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I really do love having adventures that go late into the night. But, I hate how lethargic I feel the next day. Well, I don't always feel lethargic, but I just felt awful today. So, I spent the whole day finishing Mockingjay, eating chocolate chip cookies and wishing August was over so I could just have a soda (I'm not giving up this close to the end of the month), and looking at random blogs on the internet. During which I found this adorable blog of a new mother taking pictures of imagined dreams of her baby and this crazy blog post about this artist who makes sculptures out of the graphite on old pencils.

As for yesterday's adventures, it was awesome. I got to hang out with friends I either haven't seen in a while and/or won't see in a while. I was hyper on the car ride up from eating too much of the cupcake batter and frosting while making those cupcakes (it's why I don't bake too often, I always eat half the batter before I make anything) so that made for some amusing times. Plus, Erin was in the car too and she's one of those people that makes me act as crazy as I am in my head, but in a good way. If that made any sense. Not a lot of people bring that out, but middle school has that ability to bond you to people for ever and I technically knew Erin in Elementary school too.

The sushi place we went to was awesome and cheap. And I tried a few kinds I hadn't had before, which was fun. Every time I have Japanese food (or really, almost any type of food but especially Japanese food) I try to eat something I hadn't had before. Partially because I like Japanese food, and partially because it makes me feel that if I went to Japan for three months or if I decided to live there for a while I will be able to eat a good portion of things I come across. I mean, I realize a lot of Asian food in America has been.. well.. Americanized, but part of me hopes that it still counts.

Then we went to that free concert for an hour before heading over to the beach. Then we magically got free parking (there were some issues with the little machine where you pay, so the parking garage attendant just let us out) but then we got really lost before we managed to get to the beach. Unfortunately, when we got there no firepits were open, so we ate cupcakes in the dark while finding guitar chords on my Blackberry so Tida could play random pop songs (or whatever you classify Taylor Swift and Justin Beiber as).

After a while a group left their fire, so we rushed over to take what was obviously not a fire pit. What they left was a dubious fire made from newspaper they piled up on some sand. Which wouldn't be too big of a deal, except that it was windy. Add in a few random drunk guys that came along and awkwardly hit on some of my friends and you've got yourself a classic bonfire-on the-beach-experience. Well, that and s'mores. You can't have a proper bonfire without s'mores.

We grabbed some food at a 24 hour drive-in where I had a milkshake and french fries, both of which were foods I haven't eaten in at least a month (if not more).

All in all, it was a good night. I may post pictures in a future blog, but right now I've still got about 50 pages left of Mockingjay. I had to take a break from it. As brilliant as it is, it's hard to real. There's so much much raw emotion, and then Susan Collins throws that raw emotion into the realities of war. It's hard to read at times, but also necessary to read. I love these sorts of books, but they're a little more difficult to get through than something by Meg Cabot or Sarah Dessen (as much as I love both those authors).