Well, in all honesty, there's not much to report. At least I don't think there is... I just got back from the surgeon's office, no new answers. I had a CT scan yesterday for all this stomach pain I've been having, but I feel like we might not learn a whole lot from that either. Mostly, I think I've decided that my digestive system just needs a break; so I'm going to be very nice to it and hopefully it will decide that it's ready to make peace. And the surgeon agrees that this might be an excellent choice for the time being--just taking no action. (Although my mom came up with another theory--that I may be allergic to gluten?)
In other news, most of my homework for tomorrow is done, although I do need to start working on my research paper. Actually, I should probably head over to the library and check out some books right now because I feel like I'm probably not going to do it later. It's going to be a busy next few weeks--I've got a couple of papers to write, grades to bring up, German verbs to memorize, RA orientations to attend, work to do... and a room to keep clean. And how could I forget? Class registration.
On Sunday, I think a few girls from my dorm are going to come to my mom's house for Cees Debedar (sp?). That should be fun. O! And I received a postcard from Portugal yesterday from my dear friend Alyssa! It was quite exciting--I've never received a postcard from Portugal before.
The weather was quite nice yesterday, and it is quite nice again today. I love the sunshine. All right, I think that's enough for now. I might take a bit of a nap before going to Individual Fitness in a little bit. And how could I forget?! On Tuesday night, Cary came to campus for dinner, and then Cary, David and I went and saw 300, which was amazing! I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys epic-action movies. Then last night, Cary came to campus for dinner again, and we went and got pizza (mine cheeseless, of course).
More soon, when I have something more interesting to write or remember... :-) Ari
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Father Killed by Ninjas, Need $$$ for Karate Lessons
I was glad to learn this past weekend that the fair homeless people of Seattle, or at least one of them, has decided to start appealing to Seattlite humor rather than their respective senses of moral duty. Imagine a very homeless-looking person in front of Westlake Center on a particularly windy and torrentially rainy Saturday morning with a four-foot tall sign reading the above title of this post.
In other news... Well, Soraya and I went up to Seattle on Saturday morning, but we ended up staying only through lunch as the new medication I was recently put on made me super-sick (I was silly enough to take it before driving up to Seattle without knowing what effect it would have on me). After all that, I ended up at Baba & Angi's house for a Norouz celebration-dinner with much family, food, etc. That was nice. On Sunday I went with David to his house for his mom's birthday--there was a large Parker clan gathering, babies included. After lunch (more like dinner, even though it was at noon), everyone taller than four feet trundled off to the movie theater to see Amazing Grace, a movie I would recommend. Even though it was a movie about abolition, I don't think it could have been funnier--funny in a witty-dialogue sort of way that is. Those Brits have an excellent sense of humor sometimes. So there you have it, go see it if you need something to and it's still in theaters.
Today was relatively unremarkable. I went to my classes, and I've been working on homework all day. I've finished my IPE reading for the week, the German homework for the night (minus the studying for the Verb Quiz on Friday), and finished one chapter and one assignment for Economics.
O, in other news, just to keep everyone updated on my weirdo health condition... I went to see my primary physician on Friday, and she has no idea what's wrong with my stomach. So I had a ton of bloodwork done on Friday after my appointment, and I'm getting a CT scan of my abdomen on Wednesday. I'm not really worried about the scan nearly so much as I'm working about having to drink the barium for it. I also have an appointment with my surgeon on Wednesday. It's going to be a doctor-ful day. And in other news, I have been put back on my un-exciting bland diet--as I described it to Deniz, it's low-fiber, low-fat, low-DELICIOUSNESS.
Tomorrow I've got work and it sounds like I might see Cary! He's in town, hooray for that! O, I should mention that I saw Kathryn off on Friday--well, sort of, I went over to her house and say goodbye before she left for the airport. I think that counts as seeing her off. Back to Maine, she goes! It does sounds like Cary and I will be heading out on a Cary-Ari date tomorrow.
