Blueyville, the blog

Saturday was one of my nicest days this semester, as I actually did little work and saw a lot of people. Richard and I met Monica, and eventually Risa and her boyfriend, because Monica wanted to take me to tea and brunch for my birthday (which, admittedly, was about 3.5 months ago, but I still appreciate a suprise birthday tea). We went to Alice’s Tea Cup, a really lovely and tiny tea shop that had all kinds of cute Alice in Wonderland/tea party decorations, as well as plenty of very good food. I get rather excited to eat tasty food outside of the dining hall. It was brunch, and I had poached eggs on scones with smoked salmon and rosemary hollendaise sauce, with roasted asparagus and pears, Alice’s tea, and a ginger cookie from Richard. I hope Monica doesn’t mind if I steal her giant photo of it:

After everyone wandered around Urban Outfitters for a bit, Richard and I went downtown to buy…my IPOD ahh!! So I now have a beautiful little white iPod, who is patiently awaiting a collection of music.

Next we met Ricky at the new Union Square Trader Joe’s. There was a line outside, but it wasn’t a very long wait, and the line to check out wrapped around the store but we picked up more food along the way. I bought avocados, cereal, a recycled toothbrush, and other good things. The three of us went back to Ricky’s dorm to hang out for a while and eventually went to dinner at a thai restaurant Ricky likes. So we had more yummy food (vegetables & chicken with peanut-coconut curry sauce), and Ricky and Richard each ordered a glass of wine effortlessly and without any ID. Though we know nothing about wine (despite having seen Sideways!), Richard and I liked the glass we shared. The restaurant felt very much like New York, with funny white chairs and lights and our table near the door on the street. That was all good, though, and fun.

But today: research, paper proposal and bibliography, blah blah, etc., laundry, and fun with new iPod.