On Friday night a few people from work went to this new restaurant behind our school, and for ten bucks each we had a beer and more meat than I've ever eaten at one time in my entire life. The buffet included octopus, squid, cuttlefish, shrimp, and lots of cuts of pork and beef. They put little gas grills in front of you and you cook the food yourself. One thing I will definitely miss back home is restaurants like that, where the risk of people poisoning themselves with undercooked chicken or pork is too great to obtain a business license. The closest thing is the Mongolian Grill and places like that, and that place is pretty expensive and kinda sucky. The owner took a picture of us and e-mailed it to people who gave him their contact info. Nice guy. Picture is below.
Greg helped me redecorate my apartment today. I had only fluorescent lighting, but now I've got a lamp and lots of candles, and the layout is vastly improved as well. I don't feel like a vampire anymore.
I went to see a band that my friend Dylan (guy beside me in the photo, in the foreground) plays with last night. It was their last show, as the drummer is moving back to Canada. They were really good, and a lot of fun, but this other band, Jet Echo, was pretty unbelievable. I've never seen anyone play drums like that before. I think you can download their music off of their MySpace page, but their recorded stuff kinda sucks. One of the best live performances I've seen in years.
Jimmy (dude to the right of Jenn in the photo) got an X-Box from a teacher who left, and we just got a cross-over cable today, so we can link both of them up and play Halo 2 and lots of other games on two TVs in our adjacent apartments. (It's a long cable.) Greg and I beat Jimmy and Colin pretty badly this evening. It's a lot of fun. I don't know if our neighbors appreciate the loud intra-apartmental heckling, but then I don't appreciate their mangy fucking dogs barking early in the morning either, so they'll have to cope with it.
Colin (black glasses, beside Jimmy, from Sault Ste. Marie) just got Art School Confidential, and we're gonna watch it tomorrow. Movies are like two or three bucks here, as they're all pirated (and the quality is highly inconsistent), so I will be loading up before I come home. Unfortunately they usually only have new releases; when I asked one vendor if he had Harold & Maude, he said, "No! But I have 'The Whole Ten Yards'! Very funny movie, you should buy it! Okay, I put it in your pile!" He was kind of surprised that I didn't want it, but what with the large number of G.I.'s from red states that shop at the electronics market, it's probably one of his top sellers, after Season 3 of JAG and 'Too Fast, Too Furious: Tokyo Drift'.
Greg helped me redecorate my apartment today. I had only fluorescent lighting, but now I've got a lamp and lots of candles, and the layout is vastly improved as well. I don't feel like a vampire anymore.
I went to see a band that my friend Dylan (guy beside me in the photo, in the foreground) plays with last night. It was their last show, as the drummer is moving back to Canada. They were really good, and a lot of fun, but this other band, Jet Echo, was pretty unbelievable. I've never seen anyone play drums like that before. I think you can download their music off of their MySpace page, but their recorded stuff kinda sucks. One of the best live performances I've seen in years.
Jimmy (dude to the right of Jenn in the photo) got an X-Box from a teacher who left, and we just got a cross-over cable today, so we can link both of them up and play Halo 2 and lots of other games on two TVs in our adjacent apartments. (It's a long cable.) Greg and I beat Jimmy and Colin pretty badly this evening. It's a lot of fun. I don't know if our neighbors appreciate the loud intra-apartmental heckling, but then I don't appreciate their mangy fucking dogs barking early in the morning either, so they'll have to cope with it.
Colin (black glasses, beside Jimmy, from Sault Ste. Marie) just got Art School Confidential, and we're gonna watch it tomorrow. Movies are like two or three bucks here, as they're all pirated (and the quality is highly inconsistent), so I will be loading up before I come home. Unfortunately they usually only have new releases; when I asked one vendor if he had Harold & Maude, he said, "No! But I have 'The Whole Ten Yards'! Very funny movie, you should buy it! Okay, I put it in your pile!" He was kind of surprised that I didn't want it, but what with the large number of G.I.'s from red states that shop at the electronics market, it's probably one of his top sellers, after Season 3 of JAG and 'Too Fast, Too Furious: Tokyo Drift'.
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