menagerie

in light of some rather ________ (fill in the blank with whatever adjective you feel suits the situation best) events this past weekend, i've failed to mention some other important/humorous/worth-sharing things.

1. yo asked me out to dinner with "some friends" friday night. friends of his from college that i've also gotten to know. we all enjoy hanging out, and i hadn't seen them for awhile, so i was excited. yo picked me up and we went to a chinese restaurant and waited for about 10 minutes. finally, he got an sms and said that he had to go pick up mega and would be back shortly. looking back, i should have suspected something. like when yo ordered three drinks and plates of rice for dinner. or when mega - who has a bike - asked for a ride. at any rate, i was pretty near oblivious, and sat there by myself hum-diddling (or whatever else you call what it is that people sitting alone do) for a few minutes. then all of a sudden someone rushed up and engulfed me from behind. i pretty much freaked out. i had no clue who it was, but i could tell it wasn't a girl. so after a few terrifying seconds of being stuck in a from-behind-hug-headlock, i was finally able to crane my neck around and see....... PECO! my bestest indonesian white friend who left me in april! those two boys made a surprise for me! peco had just arrived by bus with all his luggage, and yo had gone to pick him up from the station. there were no other friends, just the three of us back together again. i think i smiled pretty much the whole night. the fact that he brought me chocolate covered pecans and season 2 of big bang theory didn't hurt either... except now i have the season and i can't watch it until christmas when the 3 of us are back together again. (he left again on sunday.) that is what is commonly known as torture.

2. conversation yesterday in 9th grade:
me: guys, i'm sorry the quiz looks rough... work around it. the copier is screwed up.
kyuho: that's because i screwed the copier!
me: uhmmmmmm.....
kyuho: i don't think i meant to say that.
*class erupts in laughter*
jenny: what? i don't get it. is there another definition for screwed?
kenny: yeah! kyuho just told the teacher that he had SEX with the copy machine!!!
jenny: KYUHO! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!

3. my parents are currently en route to japan. they land in bali tonight. they get to java (and me) TOMORROW!

4. http://thereifixedit.com is a fantastic website... if your name is red green.

5. my pembantu is super nice. she left me a note yesterday asking if it was alright to bake some cookies for my parents tomorrow. : )

6. my burn is healing super fast and is not getting infected! that is especially good news given that i would rate this as the worst/deepest burn i've gotten so far.

7. there's rumors of a restaurant in town that sells lambchops for $1.50 per plate... we'll be checking that out posthaste.

8. i was apparently more obvious than i originally thought at the horse dance. everyone and their cousin saw me there. people i don't even know have been walking up to me all week to tell me they saw me and to ask if i enjoyed it. that's a hard question to answer. obviously, i didn't enjoy it. but if i say no, i'm being kind of offensive - it's a cultural tradition for them. mostly, i've just kind of smiled and shrugged my shoulders at them. on the subject, i found out that it's pretty rare for white people tho show up at those (shocker)... not because they find it repulsive so much, but because the bah-wang doesn't want them there. they know that if white people are there (and in their mind/experience here, white people = christians), they can't exercise their power and the spirits won't come. i've heard of white people being asked to leave before. but that's only if the whiteys are there at the beginning. once the spirits are there, they're there.

9. an indonesian friend of mine went to a horse dance as a child where they cut a woman's head off then dangled it in his face by her hair. and she spoke to him. he's still traumatized. and my mild horse dance trauma suddenly seems so insignificant.

10. did i mention my parents are currently 3 hours away from japan and will BE HERE TOMORROW?! (i needed to have an even number of elements in my list.)