I'm spending my winter break in Maryland and we got snowed on big time. From around 9 or 10 last night until not too long ago, the heavens dropped what looked like several tons of powdery dandruff on our heads. My dad estimates that we have about 18 inches right now. 18 inches?! That's a lot of snow these days for me. The last time snowfall came that close was that blizzard more than ten years ago. I was little, so snowfall upwards of 2 feet seemed more like 10 feet to me and, contrary to my excitement, it was very difficult to play in.
Now, going to school in North Carolina means that everyone goes CRAZY when it snows. And I have to admit that I am very thankful when we do get that inch or inch and a half once a year. So far it's snowed freshman, sophomore and junior year at Elon. Technically it's snowed senior year too, but I'm not counting that because I happen to be in a different state at the moment...
...oh, and I'm craving Yum Woon Sen so much that I just consumed the only ingredient from that dish that is in my house: lemon juice*.
Love,
Monica
*scrunches up eyes, nose, cheeks...entire face due to bitter taste
It was nice. David came to visit and took me to dinner shortly after I got out of class. After picking The Aviator up from the library (we both love Leo), we went to dinner at Dan Thai. It's the only restaurant fancy and expensive enough to meet our frivolous ways of spending.
I've never ever gotten anything besides the Green Curry at this place because I am convinced that it's the best. However, on the specials menu, there was a dish called "Soft-shelled crab in yellow curry sauce", which sounded delish. So, I got that and David got, well, the Green Curry. And he didn't even do it incase I didn't like my dish (he's allergic to shellfish). It was so that I wouldn't get Green Curry for the eleven-hundredth time. I'm one of those people who thinks it's weird when people order the same things at restaurants.
David with green curry
Soft-shell crab in yellow curry sauce (it tasted better than it looked)
But I'm still going back to Green Curry. After our fried bananas and vanilla ice creams, we went to Nature's Emporium to pick up new filters for the fish tank. This scared the living daylights out of me:
Giant beanie-baby spider that looked real for a sec
We also visited the koi pond.
They were seriously the length of a human arm.
These are my fish as of today with new tree-trunk and purple plant accessories. They are snacking.
The world's oldest known rocks are found near the Great Slave and Great Bear lakes in Canada. The rocks, which include granite, are around 4.03 billion years old.
Probably the earliest seismoscope was invented by the Chinese philosopher Chang Heng in A.D. 132. This was a large urn on the outside of which were eight dragon heads facing the eight principal directions of the compass. Below each dragon head was a toad with its mouth opened toward the dragon. When an earthquake occurred, one or more of the eight dragon-mouths would release a ball into the open mouth of the toad sitting below. The direction of the shaking determined which of the dragons released its ball. The instrument is reported to have detected an earthquake 400 miles away that was not felt at the location of the seismoscope. The inside of the seismoscope is unknown: most speculations assume that the motion of some kind of pendulum would activate the dragons.
