in which i write about my life

because aparently somebody reads this

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:19:23 GMT

i'm still alive, i promise. i'm living in arlington va, working in fairfax for a government consulting firm, and trying to be a big girl. life is complicated, per usual.

i miss all the people i used to know. you all still out there??

i gave blood for the first time yesterday. very exciting.

what are you looking forward to?

i've moved

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:20:28 GMT

(sort of) to http://applesbananas.blogspot.com

updated often:)

le survey

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:37:52 GMT

1) Was 2006 a good year for you?
it went. it had its highlights and lowpoints. all in all, a success, i'd say. i learned a lot.

2) What was your favorite moment of the year?
wow. um. 4th floor slip-n-slide was up there. ruth's chris the first time. paychecks. germany kind of rocked. the bear falling out of a tree. meeting anthony at the airport multiple times. hot tubs. toasted owl with the girls. pants games. loooong walks in DC. perfect meals at eastern market. the tate modern in london. seeing the lost whale in london. ok, just london. amazing pasta salad. running the exorcist steps with the marines. fun folk music at lenna's in saratoga. bruce the bartender at toasted owl. i'll probably have to add more to this. if you have fun memories with me, add them:)

3) What was your least favorite moment of the year?
the late nights at work. drama. being lonely.

4) Where were you when 2006began?
at umbc with high school friends

5) Who were you with?
julie, katie, ray, abby, assorted boyfriends

6) Where will you be when 2006 ends?
umbc again, same basic folks, w/ anthony this time

7) Who will you be with when 2006 ends?
see above

8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2006?
nope

9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2006?
the same ones as usual: get my life together, lose weight, be happier. oh, and a couple others, like, get a job, and, find an apartment.

16) Did you make any new friends in 2006?
the wonderful chapin firstyears.... the DC roommates and coworkers

17) Who are your favorite new friends?
the girls nextdoor:)

18) What was your favorite month of 2006?
may was pretty great.

19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2006?
yup. germany and england.

20) How many different states did you travel to in 2006?
wow. um... maine, vermont, new hampshire, massachusetts, new york, connecticut, pennsylvania, new jersey, maryland, virginia, florida, arizona.... yes? yes.

21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2006?
nope

22) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
the abroad folks, while they were abroad. all the chapin seniors, lots of other people on and off

23) What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2006?
huh.... get back to me on that. better yet, what was your favorite movie?

24) What was your favorite song from 2006?
so many options. i really like the new beyonce song, for some reason. and pretty much everything by kt tungstall. and regina spektor's 'fidelity'. and annie lennox's 'why'

25) What was your favorite record from 2006?
i really dont know. maybe the paul mcartney one hanging on my wall.

26) How many concerts did you see in 2006?
mmm.... none last spring, i dont think... bare naked ladies this fall... is that really it? geez.

27) Did you have a favorite concert in 2006?
BNL. even if there were other concerts.

28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2006?
on a couple choice occassions, yes. namely, london. and the senior-wine-and-cheese w/ the red wine. and that night at lindsay's. oh, and my birthday. but it was my birthday!

29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2006?
probably more than ever before, if that counts for anything.

30) How many people did you sleep with in 2006?
thats awful personal. everybody who was there knows about it, i promise.

31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
oh definitely.

33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2006?
clearly i don't know they're lies yet.

34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2006?
probably. (i'm sorry.)

35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2006?
not maliciously.

36) How much money did you spend in 2006?
phew. a lot. but i was making so much! (and now its gone....)

37) What was your proudest moment of 2006?
hm. grades last semester were pretty cool. getting around london was fun. being in an almost-mature relationship gets points too, i think.

38) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2006?
oh god, when am i not embarassing?

39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2006 and change anything:
i'd write more down! (maybe now i have a resolution...)

40) What are your plans for 2007?
finish smith, graduate, get a job, get a place to live, stay sane and happy and all that jazz. and keep friends

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:20:01 GMT

my life has just not been that interesting.

i think that really limits my options.

Please?

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:30:22 GMT

Xmas Stocking

leave a gift for rubystone27

get your stocking

yes. that means you too.

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:26:20 GMT

its snowing!!

i need to get my camera fixed so i can take pictures.

