Roughly a Month Left Here in San Francisco!

Okay, okay, okay, I get it, I've been sucking at  updating this blog lately. Honestly, I just haven't had anything too eventful and worth while to post about. It's been a pretty slow week of internship work and my weekends have been filled with staying at home during rainy days, sleeping, and playing video games.

Which reminds me. I got a new video game for the Xbox  360. Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper.

Back and Front cover~

Overall, it's a fun game. My only complaints are that every single voice acting is horrible minus John Watson, the voices will cut out from time to time, the graphics aren't "the best" and are a bit glitchy (but this is a 2009 game which puts it into the "older" years in gamer years, but I'm not that bothered by this), and the camera or view point flips out quite frequently (it'll just spin in circles even though you're touching nothing on the controller and it won't stop unless you stop the spinning yourself). Regardless, it's entertaining, the little puzzles you have to solve are fun, the deductions you get to make based on the facts and clues really make you feel like Sherlock Holmes, and it's fun getting all those achievements (especially the ones that you can easily miss) because I'm a gamer geek like that and love trying to get a perfect achievement score.

So that's what I've been playing these past two weekends (and even some weekday nights)~

Other than that, I've just been going to Greenpeace every weekday and doing my internship and then going to Tae Kwon Do afterward every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

By the way! Can you believe that I've been living in San Francisco for 2 whole months now?! Crazy, right?! I have just a little over a month left of this internship and then I'm packing up to go back home (and then go back to school, haha).

Speaking of school. I've got the word (or the email) from two universities about a week ago. I got accepted into UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine so yay for that! Still aiming for UCLA, but if I got into these two schools that means I've got a good chance with UCLA, right? Let's hope so, haha. If not, I have two other really good options, so no loss there. And who knows, maybe I'll end up not going to LA to school but somewhere else (depending on where I get accepted, obviously, haha). Ah well, guess we'll just have to continue to wait and see~! But there's some pretty awesome news right there.

This week was fun though! Well, mainly Tuesday and Wednesday. My big bro's best buddy since forever, Reza, was visiting his parents in Fremont and decided to come up Tuesday night to take me out to dinner. Reza, as most of us all know, is basically my other big bro seeing how I've known him since I was about four years old, haha. It was awesome that he visited and we ate Thai food at Pagan Thai which is right smack next to my flat. We talked quite a bit and Reza wouldn't stop raving about how awesome my flat is, haha. Silly Reza.

He went home later that night and then yesterday, I got to see him again. Only this time, Ali and Monica came up as well. Ali made a reservation at Wayfare Tavern, a restaurant by Tyler Florence. It was sort of an early birthday dinner for me and also just a really good excuse to eat at this awesome place.

{Not my picture. Just found it online to show you what it looks like on the outside}

Saying we ordered too much food is actually an understatement, haha. We ordered about four to five starters and then we have four big portioned entrees with two side dishes. It was bad enough that we had even ordered that much food, but worse that we actually ate pretty much all of it. And that's not counting two desserts and then cookies right after. Yeah, we ate all that too (I ended up finishing off the cookies, haha).

I forgot to take my camera with me to take pictures of the food and honestly, I was too lazy to use my camera, so sorry! All you need to know was that everything I ate was delicious. We all pretty much had a smorgasbord, sharing everything among the four of us. It was awesome.

Again, this isn't my picture, but here's one of the entrees we had. 

I ordered this Organic Fried Chicken (which is shown in the picture above) which was obviously shared with Ali, Monica and Reza. Our other entrees were a large grass fed burger with egg and a bunch of other stuff, lamb shank, and 28 day aged steak. Our sides were winter greens and baked mac and cheese. While I'm at it, I might as well tell you that for starters we had salt roasted bone marrow, roots and greens salad (something like that haha), beets salad, a starter size of wild mushroom pappardelle pasta, and then we had popovers breads too~ 


{If you want to look at some delicious photos of almost all of the delicious foods we ate, go here: it's food photo heaven.}


And then there was also dessert~ Now for my dessert, I did whip out my phone to take a picture because it was something that couldn't go pictureless (plus I wanted to text it to my mom to show her, haha).

Mmm, Chocolate Creme Pie (and it says Happy Birthday, yay~)

Also for dessert, I want to say we also had Strawberry Rhubarb Shortcake Biscuit & Sorbet......I think....I can't remember. I was too wrapped up in my delicious chocolate creme pie of awesome.

After all that, we were given about four or five ginger, sugar cookies (something like that) with a bit of salt on them which just made the flavor pop out like WOAH! I ended up eating I think three of them even though my stomach was ready to burst. And let me tell you, we were all super stuffed! Who wouldn't be after eating all that food, haha?!

So that's pretty much what went down during my absence. I keep saying that I'll be more diligent on updating my blog and this time, I actually mean it. With just a month left, I gotta get out there and exploooooore and update, update, update for ya'll!

I'll be heading home this weekend and will be taking Monday through Wednesday off work to stay in town for a bit before heading back to SF. So that's going to be really fun and the closer Saturday morning gets (which is when Ali will pick me up to drive back to Ventura), the more homesick I'm realizing I've been for the past several weeks, pfff.

Anyway, I'm tired. Came back from Tae Kwon Do not that long ago so I'm sweaty and in need of shower. Dinner tonight consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwhich, mozzarella sticks and a salad.

So yeah, that's all I have for now. Going to take that shower and maybe play some Sherlock Holmes until sleepy time. I've actually been doing good at going to bed at a decent time so that I'll be getting nine hours of sleep. Aaah yeaa~ (That doesn't stay true for the weekends however, haha).

With that, I bid you all a good night and until the next blog update (I promise this time, it won't be another two weeks; no really, I'm serious this time, things will start to happen that I can blog about, I can feel it!)

~Sara