May 26, 2008
I wake up late and go shopping for food. Get some goods so I can make linguini with clam sauce, eggplant Portobello lasagna, and homemade pizza.
I get back and figure from Miah’s away that he’s at Spamps’ BBQ. I speak to Kenny says he assumed there would’ve been a call made or something by Spamps. Whatever, not a big deal we weren’t invited.
Hasan surprisingly calls me early for plans at 6:30. I call Miah and it turns out that he is at Spamps’. I repeatedly ask him to make sure that he’ll call me when they’re done eating. I go out to practice for my roadtest next week and realize eventually that I haven’t gotten a call back from him for the entire night. Well, what can ya say.
Aaron then tells me that Scott didn’t really want that many people going to his place. That’s why I felt it was awkward to call him, though I did need to ask Spamps if he wanted to go because he’s a ride. Then again, I was nice enough to ask Miah and give him a call. (Ironies?)
Kenny and I speak about it and we figure that basically “problems” arisen that sometimes may be pointed at me can actually be based on how people deal with things like girls, by keeping things quiet and behind others backs. I guess honesty isn’t a well liked virtue amongst the others like how I operate with it. Would be a lot easier if Scott pulled an ultimatum and clearly stated how he wanted to deal with us four in the car. Instead, people probably think Scott’s fine with people trying to slip into his house when it’s truthfully against his will.
Kenny tries to get things going and we get Alon to pick him and I up. We then are able to contact Spamps and we go to pick him up. I take the high road and call Miah after not getting a call back the whole night.
When I call Spamps, it turns out that Miah’s still there and no one knew this. They then have to decide like women if they want to get out of the house and we have to sit in the car waiting for them. I try to figure things out with Miah and how he didn’t call back. Granted, he has phone issues and that’s why he didn’t pick up, but he basically blows off his bullshit as usual.
DnD is closed so we go back to Spamps’ place. A few interesting conversations are brought up. First is how Spamps sees that he eats “correctly.” He first says that he eats two meals a day. That is already something to laugh at. You’re supposed to eat six small meals a day to keep a consistent flow of food instead of stuffing oneself and hoarding back up hours later at the next meal. He gives the impression that it’s unreasonable to do that, but an obese person might say that about not eating 4500 calories a day.
A good eating regiment would involve the small meals, getting proteins from non-red meats like chicken, fish, beans, soy, eating darker green vegetables that have substance unlike watery lettuce and bullshit, and eating whole grains instead of nutrition less white shit.
Granted, I’ve tried to go as far as possible with this and it isn’t easy. Not because it physically is any harder to reach for cottage cheese and fruit instead of eggs/bacon, but because people like sweet/fatty/unhealthy food. People are lazy, what can you do?
Also, diet is pretty useless without exercise. It’s like trying to play basketball being a good shooter yet not being able to dribble. The two go hand in hand with basketball and the same goes with exercise and nutrition for fitness.
Granted, this is all from the view of someone that doesn’t actually abide by these suggestions. I don’t exercise at all other than our pick up basketball and I’ve easily gained at least 5 lbs this semester.
Another interesting thing is how I poked about how I needed to pick up cigarettes. I know that someone is going to jump on that and Miah does. I then throw out how I’ve smoked a pack in two weeks. Going to hookah a few times easily beats that out. We’ve also been there like 5 times since we’ve been back. Hypocrisy much?
Miah then says how about, “You smoke weed?” I correct him for the millionth time because of his weird biases. I am by no means of the imagination a “smoker” in that sense. That’s like saying someone who plays videogames at a friend’s house when there’s nothing to do is a “gamer.” Or to call us “b ballers” from our “faux” basketball games. Classifying to that extent involves ritualistic behavior instead of a sporadic, spontaneous nature. I’ve probably smoked like 4 times since the beginning of the semester. Miah has easily taken more damage in his lungs from doing a single BBQ.
