Day 356: 2 1/2 hour wait

 

December 22nd, 2011With the day started on an empty stomach, by the night’s end a bloated me was escaping the realms of a food coma. Throughout a vast majority of the day I stayed at home like a mere mortal watching episodes of How I Met Your Mother and playing Sims Social simultaneously. When the time justified itself Earle picked me up, we had a website design session at his place, before eventually departing for our perfect destination, Star Korean BBQ. Though the waitress lied and said it would be roughly an hour wait, we ended up spending 2 and a half hours doing so. In the midst of all this, we went upstairs to the lounge where we would await our eventual food. Triet and Vu came first, followed by a reunion with Brandon (who I haven’t seen in roughly a year), and then Thiep. We watched some weird television show upstairs, the customer service there generously gave me some free coffee, and then we eventually got called to service. We ate a ton of food roughly deflating our wallets $25 each, eventually clearing our plates as pictured above. With a nice sausagefest over, we all departed seperate ways for our prospective homes. I ended the night continuing How I Met Your Mother and chillaxing in my living room, right next to all the Christmas presents.

On this day in 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo enters the world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever gorilla born in captivity. Weighing in at approximately 4 pounds, Colo, a western lowland gorilla whose name was a combination of Columbus and Ohio, was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two gorillas captured in French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought to the Columbus Zoo in 1951. Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught in the wild, often by brutal means. In order to capture a gorilla when it was young and therefore still small enough to handle, hunters frequently had to kill the gorilla’s parents and other family members. And subsequently… planet of the apes.

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