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:59:19 GMT

i made the mistake of picking up "marley and me" while i was at the bookstore today, and breifly flipping through it.

i need a dog like whoa.

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:41:24 GMT

i just learned that the ACLU supports/works for/defends that crazy group of homophobes that protest at soldier's funerals saying that the soldier died because his country supports gay marriage.

the ACLU claims that its "client is the bill of rights" and that they have to defend these nut jobs' right to free speech.

oh i am livid.

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:38:09 GMT

i'm so confused. and i dont like getting in trouble. is today the day that everybody decides to play mean tricks on jill?

restaurant week part II

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:41:16 GMT

Kaz Sushi Bistro was excessively better than Butterfield 9. Not that it was amazing, but it was good. Heres .

Kaz in an attractive place, only slightly more upscale than your average neighborhood sushi joint, but with a polish that matches the fancy touches on the food. We were seated promptly (in the corner again... should I be taking a hint?) and provided with the costomary hot towels... these werent particularly hot, but its the thought that counts, I guess. The RW menu was tucked into the larger one, and offerred a choice of 8 or so appetizers (choose 1), 20 or so kinds of sushi and rolls (choose 5, max 3 rolls), and 3 desserts (choose 1). I had the mussels appetizer-- 4 large mussels, each cut in half to make for more bites, covered in pleasantly spicey sauce and baked, and served on a small salad with a peanutty dressing and sliced peppers. Very tasty. The mussels were pleasantly firm, the spice was well calculated, and the only unpleasnt part was the small pool of grease left in the bottom of each shell. Ah well.

Next up was the sushi- my choices included a flounder with ume shiso, a salmon with mango sauce, a crunchy shrimp roll, a spicy scallop roll, and the "DC roll" which included egg, eel, and cucumber and was covered in black sesame seeds. The rolls were relatively plain, but adequate- the scallop was the best, with tender buttery pieces of scallop and a subtley spice to it. The other two were fine, but not very exciting. The salmon was very much upstaged by its slightly-too-sweet mango puree, and I think the combination would have been better suited to sashimi, as the rice seemed to only get in the way of the creaminess of the fish and the fruit. The flounder was unremarkable, but the ume shiso (a small dab of sour-plum sauce) was intensely, wonderfully sour. To my taste, it would have been better served over cheesecake or ice cream-- or alone-- than with the mediocre fish. The sushi was not large, although no smaller than at any average sushi joint. Kaz's sushi is, generally, rather average.

Dessert, however, was wonderful. I had the green tea tiramisu, which was a substantial tower of mist-green, fluffy, lightly tea-flavored mousse sandwhiching a wafer of light cookie-ness.... roughly tiramisu-esq in texture, but delicious in its own right. It was plated over an amazing red bean paste drizzle, which tasted just like everything i remember loving in Japan. Overall, it was Japan on a plate, and that made me happy. All kinds of happy.

So Kaz, in summation: Average sushi, with fancy (and good!) sauces that would, to me, be better suited to just about anything but fish. The mussels were not particularly special, but very satisfying. And dessert was wonderful, but green tea and red bean are certainly not universally beloved tastes. Better than Butterfield 9, for sure. More gracious service, more reasonable portion sizes, more authentic atmosphere.

Zola is next.

what could bring me back after so long away?

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:51:24 GMT

clearly: food.

Restaurant: Butterfield 9.
Reservation Time: 8:15
Attire: Little Black Dress, rented from BR. It will be returned, I swear. But damn its a good dress.

So the ginger cookie was amazing.

Unfortunately it came with Anthony's dessert, there was only one, and I only got a bite. And that bite was really the only highlight of the meal.

We were excited about Butterfield 9, the first stop in our whirl-wind 3-restaurant tour of DC's Restaurant Week, an event in which over 150 of DC's top dining establishments (and a few which are merely striving toward said status) offer discounted, limited lunches and dinners. I'd read that B9 often served small portions, but that the food was good and hell, at $30.05 for a 3-course meal, who can complain?

I can.

We arrived a little early, in true Wilson/DeAngelo fashion, and waited a few minutes at the bar-- I'd left my ID at home on purpose, and I'm glad I did. Booze gets expensive. We were eventually seated, before our reservation time, at a little table in the corner of the upper part of the dining room, which is decorated a smidge too much like a classy Holiday Inn for my taste. But the waiter was effective, if not gracious, and the bread was adequate, if not warm or particularly interesting. (At one point later in the night we asked for more bread, and it came without the accompanying whipped butter… I was determined to eat it sans butter, but in the end I gave up—no grease, no flavor.)

