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Life it up on the east side · Aug 10, 02:34 PM

I’ve been in my new studio for a week now. I have no furniture, no dishes, no microwave, no pots. I do have internet, a computer on a computer desk made from a couple sturdy boxes, a hiking mattress to sleep on, a ceiling fan to keep me cool, shade and northerly exposure to keep the apartment from heating up terribly, and suitcases that I live out of. It’s great.

I’m flying to Reno on August 21. That’s a Thursday. I’m going to rent a car and a hotel room through Sunday while I buy groceries, sunscreen, water, and other necessities of burning man, i.e. alcohol. A friend is taking my gear out to the playa on Sunday, and I’ll follow in a random rideshare on Monday. Right now I’m at Reflections on Wickenden St. “planning for burning man”, which covers such diverse activities as filing email into folders, building up the final todo lists, talking to mom on the phone to find out dad has been losing weight all summer in other good news, and still thinking about whether I should get an American futon or a Japanese futon for my place, of maybe I should just get a nicer hiking mattress and sleep on that for now.

Twice now I’ve seen The Dark Knight. First on my own, in a dark mood, with dark chocolate, on a rainy Sunday. And then with a group of guys in an IMAX theater. Liked it better the second time around, and pretty sure that It would not hold up for a third in-theaters sit-through. Both times I walked out somewhat incoherent, surrounding by slow crowds of movie-theater-exiters who were all cleverly acting like normal people. It’s amazing what momentum of cultural norms of behavior will do to keep society going about its business.

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