Tuesday, December 10, 2002

I'm back home in warm California, escaping the bitter winters in Siberia. OOps I mean Minnesota.

So far this has been really cool. The highlights
1. Talking to a bunch of my friends from high school, college, and church
2. Seeing my cousin and his family
3. Watching ping-pong videos with Dave
4. Playing ping-pong
5. Going to In-N-Out
6. Going to Donutman
7. Getting a French cookbook from Dave

John

Thursday, December 05, 2002

Drat ... just lost a blog.

Oh well, it was only about me getting a brain scan. No, I'm not sick but I just wanted to get the experience of getting inside an MRI scanner. It is a little bit creepy with all the shrill magnetic sounds and the feeling of being entombed inside this machine. I'm just waiting to get hard copies of my brain. Cool ....

John

Monday, December 02, 2002

I had the most amazing trip to Dallas over the Thanksgiving Holidays. Everything was perfect, even the travel during the peak Holiday season. Believe it or not:

1. I didn't get searched
2. The plane left on time
3. The plane arrived early
4. A really beautiful Texan girl came to pick me up
5. Went to see my favorite hockey team on my birthday

Unfortunately, my favorite team (The Wild) did lose to the Stars. I did hedge my bets against that possibility, so it was actually a very special night.

One of the best things that night was spending time with my girlfriend. We were underneath the Stars (no pun intended), and we did a lot of things together. Her parents also made the night special by getting a fruit torte from La Madeleine's. What a way to end the evening :)

The next day, we spent the day at White Rock Lake. It was just nice to just sit and watch the ducks glide on the water. At times, we were completely oblivious to the world around us. We then went home for a Thanksgiving meal with her parents. It was a semitypical Thanksgiving meal with beef tongue, turkey, oxtail, lettuce and mushrooms, and sweet potatoes. I can't think of a more diverse Thanksgiving combo, but the food was definitely very tasty. The next day, I got to meet some of Anita's friends from church. They were very nice people, and I got to see a lot of them at church later in the evening.

The next morning Anita and I studied over at the SMU library. What struck me the most was the number of studious law students on a Thanksgiving Saturday weekend. I'm the epitome of slackerness, so I just wasted my time doing nonradiology reading. We then went to a TexMex place. I'm still confused by TexMex, because it is similar to SoCalMex. Oh well, the food was good but it was very hot. It was definitely not a Minnesotan hot dish (Although, I'm probably one :).

Sadly I had to go back home to Minnesota, but I'm already making plans to come back to Texas.


John