Six Months

May. 10th, 2004 03:43 am
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   Saturday was Kristy and I's six month anniversery.

   We started out our day at the Farmer's Market at 11am. I had a danish there.
   Then we went to the Whole Earth Festival on campus. The denizens of the WEF: they look like hippies, they smell like hippies, but they sure are into capitalism. And the question remains, where do they go at night?

   That evening Kristy and I went to the newest (and only one we haven't been to yet) Thai place in town, Thai Bistro. Thai Bistro was ranked best Thai restaurant in town by the Aggie.
   Its certainly at the very least a contender with Thai2k, and possibly better.. more research is certainly necessary. For the extremely high quality of the food the prices were very reasonable. I got a calamari dish and I believe it was only around $7.50.
   I can't wait till I have an excuse to go again.. hmm it IS my birthday this upcoming Friday...


   On that note, it is my 22nd birthday this Friday, May 14th. Having been unable to find a location to host a party on the scale I did last year I don't know what I'm going to do. /=


   I have extra tickets to the prescreening of Troy here on Thursday if anyone wants them.


Unrelated
   A post about tomatoes and cinnamon that is amusing and you all should read, by [livejournal.com profile] citizene


Related
   Year Ago Friday: A Poem About Kristy
   Entries on the Davis Thai restaurants - from this livejournal
   Terra ([livejournal.com profile] livinsmall)'s opinion of Thai Bistro

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DLP the Series - Episode 63
   Kris, Croat and Anna eat Thai food, then stop by Diedrichs off La Paz, where employee Megan gives a cigarette to employee Stephanie, even though the latter doesn't smoke and has but one lung. Kris, Croat, Anna and Laney proceed to The Spectrum, hilarity ensues.


   I'm convinced that a daily series could be made of the happenings at Diedrichs. Hence the above.


Seriously Though
Part I - Thai Food
   Croat ([livejournal.com profile] inequity), Anna ([livejournal.com profile] beatlebake) and I started our evening with dinner at a local Thai restaurant oat around 6pm. Its name was something with the word Siam in it /= ...its on the corner of Marguerite and La Paz. Anyway, it was pretty good, if I were to compare it to Davis Thai restaurants I'd say it'd be second only to Thai2k.
   In light of the frequent reoccurance of Thai restaurants in this journal, I have added Thai Restaurants as a memories category, and added "Thai food" as a listed interest.
   As usual I had a basil/garlic/bamboo stir-fry thing with beef. Mmmm. Fangoriously hungry as always, I tried to eat Anna's leftover brocolli dish, but alas I've never been fond of brocolli, and was left to devour rice (which isn't to imply the servings weren't big enough, those who've eatin with me before will attest that my hunger simply excedes any restaurant serving).
   Alas, Croat whose stomache has never been fond of Thai food was left with a stomache ache from the experience.

Part II - Diedrichs
   Next we proceeded to Diedrichs off La Paz (DLP, delta lambda pi) for coffee. There we found Shalane (AKA "Laney," "shillelagh")and employees Megan and Stephanie. As mentioned, at one point Shalanes realized Stephanie was smoking on her break and was like "hey, YOU don't smoke!" "yea and I only have one lunge, but Megan gave me these cigarettes" or something along those lines. Laney than dashed inside to wreak revenge upon Megan, or something.
   While there, Croat and Anna discussed possibly naming one of their children "Robatussin."
   From there Croat, Anna and I proceeded to the Irvine Spectrum at around 8:30.

Part III - The Spectrum
   "And from there they sped boldly, and found Todd bravely hiding amid some small shrubs. In only a few short minutes they calmed him down, and with him in custody they sped along that glorious freeway, the five. And when the road did split into the 405 and the 5, they did not dishearten, and arrived successfully at the Spectrum, that glorious beacon. -From Episode II of the Spectrum Diedrichs trilogy.
   The abovementioned applies to what we next did, except for the finding of Tom Colby Todd.

   Now for those of you who have the misfortune not to know, the Irvine Spectrum is "Orange County's premier dining, shopping and entertainment destination." Basically it started with a 21 screen theatre, back when that was rare, gained an outside foodcourt, then a plethora of small impulse shops... and now has gone insane with power and built a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, and more odious shopping establishments such as fashion clothing stores.

   Anyway, on with our narrative. They had set up an ice rink there, being the saucy irvine spectrum that it is. But Croat disputed that it was really ice, observing that there couldn't be ice without a zamboni. We continued this conversation into the restroom, where we encountered someone who reminded me strikingly of Kristy's ex Randy. This Randy II contributed to our conversation by pointing out that an icerink without a zamboni is like a baseball field without the line-chalking-machine. A very wise analogy you should all tell your grandchildren.
   Us three then proceeded to this place there called Dave & Buster's, to which I'd never been before (meh, I don't get out much). Anna proceeded to get liquered up there. Then Shillelagh ("shi-lay-lee") arrived, but being naught of 21 years of age she could not enter, so we all went to this other restaurant/bar at the spectrum called Champs.
   At Champs a drunk hairdresser guy promised to give both Laney and I a haircut for $15. Laney got his number, he may regret saying that. Then Anna saying karaoke. Good times. And Randy II it turns out was already at the bar there, and was like "heeey, zamboni guys!"