I really need to put away my clothes and organize myself once again, but I've been far too focused on homework. I guess that's a good thing that I'm not trying to distract myself from the things that really require getting done--like reading. What does it matter that my room's a mess? Well, not much else to report at the moment, I'll be studying tomorrow morning, going to Fitness class, then off to work! More soon, :-) Ari
In other news... Well, Soraya and I went up to Seattle on Saturday morning, but we ended up staying only through lunch as the new medication I was recently put on made me super-sick (I was silly enough to take it before driving up to Seattle without knowing what effect it would have on me). After all that, I ended up at Baba & Angi's house for a Norouz celebration-dinner with much family, food, etc. That was nice. On Sunday I went with David to his house for his mom's birthday--there was a large Parker clan gathering, babies included. After lunch (more like dinner, even though it was at noon), everyone taller than four feet trundled off to the movie theater to see Amazing Grace, a movie I would recommend. Even though it was a movie about abolition, I don't think it could have been funnier--funny in a witty-dialogue sort of way that is. Those Brits have an excellent sense of humor sometimes. So there you have it, go see it if you need something to and it's still in theaters.
Today was relatively unremarkable. I went to my classes, and I've been working on homework all day. I've finished my IPE reading for the week, the German homework for the night (minus the studying for the Verb Quiz on Friday), and finished one chapter and one assignment for Economics.
O, in other news, just to keep everyone updated on my weirdo health condition... I went to see my primary physician on Friday, and she has no idea what's wrong with my stomach. So I had a ton of bloodwork done on Friday after my appointment, and I'm getting a CT scan of my abdomen on Wednesday. I'm not really worried about the scan nearly so much as I'm working about having to drink the barium for it. I also have an appointment with my surgeon on Wednesday. It's going to be a doctor-ful day. And in other news, I have been put back on my un-exciting bland diet--as I described it to Deniz, it's low-fiber, low-fat, low-DELICIOUSNESS.
Tomorrow I've got work and it sounds like I might see Cary! He's in town, hooray for that! O, I should mention that I saw Kathryn off on Friday--well, sort of, I went over to her house and say goodbye before she left for the airport. I think that counts as seeing her off. Back to Maine, she goes! It does sounds like Cary and I will be heading out on a Cary-Ari date tomorrow.
I really need to put away my clothes and organize myself once again, but I've been far too focused on homework. I guess that's a good thing that I'm not trying to distract myself from the things that really require getting done--like reading. What does it matter that my room's a mess? Well, not much else to report at the moment, I'll be studying tomorrow morning, going to Fitness class, then off to work! More soon, :-) Ari
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Springtime Brings Post #100
Today is the first whole day of Spring and my was it a pretty day... until this afternoon. Okay, this just happened and it was quite startling... Alyssa just came by looking for Anna, who I have assumed was not in the room since I got back from Aerobics... and then it turns out she's been in the room this whole time, I just haven't noticed. My skills of observation are less than satisfactory apparently. That was really a little creepy. Ahhhh...
Ah well. I can't even remember what I was going to write about, I was disturbed enough. Mostly I was going to write about Norouz, I think... And now I'm stuck, I've hit a block in my head, so I'm going to have to excuse myself at the moment and make a run to the bank. But more soon, never fear.
:-) Ari
Ah well. I can't even remember what I was going to write about, I was disturbed enough. Mostly I was going to write about Norouz, I think... And now I'm stuck, I've hit a block in my head, so I'm going to have to excuse myself at the moment and make a run to the bank. But more soon, never fear.
