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I'll talk about him down the line...he LOVES legos!

I finally got some Indian food today. I absolutely love Indian buffets and their characteristically crappy interior decorations. I also love random Bollywood television stations and waiters that keep topping off your glass of water whose water level has only dropped a centimeter since the last time it was topped off/you quickly took a sip.

Did I mention that I also love and adore my camper this week? Today's day off from work made me realize that I might have had more fun spending the day with him, even if it meant working!

In other news, I just got my camper information folder for next week and it is for a little boy that I had last summer. You might remember him from this post and this post. The boy in this picture is also coming to camp next week. I wonder if either of them will believe that I am me (due to the drastic change in hairstyle).

Love,

Monica

Lego house

Here it is:

and the interior:

Raku

Three raku pots that I made!

Today I was a little late to the raku firing, but I still got to help out a bit.  I pulled three pots out of the trash-can-on-fire and got to see a lot of cool glaze effects.  Here's Mike doing the raku:

Raku from Monica Huang on Vimeo.

Now I'm watching an ANTM marathon (don't judge) waiting to go to work at six o'clock.  I'm so happy because I am completely done with Issues in Contemporary Art for good (I finished the two essays of death, and I think I did a pretty good job).  Tonight, I hear there's a mechanical bull someplace and food (possibly free)?  I've also got to break in those legos (by the way, 1500 is not as much as one would think).  

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Tonight, instead of writing my end-of-semester report for honors (which I am avoiding still by writing in this here blog) I had an impulse to buy legos.  Ebay is my friend, but I usually have had to take the easy way out by using the Buy Now option in which one doesn't have to go through the bidding.  You see, my only experience with bidding ended badly.  Senior year I sold my dirt bike in order to buy a kayak (I was going through an adventurous, nature phase).  I had the highest bid up until the last few minutes in which I was pushed to my financial limit.  As a result, one single tear of combined sadness and relief (it would have been a gigantic purchase) was shed and I moved on with my life by avoiding ebay for good...or so everyone thought.

Back to the present:  I am now the proud owner of a 1500+ assortment of lego pieces.  As a bonus, I've been promised some large pieces, some rare pieces (like umbrellas, wheels and corner units), some minifigs*, and some Star Wars pieces.  But nothing can beat the free priority shipping that I will be reaping from this battle of double-clicks out of which I came so victoriously (and in the very last seconds too).  The seller, stumpy31, promises that it will ship in 2-3 days.  I'll post picturreeesss.  Get excited!

Meet Nate.  He is a lego master.

I am starting to notice a trend, though.  Everything that I became sick of around middle school (i.e. legos, gameboys, hamsters) and, as a result of my assumed maturity, sold or gave to my cousins/Goodwill, I am now slowly buying back through online marketplaces (this behavior is not saving me any cash).  I think I'm reverting back to my childhood or something 'cause I'm practically an adult now and all I can think about is competitively obtaining legos and gaming appliances! 

Love,

Monica

*I came away from this experience with some new knowledge.  Apparently the lego people are referred to as "minifigs" (I wouldn't get too involved with that link if I were you).  But if you were me, you would waste hours of your time with it.