Zhanga: May 27, 2008
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Yesterday I drove from Richmond to DC with Tiffany. The GPS said it'd take around 1h:30m to arrive, but the traffic on I-95 was terrible and it actually took over 3 hours. Cars would stop, then the jams would clear up for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Traffic is an interesting phenomenon, but that's a story for another day (maybe). Anyways, whoever invented the "detour" button on GPS gadgets is amazing. We went down probably 50 miles of empty country roads and saw some nice houses on gigantic fields of grass. I think yesterday's the first day I've actually seen a big red barn with an old silo next to it, just like you'd see on a postcard.
There was also this cute little puppy that stuck its head up to the window and stared at me at a long red light. The lady driving that car laughed at me when I took a picture of her dog.
Now I'm in DC eating lunch. When I woke up this morning, I came to a terrible realization -- I can't get out of Tiffany's apartment, and lunch would be limited to whatever I can cook from ingredients in the fridge. Cook! I had to cook! I'm trapped in a dungeon, and Tiffany has the only key to this gate:
So now I'm eating a fried egg and really badly cooked bok choy, after setting the smoke detectors off trying to fry my egg. (Good thing there wasn't actually a fire, or I'd be kind of trapped in here...) This bok choy is really bad. I must revisit my method of cooking this stuff.
The apartment situation is kind of funny. A very small Asian girl is living in a tiny but well-furnished apartment in an all-black area. By all-black, I really mean it. I don't recall seeing a single white person yet, though Tiffany claims to have seen a Mexican somewhere when I was driving. It seems fine though, and even after sunset the area doesn't really feel shady to me. It's probably 20 times less ghetto as Gene and James's, and the people around here seem pretty nice (which is based on anecdotal evidence with sample size 2). Well, except for the cashier at Safeway, but at least he took out his anger on his boss and not us. Oh wait... his boss was white. I guess he's the only white guy in town.
Now I'm done with my really terrible lunch, and I'm still starving because I barely ate yesterday. And vegetables aren't filling. I should have listened to Tiffany when she wanted to buy junk food yesterday.
1:21PM
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SIGH.
Tiffany on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 11:56 PM
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