Because its Restaurant Week, our options were fairly limited, but sounded appealing. I wish we hadn’t had to order all three courses at once, because my taste for dessert changed during the meal, but ce la vie.

The corn soup, billed as “Sweet Yellow Corn Soup: conch, bell pepper crème fraiche, chive” was barely luke-warm, and very light on the conch (one small piece curled in the center). It was pure, smooth, faint yellow corn puree, no chunks or interesting texture, and had a red pepper crème fraiche dabbed into the center that was actually very good- I could have eaten more of that. The flavor of the soup was fine, if very passively bland, but it lacked heat, both in terms of temperature and any kind of spice. It was no more refined than the boxed stuff I used to get at Whole Foods—and my variations on the boxed stuff were certainly better than this.

My entrée was a salmon and calamari concoction, described on the menu as “Seared Salmon and Calamari: ratatouille of vegetables, sauce poivrade, arugula.” Now, I don’t know for sure, but I’m pretty sure sauce poivrade is not supposed to taste like the congealed soy gunk that’s left in the bottom of 3-day old teriyaki chicken. Just a hunch. But that’s what this was—the ratatouille was overwhelmingly salty and bitter, and had a bit of a skin on it (refrigerated a day earlier, what?). (Wikipedia says poivrade is a pepper sauce, often used with venison…. Salmon is not venison. At all. Poor choice.) The salmon was under seasoned and overcooked, definitely no better than my mom’s worst experiments with the fish. I saw no arugula. The calamari, curled into 3 little ivory balls in the corner, was bland and chewy, although textured such that it sucked up much of the sauce. It seemed like an afterthought, and a sorry one at that. Anyway.

Dessert was a mango sorbet. By now I was wishing I had chosen the cheesecake, since I was still wicked hungry, and nobody likes a hungry Jill. The 3 small scoops (think melon-ball sized) of sorbet were tasty, very juicy, and topped with half a small strawberry, but certainly no more exciting than anything I’ve had at Ben & Jerry’s.

So, in conclusion, I could have made a very similar meal (possibly a better one) with Whole Foods boxed soup ($2.99/liter), my mom’s old salmon (free!), leftover Chinese (say, $0.50?) and a quick stop at B&J’s (maybe $2.00). That’s $5.50 total—a far cry from the “discounted” Restaurant Week price of $30.05.

Now, I’m not complaining. The experience was fun and dressing up is always good for laughs. But Kaz Sushi Bistro, you’d better come through tonight. Or at least serve up a damn fine ginger cookie.

in other news, work is good, i went camping, i have a pretzel in my head, all is well. how are you?

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:41:17 GMT

i know its been forever, and i'm sorry. a real update will happen.... sometime.

in the meantime, i'm at work, gonna be here for a while.... leave me love, make me smile?

Wed, 17 May 2006 00:42:19 GMT

mmmmhm. finals are done, i'm making good money with this reunion-working thing, and i got to serve lunch to president christ today. and eat what she ate, prepared splendidly by her private chef. who has my dream job. no kidding. in another life.

i dont know if i've announced it here yet or not, but i'm going to be living and working in georgetown (dc) this summer.... working at the mellman group, 31st and K, and living with abby at 33rd and M. if you are in the vicinity, you must come visit, especially around the end of july. much fun will be had.

other news: dana is back in the country. the US just got exponentialy cooler.

i'm back on my tattoo kick. its been over a year since my last 'mod,' as the cool kids say-- i think its time.

i drank a lot of diet coke today.

Wed, 10 May 2006 20:06:48 GMT

update:

seminar paper (essentially) done. if its not actually done i'm choosing not to care.

econ exam done. that class is so dead to me.

women's med has been done. and i like it that way.

english exam done. the gnome can, um do something vulgar that gnomes do. and he can forget about me putting effort into my english rewrite because i contend it was good the first time.

theory exam is still lurking in seelye somewhere, waiting to kick my ass. that should be fun. but by 11am tomorrow, or 4pm at the latest, i'm calling this one a wrap.

w00t.

