Shams

He went to the desert in a party bus, with loud music and dancing for hours. It was really amazing for him. Sepehr was with him. He's not very interested in partying, felt aversion, he was suffering. It would be easier to go with the flow. It was Jinn valley (Wikipedia). He decided not to suffer because he was stuck, and just danced along and tried to join in. 

Mahdi's been avoiding the name Shams, and somehow they were calling him Shams on the trip. I asked him if he wanted to do it again, and he said he needs to wait a year. He wasn't into the bro culture of it, but he made the most of it. He wanted silence, but it was the opposite of silence. 

It snowed in Mashhad. It snowed last night in NYC too. I talked about the Super Bowl tonight, I'm not going to watch it. We talked about fireworks, 4th of July here, and he has Chaharshanbe Suri in Iran. I told him about Zozobra in Santa Fe. He watched Split (2016).

Mahdi says 2-3 times a month a family kills a daughter for having an affair and it really upsets him. He gets bored and looks on Instagram, but he's trying to break any addiction to social media. It really depresses him.

I told Mahdi that with my hispanic wife, they would party all night, and I liked to quit at midnight, so they called me Cinderfella. Mahdi liked that nickname for me.