At Alex’s, I spend some time on YouTube looking for child porn/jailbait. This is based on how I’ve been introduced to 4chan. The place is weird as hell and has channels for people interested in guns, trains, television, gay anime pornography, child pornography, boobs, etc. In the end, most of the stuff there is random and boring unless you’re specifically interested in one of the categories. Even then, as assumed, most people aren’t funny and the shit just gets boring.
Most of the fun comes from trying to form your own comedy out of what people post.
May 28, 2008
At 3:00ish, Miah calls me about how his mother kicked him out of the house to get a job. Apparently, she wants him to just walk all the way to the park service and get a job, when a simple phone call would do the same. Whatever, he walks down to my house and we go for a walk. We call Spamps, but he has to take a shower and whatnot business. Alon is with Kenny and David Simon hanging around.
Miah and I decide to walk around in H Mart. Alon and the two join us. I get Miah to try dried seaweed, which is used in sushi. He also tries dried stringy squid. I’m surprised he’s willing to do so, but doesn’t like either.
We then randomly see Miah’s mother in the store and sneak ourselves out so that Miah doesn’t have to deal with her. Hasan then comes from class. Alon and David leave. Kenny, Miah, Hasan, and I sit in the car for a while until we figure to get dinner.
There is actually a good plan to go to H Mart, get Korean BBQ goods and make it ourselves. We could either go to
On a whim, we start driving towards a restaurant in
When we get to the restaurant, it’s obviously expensive. Last break that I went with Hasan and Kenny, it ended up costing almost $20 a person. I figure that I’m probably not getting anything because of how expensive the menu is. Kenny then says, “Okay, we’re getting 4 orders of the $25 beef BBQ. Otherwise, it won’t be enough food.” I mean… That’s $100 without tax and tip…
I’m like, well I’m not eating since it’s that expensive. Then Kenny seems to come to an epiphany that Hasan’s not paying for a $100 dinner. He then points out that he has $1 in his wallet.
There’s then awkward silence. I say, “Well it seems to me that people don’t want to eat here.” In the end, Kenny has to borrow a lot of money, so I’m not sure he wanted to stay. Miah’s annoyed the rest of the day he has to pay so much for dinner. I’m not sure why they don’t say something about leaving because we haven’t even ordered yet….
I decide not to order anything. As with Korean BBQ, they give a lot of side dishes. I eat the generic Asian salad of lettuce, tomato, and ginger dressing. There’s also a congee thing.
The other side dishes are pretty much shitty. There’s a straight scallion dish, some kimchi stuff, a weird potato salad with fake crab, raisins, and peanuts. Basically out of all the 8 side dishes or so, only 2 are edible. One is a heavily seasoned tofu that does a good job imitating meat and has a lot of flavor. Another is a simple dark leaf vegetable cooked with garlic. I eat some of a grilled whole fish with head and tail in place, but it’s boney and has too strong of a fishy flavor.
I end up paying $5 for my part of picking at the side dishes. Almost all of the dishes are left untouched other than me trying them and staying away. The three have to pay $27 each for their meals.
We then go to Ralph’s for ice. On the way, Miah calls Lauren. We pass Creedmoor mental hospital. Lauren asks what we’re talking about. He says, “Creedmoor.” Hasan says, “Yeah, we’re talking about the Korean War.” Hahaha.
I shout out, “No way, we’re talking about
We later drop Kenny off at Alon’s so they can watch the Yankees game. We wait around for Spamps to finish dinner and we go there to play some Smash. Hasan for some reason leaves early at 9:00. I run home to switch to jeans because it’s going to get cold and for a snack. When I get back, Miah, Spamps, and I switch off Call of Duty, which is really fun.
Alon then comes and we try out his MLB game. It’s pretty good, though I lose badly to Spamps. We then play a really annoying tennis game. We switch to four player CoD until Alon wants to go home. We play on 4chan for a while until we depart before 3:00.
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