I had a very wonderful 20th birthday celebration. It started with my official birthday on Wednesday. L.C treated me to gelato at Café Istria. On Friday A.A graciously and wonderfully helped picked out three, excellent restaurants downtown. As fate would have it I chose bin36 because of its location, and its close approximity to the river. Why did I say fate? Because A.A and C.H found another remarkable restaurant downtown, which was part of bin36 and which opened a few hours ago. It was absolutely neat! I had Risotto, Cinnanom sliced salami, and an improvised vegetarian meatball pasta. There were names that I couldn't pronounce on the menu. L.M, also from my beloved Hoover House joined us, so it was a perfect joint celebration of my birthday and the housemate's anniversary. After that we caught a movie at AMC: Darjeeling Limited starring Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman in this wonderfully pointless and spiritually uplifting movie set in the gorgeous backdrop of rural train tracking country in Darjeeling, India. A wonderful film with cultural innuendoes and the likes.

On Saturday I went out for dinner again with a bunch of friends who all dragged themselves out of their time-crushing schedules. F.Y and M.P baked a cake that took them to 4:30 am in the morning! I was so surprised! I'm really happy and I know I can go back to work no matter what. That's what the weekends are for.

Lots and lots of love,

K.Y