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February is a good month
Feb. 19th, 2007 08:13 pmAll sorts of interesting things are happening! First, I'm leaving CCI (although, chronologically that will be taking place last) at the end of the month, which is not quite overdue, but pretty close. I don't find my work particularly interesting, and the internship isn't going anywhere. Also, working six days a week is ridiculous, and I have no time to do things that are important to me--like calligraphy, for example, or ice skating. Ice skating I haven't done for years (literally--I haven't skated since the winter of my second year at college), and when Daniel and I were watching the All Star basketball game last night, the Four Continents figure skating championship was on, so we flipped back and forth during commercial breaks. And I didn't know any of these people! Kimmie Meissner's name, for example, I believe I heard once or twice as I lost track of figure skating, but when did she become the U.S. national champion? And Alissa Czisny was charming, but where did she come from? At any rate, the World Championships are March 22-25, and I have no intention of missing them! Friends owning televisions, this means I will be asking favors of you, assuming I can't find a bar where they will be showing them. And even though Oakland and Berkeley have a great many "progressive" drinking establishments, I find it extremely unlikely that they will be progressive enough that they will show figure skating.
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In other news Daniel and I have discovered a few new restaurants. Samovar, in the Yerba Buena gardens, is a lovely little tea place, where you can get all sorts of tea services. Daniel and I went there last weekend for Russian tea service (we sat next to a group of Russians who looked to be having a Japanese tea service), and have plans to go back and inspect the Chinese, Indian, and Japanese tea services. It's a good place to take one's parents when showing them the sights downtown. Another good place to take the parents (or rather, to have the parents take one) is to the Chez Panisse cafe, which is a nice, upscale restaurant, but not as mind-boggling swanky as the actual restaurant downstairs. Daniel and I went for our 3-year anniversary (we went last Monday, but the actual date is February ninth) and it was very jolly.
What is more, this weekend we are going back to Tahoe! I want to go once more before I forget everything I learned in January when I had my lesson, and because it's fun. And I guess that's all I have to say about that. I like skiing!
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( Books and such )
In other news Daniel and I have discovered a few new restaurants. Samovar, in the Yerba Buena gardens, is a lovely little tea place, where you can get all sorts of tea services. Daniel and I went there last weekend for Russian tea service (we sat next to a group of Russians who looked to be having a Japanese tea service), and have plans to go back and inspect the Chinese, Indian, and Japanese tea services. It's a good place to take one's parents when showing them the sights downtown. Another good place to take the parents (or rather, to have the parents take one) is to the Chez Panisse cafe, which is a nice, upscale restaurant, but not as mind-boggling swanky as the actual restaurant downstairs. Daniel and I went for our 3-year anniversary (we went last Monday, but the actual date is February ninth) and it was very jolly.
What is more, this weekend we are going back to Tahoe! I want to go once more before I forget everything I learned in January when I had my lesson, and because it's fun. And I guess that's all I have to say about that. I like skiing!
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