After a week, I finally felt mostly better today and was excited to go meet a friend. Unfortunately, I woke up to discover my water and electricity had been turned off. This caused me to panic. When I locked myself out of my apartment I felt more resigned than anything. "Well, it was bound to happen." When I realized I had no water or electricity despite paying my bills, my thoughts were a bit more crazed. "No shower?! No internet?! No charging my phone?! WHY CHINA?!" After frantically calling my landlord, we eventually discovered that the electricity and water had been shut off for the whole building for maintenance today. Had I known this I would have showered the night before, but such is life when you can't read the notices in the hallway.
I did still meet up with my friend (sorry I didn't smell great kid). We went to the M50 art district to check out various art galleries. He had asked me the day before when we were making plans if I like art. I always feel weird answering questions like this. You're asking me a question about such a huge topic that I can hardly comment on how I feel about all art. It's like asking "Do you like people?". I mean yeah, some of them. Others, not so much. Does that mean I like people? I'm into macaroni pictures. Does that mean I like art?
I know very little about art and what is good and what is not. I just know what I enjoy looking at and what I do not enjoy looking at. One thing I do not like is art with babies in it. Especially scary babies. I have to say I saw too much art with scary babies in it today. Why is that a thing? Do people really need to be more scared of babies than they already are? I also don't like art with happy babies. Anne Geddes, please stop dressing babies up as plants, animals, and inanimate objects. It confuses and frightens me. I don't want to stumble across a baby in a flower garden. What kind of nightmares are you trying to depict?
Besides the scary babies, I enjoyed a lot of the art I saw. I also had my first meal at a Halal (Chinese Islamic) restaurant. I really enjoyed my meal until my friend told me to stop avoiding my vegetables. Woah there buddy. Didn't know I was having dinner with my mother. Also I was not avoiding them! I was avoiding the peppers. Big difference.
My mother has minions everywhere.
I spent the past week feeling miserable from what has to be the worst cold of my life. It ruined my last weekend and made work a totally miserable experience. PLEASE CHILDREN STOP SPEAKING! I also became the gross person on the subway who everyone hopes won't sit next to them. Whatever whatever, at least I'm not the woman who clips her nails or the guy who spits in his bag. On the bright side, illness meant I took a brief foray into Chinese medicine. I have no idea what this is, but it is meant to soothe a sore throat. It tastes much better than it looks. I thought about asking what it was, but I was worried it'd turn into another intestine lunch experience so I decided to enjoy it in ignorance. It definitely helped my throat.
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