Navratri and a Farm.

well...these past few days have been quite fun...did some cool things...like saturday..went on down to good ol' atlanta....spent the day with my mom...we went shopping but came back with nothing...i hate shopping...then in the evening...i headed over to my friend milan's place for some desi food - pau bhaji and falooda...thats basically mashed up veggies that are spiced with toasted bread...and falooda's like a dessert drink...after dinner we were all supposed to go out for navratri...but turned out that everyone had some excuse for not going - achy feet, achy stomach, blah blah blah...but i was too pumped...so hema and i went...we met up with her sister and some of their friends who had never been (duh! cuz their white)...some of the pics of us dressed up are below...

well it turned out to be a lotta fun...we danced from about 11 to 2:30 in the morning...so much fun...and i ended up meeting up with a lot of old friends that i hadn't seen in a while...although i don't think hema was too happy w/ some of the teeny bopper girls that came up to me...haha...after that i drove straight back to athens to turn into bed at around 4AM...

then yesterday...we went to a farm nearby...they had this huge corn-maze (<-- now that's a pun: cornmaze...get it...corn...maize...aaah)....we went with about twelve people...and proceeded to have a hilarious time...we weren't allowed to cuss on the farm...so we were yelling at each other to "shuck off"...aah...i kill myself with these jokes...we were just being goofy...scaring people through the corn stalks...throwing cobs at each other...and at one point we had to appease an angry hog before it ate us...well...no...we just fed it...and by hog i don't mean any of my friends...really - we fed a hog...and some goats...

the coolness factor: navratri is celebrated to show thanks for the end of the harvest season...so going to a farm after navratri was kinda interrelated on a transcedental level...yeah i dunno what i'm talkin about...

in between all that - i studied...did law review...watched AMC horror movies (how is that stuff scary again???)...and just chilled...till next time then....BOO!

ohh...and this is just a pic of hema...she's acting like its a candid shot of her walking gracefully down a garden path...but really she's posing! haha! still purdy. 

thats me n' hema ready to get out dance on at navratri...ain't she purdy? 

thats me in my desi zoot suit...uhh...my friend thought it would be cool to take a diagonal picture...just don't pull your neck... 

I dunno.

i'm not really sure why i'm posting right now...i was gonna put up a new pic w/ hema...but she would probably kill me....so that leaves me with no picture...and nothing to say...great...i guess i'll just go do what i do - read.

One more picture

hangin' out at Ru San's with the dicks...i mean Dix's...well i got david to come out - that in itself was a miracle...i might just end up being good at this litigation stuff after all if i can persuade david to enter a japanese restaurant...

Ru San's - A Gastronomical Adventure

well...today was a lot of fun...rather this evening was a lot of fun...just got back from ALSA's sushi night...it was a great success...i think we had about fifty people show up! we even had a couple professors come and dine with us....all in all everyone looked like they left full and happy - no signs of allergic shellfish reactions or self-procreating blisters...haha...

there were some funny moments too...especially when goose almost swallowed a chunk of wasabi cuz he didn't know what it was and dix was egging him on to try it...yikes that could have ended bad...then billy had to wage war against one of his yakitori sticks as the meat would not give...ultimately cavemen tactics were used and the meat was promptly within his belly...and quite surprisingly shawn tried something besides "chinese chicken nuggets"...i was amazed at the variety of sushi they had on hand...i'll probably go back there to try some of the other stuff...and Granville - you putz! you should have shown up...i know you're reading this...so don't try and leave some witty comment defending yourself {this actually means you should leave a witty comment}.

Darwin Awards 2005

these are hilarious...a friend sent them to me...just what i needed to take my mind off a very boring weekend to be...the last one is nauseous...

Darwin Awards 2005 Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honouring the least evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners:

1. When his 38-calibre revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peereddown the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked..... And now, the honourable mentions: -----------------------------------------

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved. ---------------------------------------------------

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her. -------------------------------------------

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days. ---------------------------------------------------------

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit. --------------------------------------------------------------

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?) -----------------------------------------------------------

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape. -------------------------------------------------------

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from." -----------------------------------------------------

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER! ---------------------------------------------------

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.