:-) Ari
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Portland Reunion
We just returned from our Portland adventure last night. David, Kathryn, and I drove down to Portland Thursday afternoon and spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday hanging out with Erin and Cary. It was quite nice to be reunited. On Thursday we went into downtown, somewhere around 23rd street, and checked out some shops, etc., then we had dinner at "the Bon" (Lewis & Clark's cafeteria). Then we went and saw the theater production that's going on right now, Iphigenia, the Greek tragedy and Bash, which was a set of two monologues. It was all really good. We met lots and lots of Erin's friends, including Erin's roomie, Lishka, who is super-nice. On Friday just David, Kathryn, and I went into downtown. Parking didn't go so well to begin with, as I ended up in some crazy parking lot where everyone double-parks and blocks one another in, and I had to back out of it. That was bad. Then we ended up parking across the street in a garage, where they take your keys in case you end up blocking someone in. It was rather sketchy since they really had no apparent system for remembering whose keys belong to whom/which car. So I was relatively convinced that my car was not going to be there when I got back. We proceeded to check out NikeTown and walk around the riverfront before getting lunch at Chipotle, which is comparable to Taco Del Mar. I remember all my Franklin friends were semi-obsessed with the delicousness of Chipotle, but I had never been... I don't know if we even have any in Washington...
We met up with Erin and Cary again around three in the afternoon on Friday, picked up a parking permit and David, Erin and Cary started up a game of four-square. This ended up attracting an enormous number of people, of course, as it always does for some reason. So that was entertaining. And all this time the weather was in the high-60s, low-70s, it was quite nice. We ended up going to a Cajun restaurant for dinner called Montage, which had good macaroni and not so good Gumbo and terrible service. The food was fairly good, but the service was pretty awful even though they make amazing foil animals out of the leftovers.
Then yesterday morning all of us (except Erin who had to do a tour and then go to rehearsal) went to the Saturday market then took the MAX over to the area Powell's is in, checked out a few thrift stores, went to Rocco's for pizza (well David and Cary had pizza, my system can't exactly handle it yet), then eventually went over to Powell's bookstore, browsed around for a while and then got seats at the PostSecret lecture by Frank Warren, which was very cool. After that we walked back to the car, took a couple pictures by the riverfront and then headed back home. And that's all to report for now, but more soon. :-) Ari
We met up with Erin and Cary again around three in the afternoon on Friday, picked up a parking permit and David, Erin and Cary started up a game of four-square. This ended up attracting an enormous number of people, of course, as it always does for some reason. So that was entertaining. And all this time the weather was in the high-60s, low-70s, it was quite nice. We ended up going to a Cajun restaurant for dinner called Montage, which had good macaroni and not so good Gumbo and terrible service. The food was fairly good, but the service was pretty awful even though they make amazing foil animals out of the leftovers.
Then yesterday morning all of us (except Erin who had to do a tour and then go to rehearsal) went to the Saturday market then took the MAX over to the area Powell's is in, checked out a few thrift stores, went to Rocco's for pizza (well David and Cary had pizza, my system can't exactly handle it yet), then eventually went over to Powell's bookstore, browsed around for a while and then got seats at the PostSecret lecture by Frank Warren, which was very cool. After that we walked back to the car, took a couple pictures by the riverfront and then headed back home. And that's all to report for now, but more soon. :-) Ari
Sunday, March 11, 2007
We're Carnivorous Too!
Yesterday was quite the day. David and I took Soraya up to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle; we got there around 10:30am. We were possibly the tallest exhibit participants there (yes, even myself)--anyone else our height was being dragged around by a toddler or elementary schooler... But no matter! We had a delightful time anyway. Our favorite exhibits were probably the ones involving mirrors that make you look funny and the shadow room, where you can pose in some funny way, a light flashes, and then your shadow is stuck on the wall. After going through four buildings of exhibits, including the featured Grossology exhibit, we went over to the IMAX theater and saw Hurricane on the Bayou, which was pretty amazing.
