Look!

I wish he would notice me...

Every girl must have a pair of clogs to protect themselves from...

Ooopsy, forgot to post these pictures of clogs that I want! More specifically now! I am seriously considering to buy the first ones this weekend because they are more realistic for me rather than the high heeled ones, which I doubt I can wear everyday.

"How come no one told me, all throughout history, the loneliest people where the ones who always spoke the truth..."

Counting down till the day I return home: 34 days.

This weekend was quite a productive weekend. Okay, maybe productive is not the word. Lets say eventful because I was out and about doing lots and seeing lots of different places and people... but I failed to do all my homework. At least I finished some, thats good, right?

On Friday, I went to the Legion of Honor with my friend Sam. I have not been there in a while so I decided to accompany him because I needed to get some use out of museum membership. I also thought I could get Sam in for free because usually with the memberships you are allowed one free guest but I found out my membership is only a student membership and only accounts for me. T.T I felt quite bad because I told Sam I could get him in. Thankfully he is a nonchalant sort of guy to care about having to pay for his admission. It was nice to see the European collection at the Legion but it is always the same pieces and it can sometimes bore me... I should not say that, especially because I am an Art History Major... but it is always boring if you see the same exact pieces all the time. Then again, there is a reason these are called "Permanent" collections.

Anyways, before we went to the museum Sam and I decided to take a very small scenic walk to see the Golden Gate Bridge, the water, and the other side (Saulsalito, Marin County, etc), which was so beautifully green and lush. Ah, how I miss the outdoors. It is quite odd to know that across from SF, a pretty dirty and compact city, are untouched beautiful wilderness that extends far up north and leads into Oregon and then to Washington State. Quite the contrast. Maybe that is why I like being in SF because no matter how much I get sick of the city I know that I can retreat into the wilderness across the bridge. Now if only I can find someone with a car who would not mind taking a trip further up north from SF. After Sam and I were done with the Museum we headed back to school. At that point I was starving and famished so I called my friend Mary and we went to have dinner at People's Cafe on Haight. Nothing fancy, if anything it is far from fancy, but I love this cafe because everyone is so chill and unpretentious. I ordered a nicoise salad and a side of sweet potato/yam fries. Mary got a burger cause she is an "All American Girl" (JK Mary!) ha, she would die if she heard me call her that because that is not how she would describe herself... and nor would I. Thankfully Mary and I have the same sort of humor, except I am more grotesque and uncensored. After we were stuffed we decided to get dessert. Yes, my body was screaming for mercy, but I did not want to listen and ended up getting the chocolate cake, which the worker heated up for me! Now that is customer service for ya. After I watched Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou with Jake and Andy and almost fell into a food coma. It would have been severe enough to send me snoring off into space. But of course Steve's beautiful, shirtless, untouched, unairbrushed body kept me up... wanting more. ha.

The next day, went to the Farmers Market at the Ferry Plaza with a bunch of friends. I had never been there, how sad it that right? I have been living here in SF for about 2 years and have never been to the Farmers Market. Lame. Overall I liked the Farmers Market, beaucoup. But it was way too crowded for my taste. This farmers market is certainly larger than the one I went to back home (KCC Farmers Market) There were so many delicious looking produce and prepared food waiting to be served. I ended up having oysters at this oyster stand, a yogurt from St. Benoit Yogurts, and a morning bread from the Noe Vallery Bakery stand. Everything was good, except for the pastry, which did not seem fresh and a bit too plain for my taste. After I headed to the De Young Museum for a symposium my two classmates were chosen to speak at. It went really well and I was quite proud of both of them! At night David and I watched "The Shining" because he ended up choosing the movie. It was a great movie, especially because David was having a freak fest when he realized that the naked blond woman was about to turn into the ugly, moldy, dead corpse. Seriously, it was quite funny and loud enough to make my neighbors send me a text to quite down a little. LOL.

Sunday was a nice day, went to Starbucks to see my beautiful Mary and her new haircut, which I loved and could not stop raving about ALL DAY. Got an iced dark coffee and a Banana Walnut bread. Did a little research on Native Hawaiian Art for a Gallery Proposal for class and then went to have lunch with Mary. After we just ended up watching the film "The Importance of Being Earnest", which is based on the play by Oscar Wilde. It was a funny lil' film. I enjoyed it more than I thought, even though it was quite corny. I had no idea Oscar Wilde was such a corny and hopeless romantic. There is nothing wrong with that, I like my men like that. Okay, not really. But Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, and Reese Witherspoon were hilarious and great in character! Okay I should get going, I have class soon, what a dreadful time I shall have. Till next time.

