Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Samurai movies and leftover burritos: my life as a bachelor!

Goodness, I am tired! But I promised myself that I would write something tonight. Hang on, it's too hot to write with pants on...
Ah, thats better.
It's also too hot to write with socks on. One of the best things about clothing is that it can both go ON and come OFF! Hoorah!
Anyway, let me tell you of my evening.

There was no employee lunch served at the sushi bar today, so I had to feed myself once I got home. This could have been a problem, because contents of my food stores was such:

-One piece of bread
-Three unhealthy, very hydrogenated cookies
-One peach
-Three nearly-empty bags of potato chips
-Half a box of 99% fat free popsicles d
-Some cold cuts and pre-sliced cheese
-random, un-useful canned food.

However! The previous day, when confronted with this same dilemma I ventured down to the seedy corner strip mall that included:
-a chinese restaurant where I had colon-destroying "orange chicken"
-a Mexican market where I bought peaches for 50 cents each earlier in the week
-a laundromat
-Tacos Pepe, which I decided to get dinner that night.

I was the only person there and ordered a carnitas burrito, which was four dollars, including tax! It was a big burrito; so big that I had to return the plate that I got out to eat on that night and get a bigger one. It was so big that after eating just half of it I was too full to continue.
So I got to eat the other half for lunch today! And it was good. Too good to enjoy in solitude, actually. I had checked out the movie Yojimbo from the library, so I watched that while eating my burrito. Even though it was due today, I almost didn't watch it until I started in on the burrito and realized that burritos are enhanced greatly by early-1960s samurai movies.
Yojimbo apparently inspired A Fist Full of Dollars, one of the classic Spaghetti Westerns which are enthralling by always make me fall asleep. I've never made it all the way through one before. But Yojimbo was way better. At least, the first half-hour was. I didn't get to finish it because I had to leave to go to West Hollywood, but I was able to renew the movie online before I left, so I'll get to watch it more! hooray!

ok, this is totally boring. I'm sorry.
These other things happened:
-Drove 40 miles to West Hollywood in two hours. At one point we sat stalled at an intersection and waited through three green lights before we were able to progress. Grrr!
-Saw Ed's band (with a guest appearance by Grant) play at The Roxie for a Battle of the Bands. I yelled "Battle!!" but no one fought. Sad.
-Walked a few blocks to a pizza place that served two amazing things:
1). Gigantic 36-inch pizzas
2). A special "Aro" pizza, which I seriously had to order. I only ate half, so now I know what's for lunch tomorrow!
-Tried very hard to remember the formula for calculating the area of a circle so that I could determine how many square inches of pizza are in a gigantic 36-inch pizza. I came up with something like 1200 square inches, which seemed excessive. There were equations scrawled all over my menu before I finally gave up.
-Struck up a conversation with the couple at the table next to us about my calculations, which they were impressed by. It turns out that she was from South Africa, he from America and they had met in the Philadelphia airport, then ended up getting married! I'm not a sap, but my inner-vagabond thought that was very romantic.
-Talked to my sister via cellular phone on the way home and debated song lyrics. She was right. It turns out that there IS is a first time for everything.
-Came home, wrote very boring blog entry while listening to sea shanties.
-Slept, I guess. (This one is a prediction).

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

There should be something in there about how you called and distracted me into going into the wrong building.
::hug::

Thu Aug 31, 05:19:00 PM PDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1017 sq in

(sorry I could resist)

Unc Mark

Thu Aug 31, 06:42:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Aaron said...

Yay! Thanks, Unc! That means I was at least in the ballpark. What is the correct formula, for future reference??

Also: previous to these misadventures, there was a bit where I called Chelsea and distracted her into going into the wrong building. ON PURPOSE!

Thu Aug 31, 11:12:00 PM PDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

area=3.14 x radius x radius
Unc Mark

Fri Sep 01, 10:04:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Aaron said...

pi(r squared)! It's too easy! I was sure you had to subtract in there somewhere or something. Well, I will try to remember in the future :)

Sat Sep 02, 01:18:00 AM PDT  
Blogger -Aaron- said...

Hearing about things in real life is cool, as is reading about them! Blog-real life relations are strange! What to do?!

Wed Sep 06, 06:17:00 PM PDT  

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