Sometime around 2:00pm we left the Pacific Science Center looking for other adventures. We had planned on driving down to Pike Place, but then realized that it would cost us just as much to take the Monorail roundtrip as it would to park for a couple of hours in downtown. So, of course, we took the Monorail. We had lunch at Westlake Center (Greek food for all), then headed down to Pike Place. We bought Oma some tulips, picked up some of those delicious itty-bitty donuts near the place with the fish-throwing (the donut-man puts on quite a show too, apparently), and then went over to Three Sisters and picked up a couple of cheese danishes for my mom (as well as a blueberry scone for David, a pretzel for Soraya, and a chocolate chip cookie for me). The man at the bakery ended up throwing in another cookie for a free since it was broken, although we couldn't really find any defect with it.
Then as we were headed back toward the Monorail, these two guys were putting on a pretty amazing show on the corner outside Nordstrom--the one was playing the bagpipe, the other was beating on makeshift drums and bottles, and they had an itty bitty dancing robot in front of them! It was pretty spectacular. So we hung out and listened to them for a bit before heading back up to the Monorail, which ended up being temporarily out-of-commission translating into a 25-minute wait. We didn't want to walk back at that point because it was pouring down rain. And it just started raining harder by the time we were walking back to the car. Then we safely drove home, stopped by the dorms to pick up a few odds and ends (like laundry), dropped David off at his house, and continued onto to Oma's hosue for dinner (ghoulash).
Then we came home and watched a show on Killer Squid. And we haven't done anything too much exciting today, just some cleaning, and for Soraya, some homework. We were going to go to Art & Soul, but I'm afraid that plan has been postponed by Soraya's homework. And then David and Shahla and the boys are coming over for dinner. So that's happy. And I'll post some Pacific Science Center pictures soon.
:-) Ari
Sometime around 2:00pm we left the Pacific Science Center looking for other adventures. We had planned on driving down to Pike Place, but then realized that it would cost us just as much to take the Monorail roundtrip as it would to park for a couple of hours in downtown. So, of course, we took the Monorail. We had lunch at Westlake Center (Greek food for all), then headed down to Pike Place. We bought Oma some tulips, picked up some of those delicious itty-bitty donuts near the place with the fish-throwing (the donut-man puts on quite a show too, apparently), and then went over to Three Sisters and picked up a couple of cheese danishes for my mom (as well as a blueberry scone for David, a pretzel for Soraya, and a chocolate chip cookie for me). The man at the bakery ended up throwing in another cookie for a free since it was broken, although we couldn't really find any defect with it.
Then as we were headed back toward the Monorail, these two guys were putting on a pretty amazing show on the corner outside Nordstrom--the one was playing the bagpipe, the other was beating on makeshift drums and bottles, and they had an itty bitty dancing robot in front of them! It was pretty spectacular. So we hung out and listened to them for a bit before heading back up to the Monorail, which ended up being temporarily out-of-commission translating into a 25-minute wait. We didn't want to walk back at that point because it was pouring down rain. And it just started raining harder by the time we were walking back to the car. Then we safely drove home, stopped by the dorms to pick up a few odds and ends (like laundry), dropped David off at his house, and continued onto to Oma's hosue for dinner (ghoulash).
Then we came home and watched a show on Killer Squid. And we haven't done anything too much exciting today, just some cleaning, and for Soraya, some homework. We were going to go to Art & Soul, but I'm afraid that plan has been postponed by Soraya's homework. And then David and Shahla and the boys are coming over for dinner. So that's happy. And I'll post some Pacific Science Center pictures soon.
:-) Ari
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Just like Ong-Bak, Thai Warrior
Not much to report. I had my Econ midterm today, now I just have a German quiz on Friday, and then I'm homefree! Mostly I wanted to write this because David almost accidentally snapped my arm, much in the same manner that Ong-Bak Thai warrior purposefully snaps his enemies' limbs. If you have not seen Ong-Bak or The Protector, I would recommend renting one or both sometime in the near future.
Alyssa and Anna (and inherently, myself) are watching The Departed. What an excellent movie. I've mostly been up to lots of studying, went to work yesterday (and did many hours of service filing, the bane of my existence...), and cycling on the little reclining stationary bikes in the Fitness Center. So, there you have it. O, and a great deal of planning for our Oregon Adventure.
