08 April 2004
All in all, I had a pretty damn good birthday.
First off, I lunched with my cousins at a yummy Chinese restaurant where we ordered my favorite steamed fish, beef with chili peppers, and garlic stir-fried bean sprouts--soooo good. And it turns out they picked up a cake for me as well! So I had Chinese bakery cake with fruit inside after they all sung happy birthday to me.
I was thinking that would probably be the extent of my celebration, with some more friends phoning in to wish me happy birthday (Laura and Arney both called around midnight :)), but boy was I wrong!
After ConWest, Chris and I were talking and I mentioned it was my birthday. He asked me what I was doing for it, and I shrugged. "Nothing, really. I already had lunch with my cousins."
"Still, you ought to do something. Someone ought to take you out or something," he said. He repeated this a little later on in the conversation, and I realized I did want to do something, damn it. I had, after all, been rifling through Zagat's the night before and my mind was filled with the thought of delicious, gourmet food in a beautiful atmosphere.
"I am going to go out to dinner. Are you coming?" I asked. He said he was free, so we arranged to call each other after my opera class. After class, I walk back to the dorm and ask Maliha if she wants to come with, and she says she's too busy cause she has a paper to do. Then I ask if she at least wants to go to Old Navy for a short while to shop, since they're having their 10 year anniversary. She refuses again, and I leave in a bit of a huff.
I end up going to Old Navy and the Container Store (oh the glory of organization!) with Chris and we walk around aimlessly, unable to decide where to eat because the responsibility of that decision was mine--and you know how indecisive I am. So at length, we actually eat at Dojo, a vegetarian-friendly Japanese restaurant near campus. Quite good for its price.
After that, I go back to the dorm and ask Maliha if she wants to watch the Bachelor with me and she again refuses, pleading too much work. I watch it in my room (yay for Marie's computer/tv) and she joins me an hour into it. Quite addictive television. A digression: what was up with the spy thing??? The spy girl he was walking with wore a strapless black dress and there were only two women who wore a strappy black dress. Maliha and I were sure it was the non-model one... ummm ABC you're either lying to us or.. lying to us.
Anyway, when that's over, she leaves and I lie there watching What Not to Wear when she bursts back in and says there's something really good on TV that I have to go over and watch. I, being lazy, say there's a tv right here. We go back and forth in that vein for a while until she mentions the Apprentice and I jump up and go with her. It turns out my friends on the floor were in her room waiting with Magnolia Bakery cupcakes (mmmmmm) and a banner and a present! The present was the Jeopardy book, which was too cool as I had been wanting to buy it. I love my friends!!!
Annnnnd! I got an A- on my Lit Interpretation paper that I thought would get a C!!!!!!!!!!! You have no idea what this means to me... I had been feeling awful because of the B's I was receiving on my papers because I felt it was a disappointment to the teacher, whom I like. So yay!
First off, I lunched with my cousins at a yummy Chinese restaurant where we ordered my favorite steamed fish, beef with chili peppers, and garlic stir-fried bean sprouts--soooo good. And it turns out they picked up a cake for me as well! So I had Chinese bakery cake with fruit inside after they all sung happy birthday to me.
I was thinking that would probably be the extent of my celebration, with some more friends phoning in to wish me happy birthday (Laura and Arney both called around midnight :)), but boy was I wrong!
After ConWest, Chris and I were talking and I mentioned it was my birthday. He asked me what I was doing for it, and I shrugged. "Nothing, really. I already had lunch with my cousins."
"Still, you ought to do something. Someone ought to take you out or something," he said. He repeated this a little later on in the conversation, and I realized I did want to do something, damn it. I had, after all, been rifling through Zagat's the night before and my mind was filled with the thought of delicious, gourmet food in a beautiful atmosphere.
"I am going to go out to dinner. Are you coming?" I asked. He said he was free, so we arranged to call each other after my opera class. After class, I walk back to the dorm and ask Maliha if she wants to come with, and she says she's too busy cause she has a paper to do. Then I ask if she at least wants to go to Old Navy for a short while to shop, since they're having their 10 year anniversary. She refuses again, and I leave in a bit of a huff.
I end up going to Old Navy and the Container Store (oh the glory of organization!) with Chris and we walk around aimlessly, unable to decide where to eat because the responsibility of that decision was mine--and you know how indecisive I am. So at length, we actually eat at Dojo, a vegetarian-friendly Japanese restaurant near campus. Quite good for its price.
After that, I go back to the dorm and ask Maliha if she wants to watch the Bachelor with me and she again refuses, pleading too much work. I watch it in my room (yay for Marie's computer/tv) and she joins me an hour into it. Quite addictive television. A digression: what was up with the spy thing??? The spy girl he was walking with wore a strapless black dress and there were only two women who wore a strappy black dress. Maliha and I were sure it was the non-model one... ummm ABC you're either lying to us or.. lying to us.
Anyway, when that's over, she leaves and I lie there watching What Not to Wear when she bursts back in and says there's something really good on TV that I have to go over and watch. I, being lazy, say there's a tv right here. We go back and forth in that vein for a while until she mentions the Apprentice and I jump up and go with her. It turns out my friends on the floor were in her room waiting with Magnolia Bakery cupcakes (mmmmmm) and a banner and a present! The present was the Jeopardy book, which was too cool as I had been wanting to buy it. I love my friends!!!
Annnnnd! I got an A- on my Lit Interpretation paper that I thought would get a C!!!!!!!!!!! You have no idea what this means to me... I had been feeling awful because of the B's I was receiving on my papers because I felt it was a disappointment to the teacher, whom I like. So yay!