above: riley, kate, katelyn and nellie on the way to nellie’s car.
met up with nellie after work at seven east for some good thai food. i didn’t really know what to do with the sticky rice, so i kind of just unwrapped the leaf that it came in and clumsily flopped it onto my way-too-tiny plate. like, i get the aesthetic value of minimalism, but sometimes it’s just impractical.
there two skimpy-looking 12-year-old girls with their fathers at a table close by and they made us dwell on how the times have changed for a little bit. i mean, they were wearing heels. they probably also had their own blackberries and original coach bags. and one of them had a pair of shuttershades perched atop her head.
i was eavesdropping for a little bit and heard one of them mention a recent break up. i definitely did not date in seventh grade. i was too busy running around pretending to hunt ghosts and/or make gourmet food out of dirt and water.
when it came time to pay for the bill, the waitress came by and asked me if i was chinese. i graciously told her i was filipino and then she just kept mentioning how pretty i was. like, she wouldn’t shut up about how good-looking she found me to be. she just kept saying things like ‘you’re so pretty,’ ‘you must get all the girls’ and ‘you’re more beautiful than the other filipino boys.’
i just smiled and blushed and inserted my debit card while this barrage of compliments went on. i think nellie found it really strange too, and we got out of there as fast as possible.
we headed to nellie’s after that. super bass was blasting in her car but my iphone fell over and the music stopped and i started to panic because it was just about to get to the chorus and i was getting so into it (singing along, dancing in my seat, etc). i kept yelling at nellie to pull over so i could retrieve my iphone and put the music back on but she refused to pull over for the longest time. eventually she was laughing so hard that she couldn’t drive properly – we swerved and i thought we were going to die – so she pulled over and everything was fine.
we hung out at her place for a while and then went over to katelyn’s for a swim. kate and her boyfriend riley were also there and since i wasn’t aware that i’d be swimming that day, i had no swim suit and had strip down to my underwear before diving in. i was so scared katelyn’s parents were going to come out to check on us and peg me for the total slut i am.
i was supposed to watch harry potter with the fam later on, but those plans fell through – the tuesday discount tickets convinced us to watch it next week – so i ended up going to cafe crepe with katelyn, nellie and flo, who joined us later.
and then i went home and learned how to rap like nicki minaj.
totally feeling accomplished right now.