On trying new things

It’s been a while! Since school has started to pick up, I’ve been a little bit more busy—but of course, not too busy to go out and do/see new things. The last two Wednesdays, I’ve been going to Friends in Hand bar. It’s really quite an awesome bar; see the decorations.

There are several things that go on each Wednesday, the first event of the night is the balloon-blowing contest. Everyone blows until the balloon pops—girls first, then boys. Then there is a hula-hooping contest, then a “six-pack for a six-pack” contest. But the highlight of the night is this: crab racing! There are all these little hermit crabs, they put them in the middle of this huge round table, and then see which ones you can get to the edge of the table first.


Of course, you can pay 3 bucks and name a crab; the names are always rather entertaining, if not completely sexual. I’ll just leave that to your imagination. Anyways, if your crab wins, then you compete in a chocolate-salty-balls-eating contest (a la South Park), which includes licking the plate clean. Yup. But of course, wildly entertaining.


As for other things, Sina, Mickis, and I went to dim sum (or yum cha, as they call it here, and actually, more accurately so). They tried chicken (phoenix) feet! I’m so proud of them—of course it’s scary and weird! So here’s to trying new things!

Hmmm…now more to do with school. I developed my first roll of film today, and we’ll see prints next week, so perhaps I’ll post some up—although they’re probably not going to be any good, so don’t count on it. I also went to the International Exchange Fair today—did you know everybody and their mom who wants to go to California to study abroad generally wants to go to Berkeley? I had no idea it was so popular—although after talking to them, I guess it’s much more apparent that they simply don’t know that the other UC campuses are just as valid, Berkeley is just the most famous. Tomorrow, I start sailing lessons, so yay!

Oh, and on a completely unrelated note: I'm really sad about Natasha Richardson, I thought she was a great actress. And of course, it sucks for her kids.