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These are the things I learned this four-day weekend by myself or from some other source besides Chris Fair:
Pyramids are really tall.
Pyramids seem taller than they actually are, because each step is two feet high and the air is thin.
Bimbo is a brand name of wheat.
Mexican sunburns don't hurt.
I cannot tolerate more than five minutes of heavy smoke at a time, no matter how much I want to hang out with people.
I have a high A at fff for 3 measures, without hurting.
There really are such things as shanty-towns on the edges of big cities.
Rabbit tastes a lot like chicken.
These are the things I learned from my new Life Advisor (known variously as Chris, Shtoevl or Shtobie (which means "naah" in Russian), Lurch, Big-Lipped Bitch, Oil Field Trash, and as I coined most recently, Dances-With-Salad-Tongs), directly or indirectly, whether he meant to teach me or not.
Sva is Russian for "with".
Do not give an expletive about what other people think about you, other than your mother and maybe a mentor or somebody.
Do what makes you happy and gets you money, for work, do something else that makes you happy, for a hobby.
It is very entertaining to watch drunk people, even if it may be more entertaining to be drunk.
It is extremely entertaining to watch a plastered 31-year-old chemical engineer tango with silverware and fly rolls around like airplanes.
Read everything you can, travel as much as possible, and learn languages until you can't.
Inhibitions are stupid.
I can stay up until 4:30 spectating at an inebriate party hosted by a nice drunk, three nights in a row, get up at 9ish and not be sleepy.
If a guy is truly, inherently clever, sensible, coherent, well-intentioned and friendly, he'll remain so even if he's had two bottles of tequila, six beers, and several Rum-and-Cokes.
Alcohol ruins even the best coffee, coke, orange juice, and anything else they made me try it in.
I am the only member of the Houston Symphony Chorus without a visible vice (he was jokingly trying to come up with one for me, after I rejected tobacco, drinking, drugs, and smoking, and he rejected as too soft coffee, bossiness and limes), but I will find one I like, not to worry.
Most people have asymmetrical feet.
Don't ever do anything you can't recover from.
The oxidation residue my copper jewelry makes is cupric oxide because it's greener than cuprous would be.
As ridiculous emotional attachments as I regularly make, this is stupid, stupid, stupid.
Pyramids are really tall.
Pyramids seem taller than they actually are, because each step is two feet high and the air is thin.
Bimbo is a brand name of wheat.
Mexican sunburns don't hurt.
I cannot tolerate more than five minutes of heavy smoke at a time, no matter how much I want to hang out with people.
I have a high A at fff for 3 measures, without hurting.
There really are such things as shanty-towns on the edges of big cities.
Rabbit tastes a lot like chicken.
These are the things I learned from my new Life Advisor (known variously as Chris, Shtoevl or Shtobie (which means "naah" in Russian), Lurch, Big-Lipped Bitch, Oil Field Trash, and as I coined most recently, Dances-With-Salad-Tongs), directly or indirectly, whether he meant to teach me or not.
Sva is Russian for "with".
Do not give an expletive about what other people think about you, other than your mother and maybe a mentor or somebody.
Do what makes you happy and gets you money, for work, do something else that makes you happy, for a hobby.
It is very entertaining to watch drunk people, even if it may be more entertaining to be drunk.
It is extremely entertaining to watch a plastered 31-year-old chemical engineer tango with silverware and fly rolls around like airplanes.
Read everything you can, travel as much as possible, and learn languages until you can't.
Inhibitions are stupid.
I can stay up until 4:30 spectating at an inebriate party hosted by a nice drunk, three nights in a row, get up at 9ish and not be sleepy.
If a guy is truly, inherently clever, sensible, coherent, well-intentioned and friendly, he'll remain so even if he's had two bottles of tequila, six beers, and several Rum-and-Cokes.
Alcohol ruins even the best coffee, coke, orange juice, and anything else they made me try it in.
I am the only member of the Houston Symphony Chorus without a visible vice (he was jokingly trying to come up with one for me, after I rejected tobacco, drinking, drugs, and smoking, and he rejected as too soft coffee, bossiness and limes), but I will find one I like, not to worry.
Most people have asymmetrical feet.
Don't ever do anything you can't recover from.
The oxidation residue my copper jewelry makes is cupric oxide because it's greener than cuprous would be.
As ridiculous emotional attachments as I regularly make, this is stupid, stupid, stupid.