September 10, 2003

• Full and enjoyable day today.
  
  I got a massage (yay) in barter for a hard drive, which I went down to RePC (geek heaven) and bought, and then attempted to install in their computer (something I enjoy doing), which didn't work (sob), and then I read 'The Importance of Being Earnest' aloud with a friend, and then we watched '8 Mile,' which was better than I thought it would be, but only because it's fun to watch guys rhyme insults at each other.
  
  Just another day at the Shui house. I miss living there, but I don't miss being able to leave and be alone in my own place.
  
  I really want to move back to Ballard, though. Up there, in between the computer stuff and the 'Earnest' stuff, I went to Scooter's and got a burger. Scooter's is truly a burger stand, with a little tiny kitchen and an even tinier 'dining room,' to use the term loosely.
  
  It's in the sort of outskirts of Greater Downtown Ballard, across the street from the library. The Ballard liberal types show up and look guilty for enjoying not only meat, but deep fried potatoes. Oh, scandal! They're sitting next to the Ballard just-regular-folks, who dine guilt-free.
  
  These are the worlds I walk between....
  
  Anyway, Ballard has a certain middle/working class utility, and a certain bourgeois/hippie funk that blend together in good ways. I should move back.
  
  And that reminds me... I went through Fremont for the first time in a few months. The place looks like an open-air shopping mall now! Sigh.

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