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well i've been at home since thursday and i must say i am already bored. shocking. i love my friends but most of the time they are either working or just inaccessible since i'm still in the 'burbs without my own car. i am more or less trapped in this house with nothing to do other than watch movies and learn languages. so far i've watched - 5ive (a heinous horror film) Girls, Sex & The City, Borat, and countless hours of television...I've also been working on my Catalan and have decided to learn Hebrew.

i've managed to avoid getting sick all season, but lucky me, basically everyone in my house is dying of some ailment. i'm still popping my vitamin c and whatnot, so all i've had is a mild sore throat upon waking up. i hope to keep it this way.

one new thing i've gotten into are telenovelas thanks to Andy. we've watched maybe 3 hours of the late 90s soap opera 'La Usurpadora' which is actually quite entertaining. I can't wait to finish and move onto my next one. meanwhile i've started on the Spanish civil war soap 'amar en tiempos revueltos' which is apparently critically acclaimed in Spain. basically i am turning into a cat lady minus the cats.

i went out with my cousin karen the other night, along with kasia and ben, and a bunch of karen's friends. it was somewhat awkward being at least 10 years younger than everyone else, but whatever. i naturally managed to get shitfaced, so who knows what things i may have been saying. kasia and ben, who had left a few hours earlier, had chicken wings waiting for me which was glorious.

my christmas shopping is like half done, though i at least know almost everything else i need to pick up. i went old orchard with my parents the other day but didn't get anything. i can't take the 10% sales tax here. i had a mild trama with respect to a winter jacket - i finally found a coat i really liked, which my parents were going to get me as one of my xmas gifts, but of course A/X is out of my size company-wide. fuck me.

maybe i'll bake or cook something today, not that i can go buy groceries.