I believe that apple pie should only ever be consumed warm. Preferably with ice cream. And if caramel sauce is available I’ll take a bit of that on top too. Alas, I’ve just got the pie, so I’m consuming that, mmmmmm.

Last night I had a spontaneous dinner with a new LJ aquaintance. We went to The Burren in Davis Square, someplace that I’d only been to for my first time under a week ago. This got me thinking that I need to start exploring the area again. There are lots of interesting places around me that I’ve heard of a number of times, yet never actually visited.

I’ve also been getting to know a number of new people lately (like last night). Which I think is good for me. I have a tendancy to be a bit of a hermit these days. I know I want to go out and do things, but seem to have problems getting the momentum to do them. Plus, one can never have too many friends, can they?

Oh, and The Burren is quite cool. It’s got a nice atmosphere, I could easily see slipping in for a bite now and then.

Sir Arnold Bax. “A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, “You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.”” [Quotes of the Day]

There’s just one thing I want LiveJournal to let me do. Put a little bit of javascript into my posts so that I can show how many comments there are for my posts when people look at them over on LJ. Bastards.

Last year I signed up for Thinkblank’s Secret Santa. The idea is simple. You sign up, leave a note about yourself, and leave a link to your wish list at Amazon. On December 10th you get the name of the person you are a Secret Santa for and purchase something inexpensive for them (around $10-15 I believe they say). It’s pretty cool. Last year I got a book (that’s about three books away from being read), and sent out a CD to someone else. It was pretty cool, so I’m doing it again this year. Hopefully with just as good results.

My apartment is too fucking dry. I just woke up and drank about four cups of water in thirty seconds. Feh.

Voltaire. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” [Quotes of the Day]

I just noticed searching isn’t working right. I’ll work on having that fixed in the next day or so.

Got a few things to post later today. Specificly some thoughts on shows I’m watching now.

Here’s some random thanks as I wake up this morning. There may be

more after I stuff myself with food:

I’m thankful that I finally have my own residency. I still find it

amazing how some of the best things in my life have just fallen into

my lap.

Thanks to everyone who blogs interesting stuff daily for me to read as

I look for work.

Thanks to Piro for MegaTokyo

for giving me something fun to read a few times a week.

I’m thankful for late night infomercials that keep me endlessly amused

when I can’t sleep late at night. I still wonder how those people do

it without just bursting out in laughter.

I’m thankful for my parents. Even as an adult they seem to go way out

of their way for me. I don’t know what I’d do without them.

I’m thankful for family in general. I’m getting to spend Thanksgiving

with my cousins, who I don’t get to see often enough despite their

living less than an hour away.

I’m thankful for my friends. Too many to mention individually for

fear of leaving anyone out.

I’m thankful for my life. I’m still struggling along, still alive,

despite everything going on.

While reading a post on my LJ friends page, I found myself thinking how similar this person’s experiences were to mine. And at the same time, ways in which I hadn’t become quite as much as an extrovert.

As I kid I was quite a loner. I had a few good friends over the years, but for the most part I was happy reading in my room, playing with legos, having adventures in the backyard. Growing older I always found myself just on the outside of things. I was shy, still am in a lot of ways. But I found that if I was a bit more outgoing I wouldn’t be sitting around at home feeling sorry for myself. There were other people out there with my same interests.

In the end I’m definitely more extroverted than I was, but I still have a lot of roots in the shy introverted world. In larger groups I’ll withdraw some. When I think about it, DJing has been the ultimate solution. I’m able to attract the attention of a whole room, be the center of attention, without having to interact with people as directly. Yet I can have just as much interaction in a way.

Even writing about this here is a bit of a stretch for me. But the post above resonated with me enough that I felt I needed to write something about it. It’s part of the neverending struggle for me.