A long day

Here is a post to make up for my slacker posts the last few days (weeks. bleh).

It's 3:01 AM and I have my final presentation tomorrow. Super bleh.

I wake up at 8:30 AM today. Resat's lecture about Turkey was very good and extremely interesting. I feel like he could teach history as well as sociology. We talked about Istanbul, and it sounds incredibly fun and exciting. I might be able to do some shopping there? Liras are far better than Euros.

For lunch, Roman, Emilio and I went to try the Argentine place. Too bad it was closed. We went to the "gyrocery" which was a huge disappointment. I miss Aladdin's.

Roman and I went to look for bike frames, which failed. There's only new shitty bikes and custom shops. There are barely any used bikes around. Sad face. I had hoped to ship one back with the class shipment...

The Joel Nafuma volunteers went today. The class was good, but to be honest a lot of it was corny and very fluff. I feel almost as Sociology is not the science of explaining human behavior, but discovering what one (the sociologist) feels is a plausible explanation through personal experiences, if that makes any sense. If that is the truth, then the science boils down to what philosophy is - purely argument at something that cannot be proven.

Sociology is more for me like self-enlightenment rather than anything else. Like philosophy, it cannot be excised from our lives. It is key in letting humans recognize themselves as humans.

There were however, very moving portions of the presentations. I really rather enjoyed Kathie's class this summer.

From the afternoon onwards, I hid in the air-conditioned rooms in the Rome center and worked on my presentation.

I made risotto and Christine ruined my presentation of the sweet couscous. No matter. We got it done. I walked her home all by myself when all her friends (BE GUILTY) were drinking upstairs in our apartment.

My risotto was pretty decent when it came out. But cold risotto really doesn't cut it. :( I hope I'll have a bit of time to re-emulsify some fat/liquid into it before I serve it. It's a shame really.

Emilio and I had a funny/interesting conversation about girls. I'll keep it at that.

Now I'm tired and it's time for bed. Turkey in two days. Seattle in 23.