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This week was pretty laid back compared to other weeks because due to Rosh Hashana, two of my classes were cancelled. Sweeeet. However, I've gotten super lazy and need to do work. Reading. Must. Do. That. Most of my time has been occupied with home of magnet-ing but I'm really close to being finished. Kind of. Yes. ...I can't speak in complete sentences, sorry. And "On Your Side" is coming out in 10 days! So it only took 14 months to get from the UK to here. Uh huh.

Even though there is a lot of tweaking to be done for hom, I consider myself pseudo-released from having to come up with any more design or information architecture thingies ("thingies" is the technical term). So what now? OTHER SITES! Nougart.net (which I used as a test site for textpattern) and this one. This site needs a redesign, don't you think? It hurts my eyes and has turned into a massive light blue sludge. I'm not sure what the redesign will be like, but it may involve a can of beans because that's what this site stands for. Indigestion.

I should update this thing more, eh? What the hell have I been up to? Food issues still run rampant, today being a very foodie day that broke my "one meal out a day at most" rule. I had TWO meals out. GASP! My food bill ran about $37 today, $20 spent on lunch at Serendipity 3. I have a photo of myself with the massive frozen hot chocolate...so massive. I was so happy. Just before I was out of breath and feeling slightly deathie.

Okay, rewind. The main point of the Serendipity going was to see Melanie and Jamie, two of my old friends from Taipei American School. If Karen had been there, our group from 7th grade would've been complete. :) One of Jamie's roommates and her roommate's friend were there as well. It was really cool seeing them again because even though I had only been to school with them for two years, seeing them again was like ...no time had passed between us. Except a lot of stuff has that I'm probably not aware of. I guess what's cool is that we haven't changed a whole lot since 7th grade. I have friends from back then who I probably wouldn't recognize today based on their personalities, or maybe what they look like. We're not all necessarily alike (I'm not sure we'd be friends if we met for the first time today) but we have weird memories and we're all comfortable with each other. And we're all Asian. I feel like 99% of my friends are Asian. Hmm.

There was massive raining going on this morning which resulted in crappy subway service. If I heard the loudspeak correctly while riding the 6 train, service between 42nd Street and 100-something Street was suspended due to flooding. Crap. I was already late for the predetermined 11:30 AM meeting time by 15 minutes when I got to 42nd Street and then I'd have to walk another 18 blocks, which took me way too long because I went in the wrong direction TWO times. Oh well, now I know that Madison Ave is west of Lexington. :\ I was pretty late by the time I got there (I absolutely hate being late or when other people are late!) so I felt crappy, but seeing old friends and indulging in a deathly frozen hot chocolate soothed my weary ...um, lungs (I got kinda wheezy).

Food at Serendipity is expensive. I got one of the cheapest things on the menu besides the drink (chili) but in the end I paid with a $20. The bill for the five of us was over $100 and I think we gave a nice tip. ;) Their food is only so-so though, so if I ever go there again I think I'll will go in the complete opposite direction of moderate intake of sweets and eat dessert and more massive frozen hot chocolate.

After fooding, we went to Jamie's apartment. Her family has an apartment in that area but don't live there most of the time. It's a very nice apartment too with a ridiculously fast elevator. We plopped around watching TV (I haven't done that in weeks) but with a bagillion channels, nothing good was on. That's kind of sad. We decided we HAD TO MOVE AROUND, so Melanie and I went to the NYU Bookstore and Jamie and her roommate went back to their dorm, then later met up at Korea Town (33rd Street).

I haven't eaten much Korean food in my life besides kim chee and jap chae (noodle thing that I don't digest very well, oh no!) so today for the first time I had bibimbap. Damn, that is good. Jamie and I got it (although I got the hot crock pot version) and we were eating it incorrectly at first. Jamie's friend said we were supposed to mixed everything and put in hot sauce but we hesitated and must've looked really odd because one of the waitresses came over asking if we were Korean. Obviously not Jamie or me, haha. She told us to mix it and stuff and...well, she kinda freaked us out, hovering above us as we ate our food, probably disgracing Korean culture (oops) so we mixed it and damn, that is yummy. And it's not like I knew mixing the rice was actually the name of the dish, haha. But honestly, I dunno if I should be obsessed with yet MORE FOOD, in fact, opening an entire cuisine to be ingested by my all too welcoming stomach. [pokes stomach]...it's been through a lot today.

After dinner we went to the Manhattan Mall where I actually BOUGHT CLOTHING, something I swore I wouldn't do until I lost weight (I've probably gained weight since I made that decision). I dropped about $60 on three skirts and three knee high socks, bringing my expendature for the day to about $100. Good lord. Oh yeah, using the subway 4 times tacks on some more...okay, I have to stop going out. I don't recall buying new skirts at all this year (maybe one?) so ...blah. Still. Consumerism. Wee. Oh yeah, clothing sizes are so screwed up. They must've decreased their sizes by three or four.

Now I am back in my lovely lonely room...well, not so bad with Sondre Lerche playing in the background (I've been listening to "Two Way Monologue" over and over again, it's super good as opposed to regular good).

So the rest of the week (previously) was good. Yesterday I met up with my roommate from Vassar, Kathryn, and we ate at Peanut Butter and Co. Yes, that place, AGAIN! At least I didn't go there two times this week, haha. It was nice to meet up and talk about how the Vassarites are doing. It was the first time Kathryn had seen me eat cooked food! ;) I felt like such a pig because she was too full to finish her sandwich, so I ate half of it (fluff and peanut butter) in addition to mine (peanut butter, orange marmalade, and almond slivers). Plus my peanut butter soy shake. Holy crap. And after that I still felt fine...fine enough to Beard Papa, which just opened yesterday. When I first passed by at around opening time, there was a line around the corner of Astor Place. I happened to pass by again later to meet up with Kathryn at the golden time of "sample pass out", which probably lasted a few minutes before the heaping plate of cream puff cut ups was gone. The cream puff was very good, but it's not something I'm likely to try again. I just wanted to try it once.

I had a chem lab yesterday morning involving using a bunsen burner and reading a graduated cylinder. If all labs are like that, I'll be set! I know they won't but I hope chemistry is fairly easy. The teacher said that half of us would probably do well enough on tests and labs that we wouldn't have to take the final.

Rest of the week...hm. Stuff happened. Nothing extremely news-worthy I suppose. Besides Magnet news. ;)