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(Dancing around my living room at 2:30am to the Hamster Dance… I must be losing my mind. =P)

Just wanted to share some more “personal” photos. I haven’t blogged in a while… sorry. I’ve been collecting photos every day though. Just have to get through the next 7 days of hecticness, and then I’ll be in the clear again for 2-3 weeks. (Plus a trip back home to Houston!)

This is how Carol and I do long-distance. Good thing we have webcams, we both use AT&T for cell phones, and we have similar work schedules. All in all, I think we find pretty creative ways to spend time together…?

Playing games on MSN:

Watching “How I Met Your Mother” online together:

Watching “I Love You, Man”:

Playing “Bang!”:

One of our traditions when we were together back in Houston was to brush our teeth together… and we’ve found ways to do that still almost every single night:

“Going to work with her”:

Karen came over (allll the way over… from Detroit!) on Friday and we did more touristy things in Ann Arbor. I went to IKEA again, but got lost. (Somehow I didn’t get lost the first time without a GPS, but I got lost the 2nd time with a GPS?)

I have no idea what this is:

Karen broke the IKEA sign! :P

We had dinner at IKEA… good food, decent price! We also tried this weird drink. It tastes like something familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it. It looks like it should tastes like chrysanthemum tea, and it kinda does, but not entirely.

Karen is the master of disguise:

We went biking/exploring Ann Arbor! (It was getting close to sunset, though…)

“Be emo. Point at the moon.”

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (in 3D!… sorta…) I didn’t think it was THAT 3D. The picture separates a little bit from the background, but it’s not as 3D as the 3D IMAX in Disneyland Florida.

I dunno if it’s because my professor is really funny, or it’s 8am and I’m not awake yet, but the stories that my professor tells in my Pharm 659 class are ridiculous.

From the second lecture this semester:
“Did you guys get that? How was the lecture? If you didn’t get it, you better ask questions, because that lecture just cost you $125 in tuition.”

From today:
Talking about Yohimbine, an aphrodisiac, but also used to induce animals to mate with each other: “I had a colleague that used to slip Yohimbine to his dates. He figured if it worked on animals… why not humans? … I never used Yohimbine on my dates. You know why? Because it makes you CRAZY. You start seeing things.”

Random drug fact of the day (and he has toooons of these… I should flip through my notes and compile them): did you know adrenaline (note the “e”) was patented by a company named Parke-Davis (back in 1900) and named Adrenalin. Because the scientific community refuses to acknowledge drugs by their “brand” names and adrenaline and Adrenalin sounded too similar (in face, the same), they changed the name to epinephrine.

Just another random collection of pictures from my life over here… =)

Carol gave me a magnetic dog keychain when she came up last weekend. There’s a match dog, too… guess where they connect? =P

It’s the same clocktower again (north campus clocktower… the one I think looks like a virus with its protein casing):

Very cute name for a Japanese restaurant. Too bad it’s so tucked away and hard to find. (Leave it to Eric to find it, lol.) It’s on State and Liberty before the yogurt shop.

Charlie Brown says “hi” at Yost Arena (ice rink at UM):

Saw this at lunch today! I guess it’s an effective way of advertising?

And last but not least, this is where I’m blogging from! It’s a modern-looking (clear plastic chairs, modern plastic white tables, etc) yogurt shop on Liberty. They are running a promo for $2 milktea (and only $0.25 for boba). But what makes this experience really unique is that they also have calpico (the white Japanese flavored drinks) in 3 flavors: original, strawberry, and peach. Since it was my first time, I had to try their original milk tea with boba, of course. It’s not too bad and the boba is a little more hard/chewy than Momo Tea (but not bad). Next time, I’m definitely trying the calpico’s!!

A lot happened last weekend… I moved into my new place and Carol came up to visit! =) I don’t feel like saying much, so here come a parade of pictures:

A bottle of San Antonio water! =)

Woodchuck!

Jimmy and his friend came over to visit.

Passion fruit ice at Momo Tea (with Karen)

Panera Bread

Apple picking =)

I have superhuman strength

I had a theory that all the apples on the bottom branches were probably picked gone, so we were going for apples on the upper branches.

Some of the BEST ribs I have ever had (so tender) — at The Arena

IKEA:

IKEA sells these “mini-pineapple” plants!

It was a good weekend =)

I know it’s been a while since I updated. No pictures in this post, but a quick note to all (three) of my readers out there.

Life has been good (it’s always been good). I moved to a new place in Ann Arbor (a condo) and it has no Internet (sans-Internet = sad) which has highly restricted my productivity at home. Or maybe is has increased my productivity at home, except that I measure my productivity by the number of emails I read/send out every day.

Anyway, rest assured, I have been taking lots of pictures. And things will start up again! (As soon as I get Internet again at home… on 9/21!)