There are only two more weeks of this semester left, so naturally that means procrastinating things until the end. Half of the nights this week, I got home at around 9, which meant making dinner, talking with Rebecca and then going to bed. Between that, and reading books until late, and watching more movies than we have all semester...
Wednesday night, Rebecca's old roommate Erika went to dinner with us. While we wanted to go to St. John's Grill (because of their wonderful burgers), the place was packed with people because it was a San Jose Sharks hockey game and St. John's has a few large screen HDTVs. We got there, stood around and waited for a seat to open up. None opened. And then someone scored and the whole place erupted in a scream and we bolted for the door. I think I'll take my meals in quiet, please. Thank you.
After a quieter meal at a different restaurant, we chose to wait outside in the bitter breezy cold in a line that was much too long to get some small 31 cent ice cream cones from Baskin Robins. Rebecca tells me that BR used to do this annually with free ice cream, but they have since started to charge 31 cents (which is still a good deal for ice cream) - I guess I only mention it because it was 10 pm and we were in a long line for ice cream. Who stands in line for ice cream? [we do, as it turns out, because it was an adventure! :) plus the money goes to local firefighters, right? -beck]
Thursday I had a good chat with the head of my department which made me feel better about being here in this school. I'm not sure it encouraged me enough to work really hard - I'm hoping that will come during the summer when I have less distractions from school. But nevertheless, I feel more hopeful about my prospects here at SJSU than I did before and now I understand better why things are in a state of disarray in our department. It will get better. It must get better. I will be a part of making it better.
Mostly Rebecca and I read books in the evenings. But I go to bed so early (11pm), so I don't get enough hours at home to work on things. Perhaps I need to change that. We had a lazy Friday evening and watched Return of the King at home. Saturday was lazy as well (and once again, I haven't touched my 10 page theory paper due next week) and we watched another movie, cleaned house and then played games at Kate and Robi's until late. Rebecca managed to squeeze in going to a baptism for one of her Primary students while I was busy cleaning and running errands.
While it sounds like we didn't do much, I swear we did: it's more that we can't remember it all.
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