spring break part I

been on a break since thursday. feels weird to not have to do anything. as an added bonus, we had lovely weather the last couple of days. i was actually able to walk out yesterday in just a t-shirt and jeans and without thermals! so cool. or warm. whatever. hehe. my arms have not seen the light of day in a while. didn't notice i was getting so pale.

funny story: i have been craving for a margarita for a couple of weeks now and my friends here humored me and we went on a "liquor run" thursday night. fyi, thursday was st patrick's day so people were commemorating it by doing what the irish do, which apparently, is getting drunk. so we went out at around 930 at night i guess looking for jose cuervo tequila, margarita mix and ice. the first place we went to was a kroger (a supermarket) but strangely enough they didn't carry jose cuervo. stranger still was that they carried some other jose cuervo products like mixes and stuff but no tequila. we tried another grocery and same thing. only available tequila was carlos tequila which comes from no one knows where. we then went to a liquor store which happens to be closed (at before 10pm?! on st. patrick's day?!?) a convenience store (carries carlos too but no joe) and lastly to another kroger. it was then that we figured out that they didn't sell undiluted tequila. everything was diluted. even the vodka. geez. so weird. . . when you could get a bottle of tequila at a gas station back home. so we settled for a prepared margarita which was not very good. . . didn't even give me allergies:) i guess that's the trouble with hanging out with other grad students. they never know where the good booze is. . . hehe.

we also went frisbee golfing (?) yesterday. the course was near hoover dam (this confused the heck out of me. . . the hoover dam is in ohio?. . . apparently this is the other hoover dam). this was, of course, the first time i've played. frisbee golf is, well, like golf, instead you play it with a frisbee that you try to shoot through different metallic baskets in the course. there also 18 "holes" in the course. interesting and a bit tiring since you do have to fetch your frisbee. and my frisbee of course went in all directions, except for the one towards the basket. so i was pretty much running all over the place:) was fun though since the weather was so nice and it would have been a waste to spend it indoors.

i've also seen three movies in three days. wooohoooo. saw garden state wednesday night. pretty good. but i think guys would enjoy it more (girls get zach braff and guys get natalie portman? not very well balanced.). but it is worth seeing. thursday night was napoleon dynamite. weird, weird movie. was funny sometimes but didn't get some of it. or maybe it was because of the margarita. . . most disturbing scene for me though was the girls in blue sequined dresses doing hand movements to backstreet boys' "larger than life". . . *shudder*. last night was the incredibles. still thought it was funny even if i've seen it before. . . plus the dvd has the animated short "jack-jack attack". sooooo funny. actually saw it twice. i highly recommend getting (or netflix-ing) that dvd.

i've one more week of vacation left! yey!