit-blanket (Amelia was _Amelia Bedelia_)
31 | Halloween! went out to the Celtic Knot with Hyosik, Dan, Maria, Steve, and Wes!

NOVEMBER

11 | isaac is coming to visit! :)
22 | AC:PC released!! Tracey and Ian visit!
22 - 24 | Tracey and Ian visit!
23 | Chinese Thanksgiving!
27 | mom's semi-thyroidectomy

DECEMBER

2 | F2017 (i.e. Q1) classes end
4 | first years' Secret Santa exchange!
6 | mom's test results: no cancer! (sort of); we all probably have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism; sent application to be a part of the CITRL Mentors program!
7 | meeting w/ Masaya ▸ agreed to be advisor (!); picked out QP topic (!!); decided course scheduling for next semester (!!!)

jul 19 2017 ∞
jan 22 2018 +