Part IV - Dubious Happenings
   Thereafter, Laney and I went off to take care of some errands she needed to do. Her car has some transmission problem, making things more interesting. Eventually these problems led us to ditch her car in favor of someone else's which it turns out had even graver problems with its breaks.
   We ended up spending most the evening thereafter hanging out with about six guys, many of whom had graduated my HS in years previous to me apparently. Shortly after introductions one of them was like "hey, you were in drama weren't you," followed shortly by another with "hey.. you did high jump right?" A little bit later a third one of them suddenly remembered "hey, your brother had that potatoe cannon, right?" Altogether nearly half of us were named K(/Ch)ris.
   I got home at about 4am. The End.


Addendum - Selling Out
   Pursuant to my offer of advertising in the last entry, Anna paid for my Thai food (I only had $20s, ill suited to my $8 meal) contingent that I buy her a drink later and advertise the bed she has to sell.
   This bed frame, mattress, whatever, was bought 6 months ago at $350 and is still in very good condition. She is asking $50 for it. If interested, leave a comment in her livejournal.

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   Meh. Been too busy with finals to even update my livejournal lately. I know, shocking.

   So Kristy and I on our one month anniversary finally accomplished our goal of eating at every known Thai restaurant in town, having visited Thai Nakorn on Monday. It was pretty good, possibly ranking second in terms of taste/portions (I think Thai Recipes may have tasted better, but is disqualified on grounds that the serving size left me totally unsatisfied). Ranking first in terms of taste and having entirely acceptable serving sizes is definitely Thai2k. Mmmm my mouth salivates just thinking about it. And finally Sophia's: I don't mean to sound hyperbolic here, but Sophia's provided my friends and I with what appeared to be the worst Thai food I've ever had at a restaurant. The free refills on Thai iced tea however are enough to make me consider returning someday. And in their defense, I personally would also refuse service to a serial non-tipper. One has a right not to tip, but that would certainly imply one was displeased to the point of never returning. I do not presume to know anything about the issue beyond that the frequent return of the serial-non-tipper is suspicious and weird. If you don't know what I'm talking about: its an issue that was in the paper awhile ago, but the search function on the Aggie isn't currently working so I can't link to it. Anyway, I just went really off topic. Thai2k in my opinion is the definitive Thai restaurant in town, but others may believe differently.

CLASSES
   Signed up for classes for next quarter. I will be taking 16 units that happen to fall on only THREE (3!) days of the week. Yes, next quarter my weekend shall run from Friday evening until Tuesday night. I am currently signed up for IRE1 "Global Interdependance" with Prof Nincic, HIS111B (Greek world from Minoan-Mycenaean period to end of Hellenistic Age, Prof Spyridakis), ENL113A (Chaucer, taught by Worley) and RUS5.


MINUTIA
   There are several mentionable things that came up in class towards the end of the quarter but went unreported.

Chalkboard Effect - Professor Gartner's theory as to how one gets dumber the closer they get to the chalkboard. Particularly in terms of spelling ability. Professor Gartner pointed out that it has nearly no effect once he's a few feet from the chalkboard, but very intense just a foot closer.
Floppiness Theory - After we got our term paper back a SEVERAL students were comparing the relative floppiness of their papers, a result of page thickness and quality of paper, with the theory (that they had purposefully employeed by selection of high quality paper) that the relative floppiness of their termpapers had an effect on the grades.
Quotes - "If I called half of you to do a phone poll, well half of you would say 'go explitive yourself!' & hang up, but..."
   "I don't mean to denegrate those who have chosen that profession
[crack-whore], it can be lucrative if rather short." -(both) Professor Becker

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   So Friday morning I had my last class of the year (the calender year anyway), an hour of Russian 4. I then rendezvoused with Miss Garian Cika, whom I dated for three months or so freshman year, and currently lives in Eugene Oregon. She is in town till Sunday.
   Then Cika and I are back at my place and I happen to need to call her ex Tom ("Sex-in-the-Eyes," S.I.T.E.) to arrange for the double-date he is supposed to go on with Courtney and Kristy and I this evening. Then I put him on the phone with Garian without warning him and he later expressed great loathing of me for that action.


   We went to Thai2k for dinner, SITE, Courtbutt, Kristy and I. I'm on this mission to try all the Thai food in town, and so far I've eaten at three of the four restaurants I know of (Thai Nakorn is the unvisited one). Of the other two, Sophia's earned mad points for their free refills on Thai Iced Tea, but had the least tasty thai food I've ever eaten. Thai Recipes was better, but the portions were extremely small. Now our most recent destination, Thai2k, I must say was without a doubt the BEST Thai food I've had in town. mmmmmmmm. I had some bamboo & basil thing (uh, #33 on the menu), soooo good mmmmm.

   Tom nearly went insane on account of the constant saying of "such sauce," "weak sauce," "strong sauce" and other saucy variations that the other three of us constantly employ. Such sauce.


