magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

for part of the afternoon stef and i sat on a bench in india point park, near the water, with breezes blowing in off the bay. it was nice. probably the nicest part of the weekend for me. a beautiful day and holding hands and talking.

stef left about five. went shopping with the boys and we had another crazy sushi night. thirteen people, and all of them eating this time (except for chris.k who was just hovering in the periphery for whatever reasons of this own). but was less nerve-wracking than some of the previous larger nights. maybe in part because i'm no longer exactly a host (even if i still participate in buying and preparing food and cleaning up) and maybe because it wasn't a big group of people who all knew each other but whom i didn't really know, but instead smaller groups with some amount of fluidity and also unfamiliarity between them.

voicemail from nikki when i got home. all the way from hong kong. and i've been kind of looking for people to talk to recently so it's a shame she missed me.