magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

dave and christian, et al, had a barbecue this evening. the word was that there would be one grill set aside just for vegetarian stuff, so that sounded good to me. stopped by the supermarket after work first anyway, to make sure there would be a few vegan things. bought some ears of corn and veggie burgers that i could actually eat.

there was a whole bunch of corn already, as it turned out, but more didn't hurt. they also had eggplant, someone's family recipe, douse it with a little olive oil and garlic salt and grill it. pretty good. and some not terribly exciting beer. but i had a pretty good meal out of it. and a pretty good time.

afterwards we headed over to zanetta's. she was having her first party in her new place (i think that she and alex.h will likely carry on the tradition from last year). and i didn't really get too into it. there were only a handful of people there whom i knew beyond the ones who were at the barbecue earlier. and a whole lot of people who i didn't know at all.

although apparently there are at least two girls at risd named carrie who have nose rings...

later, chris.k was wondering why people would want to leave a situation where they were having a good time and feeling comfortable, just to go somewhere else where they were going to feel isolated and out of place. and, as we were leaving, we did in fact see a group of people sitting outside that was more or less exactly the same group of people who had been at the barbecue a few hours earlier.

cybèle came and crashed on our couch. she hadn't had a particularly good time either.