june: was able to go to seattle/home/disneyland with everybody and finally do all the things i was craving!
-see my lovely friends graduate at last!
-eat my customary in n out on the way home from LAX: animal style burger and neapolitan shake.
-see my family/hang out with my high school friends i hadn't seen in over a year!
-DISNEYLAND DISNEYLAND DISNEYLAND!
-ride everything at disneyland, eat adobo, bread pudding, corn dogs, bread bowls, churros, etc. and watch world of color!
july: i went to vegas with my roommate payten and my friend from work megan for payten's birthday, and anna came and met us there! it was pretty baller.
-arrived on thursday afternoon and immediately went for a steak lunch and gambling.
-had sushi in caesar's palace with a great view of the strip (sounds bad, but it was great, albeit very expensive!)
-went to the moon club in the palms and met some interesting canadians. >__<
-spent almost everyday at the pool, trying to get some color. it's so hard when you live in a basement and work in a hospital!
-had lunch at wolfgang puck's in the MGM which had the BEST burger of my life. prime rib with caramelized onion marmalade and garlic aioli. holy shit. i will probably never eat a finer thing. so worth 17 dollars!
-watched the creepy and totally uncool new show at treasure island. ugh.
-anna drove in and we went to tao in the venetian. surprise surprise, it is kim kardashian's bachelorette party! we don't get to see her, but we have a lot of fun and eventually end up pooped out at dennys around 5 am.
-brought payten and megan to their first in n out ever! not sure if they were terribly into it, but i am used to people's reactions to in n out as such now, and could not give too much of a damn. i really do think you just have to be from california!
-brunch buffet at the belagio and i literally cannot move for a couple hours after, i am in so much pain from too much food. later, when everything calms down a bit, we go for gelato/crepes in the new hotel aria.
-gambled here and there on the penny slots and miraculously won $100 with $5 that payten gave me to amuse myself! i was playing on this tarzan slot and was losing money, almost about to give up, when i hit the stampede bonus! the machine would NOT stop alarming, and the lady next to me shot me the dirtiest glare...wahahaha. the high you get from winning at the slots is so intense! i can definitely see how people get addicted to it! but i cashed out and immediately blew most of it on an awesome sushi dinner with wayyy too much food.
-our last night we went to lavo, which is also in the venetian. and totally randomly, we find we're in the middle of chris humphrey's (kim k's fiancee) bachelor party! which, i hear, she crashed, but we didn't stay long enough for that.
-flew back to dc, 10 pounds heavier and slightly tanner. woot!
august: i know it's still august!
-last minute trip home to use up a random 6 day stretch of off days and take advantage of anthony's buddy passes!
-ate more in n out, of course.
-caught up on all the asian food i've been deprived of: filipino, vietnamese, korean, chinese.
-spent a day with my dad and mom separately, which i don't think has happened since school vacations.
-harry potter IMAX 3D for the second time! also watched glee live 3D, and paranormal activity 2 with alex...not as scary as the first one, but still disturbing and terrifying!
-went to the artwalk in downtown la that happens every 2nd thursday each month with anna, tiffany, and a bunch of their friends. found our way to the library bar (which looks like a library inside, except with far less books!), then eventually ended up at canters, the 24 hour jewish deli in hollywood that i've come to love as a late night stop after shows with the guys.
-tried to go the edison twice, but failed twice. haha. one day, la, one day!
-things i miss: asian supermarkets, fresh cheap fruit, excessive amounts of food in the fridge, water coolers, and sunny dry heat. things i do not miss: driving, not having a car and needing to be picked up/dropped off places (contradictory, and extremely unsure how to remedy the two?), telling my parents exactly what i'm doing/where i'm going.
-had a 2 stop, all day flight back to dc that ended with sitting next to a very nice guy just moving to dc on my last flight. he is going to start med school so he can be doing public health in indian reservations. very inspiring conversation, and hopefully a cool new friend who can help break or at least, explain mormon stereotypes? and maybe teach me some ballroom dancing. we'll see. :)
welp, after cramming 3 months of material into one blog post, i shall break. next blog post idea: let's do a day in the life of! there are a couple film projects coming out right now that record individual people's daily lives. (one by morgan spurlock, the guy who did supersize me). it seemed like a cool idea that i want to try! not only does it promote individualism which i am so fond of in contemporary society but it just seems like fun. hahaha. unfortunately, i won't be filming, but we can do a couple posts about day in the life of bessie the nurse, and bessie in dc...mostly because i'd love to hear about a day in your lives, more than mine!
