oh man, did i forget to tell you about our awesome july 4th/jessica’s birthday weekend? it was nonstop coolness. friday we hung at sarah’s folks’ place in the pool, did some barbequeing and beer pong (thanks to my portable table, natch) and even flip cup. then after it all we went and saw wall-e, which was wonderful. best pixar to date. that’s right, i said it (BITE me, toy story!).

saturday was the party for jessica at which we sang karaoke for almost four hours. not jessica and i, that would be exhausting. there were probably 15 or so people, and it was good times even if none of the pictures ever turn out when you’re trying to capture the passion with which your friends valiantly attempt to recreate the 80’s. we had some fantaaaaastic cupcakes from crumbs (the caramel apple one was ‘holy shit’ good), lots of tall bottles of hite, and she loved her gifts ($200 burke williams spa certificate from the gang, AND some nice new diamond earrings from yours truly. god, i’m a good boyfriend).

then we capped it off with a sunday trip out to mei long village for some heavenly dumplings and other chinese deliciousness. i’m not sure if they quite topped the ones we had in new york like jessica claimed they might, but i’ve never met a dumpling i didn’t like, and these were certainly way up there.

this week, just nerdin’ out. she’s off for a work trip (again, sigh), so i went over to spencer’s last night to watch the gotham knight batman anime dvd thing, which had its ups and downs. i think i might head out solo tonight to a reading at book soup with my favorite song-and-now-book writer, mr john ‘mountain goats’ darnielle. there are rumblings that on top of his 33 1/3 book on master of reality, he might be working on an actual novel now… fanboy jitters! if anyone else wants to come along tonight, it’s not too late…