It's crunch time! I've procrastinated since the start of the semester. Now here I am, two weeks away from mid-terms and I'll soon be panicking! I need to lock my self up for the next couple of weeks until I learn everything there is to know about the political economy of the Middle East and the beginnings of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sheesh. This is gonna suck.

I had intended to get some reading done over the weekend. But of course that didn't happen, as I went to New York with a classmate. Her bro goes to law school up there, so, she wanted to check out his place and hang out with some friends she had up there. It was an alright trip. It wasn't bad, but it could have been better. Like for example, why did we have two movie nights? Okay, Friday night, we went out to eat at this French restaurant then we ended up back at the brother's apartment where we watched "John Q". The movie was okay. I don't care to watch it again, but I thought it was a great subject to bring to the screen. I can feel the whole insurance issue. Tell me why I have to pay for mines with some damn loans! Not to mention, the care ain't all that! I need to move my ass to a socialist country. =P

Anyway, if it wasn't bad enough to go all the way up to NYC to rent a movie, we went to the movies the following night. Well, first, we went to the Village and did some shopping. I saw one of the members of the group O-Town. The light-skinned, baby-face kid. He was outside some store and it appeared that he was being interviewed, seeing how someone had a tape-recorder all up in his grill. Anyway... I bought a skirt and a shirt. I wonder when I'll actually wear 'em...

Later on we went to this restaurant called Tao, an Asian bistro. Now, when my friend first told me about this place before we went up to NY, she sent me this link. I looked it up and what not and was kind of appalled. Why do people like to exploit Asian culture so much? I don't care if this is some Asian-owned establishment. My impression was kind of negative. I was like, what the hell is up with this? The restaurant had a Chinese-sounding name, this huge Buddha statue was the kind I associate with Thailand, I saw the word "wasabi" and was like, okay, Japanese stuff... Then the article I looked at also mentioned something about Korean and Vietnamese food or something like that. What the hell? I hate places like that. I'm more into authentic places. Where they specialize in one, or maybe two, cuisines. If that wasn't enough, when we got to the joint, I ain't see a damn Asian face at first. I saw these white chicks wearing the Chinese-style dresses and that annoyed me. But I eventually did see some Asians that worked there. Like maybe 2. Or three.

Anyway, what I had to eat wasn't all that. The place is overrated. Whatever. Afterwards we started walking, but with no clear destination. Then I saw some really bright lights and was like, what's that? Is that a "dirty" place we're not supposed to go to? Like strip joints and stuff? Hehe... That's what I was thinkin'. But then my friend's bro was like, nah, that's Times Square. So I asked if we could head down that way and we did. Lotsa people, lotsa light. Pretty cool. We ended up seeing "Road to Perdition" at a theater around there. I liked the movie, but again, why the hell did we go all the way up to NYC to go to the damn movies? So, anyway, the movie was good. The best line went something like: "Your just a baby boy who doesn't know his thumb from his dick." Hahaha... I thought that was funny.

Anyhoo, that's my trip in a nutshell. Don't feel like elaborating any more on it. 'Cept, if I go back, I need to go with certain kindsa peeps and hit up the more 'urban ureas'. Nah mean? And damn, there weren't enough cuties around. Where da hot boys at? =) Oh, and the place where we were staying - it was overrun with J... um... with juice. Yeah, that's it. Juice. heheh...

Okay, so I'm gonna go defrost some meat so I can try out a recipe. And I need to find some grub I can eat before I go to bed. And I need to do some damn Arabic homework. Ugh. When will this semester be over?? Wish me luck. I need it!