monkey nonsense

ramen and pork buns at momofuku - i didn’t get pictures at this place… i think either tim or tina (or both) have pictures of the food. but maaaaan, that was some good pork bun! it was so tender and greasy (i mean that in a good, tasty way). i wasn’t even […]

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warning: it’s nasty… but if it weren’t my toe and if it didn’t hurt so much and mean that my toe would be messed up for awhile, i’d actually think it’d be quite cool.
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i pulled a “talida” (she was the first person to do it) and opened a metal door onto my toe. i […]

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a bunch of random things to blog about…
1. parents love wii. so last weekend when i was home, i told my parents to reserve at least 2 hours on mother’s day because we were going to do something! my family rarely does anything besides eat meals together. after each meal, my […]

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i usually post rants about my frustrating commute home.  today, i thought i’d post just because it went so well!
at 5:26, i entered the station.  a train to vienna was due to arrive in 2 minutes.  not a bad wait at all!
at 5:28, i got on the train.  it was an 8 car train!  weee!!  […]

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tim and talida got me freakonomics for christmas this year. it had already started reading the book on some of my visits to barnes and nobles but had been too cheap to buy it myself.
i liked it. i liked the weird relationships that the author of freakonomics investigated. it almost made me […]

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this weekend, derek was in town visiting old friends.  i ended up meeting him, nancy, and one of his old high school friends, amelia, at teaism in dupont.
the place was pretty cute with unique decor.  a small little tea house (seating upstairs) right next door to a starbucks, hahaha.  they served both breakfast and lunch […]

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so one of my coworkers heard about this fancy hot dog place near adams morgan (a little over a mile away from my office)… we decided to make the trek a couple of wednesdays ago.
the place is owned/started by the same people who run the late night falafel shop in adams morgan too.  my coworker […]

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so this morning, my stomach was upset. majorly upset. the lesson to learn here… eat less. i had 2 dinners last night (albeit one of them was really small, just taste testing someone else’s cooking and no, i don’t think it was that dinner that upset my stomach. i think it […]

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