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Aug. 14th, 2006 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordBack from Minnesota! Definitely not as much fun as New York was, but I didn't really expect it to be. Not going to make a huge post about it since I really didn't do much. I went to two panels at my mom's science fiction convention which were pretty good, and I took the hotel shuttle over to the Mall of America Sunday morning and bought The Office (UK) complete series on DVD (it was 25% off! How could I resist? Let's hope I love it just as much as I love The US version. Unfortunately I have to wait to watch it until the DVD player gets hooked up properly to the new TV) and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway for summer reading (so I now have 2 of the 3 summer reading books, just need to get the last, and then actually read them all). I also got this book about Joss Whedon at the convention which was written at the start of the 7th season of Buffy (4th of Angel and 1st of Firefly, too) which was really interesting. Oh and we got to the airport ridiculously early, so I bought Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (the author of Wicked), and I loved it. I thought it was even better than Wicked (the book, not the musical. I love the musical more than almost anything).
This morning we visited Macalester, and the tour didn't make me like the school any more or any less, which kind of sucks, since the weekend was so lackluster that I was hoping it'd be either really amazing or really crappy so it would at least be worth it. Oh well.
That was honestly all I did. I watched television pretty much every other minute, since there was really nothing else to do.
Oh but on uh... Sunday night I think, I went out to dinner with my mom and two of her friends from the convention, and we went to the craziest place ever. I still can't figure out what sort of cuisine it was supposed to be. It was called the Atlantic Buffet and it stated it had Chinese food and Mongolian cuisine, so we figured it'd be all Asian food. But then we went in and looked at all the stuff the buffet had, and it was crazy. It had a lot of Asian food (not just Chinese food and Mongolian, but also Japanese and possibly Korean), but it also had random stuff. There was slices of pizza, garlic bread, chicken nuggets, jello, ice cream, cake, apple pie, lasagna. I mean, really. It was just ridiculous.
Um, yeah. So that's about it. No pictures, since I didn't leave the hotel room much until today, and I didn't feel like taking pictures at Macalester. Now I've got about a week to rest (and start summer assignments/summer reading and essay supplements I have due on Wednesday) and then band camp starts next week, and then school three weeks after that. sigh. Where did the summer go? :(
This morning we visited Macalester, and the tour didn't make me like the school any more or any less, which kind of sucks, since the weekend was so lackluster that I was hoping it'd be either really amazing or really crappy so it would at least be worth it. Oh well.
That was honestly all I did. I watched television pretty much every other minute, since there was really nothing else to do.
Oh but on uh... Sunday night I think, I went out to dinner with my mom and two of her friends from the convention, and we went to the craziest place ever. I still can't figure out what sort of cuisine it was supposed to be. It was called the Atlantic Buffet and it stated it had Chinese food and Mongolian cuisine, so we figured it'd be all Asian food. But then we went in and looked at all the stuff the buffet had, and it was crazy. It had a lot of Asian food (not just Chinese food and Mongolian, but also Japanese and possibly Korean), but it also had random stuff. There was slices of pizza, garlic bread, chicken nuggets, jello, ice cream, cake, apple pie, lasagna. I mean, really. It was just ridiculous.
Um, yeah. So that's about it. No pictures, since I didn't leave the hotel room much until today, and I didn't feel like taking pictures at Macalester. Now I've got about a week to rest (and start summer assignments/summer reading and essay supplements I have due on Wednesday) and then band camp starts next week, and then school three weeks after that. sigh. Where did the summer go? :(
