By My Troth...!

Greetings one and all! Yesterday was as full as Friday was lackluster after parting from an hour and a half conversation with new friends from SCU.  I watched the ABC Family movie Revenge of the Bridesmaids and P!NK videos until I was tired.  My life, I grant you, is so exciting at times!

The next day, yesterday, woke up at 9:30 waited in line for the shower (ugh....community bathrooms....) got ready and met my friend Elinor.  She is leaving for Nepal for a few months and since she lives near DC we decided to hang out here, and I really wanted to see the sites that the locals know.  Soon, I will go native! haha. we went to the zoo! it was free and it was HUGE and it was HOT. The weather dampened the entire experience because I was uncomfortable, and sweating and felt as disgusting as the animals smelled.  However, the air conditioned parts were well worth the heat.

Lupe and a Tucan...so cool...

Elephants. I was so happy!

And so, despite the heat I had fun.  Then we went to Elinor's house, decided that we were hungry and went to eat a spanish restaurant.  Let me just say that it. was. amazing. I was very hesitant to like the food, but once I tried the date stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon, I was sold.  the eggplants were delicious, the empanadas were good (shout out to Tia Concha's empanadas, yours were so much better!), the paella was scrumptious, the fried chicken round things were mouthwatering, and the patatas bravas were good. oh my gosh. i was sold. im really hungry right now... but here look.  it was at a place called La Tasca.

Elinor and the eggplant

uhmmmm.... so great.

Oh my... I want some more.  Seriously, maybe I was just really hungry, but it was fabulous.  It sounds like I'm actually liking Spain... uh oh. Not good. 

Anyway, went to Barnes and Noble afterwards and Elinor and I relished in our nerdyness. We ate some white chocolate raspberry cheesecake: 

And then because we both like fantasy and sci fi, stayed in the section for nearly two hours.  We were talking about how often we have to shield or justify what we like to read and were glad we didn't have to with one another. That was cool, because the amount of utter crapola I receive for reading fantasy novels is ridiculous. I like this genre. Back off. Near the end of out time at BN, this couple on a date entered my periphery.  The guy said he liked sci-fi and pointed out books he had read and the blondie he was with just laughed, as if the idea of reading the genre was so preposterous she hoped he was joking.  the ugly wench.  and then some flirting and flitting through a book Elinor actually had with her in the stack of books to buy, said "I only like to read fact based fiction" double ugly wench. and she still hung on the arm of the guy. triple ugly disgusting wench. Uhm hello, Im right here, READING ELANTRIS. A FANTASY NOVEL. believe it or not you stupid **&^%#@#$%^&* i can hear you.  Elinor said if she had heard her say that stuff she would have spoken up.  Instead, I just pitied the girl, and pointedly got up and put the book I had been reading on the shelf and left. 

How I felt after eating...

Anyway, after that, Elinor's parents invited us to the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production to Twelfth Night. After reading so much about shakespeare in classes and my playwriting class, and after trying my own hand at writing plays, I caught myself getting chocked up in the beginning about the experience.  It was absolutely SO AMAZING!  I loved it! ahhhhhhh! It was so funny and inappropriate and romantic. and it was free for everyone.

At the patron's lounge. I look puffy-eyed...how sad.

After that, we went to Kramersbook and Afterwords Cafe where we looked at books and had Red Velvet Cake. Mom, yours is so much better.  And we walked around people bashing and made notes on our ideal men.  The guys here are all the same sadly: jeans, tucked in white button down shirts, and popped collars.  They are every where, swarming DC. I like California for oh so many more reasons.  Then I was dropped off and i was yawning my way to bed, at 1:30. Such a nice packed day!

I woke up this morning at 12:15...9:15 for all you californians. and looked up some internship stuff, read and wrote this.  I am really hungry! I have a bag of lays that I can eat, but know I shouldn't! Sigh...must go venture out by myself. I don't like doing that. 

Or maybe just eat the chips. And then I wonder why I am gaining weight. Which is true and Im not very happy about that.  But I am being charged 65 bucks here for gym usage and by golly, once I get my shoes, i am GOING. Indulge yourself:

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound 1
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
Quote Act i. Scene 1.