dracil

It's been a while since we've had a gathering.

It's weird, I drink a cup of coffee for the first time in my life but I'm actually MORE tired/sleepy right now than I usually am. Seriously, caffeine is like useless for keeping me awake.

So anyway, we went to Joyce's place to make cream puffs. In all, there were 6 BST regulars and 5 related people in the house total, so it was pretty busy.

Our cream puffs were basically with rum and then + mint for the second batch of filling. There was pizza, and then tea (the English Rose Tea smelled VERY good), and then the small cup of Peaberry coffee, which with the creamer, basically tasted like milk tea, except with coffee. After that Jenny had to leave as she had another event to attend to.

Then there was a long drawn out philosophical and religious discussion. It started with me asking three questions to see whether your concept of "self" could survive after going through three trials. Hope I didn't offend anyone with my questioning their beliefs during the religious part of the discussion. Oh, if you're interested in giving the questions a try, go here: http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/identity.htm

Then we had a nice dinner, and then the others started talking about more serious stuff like mutual funds and tests, and then we decided to retire for the night. Our next gathering will probably be next month when Charlie comes!
Currently feeling exhausted, but content

dracil

These two weeks have been pretty social.

Yesterday I went to meet Shubha while she's here in SF. Lunch at that newish department store in the food court. Very very good mushroom burger+cheese (I love mushrooms and melted cheese is generally tasty). Then some she wanted to do some shopping, and then we had some Ben & Jerry's before I had to leave for class.

Today, lunch with Xia at Tofu House, then we both went to return books on campus, and then we went to the park because she wanted to feed the squirrels. Ironically she became scared of them when a small horde started to gather around because of the food. Oh yeah, we also saw some rodent that was in the ground. Poked its head out of the ground, even the squirrels were interested in the hole. Threw an almond inside but it just dug away and a squirrel took the almond. Later, I taught her how to play Once Upon A Time (2 classic fairy tale settings, and San Francisco setting during the gold rush, all were relatively short, and nowhere near the level of the story that David and I made) and San Juan (thought it was too complicated. )

For the past few days, I've also been playing some Go with Charlie. He's starting to improve a bit, but he refuses to use handicaps. I think a 4-5 stone handicap would give him a strong chance against me at the moment.
Currently feeling tired

dracil

Sleepy most of the day because of sleeping too late and getting up too early. Met Sophia at the BART, then arrived with Catherine and was picked up by David with Charlie. Then we ate at this dim sum place with Jenny, Eric, and Aaron that had decent food but not so good service so we were actually gonna do the Feynmann maneuver on them but the girls were against it so we ended up not doing it plus it wasn't working too well.

Customary boba dessert after that while we waited for the new Music Land karaoke place to open. Typically their Japanese music selection sucked, and their drinks and food was from the downstairs shop + an exorbitant charge (+$1.75 to $1 water?!). Other than that, they were really trying to please us as this was their 3rd day open. Sometime during karaoke, Jenny gave me Bridges of Shangri-La which was for sale cheap a while earlier so her friend and I got two copies so we could split shipping.

Catherine left after that and we had dinner at Maruichi. Kuro Ramen was different, but only two slices of meat was a letdown, although tax was already included in their price, a nice break from the standard devious practice in the US. We actually split relatively fast after that. It'll be another 6 months or so before we'll get to see Charlie again.
Currently feeling sleepy