it was my birthday this past weekend, and i had a really great time. first, ruth, annie, esther and i went to color me mine and painted some pottery...it was actually really fun. i suck at anything that has to do with painting and drawing, so mine came out looking like a kindergartener's watercolor, but everyone else had really nice designs. shoulda known better than to go with a bunch of artists. ;p i just picked up the finished products a coupla days ago, and they all came out really well. i even kinda like my kindergarten plate.

afterwards, we had dinner (yummy chinese food) at our house with a bunch of people from berkeley, mosaic, etc. susan park and annie had us do this ice-breaker that was pretty fun. we got into two teams and each person answered 13 questions and turned their papers in. we were then supposed to guess the identity of people from the opposite team by their answers. i was the "spokesperson" for our team, and i totally sucked! (for the record, roberto didn't really know what was going on and put down some funky answers that threw me off, as did ruth's definition of a relationship) anyways, i just really liked having people from almost every part of my life - people who have known me for 10+ years to 6 months - there celebrating together. and i don't think it was too awkward...it actually worked out pretty well, as far as i could tell.