oh, how very ro---tic [romantic w/o the man]

yesterday was the hump day of midterms. it's the day when the fever breaks and you start to get better. it's the day when you can breathe a sigh of relief because the worst is over.

i had two midterms yesterday back to back with a one hour break in between. it went really well considering i didn't go to class for international trade in a month, and i haven't read any of the readings for labour economics. it was stressful, and i felt like i was all wound up like a spring. but the stress actually helped since i actually work better under stress. it gets me going. it took so much out of me though. i'm still so dead tired from it. i felt sucked dry. studying and learning really takes a lot of energy. go figure.

but anyways that wasn't the ro---tic part of the day at all. after the labour economics midterm chandley ashley and i went downtown for a mid-semester celebration. the scary thing is it is actually mid-semester. week 6 has just passed. everything blew by at warp speed. digressing yet again... we parked and just walked around downtown. it had such a romantic, fall feel to it. the shops were so quaint, cozy, and closed. everything closed so early yesterday. but there was a used book shop that we went to, and that's where the night took off.

i found a fairy tale book called "The Twelve Dancing Princesses", which i loved as a kid. i always used to check it out of the library. the copy i found yesterday was in pristine condition, and it was only $5! what a steal. so i bought it. ashley also found a story book from her childhood too. then we proceeded to scour downtown for a cool eating place, and we ended up at bollywood bistro for delicious, authentic indian food. the atmosphere there was really....cool. i kept telling her to bring ryan her boyfriend there when he comes to visit. we both had madrasa chicken with naan bread, and it was sooo delicious. a word to the wise though. don't bite on the "bean" that's in the sauce. i did that and it turned out to be a red hot chili pepper. it made me act like a fish that was dying out of water.

then afterwards we proceeded to go to Vanessa's birthday par-tay where we whooped the other team's butt in this movie trivia game thing. we hung out, chilled, had some great food, and neat drinks.

to top the night off on the way home from vanessa's we dropped by blockbuster on a whim to buy the little mermaid on DVD. at first we didn't see it on the shelves, and we thought that maybe it hadn't come out yet or that it was sold out. but then we saw it...two copies at the very bottom of the top-seller shelf encased in a protective box just for us. so we bought it for each other! hehehe :) what a sweet night.