February 12, 2006

What a week...Dave had his first jazz band concert as a director, and I saw my first grad students ever give a recital! I was so proud of my students. They rocked! And Dave is a killer director. He always pysches me out that it won't be that great and then I see him and he is amazing. He taught a Horace Silver solo by rote. How cool is that? Anyway, his band sounded magnificant..we'll have a DVD soon.

Here it is, Saturday night and I'm exhausted. The air here has been really bad..lots of burning. I think I'll attribute my lack of energy to that. Just kidding. But we had a good rain today so hopefully that'll clean up the air a bit. I forgot to take my allergy medicine on Thursday night..just one pill and Friday I could barely wake up my allergies were so bad. I had to take benedryl and by 2pm I was OUT. Yeah, I woke up at 5:30pm. oops. No good. The whole thing shocked me though..am I really that dependent on medicine? I guess so..but that sucks. I need to find me an allergist here.

Other than the benedryl drama, Dave and I had fun surprises for eachother. I surprised him after work one day and we went to see "Munich" gold class. Oh yeah. Gold class seating is awesome. Anyway, it was fun and that movie was impressive. Then yesterday, Dave surprised me and took my to this Rose Garden, which actually isn't a rose garden at all but huge garden grounds in the middle of the swamp on a river. It was gorgeous. All the trees and plants were labeled. We saw what a mango tree, jackfruit tree, and tamarind tree looks like. There were also flamingos hanging out. Those things sound awful when they talk and they're fiesty...yuck. It was an awesome surprise...

Oh, great news. A massage place opened up on the bottom floor of our condo. That's right. 1 hour foot massages for $5 whenever I want. YAY! Our other massage place rocks but we have to take a cab there so it's more time and more money. I am in love with this place. The chairs are comfy and they serve really nice tea. Anyway, I think I want to stay in the condos next year for the foot massages! Seriously..that's a good enough reason not to move right? Well, for me it is. I don't want to move now.

Today we went into the infamous J.J's market. Remember that rain I was talking about earlier?? Well, we got stuck in it at the market. No one was expecting it b/c it's not supposed to rain until May..hello! It was fun though, we had bought a bowl so I used that as an umbrella and the paths were empty b/c everyone was hiding!! It was a fun trip to the market. We were looking for laquerware that I think is from Burma, but of course is sold here. We found a bunch of serving platters for the October reception. Sweet.

Well, this has been a long enough blog..which I am told comes from weblog. Haha, Dave and I are reading "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. It's a great book and makes me feel good about living in Asia. Whatever....