after a week and a half of solitude, my roommate's back from his little trip to baltimore. he came up with the hyung he was staying with, the hyung's girlfriend and the girlfriend's friend. it was a bit uncomfortable for me to meet these people because their english is bad and my korean's worse. i'm also not 100% familiar with that whole korean etiquette: formally introducing yourself to people, accepting and receiving things with two hands, using the honoriffic forms of words and phrases, etc.

in other news, i got a haircut today (for my big interview tomorrow (tuesday)). after that i had lunch with pat and his roommate. we ate taiwanese food at excellent pork chop restaurant. we had some hong kong dessert and stopped by the barney's warehouse sale. i broke my oath to remain celibate from buying stuff. but i just couldn't pass up the additional 75% off of this shirt and pants. (i know... i'm a shopaholic... it's official). we then vegged at helen and sarah's. they needed me to hook up their dvd player and their cable box descrambler (i hope there aren't any cable company police nazis reading). then it was jja jjang myun dinner and meeting up with my roommate and FOB posse.

i pretty standard day in the life of roboto. a little bit of this, a little bit of that.