Tue, 09 May 2006 00:23:53 GMT

theoretical finals schedule:

Tuesday: Econ Exam @ 9 (or at 2 if i bail)
Study for English Exam
Semi-study for Theory Exam

Wednesday: English Exam @ 2
Study for Theory Exam

Thursday: Theory Exam @ 2
Finish English Paper, turn in

Friday: Finish Seminar Paper, turn in
Mom arrives
Drink.

So far, so good. Primal scream in an hour and a half, seminar paper almost done, sanity (thus far) intact. Fingers crossed.

so bored at work

Fri, 05 May 2006 21:32:24 GMT

The age that you...
FELL IN LOVE- first thought i was in love? 16
LOST SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU - my grandfather when i was 9, i guess
DRANK ALCOHOL - 18, first semester here
GOT KISSED - 15, prom sophomore year (unless you count tristan in ireland-- then, 12)
WENT TO THE HOSPITAL - never for myself
GOT YOUR HEART BROKEN - its really always been more of a passive process
GOT ARRESTED - not yet!
BROKE A BONE - see above
GOT A JOB - well if space counts, then 14. if cty counts, 18. if only "real" jobs count-- then, um, never.
GOT CHEATED ON - never that i know of
CHEATED ON SOMEONE - like i'd admit it
GOT A BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND - well if david butler counts, 13. if i have to wait till ryan to make it legit, then 15.
RODE THE CITY BUS - i was probably riding buses in tokyo at 5
MET SOMEONE FAMOUS - i met madeline albright in DC last fall!! thats about as famous as i get, i think
GOT IN A CAR CRASH - nope. except the time i slid into the ditch by julies. it was snowing!!
DYED YOUR HAIR - mmm... 15?
RODE AN AIRPLANE - to japan, 5.
WENT TO ANOTHER STATE - as soon as my parents took me home from the hospital-- i was born in DE
HAD SEX - 19
GOT A TATTOO- pending
GOT PIERCED - 9, 14, 18, 19
SMOKED A CIG - cloves at 18, real cigarettes at 19.... blech
WENT TO DISNEYWORLD - 6, i think?

How many...
LONG TERM RELATIONSHIPS HAVE YOU BEEN IN - we're gonna go with 4
TIMES HAS YOUR HEART BEEN BROKEN/damaged - probably not enough
TIMES YOU HAVE PASSED OUT FROM DRINKING - never. except just from being legitimately tired.
PETS YOU HAVE - well fergus, at home
PEOPLE YOU HATE - hating takes too much energy
TIMES HAVE YOU GOT DUMPED - never yet.
TIMES HAVE YOU DUMPED SOMEONE - oy... um.... 3 times for serious?
TIMES YOU HAVE DENIED SOMEONE - i take what i can get.

Thu, 04 May 2006 20:34:08 GMT

women's medical issues: done

up next: paper for the goddamn gnome.

Tue, 02 May 2006 16:22:26 GMT

wicked hot commercial! and i promise, it wont pop out at your like that mean german car/drink commercial thing.

in other news: exactly 6 more classes, 30 pages, and 4 finals between me and senior year. w00t.

in my political theory class today, my prof (the estimable gary lehring) showed the 'hips dont lie' video, and the yahoo home-video version, to illustrate some point about neitzche. key quotes: "she couldnt have a better body, and i'm a gay man saying that!" "c'mon, get up and dance [while dancing]" and "no, i'll sign in... [while entering 'garygaryquitecontrary' as his login name to yahoo video]"

quite the morning already.

back to the grind...

edit: http://music.yahoo.com/ar-263793-videos--Shakira for the fans-only video-- it should be the first link in the list of videos that comes up

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:41:50 GMT

I do not have time to do

The Spoiled Meme

If you have over 40, you are spoiled.

