thai food

yesterday i sent the following email to ChurchGirl & PopularBloggingFriend:

so lately i've been thinking about thai food night when you guys would cook thai food & i would come home & eat it. those were good times. i wish i had people that cooked me thai food here. my friends here are so lazy.

PopularBloggingFriend said I needed new friends (the ones i have obviously don't love me). But I thought of a better solution: When I finish school, I'll go live in PopularBloggingFriend's basement. I'll get fed & she can feel good about herself again b/c at least she'll be less of a loser than me.

there is a numbness in your heart & it's growing

update on my hilarious dating life:

option #1: lets call him RG. we started hanging out a bit last spring, i went to africa, realized we had wildly different world views & lost any semblance of interest. he asked me on a date last week. ironic?

option #2: lets call him IG. i may or may not have slightly led him on for my own perverse amusement. i started retreating this past week when i was talking to him & got that panicked "oh, no, he is about to ask me out. abort conversation. abort! abort!" feeling. perhaps i'd already gone too far, as he called me today to see if we could do something. luckily, i make my weekend plans early & was happily busy.

option #3: lets call him VG. we're friends, but if things progressed, this would be, in the words of dwight shrute, "purely carnal & that's all you need to know". also, allowing things to move along in any way would be incredibly emotionally destructive for me. of course, i have spent the most time with him in the past few weeks. i'm just smart like that.

option #4: he is called PC. my mother is in love with him. i'm not.

so many options, so little interest in any of them... *sigh*

running down a dream

it seems that every fall atlanta goes through a liquid crisis. last year it was a water shortage and our days were numbered. then, a bunch of hurricanes dumped us with rain and a new crisis...gasoline. that's right, the city of atlanta has no gasoline. the refineries in the gulf coast shut down b/c of hurricanes & atlanta has stricter purity requirements than most cities (one of the reasons our car-loivng city is surprisingly smog-free). as you can imagine, in a city of 5 million car addicts, people going a bit crazy. luckily, i bike to school, ride MARTA a lot, & only drive to church (if i can't hitch a ride with someone). so i'm just laughing & hoping maybe this will help some atlantans learn that cars aren't the only way around town.

tree hugging, peace loving... hippies like me

i spent some time registering people to vote on campus today. it was actually pretty fun. we had a decent turn out & pretty much everyone that registered was clearly voting for Obama. just how i like it...

georgia's race has been getting increasingly tighter & i actually have a bit of hope for the normally blood red state. most students were switching b/c they knew their vote wouldn't change things in their home states (utah, massachusetts, california, etc.) but it could actually make a difference here.

anyway, my friend & i set up shop next to the on-campus farmer's market and started chatting with the farmer next to us. he was a big Obama supporter & since we were "doing a public service" he gave us free apples. then, when he was closing up shop, he left us each with eggplants, several tomatoes, and 2 huge bunches of basil. i'm going to have to be politically active more often!

come on, hide you lovers....lies, lies

lets all remember how in the past few months my mother has had some personal revelations as to my future husband. her stupendously botched 'subtle' attempts at hints showed her hand a long time ago. however, if any of us were still in doubt as to her desires, Boy reported this conversation to me when i went to k-town last weekend:

Mom: now that you are going on you mission to Albania, we'll have so many languages spoken in our family. Albanian, French, Spanish, German, Swahili, Chinese, Arabic -
Boy: ummmm, no one in our family speaks Chinese, mom
Mom: well, you know PC, if brooke & he...
Boy: mom, they aren't married. they aren't engaged. they are not even dating! they are JUST FRIENDS
Mom: well.....we'll see (in her 'i'm still right' voice)
Boy: yeah, i guess we will (in his 'you are completely insane' voice)

playing catch-up

things have been crazy busy since school started. everyday when i get home i pretty much just eat & go to bed. so i've been slacking on the blogging. here's some random events from the past few weeks:

* had a birthday party with the Manorexic. he doubted my abilities to throw a good party, but, once again, he was proven wrong

* got in a fight with my main adviser. not such a good experience. met with other thesis adviser, who offered to take me on vacation with him & his partner. decided that main adviser is crazy, not me.

* went home for the weekend & remembered how utterly delusional my mother is. more on that later

iAnnoyed

That's right, ChurchGirl. I'm stealing your naming scheme. Deal with it.

So, I've been needing a new cell phone for a while. Mine has begun ending calls by itself or turning itself off (not b/c the battery is dead, just b/c it wants to be off i suppose). I thought for a long time about switching from Verizon to AT&T b/c I really covet the iPhone. My entire family has Verizon though & forced me to get it a few years ago. And the iPhone is $$$ and I am morally opposed to AT&T's thinly veiled communication monopoly. After much agnozing debate in my head, I decided to appease my family & stick with Verizon. On Monday I was near a Verizon store so I went in, pursued the phone selections, chose the one I wanted, & then spoke to the sales agent. After beeping around on his computer for a bit, he said "Our computer network is down so we can't upgrade you right now".

Anyway, today I decided to try again. I looked up the closest store to my house & headed out in my car. About 1 mile down the road I saw a Verizon store, which hadn't been on the website. So I swerved into the parking garage next to it wishing that I had just ridden my bike instead of paying for parking. Inside the store I told the man what kind of phone I wanted. They didn't have them in stock. Furthermore, they never would b/c there Verizon just annouced a new version of the phone (which I don't want) so they won't sell the old one in the stores.

Two trips to Verizon stores. No new phone. Maybe I should have gone with AT&T afterall.

ritalin, ritlan...anyone? ritalin?

i think i developed ADD over the summer. yesterday was my 1st day of class at emory. it started off well since i saw one of my best friends right as i walked in the door. we went to our 1st class together: behavioral epidemiology, which is an interesting class. however, about 15 minutes into the class i was fidgeting, making to-do lists, drawing pictures - doing everything put patiently listen & take notes. i looked at another friend next to me. she too was halfway done with a to-do list. (epidemiologists love lists. i've never met one that doesn't). after the 3 hour lecture finally ended, my original friend said "was i distracting you with all my moving around? i just couldn't keep still!"

in the afternoon i had an epi modeling class. about 20 minutes in the girl next to me pulled out some playdough. she divided between herself, me, & another friend and that kept us pretty well occupied for the next hour. when i started to get bored, i took a nap. i guess i still need to work on building up that elusive attention span.