Virus go AWAY!

So, here I am sick... again. Seriously, what is up with my Immune system? It seems to hate me so much that it has given up doing his job. I feel like I am going insane here because I am cooped up in my room and can't leave. Well I have a meeting at 6:30 for a group meeting and I have not yet done the reading. I was planning on doing everything today, i.e. homework, readings, research, etc. But now that I am sick I do not want to do anything except for sleep. I have the worst luck.

Anyways yesterday was a pretty fun day.

Went to the Mission with Jake.

We went to Dynamo Donuts on 24th and Hampshire. Unfortunately there were no bacon and maple donuts so I settled for the Chocolate Star Anise and the Coconut donut. Jake just got a Coconut Donut. Yes, I know. I am a fatass. I ate the Chocolate Star Anise and it from the first bite I could feel the texture and density of the donut. "No wonder the donuts are small", I wondered to myself. The chocolate is not sweet at all, so of course I liked it. It was a mix between a thick and dense semi-sweet chocolate donut with a coating of sweeter chocolate on top with bits of chocolate mixed. I saved the coconut donut to eat for breakfast the next day, which I just had a little while ago. Jake had his donut and I took a bite of it. I have to say that I enjoyed it more than the Chocolate Star Anise. The coconut had large flakes of dried coconut on top of a lighter donut with a white chocolate coconut coating. It was sweeter but a lot less dense than the chocolate donut I had. Overall to put it this way I will quote my friend Jake when he took a bite of my donut, "Oohh, it tastes like Dunkin Donuts." I just laughed in delight... because I think Jake is right. The donuts reminded me of the ones at Dunkin Donuts. I honestly thought the donuts were going to be better because of all the damn reviews on Yelp. Everyone swore that the donuts would be great, blah, blah. But they were just okay. I have had better and I don't think I will be back again. They were good but not good enough to WANT to take trip back out to Dynamo's. Maybe it is because I did not have their famous bacon and maple donut, you know, the one that got them on Food Network's Show: "The Best Thing I Ever Ate." Though the donuts did not live up to it's hype I would have to say that the cafe itself was really petite and cute and the guy working the cash register was very nice and helpful. Plus he was pretty cute. Ha.

Then walked down 24th street and saw some festival with music, food stands, and dancing. It was a nice surprise to walk through the crowd and see everyone having a great time. We went to Humphrey to see what flavors they had that day. They had my favorite, "Secret Breakfast" and Jake's "Blue Bottle Vietnamese Coffee" flavor but it was too cold and windy for ice cream so we decided to forgo it and went to El Farrolito instead for Mexican. I just got a Suiza because I had a donut earlier and was still a bit filled. Jake got a burrito, a suiza, and a side of refried beans. The suiza was filling and good as usual. Jake only had his suiza and saved the burrito and beans for his dinner. After we walked further up 24th and passed the Mission Public Library. Jake finally got his public library card and I borrowed three movies: "The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou", "Capote", and "When Harry Met Sally." Then we decided to go to Anthony's Cookies because we were near and that is what we did. Jake and I split the half dozen and got the Cookies and Cream, 2 Whole Wheat Oatmeal semi sweet chocolate chips, a semi sweet chocolate chip cookie, a toffee cookie,and a cinnamon sugar cookie. I wanted PB and the Banana Walnut but they were just making a new batch and I didn't want to wait so I just picked other cookies. I tried a sample of both of those when they had them on the sample tray and man oh man, they were delicious. Jake and I saved our cookies for later because we were too full and I wanted to eat mines with my soy milk. After we went down Valencia St. and passed a couple of interesting stores such as: The Scarlet Sage store, Little Otsu, and The Curiosity Shoppe. We finally got to the 33 bus stop and went back to school.

That night I had a yogurt and an orange for dinner because I thought I needed to eat a little lighter and healthier for dinner... but then I forgot about the cookies and when I remembered them... I finished all three. They were positively amazing. It is as if little pieces of heaven dropped down from the sky and came to us in the form of cookies. So delicious... just thinking about them makes me want to salivate... anyways, before bed I watched "When Harry Met Sally." The movie was fantastico! Okay well I must get going now. Though I am sick there is still lots to do!

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