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How I spent Valentine's Day.

I woke up. Made a good breakfast. Bagel with cream cheese, eggs, bacon, oatmeal, coffee sweetened with brown sugar and an orange.

Saw a friend's show.



Then I went home.

Then I went to a show at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater by The Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf. I liked it. I would like to work with them someday.

Then I went to Finnerty's just a few blocks away. They used to have a shot of whiskey and a PBR tall-boy for $6 but not anymore. I texted my friend Eric who I calculated was probably the only guy I seem to know right now that is not in a relationship. He was out with some other friends of ours celebrating a birthday. So I went there and hung out, played pool, watched the Olympics and drank Guinness.

This weekend I also painted my nails black and was wearing eyeliner.

About Time

So I'm finally writing a post to make good on my promise to update this blog and keep Alan entertained from thousands of miles away. Making Alan laugh was my only goal in high school because it made me laugh too. So with all the years I built up laughing with him I hope to break even with all the years I've been killing during my time in NYC.

So here is my State of Starr address: a year ago I quit my perm day job. I hated it. It was sucking the life out of me. I hated my boss and I hated myself. The only thing keeping me sane was the theatre I'm always doing. So I leaped out of that into two weeks of sweat inducing voluntary unemployment until some temp jobs, carpentry and lighting jobs started coming in. And somehow I survived in one of the worst economic times of this century. I lost weight. 30 lbs. Even with my moderate to heavy to drinking.

Losing my dad was the only thing that really took its toll on me. 61. Stroke. A man I'd only known 12 years...due to family history. Loss. But I'm getting to know my brothers better and that whole side of the family that I never met before. New aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and a new grandmother. Even a set of extended family I'm not related to...due to family history.

Everything is going to be ok.



I saw this at a museum in DC the last time I visited Cody and Jean.

And Alan, I'm going to be an uncle again. They are having a baby due in July-ish.

The State of Starr is good.

Only in Dreams...

Woke up this morning while sleeping hard. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of a dream, it makes it much harder to wake up, and makes me much more tired throughout the day. Today was one of those days.

The upside of this is that you usually remember what you were dreaming, because it's so fresh in your mind (although you usually don't get to know how the dream ends). This morning's episode featured my boss now...partner/owner of the arch firm I work for...interviewing none other than Starr himself, for a job at my firm. Don't remember much, but I remember just stressing over it when I saw my boss heading into the conference room with a pad of paper, smiling...and I thought to myself "wow, he must have the wrong impression if he thinks Starr is qualified for THIS job..." (no offense Starr...just not exactly your line of work). Not really sure why I cared one way or another, but I guess I was worried that some underqualified guy interviewing for a job as an architect...and wearing combat boots...would reflect poorly on me.

Oh well...hope you got the job, Starr.

Goin' Back to Cali

In the words of the great James Todd Smith... I'm goin' back to Cali. Ok so I've never been before, but I am going this week. It's an in-law family trip out there, and I'll be flying out with Erica Thursday night, then coming back "early" on Tuesday (she stays a full week until the next Thursday). We're hoping to do Disneyland for a day, definitely spend some time on the beach (staying 2 blocks away), and we'll see what else. We are staying in Carlsbad, CA, which is about 30 miles north of San Diego.
Now, to get my bag and SPF 300 sunscreen packed.

...she said... she liked... the o-cean.

a classic...reissued.

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i'm posting from gmail....i hope.

ok let's test this thingy out. apparently you can post to the blog from a "secret" email address, instead of having to log in and post from the dashboard, etc. i'm truly amazed how far we've come recently...although i'm still not sure what twitter is or why anyone would even want to participate. i also remember back to freshman year of college (94-95) when i used to carry around the email addresses of EVERYONE i knew that had email on a slip of paper about the size of a receipt. oh those were simpler times.

anyway, enough ramblin'....i'm off to study for arch test #8 (out of 9), but thought i'd try this feature out.

Safer: New York or Denver

I haven't compared statistics but does Denver have its own condom? And it's free!

Alan is married so he probably dosen't know the answer to this question. 

I know Overton doesn't have one but I wonder what it would look like. Alan, please design one on photoshop and we'll propose it to the city council.