hah, made it to another birthday!
May 27th, 2006 by Lawrence David
i turned 23 on wednesday. i celebrated by taking my one final of the semester, which went surprisingly well. (i was pleased for two reasons: 1) i was able to put down a reasonable answer for each question; 2) my sense of academic apathy, first nurtured in senior year of undergrad, has finally blossomed this semester)
that afternoon, christina suggested that we should at least go out to dinner, to mark my getting older and the end of the school year. so we hastily put together some dinner plans, grabbed our neighbor jesse, and headed off to redbones – my favorite restaurant in these parts.
when we got there, i was surprised to see a bunch of friends i’ve made here at mit. apparently, over the past couple of days, christina and jesse had arranged for them to come and meet us for dinner. i was rather touched by christina and jesse’s effort, as well as by the fact that people even showed up. i’ve always considered myself to be shy and introverted; seeing a bunch of people take the time to come out for my birthday was really nice – it makes me feel much less socially incompetent.
given the good food and good company, dinner of course was fantastic.
afterwards, we meandered over to “the burren,” a nearby irish pub.
apparently, i had a bit too much to drink.
that last photo is my favorite. at first, since my recollection of the later stages of that night is a bit hazy, i thought jesse and i were doing some strange ninja/i-dream-of-genie dance. instead, i’ve been informed that we’re really flashing the gang symbol for “john f donnelly field,” the park we both live across from. the rest of the photos from that night made their way here.
one day, i’m going to be too grown-up for the whole drink-until-you-black-out bit. maybe by next birthday.
p.s. mom, if you’re reading this, don’t worry – stephanie will be fine next year in college. she’s already more mature than me.