That's all for now! More soon. :-) Ari
Alyssa and Anna (and inherently, myself) are watching The Departed. What an excellent movie. I've mostly been up to lots of studying, went to work yesterday (and did many hours of service filing, the bane of my existence...), and cycling on the little reclining stationary bikes in the Fitness Center. So, there you have it. O, and a great deal of planning for our Oregon Adventure.
That's all for now! More soon. :-) Ari
Monday, March 05, 2007
Back in the planning business
Goodness, what a good day! My Econ homework is done, my IPE homework is done, my German review isn't due until Wednesday... I just need to study for my Econ test (on Wednesday) and my German quiz (on Friday). In other news, today we had beautiful weather! Well, by Washington standards. There was sunshine and it was 55 degrees--actually according to AccuWeather, it's still 55 degrees...
Apart from the weather, other things have been good too. I talked to both Kathryn and Erin today and figured out some spring break plans. Kathryn's getting in super-late on Wednesday night it sounds like, so we're going to leave for Portland on Thursday. Then we're going to drive David down to Eugene to hang out with Matt and Corydon and maybe spend some of the day down there. Then Kathryn and I are going to go back to Portland, I think. Plans are not set in stone just yet, but they will be soon.
David and I are planning on taking Soraya up to the Pacific Science Center this weekend to see the Grossology exhibit and maybe seen an IMAX movie. That should be fun. Anna (my roomie) is having surgery on Friday; it sounds like her mom is flying over to be there with her and to take her home for Spring Break, so that's good. I was a bit worried about her having to be alone! Other Spring Break plans... We might go out to Port Townsend one day, maybe go rock climbing to visit Lindsay, but mostly I think we're just going to hang out around here and spend some time at home. O, then of course there's some work to be done, I'm sure.
I talked to my dad today and it sounds like I'll be spending about three weeks on the boat, although it doesn't sound like we'll be heading up to Alaska this summer. That means I've already booked up five of my summer weeks--three to boating and two to Resident Assistant training. Hopefully that will still leave lots of time for sunshine and seeing people.
We went over to David's house for his family birthday party yesterday. His mom made us reuben sandwiches and then we had lemon cake. The babies were quite adorable.
Hmm... in other news, David and I ate cheeseless pizza from the Cellar at school. It was good. That's about it. More soon. :-) Ari
Apart from the weather, other things have been good too. I talked to both Kathryn and Erin today and figured out some spring break plans. Kathryn's getting in super-late on Wednesday night it sounds like, so we're going to leave for Portland on Thursday. Then we're going to drive David down to Eugene to hang out with Matt and Corydon and maybe spend some of the day down there. Then Kathryn and I are going to go back to Portland, I think. Plans are not set in stone just yet, but they will be soon.
David and I are planning on taking Soraya up to the Pacific Science Center this weekend to see the Grossology exhibit and maybe seen an IMAX movie. That should be fun. Anna (my roomie) is having surgery on Friday; it sounds like her mom is flying over to be there with her and to take her home for Spring Break, so that's good. I was a bit worried about her having to be alone! Other Spring Break plans... We might go out to Port Townsend one day, maybe go rock climbing to visit Lindsay, but mostly I think we're just going to hang out around here and spend some time at home. O, then of course there's some work to be done, I'm sure.
I talked to my dad today and it sounds like I'll be spending about three weeks on the boat, although it doesn't sound like we'll be heading up to Alaska this summer. That means I've already booked up five of my summer weeks--three to boating and two to Resident Assistant training. Hopefully that will still leave lots of time for sunshine and seeing people.
We went over to David's house for his family birthday party yesterday. His mom made us reuben sandwiches and then we had lemon cake. The babies were quite adorable.
Hmm... in other news, David and I ate cheeseless pizza from the Cellar at school. It was good. That's about it. More soon. :-) Ari
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