2012, a monday
Venice! Lora, Ben and I met Nathan, Megan, Jula and Terry at Venice Ale House on the Boardwalk. Had a nice but long (not by choice) brunch. I had a really awesome bloody mary made with soju. Spent the next few hours walking along the boardwalk and watching the skateboarders. Back to Hollywood, finished packing up, and relaxed a bit before Lora dropped me off at Elaine’s. Had a chill night with Elaine – ate Indian food, had my first ‘the Bachelor’ experience (conclusion: all of those girls are freaking psycho). I really enjoyed the familiarity of being at Elaine’s and just hanging out like we’ve done so many times before.

2011, a sunday
another night with only five hours of sleep, maximum. rained all day here in LA. elaine picked me up and we met up with renee and terry for lunch in little tokyo. elaine and I both got the new year special soup – ozoni! chicken soup with veggies and big balls of mochi. I got the mitsumame and ice cream for dessert – yum! we also hit the japanese grocery, and I got some green tea mochi and red bean mochi. home, cleaned and finished unpacking. found out I got all A’s last semester! HUZZAH!
something new: new restaurant: suehiro café / new food: ozoni (good-luck new year soup)
2010, a saturday
worked out, elaine, renee and terry picked me up and we drove to monterey park for dim sum. it was so good, and so satisfying when at the end we finally got the dishes we’d been waiting for. we walked around a bit, then once home, i ran some errands and read all afternoon and listened to music. went to elaine’s and met up with the same group again and we walked to the sunset 5 to see ‘a single man’. andrew and amanda met us there. the movie was fantastic, although i spent most of the movie feeling alternately mind-blown by how hot nicholas hoult has become and ashamed/dirty of thinking such things of someone so young. also, elated that lee pace had a cameo. after that, terry, elaine and i went to elaine’s and hung out for awhile.