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Today is Jack’s birthday. We celebrated with his school friends and co-workers this past weekend in Toronto. The restaurant was a modern Italian restaurant in Little Italy and they had fabulous pizzas! I never used to understand why gourmet pizzas were so important until I ate some. Shitty student pizza has nothing on it! The drinks they served were awesome too. Not only were they tasty they were well presented. Some had crazy long straws which were fun to drink out of (especially when you’re buzzed). If you have my and/or Jack on FB you can check out the pics there. So now I have to plan ahead and think about what I want to do for my 25th birthday next year. I want special drinks too. D;

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Hello everyone. I’m back! The trip was great, the weather wasn’t as bothersome as I had been warned about, and the jet lag is death. Ok, the last part is an exaggeration. I got back on Thursday and then spent the weekend with Jack rather than trying to recover from the trip. Tsk tsk to me. He just got his first place so I was helping him clean it up on Saturday. I think I’m more excited about it than he is, but I’m sure that once it sinks in he will be excited too. =P

We went for Korean BBQ over the weekend to Korean Grill House which offers an all you can eat menu. Can’t go wrong with that. We were seated next to three men who were enjoying their meat very much. I was baffled by their conversation though. I always thought the dialogue by men that was depicted on commercials advertising meat products was complete BS until I heard these men talk. It was the most stupid, senseless comments about the goodness of meat and grilling meat. One part went something like this:

Guy1: Meat is good
Guy2: Grilled meat is good
Guy3: Oh yes, grilled meat!
Guy1: Spice it up!
Guy2: Then it’s a totally different meal.
All: HAR HAR HAR
Guy3: Yeah, meat is good.
-and repeat-

Jack and I just looked at each other like we were scared that such stupidity was contagious. I remember at one point Jack and I started talking about computer challenged people and I shared some stories my cousin told me about his experiences working in the Dell call centre (in Bangalore). As we were poking fun at such people, especially people who type with two fingers, the men next to us grew quite silent and just stared at their meat. I wonder if they were computer challenged people. Haha, well the definately won’t be reading this if they are. LOL

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I don’t know if I’m going out of my mind because of this 20 page paper I have to write on the torture in Abu Ghraib, or because I’ve been living in my room for the past three days straight. Well…the two are obviously related. A pefect example of my temporary insanity. Seriously, this topic is very emotionally draining. It is sad to say, but I can’t wait until I’m done thinking about torture so that I can start on my 20 page research proposal. Yay =_=…WHY WON’T THIS TERM END?!!!

Anyway, I just needed to do something besides read about torture so I’m going to list things that I want.

1. This term to be OVER!
2. My legs to stop hurting from sitting and reading for the past three days.
3. More chocolate! Jack brought me chocolate the last time he was up and I finished them. Oh how I miss thee, Lindor chocolates. So deliciously smooth and creamy…yum. ^_^
4. A delicious glazed donut. Like the ones I had in Boston.
5. To finish watching Hana Kimi (Japanese version) with Noops.
6. To have better bangs. I think I will cut them myself this time. O_O!
7. Gotta think of a seventh thing since six is such an ugly number. Oh! Post-it notes that actually stick! Useless dollar store brand. >_>

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My family is coming up to Waterloo tomorrow so that we can all go out for lunch. I’m really looking forward to it. When I was growing up, my family didn’t do things like this. The only time we went out to eat was randomly to McDonald’s, and that was usually because we were travelling and got hungry. They are also going to take me to the mall so that I can refill my printer cartridge and order a dress for Jack’s and my engagement party. I was planning on doing this yesterday, but it was Buy Nothing Day and I was determined not to buy anything. I am very proud of myself, especially since I was craving a bag of cheese puffs at work. Saved myself $1. =P

Speaking of work, we had an incident with a suspicious man. He had approached a young woman at Starbucks while she was purchasing something (no! it’s buy nothing day!), and he kept asking her for her number. After refusing and leaving the store he followed her to our work place (which is the campus recital hall) where there was a concert. I was working the at the concession stand. Before the concert and during intermission he made his rounds to all the ushers (who were all young women) and asked them if they had a boyfriend. He did this to me as well, which I didn’t think much of at the time since the conversation started out like just a friendly conversation. I was then approached by one of the ushers who was trying to warn me about how he has been asking the other ushers about their personal life, to which I told her he did the same to me. He was then asked to leave, which he did, but since nobody escorted him out we didn’t know if he really left the campus.

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I don’t like peas. I don’t like the feeling of biting into them and having them explode in my mouth. It’s disgusting. And the taste isn’t very satisfying either. So I normally avoid eating peas and I suck it up when someone makes a dish with them in it. But today, I was attacked by peas. DAMN YOU PEAS!

I had just come back from grocery shopping (which killed my back) and decided to reorganize the freezer since there wasn’t any room for the things I bought. So I started moving things around and since my *bright* roommate does not tie up or close anything she uses in the freezer, her bag of frozen peas fell over and poured onto my like a sea of green goo. UGH! I don’t know what’s worse, the sight of peas in food or the sight of frozen peas EVERYWHERE around you. What a horrible experience. I was not happy to sweep it up.

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