Thursday through Sunday

I had my second class--pathophysiology--this past Thursday. I must have rolled snake eyes, because this instructor? Well. I would guess that he gets pretty high sniffing his own farts, but it's hard to tell because he's so far up his own ass. I don't mean that in a bad way. I think he may be a decent enough instructor, but he's one of those types who thinks his job is to be inspiring to the poor, brown kids, when really we poor brown kids are more like: Just teach us the material that we are paying to have you teach us.

I didn't realize I had that many feelings about this.

Anyway, the class should be interesting and it only meets once a week. It's going to move fast.

So that was Thursday.

Friday I had therapy, an easy session.

Saturday, I had to return my textbook to the bookstore (I found it online for less than half price), then Dave and my brother went grocery shopping while I tried to get in a nap since I haven't been sleeping very well lately. After that, Dave and I went to dinner with my mother, aunt, and brother. We went to China Express and had a bit of a feast.

I stayed up late (nearly all night!) watching youtube videos. I've become a bit addicted to watching people's tours of "goshiwon," this kind of rental situation in South Korea. These rooms are tiny, about the size of prison cells (six by eight fee), and they cost between $175 and $300 per month. They include a bed, television set, desk and chair. Some rooms have tiny (and I mean teeny-tiny) bathrooms with a sink and toilet, but those are expensive ($500/month). Generally though, there is a shared bathroom and kitchen. The kitchens are stocked with rice (pre-made in a rice cooker), eggs, instant noodles, coffee and/or tea, and of course, kimchi. I watched these videos until I began to get some kind of second-hand claustrophobia from watching people try to film their little cells.

After that, I watched part of the last Sherlock special ("The Abominable Bride") on PBS.org. (It was being removed from the website yesterday and the only other options to watch would have cost me $10-$15, which, no, thank you.) I finished watching the episode today and I have to say that it was better than last season, but not as great as the first season. Sherlock fatigue may be setting in.

What else has been going on? Well, Dave has been making a lot of phone calls on my behalf recently. I ordered a set of colored pencils online a few weeks ago and when they came, several pencils were broken. I emailed the company and they said that since the account was in David's name, he would have to call. It's funny, but I had another problem with my last order from this company, and when I called to straighten it out, the guy who was helping me called me David throughout the phone call. This time, I just asked David to call.

So he took care of that. Then he called Amazon on my behalf because there was some snafu with the textbook I had ordered from them. He straightened that out and hopefully I should have my textbook by Tuesday. Yay!

Sunday--that's today--or yesterday, as it's just after midnight--Dave went to a concert with his mother in the morning and then we went out for Greek food for lunch. Dave had a felafel sandwich and I had a gyros. Both came with greek salad and patates.

After lunch, we went to the studio and loaded a kiln. We spent most of the time talking to Judi and Paul, but we also got a kiln mostly loaded. I also underglazed a small piece I made several weeks ago, and, miracle of miracles, the larger piece I began a couple of months ago was still wet enough to work on. I don't know what the hell is in the clay, but it hadn't dried out and it hadn't grown any mold on the surface. It's actually kind of scary that there was no mold. Clay should rot.

We left the studio around 4:00 and came home via the co-op. We bought stuff to make bagel sannies for dinner. It was a huge carb-heavy meal, spurred on by the white rice fest we engaged in on Sunday. It takes days to get over the white rice effect--but it's so good and The Brain does love the big hit of serotonin that follows the carbs. Anyway, for dessert we split a Boston cream donut.

Sugar, sugar, sugar!!