Spring Break wooohooo

Have some free time so I thought I would update, even though tis the last day of vacation now. It's been a really great spring break though. Started out in DC where it was cold and rainy but nonetheless wonderful bc I got to hang with my peeps who I hadn't seen in forever. Who knew I had so many friends in the nation's capital.

Moving along to Texas: first couple days in Houston were nice and relaxing, in which I ate a lot of wonderful food prepared by Amy's mom. Then we drove to Austin where it is beautiful and weird and endlessly interesting. I really can't get enough of the weather here. I just checked the forecast for NY tomorrow and it's going to be a high of 40. I'm crying already.

We're about to go out to brunch and then spend the rest of our day with nothing particular to do. I plan to finish my book. Will update more later when I get back to my NY pad.

The Great Umbrella Exchange

I had a presentation this morning that I was all nervous about but thankfully it went well. UNFORTUNATELY sometime between my preparations and giving the speech I lost my umbrella somewhere :( But after the class left and as I was looking around I spotted another umbrella someone had left under the table. All's fair in love and umbrella's! So I took that one to replace the one someone else had undoubtedly taken from me. This made me wonder: does our society have a grand umbrella exchange, of losing and finding umbrellas? People shouldn't need to buy them anymore, they should just look around until they find one that's been left behind.

Midterms are almost over! This is what I have left: a conclusion for one paper, final look-over of another paper, and.... three pages and a thesis for the last paper. Errr.

But I have much to look forward to so I'm over the worst of the midterms depression/stress. Friday night we're making margs and tacos at J's and Saturday I'm going to DC for approx 24 hours to see friends from Beijing, and hopefully my lovely former roommate as well. Then Monday it's off to TX for spring break, where I may get the chance to meet up with another Beijinger (in Chinatown there, of course!). omgcan'twait.

Ahnold in Ohio

I wanted to call my fb photo album AHNOLD but I didn't actually get to see him :( We did see some muscle-y ppl and some fencers at the convention center when we went to help set up Friday night though. But Daylight Savings ruined our plans to see the governator on Sunday.

However! I did get to see lots of NA ppl and that made me happy :) On Friday Cheng and I stuffed our faces with sushi at Jacob's restuarant and it was delicious. Then we saw Watchmen and it was... long, and pretty good, and I've still got mixed feelings on it. But Cheng loved it, so that's good.

Then Saturday we had brunch with Tristan and Jessica at North Star Cafe, chatting about wedding stuff and eatind delicious food. Though I should have tried something other than the pancakes... oh well, next time!

Had dinner at home (more food... apparently this is all I do in Ohio) and then had some birrrr at BW3's n high with Cheng's friends. $4 for a 32oz budlight, Cynthia, it was crazy good! Never can find such a thing here in NYC tho :(

After that we mosied on over to Jill's place for a good old fashioned OSU party (with some pajamas involved, though I think most ppl missed that memo). Got to catch up with more ppl, though not as much as I would have liked bc it was a party with lots of ppl and all. There was some twister action going on too. Good times.

But I wish I had had another day! I came back to NYC and the trains were all messed up and it started to rain and now I have all these midterms to finish :*( Luckily spring break is officially a week away! Can't wait for more traveling!