(x) your own cell phone
( ) a television in your bedroom [dorm]
(x) an iPod [had]
( ) a photo printer
(x) your own phone line [a cell phone != my own line]
( ) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
(x) high-speed internet access (i.e., not dialup)
( ) a surround sound system in bedroom [close enough.. seven speakers]
( ) DVD player in bedroom (i'm not counting my laptop)
( ) at least a hundred DVDs
(x) your own bathroom (at home, yeah, ok)
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( ) your own in-house office
( ) a pool
( ) a guest house
( ) a game room
( ) a queen-size bed or larger
( ) a stocked bar
( ) a working dishwasher
(x) an icemaker
(x) a working washer and dryer
( ) more than 20 pairs of shoes
( ) at least ten things from a designer store (designer? what, like GAP?)
( ) expensive sunglasses
( ) framed original art (not lithographs or prints)
( ) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
( ) a multi-speed bike
( ) a gym membership
( ) large exercise equipment at home (our treadmill at home)
( ) your own set of golf clubs
( ) a pool table
( ) a tennis court
( ) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea
( ) your own pair of skis
(x) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
( ) a boat
( ) a jet ski
( ) a neighborhood committee membership
( ) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
( ) wealthy family members (i think we're it, really)
(x) two or more family cars [mom's and dad's .. I can use both]
(x) a walk-in closet or pantry (between my huge-ass closet here and my dad's fall-out shelter of food...)
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(x) a yard
(x) a hammock
( ) a personal trainer
(x) good credit
(x) expensive jewelry (depends on our defition... but i like to think so)
( ) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get
( ) at least $100 cash in your possession right now (right)
(x) more than two credit cards bearing your name (not counting gas cards or debit cards)
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( ) a stock portfolio [parents manage it for me.. long-term investments]
(x) a passport
( ) a horse
(x) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)
( ) private medical insurance
( ) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans

Do you:
( ) shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week
( ) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores
( ) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)
( ) go on weekend mini-vacations
( ) send dinners back with every flaw
( ) wear perfume or cologne (not body spray)
( ) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
( ) have a job but don't need the money
( ) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
( ) pay someone else to cook your meals
( ) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
( ) regularly pay someone else to drive you taxis
( ) expect a gift after you fight with your partner

Are you:
(x) an only child
( ) married/partnered to a wealthy person
( ) baffled/surprised when you don't get your way

Have you:
( ) been on a cruise
(x) traveled out of the country
( ) met a celebrity
(x) been to the Caribbean
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(x) been to Europe
(x) been to Hawaii
(x) been to New York
( ) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
( ) been to the Mall of America
( ) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
( ) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
( ) moved more than three times because you wanted to
( ) dined with local political figures
(x) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast

Did you:
( ) go to another country for your honeymoon
( ) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
( ) take riding or swimming lessons as a child (i didnt, andy)
( ) attend private school
( ) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you

24! ha! i'm not spoiled. see? told you.

. but i am interested in the results.

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:33:32 GMT

its april. its snowing. frickin' massachusetts.

scary shit

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:41:23 GMT

official science dude says we should release ebola to kill 90% of the world's population. look here.

ah!

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:27:33 GMT

i had (another) dream that my teeth (and my nosering) fell out. and i was home. with my parents and anthony. and at my mom's school. and he was studying german. and i had my orange bag. and i wanted to call my hairstylist to re-do my nose. and i think morgan may have been involved.

my teeth still hurt.

what does it mean?

(edit: 10:19 and my teeth still hurt.)

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:21:20 GMT

ok, ok, fine.

break was nice, less exciting than previous breaks but certainly just as good.

tuesday i took the train down to DC, after spending an hour or so at my dad's school observing the craziness that is 6th graders. seriously, they're insane. all of them. no lie. once i got down to DC, i found my way over to anthony's office, had lunch, got his key, and went back to his apartment, where i proceded to be the most domestic i've ever been-- doing laundry, cleaning the bathroom, the works. oh, and i fake-baked a pie. thats kind of like tanning, but with less risk of cancer (har-har). tuesday night was pancakes and sausage with our story-inducing maple syrup. excellent. and then gymming, where i ran into a guy from lake. go figure.

wednesday anthony dropped me off at the gym on his way to work, and then i came home and spent entirely too long getting ready for that dumb interview. it went well, i think, but i still highly doubt i'll get the internship b/c its just so competitive. but we'll see. afterward i got to wander around the mall and look like i belonged there... fantastic. except that my shoes are broken. ah well. then wednesday night was sushi (the cheap (but good) stuff) and then my triumphant return to the GSPM program-- i.e. going to class w/ anthony. good times. the mango helped.

