well, we’ve successfully survived the first week of the professional phase! hallelujah! and we’re not too much the worse for wear except that i will never look at jif peanutbutter the same way again. (thanks are in order, however, for the professor who decided that we wouldn’t use actual feces to learn how to collect and test stool samples. oh, yes… they didn’t waste any time getting to the good stuff.)

so now i’m probably going to tramp around the southside in the glorious sun for a couple hours, and then meet nick for a real friday night date. how cute! (and very much needed!) he wants to take me to a vietnamese place. i’ve decided one of those “little” things on my List of Qualities Men Should Possess is the desire to try different cuisines. certainly, a diet of mac’n’cheese and tomato soup wouldn’t exclude marital bliss, but i much prefer a man with an adventurous palate. anyway, maybe we’ll go see a movie after din-din. have any of you seen spiderman 3 yet?

tomorrow we’re having a proper roommate outing to the strip district to stock up on spices, produce, and any other amazing things that strike our fancy. hooray!