Blue checkered-print sunglasses

I saw this and laughed out loud:


Madeline didn't hear me because she is a-nappin'!

I'm currently in New Haven. I left San Juan early Tuesday morning (flight left at 6 AM). I was really tired (and still am tired) but I think it's worth it because there are few things that irk me more than losing an entire day because of travel. If you can avoid spending all day traveling...you should. I'm really glad I took this trip and got to see many good friends. New England is beautiful (but pretty hot, meh whatevs) in summer and walking around New Haven makes me really nostalgic. I miss last summer and just Yale. It's funny because often I feel completely detached from Yale and as if I could just leave that time behind me (which, of course, is silly nonsense). It's really easy to lose sight of good times and friendships when Yale held some of the most difficult and stressful points in life. When you're here during summer and not under the constant pressure of exams and papers, it's much easier to focus on the positive. Hence the feel-good-ness of this little paragraph.

I spent Tuesday-Friday at Steph and Val's home in New Jersey. I really have to thank their family, their Mom, especially. I had a great time and was never once hungry :D (this is my main concern at home...survival-by-scavenge first, then social interaction). We played laser tag and mini golf with Anthony and Timmy. "Solo sole" Steph lost a shoe when she accidentally stepped in a bit of mini-golf pond in an attempt to rescue Val's golf ball. It's okay because she went on to win the game. There were some pretty spiffy pars and more than one or two occasions where some of us were forced to "take the six." The six was either an earned six or an undeserved six (ie. you had putted the ball six+ times and just gave up after the third time it landed in the water. Or if you just guided the ball into the hole because there were people catching up...that's it). However, probably THE MOST IMPORTANT THING...I saw a bunny on the course! I totally forgot I had seen a bunny until Steph and Val reminded me a few days later. I also saw a chipmunk, some Canadian geese, a turkey vulture (haha yes it's real), some really adorable deer nomming on grass, and turtles-on-a-log(!).

Went to a free skate session. We also met up with Anthony, Cori, and Erin. I really enjoyed playing speedmiton :P and blongo and Telestrations which is sort of like telephone meets pictionary.

Let's see...We did a lot of stuff this week. Friday we spent in the city where we went to the Central Park Zoo and then the Museum of Natural History. I swear, I've been to the AMNH before but I somehow missed the marine life center and the biodiversity hall and basically the first three floors. I had seen dinosaurs there and maybe some halls of North American mammals. We saw the mineral hall which is always one of my favorite areas in museums.

Now I'm in New Haven and what I can say is good people good food. In fact, this entire trip can be summarized by great people and great food. It's really nice to see friends again and not scavenge around in my kitchen (my typical lunch at home is one or two Kellog's bars, some cheese, and toast. Oh, and maybe some fruit snacks). When Madeline and I went to Mia's last night our waiter brought us a complimentary miso soup and then a free sake bomb which we drank at the same time with the (Korean?) girls that were sitting in the adjacent table. When we first sat down, I kept making faces at how ridiculous the waiter was with these girls and how he started bringing them free stuff (on the house Tokyo Fro and Miso Soup). I thought that he might have caught me making faces which led him to bring miso soup but I think he was just nuts. Somehow Madeline and I ate everything. And drank everything. It was good :D Earlier I went to Seoul with Ben, had some stone pot bi bim bap and now I know how to say thank you in Korean: "Kam sam ni da" ... at least that's my romanization of it. Ben was speaking Korean up and down all over the place but I felt pretty proud of my "thank you" at the end, haha. Then we went to FroYo World where I sort of, kind of, maybe accidentally served myself $6-something worth of froyo and toppings.

Linna and Madeline and I made it all the way to the Pantry this morning for breakfast. We got there super early, but alas! there was already a wait. Regardless, it wasn't too long before we got to sat down. We all had eggs benedict and some peach pancakes. After we left I thought I was going to pass out on the sidewalk from so much eating.

The days are so long and we've done so much that I feel like I've been here much longer. I like the eternal feel of summer when it's still summer. But it's so sad at the end when you realize that the days are dwindling, the winds are picking up, and you'll stay in one day and emerge to a landscape of autumn trees. True story.

Peace, yo. My kindle gets here tomorrow :>