11 April 2004
I did end up playing tennis yesterday--oh yeah. I was quite rusty, having not played for oh, almost a year, but Michael (my coworker) said I had a fierce backhand. I always did like my backhand... In any case, I am horribly stiff and sore today, but it felt so damn good to play again and to hit those impossible to return shots!
Afterwards, we hit up a vegetarian restaurant that is now my new favorite--Red Bamboo. The "shrimp" and "chicken" there tasted amazingly like the real thing. I am sooo going there again. Let me try to remember what we ordered.. Creole Chicken, Cajun Shrimp, Caribbean Jerk, and Thai Veggie Rolls. Four appetizers filled me right up to the brim.
Then--and this is just too cool for school--he has a car! So I got to see lots of Manhattan again, but this time without the aching feet and crazy homeless people. Gosh, have I missed being in a car... We drove around for hours I think, then decided we needed some drinks. So he introduced me to another really tasty-looking restaurant, Galaxy something, and I got Oriental Spice tea which was surprisingly good.
This was near Union Square, so we walked around there for a bit. And then he told me that his friend works at the W there and could get a room for $50. I, of course, was speechless. Well, not quite. More like really really excited and squealy. I told Marie about it after I got back and we have resolved to try and get one for the end of school.
Oh dear, and we were supposed to go to Ikea today because there's a free bus (!!!!!!which Marie did not tell me about until yesterday, oh so casually, and I went crazy) but then Maliha reminded us it was Easter Sunday, so now we are tres sad. I probably ought to do some homework, anyway.
Afterwards, we hit up a vegetarian restaurant that is now my new favorite--Red Bamboo. The "shrimp" and "chicken" there tasted amazingly like the real thing. I am sooo going there again. Let me try to remember what we ordered.. Creole Chicken, Cajun Shrimp, Caribbean Jerk, and Thai Veggie Rolls. Four appetizers filled me right up to the brim.
Then--and this is just too cool for school--he has a car! So I got to see lots of Manhattan again, but this time without the aching feet and crazy homeless people. Gosh, have I missed being in a car... We drove around for hours I think, then decided we needed some drinks. So he introduced me to another really tasty-looking restaurant, Galaxy something, and I got Oriental Spice tea which was surprisingly good.
This was near Union Square, so we walked around there for a bit. And then he told me that his friend works at the W there and could get a room for $50. I, of course, was speechless. Well, not quite. More like really really excited and squealy. I told Marie about it after I got back and we have resolved to try and get one for the end of school.
Oh dear, and we were supposed to go to Ikea today because there's a free bus (!!!!!!which Marie did not tell me about until yesterday, oh so casually, and I went crazy) but then Maliha reminded us it was Easter Sunday, so now we are tres sad. I probably ought to do some homework, anyway.