My Week in Pictures

What I did instead of tackling the mountain of homework:

Smoothie in a bowl!

Portland Eastside waterfront

My first frozen yogurt!

I'm madly in love with this skyline

Chilled Quinoa Vegetable Salad with Lime Cumin Dressing

After a few oddly perfect days, I return to my mound of end of the year schoolwork:

• 12 page research paper and presentation on Korean Unification
• 30 page report on my African-based organization service project
• 5 page analyzation of the documentary "Deep Water"
• Political Science test
• Advanced Spanish grammar test
• Portfolio of all my work in Asian Studies Class 

All done within the next 2 weeks... Sounds bad right?

This brightened my day: The national flower of North Korea is the Kimilsungia Begonia. I shoulda known.

Camera Ready!

I have my camera again! Yay! A friend visiting from Alaska brought it down to me. Sexy post-8-mile-run-hair:

Gloriously warm Portland afternoons mean wandering around the city with my camera and an iced coffee in hand. 

Oh the things you can find:

This Kim Jong-il tongue scraper is from Cargo, one of me and Chuck's favorite Portland destinations. It's a quasi-antique-novelty-furniture-garden-andeverythingelseyoucanthinkof store with a heavily Asian influence. 

 The GIANT store is literally packed to the rafters with the most random stuff:

Including Chinese propaganda posters...

New purchase from American eagle. Bigger than a purse, smaller than a backpack, and it can carry my laptop. All for under $30:

Lunch = Chicken salad made with fat free greek yogurt, apples, grapes, pecans, dried pomegranates, and celery:

These warm summer nights make it seem like school is out. Alas, mega projects await. Sad face.

A Grad Grills

I'm in Alaska this weekend for Chuck's college graduation! The big day is tomorrow and since there's a dinner party planned for Orso's (a swanky restaurant downtown) we decided to stay home tonight and grill some chicken! So delicious.

This is our ghetto way of starting a fire:

This is me almost lighting myself on fire (check the awesome face I'm making):

The lemon pepper and teriyaki chicken breasts:

The final dinner plate consisted of half an everything bagel with a little cheddar cheese and some shredded chicken, brown rice, and a spinach salad. Great easy homemade dinner!

Chuck and I have literally spent the entire day doing nothing...together. I'm only here for two days so we are cramming as much "we" time in as we can. This boy definitely loves meat:

Tomorrow is the big day! I can't believe this little Thai nugget is going to be a college graduate!