Ultimate Coffee Date: November 2015

Hi everyone! :] I’m linking up with Coco @ Got 2 Run 4 Me, Lynda @ Fitness Mom Wine Country, & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner! for November’s Ultimate Coffee Date! Pull up a chair/bean bag/whatever you like to sit on and come link and/or catch up with us! :]

If we were having coffee/tea this morning…I’d tell you that…a couple weeks ago, I went back to New Brunswick to visit one of my grad school friends (she was one of my housemates!) and to crash there before I had to head to Philadelphia to take my lovely boards licensing exam (part 2B, basically).

Hindsight is a terrible thing and there are a billion things I wish I’d also done/mentioned/discussed, but let’s not dwell on it and just keep our limbs crossed that the graders are kind, benevolent, and above all, lenient souls who don’t expect perfection, shall we? (I don’t get my score back until about 2 months from now. ._.)

I’m instead going to take you on a tour of New Brunswick, minus the part I spent studying, because I wasn’t about to take pictures of me having imaginary conversations with myself! (There’s only so long you can do that for before you start to feel like you may in fact be going insane.)

I had no car in grad school, so walking and public transportation was where it was at! It felt so weird driving that I just found a place to park near my old house, and walked all over town instead, just like old times!

It hasn’t changed much from when I first moved in!

I have lots of good memories associated with it because of the friends I made in grad school, but I didn’t realize how much I missed being there until I was back! (I haven’t been back here since I graduated back in 2012!)

I’ll actually going to be going back again to interview in early December! :]! The program emailed me to [basically] tell me they were impressed by my application but mystified as to why the hecks I was applying, because given my home address (CA) and school (WV), it just seemed all sorts of random. At the time, they’d received >900 applications and only had room to interview ~60 people for their 5 spots, and wanted to make sure I wasn’t just applying at random, so I told them my spiel, and they made it happen! <3

Olde Queens is where we used to get many a free meal! (Review here!)

I hadn’t had Korean food in basically forever, so I walked to KBG Korean BBQ & Grill (see my review here!), which is kinda like the Korean version of Chipotle. …In other words, it’s a magical place.

I created my own bowl with red cabbage, brown rice, bulgogi, daikon carrots, fish cakes, bean sprouts, and KBG sauce!

Next up was dessert! I went to one of our old favorite haunts–Sanctuary (see my review here!)–for ice cream! It houses a comic book store upstairs, which I was going to check out, but they were having a Magic tournament, so I decided not to disturb em’.

Stay classy, New Brunswick! :P

My friend lived atop this nondescript but super delicious Thai restaurant! :O We met up in Delaware a couple months ago! <3

All of the above!!!

On Saturday night, I decided to treat myself to a sushi buffet because I’d been dreaming about it for over a year.

I entered an eating contest back in the day too! But it was in teams. We came in 5th out of 13 teams, so not too shabby?

• Have you ever been in an eating contest?
• Have you ever been kicked out of a restaurant? I’m really glad that that didn’t happen, har har.
• Do you think I’ll die of mercury poisoning?