2010

Happy New Year!
Buon capo d'anno!

It's 1:22am, and I'm calling it a night. I passed on two house parties (I have work tomorrow morning and a long day ahead), and ended up ringing in the new year with poker (simply as an observer) and a small bunch of philosophy and religion scholar friends.

A nice, laid-back new year for me.

Best wishes to everyone for a phenomenal 2010!

A toast to Winter vacation!

Done with finals, 70+ degree weather in southern California, but I'm leaving this afternoon with Matt for the significantly cooler (in terms of temperature) Sac-Town (a.k.a. Sacramento) for my cousin's wedding tomorrow.

I officially started my winter vacation as of yesterday afternoon after finishing my last final, and my good friends and I had our annual Christmas party last night. Above is a picture of the toast we took in honor of one of my best friends who is currently in Taiwan and couldn't be at the party.

Now that all my school craziness is over, I hope I can start updating regularly again. Here's a toast to finally being able to enjoy the holiday season!

Happy November and Daylight Savings Time!

Despite having taken many pictures last night, I don't have any good pictures of my costume. Not that it was much. What you're missing from the picture: I wrapped a fringed black shawl around my shoulders and belted it, I had on a lacy black skirt, dark gray tights, black knee-high boots, and I linked some necklaces together and wrapped them around the ankle of one of my boots.

France and New Orleans

Aside from my weekend being crammed with tests and studying, it's been a fun week so far! Much more social than any other recent weeks.

On Tuesday, Matt, my friend Melanie, my roommates, Bryan and Ralph, and I went to a little French restaurant downtown. So many good options down there, but I'd never been to this place before.

We had some Lindemans Framboise beer, which is Belgian and raspberry-flavored. I've had the peach before but never the raspberry. It's good, but don't expect it to taste like beer!

Melanie, Matt, and I had never tried escargot before (Ralph and Bryan had), so we decided to order some!

Garlic fries. A m a z i n g .

Melanie with her snail!

I ordered French Onion soup as a starter. Always good. Mmm. I ordered the Linguine Pomadoro for my entree. Later that night, we all went back to the apartment and played board games. Apples to Apples and Outburst. Hilarious.

Wednesday night, Matt and I went to a really popular local New-Orleans-inspired restaurant (an hour long wait for two on a Wednesday after the dinner rush?! Crazy, but worth it). You eat seafood with your hands that you have seasoned and spiced to your liking out of plastic bags on tables covered in wax paper. And you get bibs!

Our crawfish and corn. So much work to get the meat out of crawfish and ridiculously messy, but so yummy!

We also ordered King Crab legs and gumbo, and all of it was amazing. Oh my god, I'm practically drooling thinking about it.