The Memorial Day vacation couldn't squeeze a post out of me.  This past lonely weekend in the apartment didn't stir me to action.  Not even the fear of sleeping with a vengeful, fugitive spider under my bed last night was motivation enough to stay up and blog while waiting for the spider to reappear.  Today, the decease of our apartment Internet finally gave me the occasion to draft an offline summation of recent happenings.

Memorial Day weekend - Jed's birthday party was held at Arguello Park in San Carlos, so I came back from Saratoga on Sunday to attend.  The highlight was probably witnessing his Indian coworker try meat for the first time in his life.  I'm not sure if I'm happy that he has come to know the glorious wonders of meat, or if there's just some perverse pleasure in seeing somebody violate his principles.  Now I can understand why my friends got such a thrill out of hearing me swear.  It was good meat, so hopefully that coworker will consider continuing the carnivorous habit.  It got very cold very fast, so we later moved indoors.  We played smash and mafia, and at the very end, nerts.  Turns out a bunch of us were aching to play nerts, but were just hesitant to mention it thinking no one else knew how to play.  That was uber fun.

This past weekend, I went to SF with Impact people to volunteer at CityTeam.  We prepared bag lunches and distributed them at a residential hotel.  This was certainly no Plaza Hotel.  The residents were mostly low or no income people, many of which were handicapped.  Most people there eagerly accepted the lunches we brought; many of those not there were probably waiting for the meal distribution at the adjoining church.  It was an eye-opening experience.  The evening was spent in the worst possible way.  I napped for 2 hours, then played hours of Mega Man interspersed with a cumulative hour or so of GRE studying.  I ended up sleeping at 3am.

On Sunday, I went to CPC and heard yet another great sermon on giving.  "You can give w/o loving but you can't love w/o giving."  A prime example: For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son...Afterwards, I went to Junichi's for lunch consisting of soba and pot stickers.  When I got home, I had a massive headache.  I suspect it was due to sleep deprivation from the night before.  I tried numbing the pain with some sake, but I just ended up being red and itchy, all the while suffering from the massive headache.