The past few days have been fantastic, relatively productive, and thoroughly enjoyable. Friday, I planned to wake up early and work on lots of different things. Instead, about fifteen minutes before my alarm clock was to go off, Justin called. Taking his brother to the airport took longer than anticipated, and he was too late for his 9:00 class to go. YAY. He came over and we spent the morning lounging around and doing not much of anything.
Justin ended up taking a nap, and I got some stuff done. We then went with Giulia to a mother/daughter owned coffee shop where I had the best mocha flavored milkshake of my life. Then we went home and made the most delicious cheeseburgers with Anya and Alex. They had yummy cheese (I don't remember what it was called, but it was dutch and yummy), crisp lettuce, bacon, avocado, grilled onions, barbecue sauce, ketchup, grainy mustard, and fantastic brown buns. We then had this yummy chocolate covered peanuts and this sweet brioche-type bread with some sweet stuff on top. We watched the office and played catchphrase.
On Saturday, we woke up early to venture to Deltaworken, the best little amusement park slash war memorial in the Netherlands. It was a family park dedicated to the delta works project that keeps the country from flooding. We watched a video, looked at cute zeehouden (seals!), climbed into a whale's vagina (where we did NOT find a transporter to San Diego), and toured this crazy bridge-y flood prevention gate. look around for yourself here. It was really interesting to see from the dutch perspective, their fight against the mortal enemy: WATER!!!!! I made a yummy dinner with Justin, then went to a cute student bar that also has a movie theater. We played cards and had gin and ginger ales.
Sunday, we all made delicious brioche french toast for brunch. Then I went to the gym and did some more work. I accidentally fell asleep while I was reading, which meant that I missed the first last sunset as that was the end of daylight savings here in the Netherlands, so I had a really late dinner. It was appropriately, TAPAS! spicy potatoes, broccolini sauteed in butter and garlic, and yummy toast with Mediterranean olive tapenade and manchego cheese. It was fantastic. I really enjoy cooking, and cooking with Justin is fun. I also found out that my Dutch class today was cancelled because my instructor is stuck in Buenos Aires, poor Bonny.
After sleeping in, I did about a week's worth of dishes that had been piling up in my room. I went down the four flights of stairs to fetch my clean laundry, only to find out that the dryers are not working. So I lugged to washer's worth of wet laundry upstairs and concocted a dazzling array of hanging apparatuses. Luckily today was sunny, unlike most of last week, so it is all pretty much dry by now. I went to this cafe/bar down the street from my house to meet up and do some reading. I only read one chapter of "The McDonaldization of Society" but I'm already fascinated.
I finally decided that I've been spending enough time at my own house to warrant real grocery shopping again. Today, I bought some arborio rice, and I've begun the search for online risotto recipes.
I just found out that I did not get the affordable housing and community development internship. Apparently there were 39 applicants for 3 spots. Damn the economy; last year there were more like ten spots. There goes the easy $4,000 summer job. Now I have to find a paid internship on my own, or get a real job. Hopefully something works out with the center for food & justice at UEPI. They usually pay well. I'm also applying for a summer senior interviewer position. That job means I would get to interview the incoming freshman applicants. It would be interesting to see that side of the admissions process.
If anyone knows of anything in L.A. that pays, I'll take it.
M3・KG
13 years ago
