- theo - peanut butter and jelly truffles
- fremont in general
- chocolati - iced chai. and all of their baked goods. and perfect atmosphere for homework
- nana's - caprese melt, oklahoma chili, caesar salad, cornbread muffin
- the quad in the spring - this was more of a freshman year necessity. but it's still nice to lay out and put on air - sexy boy on the ipod
- honey court dim sum - everything. and the fact that they recognize me now and remember what i want and bring it to me without asking
- shun sushi - unagi hand rolls, ebi tempura, green tea ice cream
- the japanese garden at the arboretum - mara and i promising ourselves we wouldn't smoke, and then we got here and sat atop that one bench.... ;)
- the arboretum in the summer - under the influence of lysergic acid diethylamide, my world here looked like robin williams' from what dreams may come. beauty.
- golden gardens in the summer - playing volleyball and having alejandro ask me when i stopped after twenty minutes, "wow! out of shape?" fish and chips.
- ravenna park - those swings...
- elliott's on the pier - i'm not a picky eater, but i'm not big on oysters. this is the only place where i'll eat them. oh, and they have amazing lobster.
- thaiger room - swimming rama with chicken. i've graduated to three stars of spiciness :)
- the rusty pelican - they make a mean monterey scramble. plus whoever i come with and i are always the youngest party by about 30 years. love it
aaaand yes i realize that these are mainly restaurants, coffee shops, chocolate factories... i'm not kidding when i say i'm passionate about food!
that, and my first meal (besides soup. copious amounts of soup) as a sicky was shitty, shitty dim sum from castro street. for $14. for one person. ludicrous. it was almost enough to put me off of siu mai for good. almost.
so for those of you who'll be returning in the winter: take advantage of seattle. lord knows i'll be doing nothing but when i return in june.
cadiz has been hitting me in small doses. i get the acceptance e-mail, squeal, and relax. i go to the orientation meetings and discuss cultural norms, squeal, and relax. i get my housing assignment, squeal, and relax. i guess i'm just waiting for my brain to finally process: "you will be in spain for 5 months. not speaking english. making travel plans on your own. taking the eurail alone to visit katie and nichole. not communicating with everyone you know in the us on a regular basis. being a 5 minute walk from campus and a 2 minute walk from the beach. managing money and time and myself IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY FOR 5 MONTHS. taking all of my classes in spanish. on the semester system. pushing myself out of my current comfort zone into something that, well, most people don't even CONSIDER to be their next comfort zone."
i'm not nervous. yet. that's the strange thing. i'm just really ready for a change. i mean, THIS is my bff while i'm bedridden:
he gnaws on the screen door, so all of his front teeth are MIA. completely gone. and he broke both of his front legs, one of them twice, so it has a metal pole in it to prevent him from doing it again. and i don't know if you can see it in the photo, but his tail is crooked. because when we brought him to the hospital to get his legs fixed, they slammed the door to his recovery kennel on it. and broke it.
and it was fairly normal for him to run head-first into our (glass) sliding door when i was in seattle. i would be on the phone with my mother and would hear a bump, and then silence on the other line. "what just happened?" "ohhh, buddy hit the door. again."
plus she bought him a bright red raincoat made of the same reflective material that cyclists wear at night.
he is the epitome of chic and intelligence. i love him, i really do. you just can't really be embarrassed by anyone or anything when you have a dog like mine.
no but really i'm getting off of this. to go do something productive. like sleep more.
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