13 August 2007

dear chicago...

you'll never guess...

h'okay! so! i don't even remember what i last wrote about..pretty sure it had to do with food though. mmm.. oh. right. the fiber one haystacks. i want to make them here but i can't find butterscotch chips anywhere...don't think they exist here. that's okay. that just makes the ones amanda makes extra special. and all the better.. if i made them myself it would just end up in diabetes. although with my diet i am sure it is inevitable. but i digress!

speaking of haystacks.. after letting my australian friends here try reeses, they showed me their version of the chocolately-peanut-buttery treat.. which turned out to be (da da da da!!) chocolate and peanut butter HAYSTACKS! only they called them 'spiders' and made them with chow mein noodles.. they were delish.. a far cry from reeses but a valiant attempt! and it was pretty cool that they were made the same way as haystacks. oh, and another interesting factoid (about food, duh): my friend claire had homemade cookies from her momma (chocolate chip BISCUITS, if you will) and me not having home made COOKIES in forever had a couple..they were good..but much less sweeter, sugary, and fatty than american choc chip cookies. later that night i looked up a recipe for the australian version and found out that they dont use oil, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla.. all the usual ingredients in our gems. so, yeah. interesting fact. a little glimpse into why australia's waist lines <<<< american's belt.

amanda wrote me an email about the michigan trip and it really sucks having to miss out on it. this was the first year they were actually there for the actual blueberry festival..apparently dad ran in the 5k and i'm sure they had more than one blueberry pie..and the 1c cookie sale was probably still going on at that bakery. and jonathan and tim got in a big fight, no surprise there. so besides that i really would've loved to have been there. but, look at this way. one month is already completely gone... the time is going by so fast.

uh, yeah. so my week? i was sick then better then sick and then better and now i'm sick again. i suppose it wouldn't be that bad if i didn't have the marathon approaching.. i am no mood/condition to run and obviously i need to be getting on that.. i have the 10k in like 2 weeks... oh boy. tomorrow i don't have time to run with my classes, unless i got up at like 9 or 930.. we'll see if that happens (cough: it won't). and right now i barely have a voice, because i went out last night to birra bella for the launch party and it ended up with just a lot of screaming as you tried to talk to people. that probably didnt help the cold, either. ahh. well.

ok that was pitiful. i just tried to peel an orange (vitamin c, you know?) and it was a big sticky mess. i ended up just stabbing it with a fork and tearing it in two (think hulk style) and sucking the juice of that bad boy. and now you know how i eat oranges. TMI, thanksssss.

clearly if you're reading htis blog you are not reading it to find out how i eat oranges (that's just an added benefit!) oh! i never mentioned this. so monday night i went for a late night walk with some friends here that started out as a walk around college crescent but evovled into a trip to brunswick st for 12 different flavors of ice cream. (side note: the flavors here are WEIRD. mint choc chip and cookie dough do not exist..but you can find lychee and toasted sesame where ever you go?) and that made us sick with ice cream so we ended up walking and walking.. down to mcg..up to fed square..then up swanston back to college. it took a good couple of hours and the best part was when we got to fed square they had these towers that scroll messages..and you can text a message to a number and it'll show up on the tower. so rosie texted something along the lines of "em x 2 and leesh and rosie and kathleen are the best night walkers this side of the flip side" (actually..i think that's exactly what she texted..go my memory) and it showed up and scrolled on the tower for a long time..we left it still scrolling..probably because it was 11 at night and no one was there. now, that's pretty cool on it's own. but the dork in me was like "leesh! people at home call me leesh!" and i made sure to tell them this. look. the nickname is INTERNATIONAL now. woooo.

friday we went on another field trip! good on us for all these cultural outings (i am clearly making the most out of my days off, see? 9.5 hours is a perfect amount of uni). we went to st. paul's cathedral (prettttty) and the national gallery of victoria (think art institute). the gallery was really cool (and free!) and we saw some..interesting.. pieces. like a metal balloon animal dog. i have pictures aplenty.. oh, and a video of the queen vic market for amanda. the market is HUGE..nothing we have in the states. so you'll want to catch that when it comes out on youtube (FYI).

today is monica's birthday so we are going out for thai food and dessert... and right now i'm off to the state library with emma to (da da da dahhhh!) get library cards. because, duh, how cool am i.

i thought i had more to say but i guess i don't. and, clearly, my humor is not at tiptop shape. i am sorry for the lame entry. and then i found 20 dollars.

love, me

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