Awake until 2050

That's what I'll probably be, thanks to an incredible excess of green tea in the last half a day.

My friend Paskal and I decided to get together around 3:30 today, starting at a coffee shop. One cup of tea there. Then we decided to go to the Goethe Institute, but upon arrival, we learned that it was closed. So, we moved on to the Museum of Contemporary Art, instead. By the time we got there, it was scheduled to close in about 20 minutes, so we left there, as well. We were both hungry by then (there was lots of walking involved between these places), so we went to a restaurant in Chinatown. Enter a few more cups of green tea. When it came time to order, however, we learned that they were out of everything we both wanted, including "all vegetables" (how odd), so we left. We tried to get into a second Chinese restaurant, but they were too busy. Third Chinese restaurant -- finally open -- and had vegetables. We ate there, and I, 1) tried imperial rolls for the first time (pretty good), and 2) was "forced" (by Paskal) to use my chopsticks ("batons chinois") instead of my fork and knife. This made for relatively slow eating on my part, but I did my best. Add several cups of green tea here, and I've hit my antioxidant quota for the year. Unfortunately, they didn't offer fortune cookies at the end of the meal. We both wanted them, though, so we found a Chinese grocery store and bought an entire bag of them. We broke all the cookies therein just to get the fortunes. This was a good time.

Afterwards, we tried to hit a movie, but the timing was off. What's with this luck?! So, we ended up at a bar. Upon looking at the clock just now, I realized that we spent almost 12 hours together...but frankly, I'm not sure we accomplished much of anything--other than enough green tea consumption to contribute to insomnia for the next several decades.