Coming out

So all, a simple post for the time being. My weekend proved to be nothing special. Friday night I stayed in, watched Children of Men, which proved to be pretty decent. I'll spare my philosophical comments and such. On Saturday I returned to the market (I believe I shall be doing thus each Saturday) and met up with my friend Justus. Man, this climate is so great, check this shit out:This is the stuff that I bought: a bag of like 10 plums, 5 apricots, 6 kiwis, 3 tomatoes, 4 carrots, 1 cucumber, and 1 avocado for ~4US$!!! Howabout that shit. That bunch of cilantro you see there cost me an extra 1.50, so I didn't want to group it in. I was pretty pleased. We went back to his house (my old house) and made a very fine brunch and then vegged out for while. Speaking of vegging out/my above picture, I have some information that might be a bit shocking to those who know me: I have become, more or less, vegetarian. This is not reflection of views on meat or animal treatment or anything. I have eaten a bit of meat a couple times in the last 4 weeks, but I am more a practical vegetarian. It started out that when I was initially buying my groceries in the Big Grocery Store, I decided to hold off til the butcher shop to get my meat. I waited several days, went to the butcher's, it was closed, and then from then on I just didn't buy any meat. My reasoning for not eating (any significant amount of) meat breaks down like this: 27% money, 30% health, 8% to see if I can do it, and the rest to a word best said in Korean: 그냥 (pronounced 'kun-yang'; translates to "for no reason" "just because" "as it is" etc.) Now, I know what you're thinking: Old Michael sold out, right? Well let me tell you something; I love meat. I LOVE it. But not as much as I love... something.

Anyway... after our meal, we went to that one fake beach that I love so much, had a bit of a swim, a pint or two of beer and then I biked back, racing ahead of inclement weather. I spent the night in.
Sunday I biked to Mt. Coot-tha (a local mountain) for a med school BBQ. It blew. I left and biked to some other university to play ultimate frisbee for several hours and then came back home, exhausted. As I've mentioned, this city is really fooking hilly. Especially when you bike up Mt. Coot-tha. So I was going on over 4 hours of non-stop target-heart-rate action. Holla at your boy.
Today was Monday. I arrived late to class as my alarm didn't go off; however, I was pretty proud of myself as I woke up at 8:13, dressed, brushed teeth, peed, grabbed fruit, took bike out of garage, biked over 1.5 miles, locked up the bike, walked up 5 flights of stairs, and was sitting in my chair by 8:30. That's damn impressive and you know it. You know you do! Anyway class was fine - learning a lot of immunology stuff which I'm a bit shaky on. That's all.