Meh.

I find myself vaguely and indefinably troubled this morning.

All of the little things are just slightly off. Jesper hairballed on my new carpet, which apparently has a weird smell, according to visitors. I didn't sleep very well last night due to the bizarre foods I consumed over the weekend (more to come on this subject!), including redred and a spicy Korean stew filled with tofu, clams, entire shrimp (shell and head included, and I wasn't enterprising enough to dig it out of the stew and dismantle it so I could eat it - what a waste), and various unidentifiable [hopefully] edible bits.

Friday night, I danced with A for 1.5 hours (chachacha technique, finished up silver syllabus figures), and then RH met me at my apt. bearing cooking equipment and ingredients for redred, and we got down to business! We both ate too much, and then sat talking until about midnight (I played piano for her), when we walked down to a fun little bar downtown and chatted some more. <3

I slept in till almost 11 on Saturday, bought fruit and eggs at the grocery store, and generally chilled until about 5, when S showed up with book in hand - he listened to me play piano for a little bit and sang some himself - absolutely beautiful but loud (which is kind of the point)! There's nothing in my apartment to absorb sound; it endlessly reflects off the walls and floor. He says it doesn't sound loud to him since the sound is traveling away from him, and I was amused to be reminded of when I used to play piccolo as captain of the high school band. I'd practice by myself, not realizing just how shrill it was until I'd play next to somebody and watch them go instantly deaf - not that I was anywhere close to going deaf listening to S, but a similar concept! I'm sure my neighbors were intrigued.

At about 6, we picked up the catering and headed over to Natty & Pepper's engagement party, hosted by my parents - which was fantastic. The entire bridal party and all of the groomsmen were present. Roony was the bartender, and everbody had a great time - one of the groomsmen, Pepper's long-time friend, made a DVD slideshow of pictures of Natty & Pepper's undergrad drunken mayhem (set to Jane's Addiction) that was pretty entertaining! We left at around 1 AM, but I hear the revelry continued till around 4 AM.

Sunday morning and afternoon were spent at my parents', where Natty was nursing a slight hangover. I picked up Crown of Shadows for S, who has been racing through that awesome trilogy with enthusiasm. I recommend it to anybody who likes dark fantasy/sci-fi. We ended up going to IHOP for lunch, and S met us there after his auditions for Carmen (he's in!), and he gave me the sheet music to Francis Poulenc's C'est ainsi que tu es, which I've been listening to slightly guiltily, because my ear training makes it so easy to cheat at sight reading. I repetetively practiced about 10 consecutive measures of a Debussy piece until we got hungry, and then we headed to a Korean restaurant for dinner...

Innnnteresting. We were outnumbered by Koreans about 10:1. I picked the above dish pretty much at random, knowing how much I like tofu and seafood and weird food experiences in general. We were presented with an assortment of little dishes of appetizers - cole slaw, kimchi, pickled vegetables, savory potatoes in some sort of soy/beef broth, dried fish with garlic, some sort of rootlike thingies in cold spicy-sweet sauce - and I was given a single raw egg, which I ended up cracking into my stew as the waitstaff beamed at me. After dinner, we had cups of chilled spicy-sweet summer tea, each bowl of it with two white seeds floating in it, and it was exquisite. Ice cream for dessert.

This post is long-winded and factual, which is boring. I think I'll leave it at that, and ramble more tomorrow.