Sunday 1/5/03
Ginger’s
back, Yay! I updated her on Eden
and Bistro 98 and Randy. We were
supposed to meet for a kickbox class at the gym but I ended up having another
long and painful talk with Dave that afternoon. I soaked
through 9 tissues.
We had
dinner at Madame Jill’s Vietnamese near GongGuan which wasn’t as good as I
remembered, or maybe because I was freezing the whole time. Keep forgetting cheaper restaurants
don’t have indoor heating. After
dinner we walked around GongGuan night market and introduced Randy to JuaBing,
NaiYioBing and several other of our favorite tasties even though he was
stuffed. We found a place that had
ginger balm, she said, “Look, you can rub ginger all over your body.” Everyone’s always making Ginger jokes
(ginger makes everything better, ginger has kick, ginger adds spice to
everything, everyone loves ginger.
Actually, Brian Hall doesn’t like ginger, etc.). I was pretty cold and holding Randy’s
bag of roasted peanuts to keep my hands warm; he kept getting a kick out of
asking me, “Are my nuts keeping you warm?”
Monday 1/6/03
Wrote
Dave a long email that I was willing to cut my project short and come back
because I don’t want the distance to ruin us. Wednesday woke up with a horrible sore throat so decided to
skip class again, then stared at phone, dialing him and hanging up several
times like a high school idiot, wanting at least to see that his flight back
was ok. The whole “see if you got
back OK” worrying thing is kinda stupid I know, just like my dad worrying too
much about me; it gets annoying.
After all, you don’t call someone every day so see if they’re ok and
didn’t get hit by a car that day.
I finally
reached him and he said that I shouldn’t bail on my scholarship, and he’d
rather we get through the distance and work it out. I was dubious since he’d already said we couldn’t keep the
relationship going with the distance, that the distance was causing problems. But this time it was not an
over-emotional conversation and we were able to talk evenly. He finally said, that we’ll talk when I
come home for winter break
Once we
had that decided, we got to talking normally and he said my Nets are doing
really well (“I know,” I said
proudly, think I’ve been keeping track of NBA more than he),
told me about some of the new reality Fox TV shows, the Bachelorette and Joe
Millionaire. Miss that
trashy American TV.