This past weekend was a bit of a change from my usual sit-around-in-my-pajamas-and-watch-TV routine. On Friday we went out to dinner at Mountain Mike's for Brendan's 24th birthday. I had a vegetarian pizza, which tasted suprisingly meaty. Afterwards, some of us went to World Karaoke in Santa Clara, and enjoyed a couple hours of bizarre 80s-style videos and bad covers of popular songs. I took some pictures, but only a couple of them were worth posting: Brendan singing a little ditty about Brendan and Diane.

On Saturday, I watched Stanford win the Pac-10 championships (woo!) and then we met up with Babs and Charlene for yummy Korean food at Korea House in Santa Clara. The food there is quite good, but it's worth going just to see the owner's hairstyle.

Sunday afternoon, I went to see Joshua Bell perform for the Stanford Lively Arts series. For those of you who don't know who he is, Joshua Bell is like the Justin Timberlake of the violin world. He's Justin Timberlake in the sense that he's the resident heartthrob, not in the sense that he exposes his female colleagues on national television. At least I don't think he does. He played Schubert, Tchiakovsky, and Ravel sonatas, as well as a Chausson concert for violin, piano, and string quartet with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Stanford's resident String Quartet. The concert was really good, but I was surrounded by a whole lotta old people.

Later that night, Mariel and I tried out one of the Greatest Inventions Ever Known to Mankind: the egg-shaped Jello mold. I had been obsessed with these ever since I saw a television commercial for them last spring, but I didn't get any until last week. It also answered the age-old question: what would a it look like if you submerged an egg-shaped Jello mold into a glass of ginger ale? Well, my friends, wonder no more.

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