Allergies are not fun.

They really aren't. I never used to "get" allergies, but this hot and humid summer weather makes my nose itch a whole bunch.

My social life has been a bit more varied over the past few days than it usually is. Last night I went to Packard's with Aileen and Elly, and we had a lovely time. And this past weekend Matt and I went to Boston on quite a whim Friday night to visit Alex and Aaron and Jen Maurer. We decided at 7:45pm to go and left at 8. It felt good to be doing something so spontaneous. Saturday we hung out in Boston - we went to the South End Buttery where Aaron works, and then we hit up Anna's Tacqueria and Party Favors in Brookline for Mexican food and cupcakes, respectively. In the late afternoon, Matt, Jen, and I drove to Providence, RI, to visit Yumi Aikawa (Smith '04). We hung out and caught up in her beautiful apartment until ten or so and then headed to this silly lesbian bar, Pulse, in a strip club-turned-lesbian club in a rather sketchy neighborhood. So sketchy, in fact, that when Matt and I hailed a cab to get back to Yumi's place, the driver told us we had no business being in the neighborhood we were in because "some people at least look like they could fit in, but [we looked] like we didn't fit in at all." He continued to say that, by picking us up when he did, he saved our lives that night. It was pretty funny. Sunday we came back early, early in the morning because Matt had work, and the weekend rounded out with falling asleep to two incredible specials on the Discovery Channel about primordial dwarves. The shows were seriously fascinating. Apparently primordial dwarves are the rarest type of the 200 types of dwarfism that exist - there are only 100 in the world. What's interesting about them is that, unlike any other type of dwarfism, they are normally proportioned. For more information about primordial dwarfism, click here.

Mmmk. I think that about wraps it up for this entry because I have food to eat and work to go to. More later.