thursday-- ah, thursday. a good run in the morning, with lots of scenery, then lunch up north w/ anthony's friend and subsequent driving all over the countryside. very pretty, very big, very expensive houses. after a shopping attempt that failed miserably, we gave up and went home, and then ventured back out for the best sushi i've ever had-- dana, i'm sure it doesnt beat yours, but it was damn good for state-side. and we ate at the sushi bar and i lov, ed every minute of it. went home, gorged ourselves on ben & jerrys, watched some movie, drank a lil', and that was thursday.

friday was lots of adventuring. we woke up late, had cheap fake mexican for lunch, and wandered off to old town, where i fell in love w/ anthony's little running store and he got some shoes. much needed. then, after menu-reading stroll around the block and a visit to a very cool old bookstore and an even cooler, older cemetary, we metro-ed it up to arlington cemetary, where we spent the rest of the day doing more wandering and avoiding school groups and planning our dinner. quick stop at whole foods (edit: harris teeter, silly), dinner, movies, and such was friday.

saturday they made me come home. i was not pleased. but! first we went to the cherry blossom festival, to scurry around like tourists and rent a paddle boat like little kids. on the way home a quick stop at whitemarsh proved productive, and then home and dinner, and running into the marvelous andy:).

and then i was back at smith. its going to be a crazy april, lots of stuff to do and i'll be gone for the whole week of the 17th, for that stupid model congress thing-- it better be good. or at least, the food better be good. ah well. spring is almost here, and i am happy, and gary lehring canceled class this morning, so i am even happier, and that is my story. :)

warning: crankiness ensues

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:07:48 GMT

ok, i'm done being home now, thanks. its not like its really that bad here, i'm just bored. and tired of my parents. my mom and i went to martins this morning (always an adventure) and ran into the grandmother of a very close high school friend, who told me that my friend is on spring break in miami... i think my mom fully understood the irony that she was allowed to go to miami for spring break (where she is no doubt drinking and doing all sorts of other crazy stuff.... and more power to her) while i was not allowed to go to miami for spring break, where i would have been hanging out with a very respectable family and having a quiet, relaxing week. ahhhh well. and then my dad.... oh man. i made dinner tonight... killer recipe-free mussles with asparagus and shitake mushrooms, ginger, garlic, chiles, all the good stuff, over soba-- it was phenomenal. but of course my dad didnt like it. aaand spent dinner listening to NPR and scowling. i think he firmly believes that his angsty liberal anger will change the world. not that i mind it-- i'm as angsty and as liberal as the next bleeding heart democrat. but at least i dont just sit around and bitch about it. over a damn fine dinner. arg. moving on. (but those were really good mussles.)

in other news, gymming feels amazing, the black eyed peas are driving me through solid workouts (if anybody has any other good workout music, please share, fergie is going to get old really fast) and i'm trying very hard to revamp my eating habits. after all, carla did tell me, "if you pull this again next year, i'll say, 'you're outta here'".... right.

DC on tuesday. thank goodness. peace and quiet and good company and WARMTH (our thermostat is set at 61F).

dentist tomorrow, then the mall for interview clothes shopping and socks for mom (because apparently i stole all of hers) and CVSing, then lunch in newark with mom and home to workout and read some and do laundry and pack and make myself respectable for the week.

sometimes i realize that my posts really sound like a 16 year old sophomore brat's. is that wrong?

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:27:16 GMT

such a good week:) its almost spring break, i'm pretty much academically done (well, almost... and i'm putting off studying for my english exam by doing this. ah well, livejournal is literary, right?), thus far i'm very very happy with my academic results, and i had fun company for the past few days. highlights involved chocolate chip ice cream, downtown shopping, big pizza, theoretical conversations, tour d'stop'n'shop (sushi!), the prototypical smithie, osaka, cake toppers, vermont, the worm hole, self-serve maple syrup, parking brake catastophes, cemetaries, trains, french fries, so much snow, burgers, getting so lost and not minding, drinkies, chicago... thats enough for now. but it was good.

i'm looking forward to going home, mostly so i can see fergus, and then hit DC. oooh i need to try on my dress pants tonight and see if i shopping trip is going to be in order.

i can run tomorrow!! ha! mono, kiss my ass. or not. (theres something funny there about mono being transmitted by kissing...)

i dont want to do any more work.