   Next destination was the "James Bond" themed party that the "Pirates of the Pentagram" were hosting at their pirate stronghold in suburban central Davis. Kristy and Courtbutt both went as bond girls, Tom borrowed one of my dress shirts (which I BETTER get back!) and made a nametage that said "henchman # 4," which was later missplaced. I wore my soviet ushanka, the usual pea-coat and black dickies, and my spiked collar. I therefore was an ambiguous crazy soviet villian, or something. There were people at the party actually wearing tuxedos and things. Kristy loathes my beautiful Soviet ushanka. )=

   In addition to ourselves ([livejournal.com profile] basicallyasap, [livejournal.com profile] lilmisscourty, and [livejournal.com profile] emosnail), we saw our friends [livejournal.com profile] pavelthegeek, [livejournal.com profile] daisycat99 & [livejournal.com profile] saprophyte, I met [livejournal.com profile] stillsheryl, and no doubt a great many other ljers that I don't know, but I could sense their unholy presence. (=

   At one point I saw a can of steel reserve sitting on a table. It made me happy. I don't think I've ever seen 211 in a regular 16oz can, but there it was. I have no idea who was responsible for bringing this sacred object to the party.

   Courtbutt and Tom, not so much hitting it off.

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Tear Gas & Thai Food
   Friday evening Kristy and I decide to go investigate the restaurant Thai Recipes. Last time they (she and all the usual people.. yea.. I was busy though d= ) went to Thai Recipes they apparently had a malevolent troll of a waitress, but they were a big group so the waitress may have been misbehaving just cause she knew she was gonna get her tip anyway.. on any account we were feeling adventurous and decided to give it another investigation.
   Firstly however, since parking is crazy difficult in Davis, we parked behind Fuzios and those places.. and walking past the front of Fuzios ran right into my Uncle Ben and Auntie Bev. That was crazy sauce.
   Anyway, for my $8+ I got a highly unsatisfactory amount of food. It was good but hellllla small.. like Fuzios portions are ginormous in comparision (Fuzios = weaksauce portions itself). Comparing it to Sophia's Thai restaurant, the food was much better (Sophia's quality I would definitely rate as weaksauce), but the free refills on Thai Iced Tea at Sophia's and the fact that I only needed to eat three people's meals to feel content puts Sophia's definitely in the lead. I think there might be at least one more Thai restaurant in town though so next time I'm goin out to eat I guess I'll investigate that one (Thai Nakorn?).

   Back at Kristy's apartment complex... well Kwisty lives in "Stirling University Something", commonly known as "Stirling," or "Starlington." "Arlington" you see is the infamous party crazed apartment complex (affectionately known as "the second year dorms," because while only first years live in dorms here I guess Arlington had a notoriously high level of second years), but I believe Arlington has calmed down a bit lately.. anyway I've never seen it at all like Starlington was Friday night.. which brings us back to Starlington:
   ...so I leave Kwisty's apt at like 1am to get a CD out of her car... first of all the hallway is totally filled with smoke or fog or some kind of thick white obscurant which has reduced visibility to about ten feet, and when inhaled causes severe caughing. I suspect either (A) someone exploded a fire extinguisher or (B) the police broke up a party using teargas.
   Anyway music with extremely heavy bass premeated the entire building, and the sounds of raging partying similarly seemed to come from no specific direction but oozed from the walls in every direction.. exiting the tear-gas filled hallway one was met with a sight that confirmed that indeed people were partying all over the place. Like.. whoa.


The Sacred Order of Kadafi
   Saturday all day we had our Model United Nations mock-conference (isn't that redundant?). Just the people from our school, which amazingly numbered about 40+. I was a bit sceptical at first but it turned out okay I think. I guest-spoke in World Health Organization on the topic of AIDS/HIV as Libya, informing everyone, as is official Libyan policy, that HIV is an evil American conspiracy designed to make the rest of the world dependant on US pharmaceuticals (also since the US insisted that AIDS prevention education was key, I declared that they were also using it as a way to "impose their craven and depraved American morality on the rest of the world." After this speech committee broke down for a short time while people asked questions such as "does he ALWAYS speak like that??" such sauce.
   Back in my own beloved committee, DISC (we only ran two committees), I also spoke as Libya, urging everyone that arms control is complete bollocks, but not in those words. Cuba in DISC actually was arguing for the same saucey policy, against everyone else, and I saw to it that he got the "Spirit of Libya" award (which of course I made up for the occasion).

   That evening Kristy and I went over to Sloshie's, where of course drinking abounded.


ASUCD Intrigue, As Usual
   Today during Entertainment Council meeting I mentioned that ASUCD Senator Lydiana Alfaro had firmly blamed and condemned Ent.Con. for the Taking Back Sunday Incident, saying during last weeks Senate meeting that EntCon had been explicitly told by the LGBT not to proceed with the show.. the exact opposite of what I had heard. The EntCon staff unanymously declared that Senator Alfaro gets no more favors, and is now persona non grata to the EntCon. Ah campus drama.. ah the many interesting revelations of my ten minutes of attendance at last weeks Senate meeting.

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