things I bought two days ago:

• milk
• Tesco-brand honey in a glass bottle
• a used copy of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

things that are inexplicably difficult to find:

• running shorts
• contact lens solution

most common questions asked when I say I go to school in California:

• Do you know Arnold Schwarzenegger?
• Have you met any celebrities?
• Is it really like The Hills/Laguna Beach/The OC?
• What the fuck did you come here for?

one place that was almost painfully beautiful:

things currently in my backpack:

• two cans of tomato sauce
• an onion
• an avocado
• The Old Man and the Sea
• three pens: one gel, two ballpoint
• four bananas
• one tube of Clinique lipstick in “Precious Pink”
• one red pepper in a plastic baggie
• a small graph paper notebook
• an iPod nano, gold
• digital camera
• wallet