Monday, December 12, 2005
I woke up today at 4:39 AM—the exact time I woke up yesterday. Yesterday when this happened, I tried to sleep more and couldn't, so today I got right up and didn't try to sleep more. Chris and Nate had more work to do, so I spent the day at Waikiki sunning on the beach, shopping for gifts, and looking for floaty pens for Joel (couldn't find any). I walked through the International Marketplace, then along Kuhio. I'm sick of seeing ABC stores and macadamia nut clusters. They're everywhere! Chris says that ABC stands for "all blocks covered"—very funny! I have lunch by myself at Lulu's: chicken cobb salad, iced tea. Service is really slow and they are unable to refill my iced tea even once because someone was changing or refilling something in the machine. (They could have boiled water, brewed tea, and chilled it in the time it took my waitron to figure that out.) They don't charge me for the iced tea, so I leave a better tip than otherwise. Home (Chris and Nate's). I briefly meet J, a friend of Chris and Nate's. Shower. Dinner at home with Chris and Nate: manoa lettuce salad with corn; toast with cheese, dill, and black pepper; stuffed prawns made by J.