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The dinner with

colorwhirl's family went okay. Her mother was actually quite nice and her brothers were well-behaved - even though the older of the two is a rabid neo-con and anti-Semitic, or so she warned me. I still felt kind of uncomfortable, though, and didn't talk with them much at dinner. I can see why she doesn't like the older brother, though, because he made some racist comments about black people who were moving into the neighborhood and when we all went back to the apartment afterward he used our magnetic poetry set on the refrigerator to compose some truly peurile verses and thought it was funny. He's three years older than my little brother Benjamin (who is thirteen, in case you don't know), but acts much the same way, except more malicious.

Overall, though, it wasn't as bad as I expected. Now I can start worrying about when my parents visit tomorrow.

colorwhirl taught me to do yarn overs on my knitting and will soon be teaching me how finish up a project. My practice swatch, which I have unravelled and redone many times, is almost finished for real. When it's done, I'm going to make a hat.

I also went to The House of Tea on 4th street today. The lady working behind the counter was a little nuts in the way that many of my Bryn Mawr friends are, and, of course, she's a tea geek. I learned from her that you should not let green tea steep for more than three minutes or it gets bitter, which is a problem that a lot of people have with it. I also bought a kind of tea called Harrod's, but it's apparently not named after the British department store. It's actually a different spelling of Herod, apparently. It has chocolate in it and it tastes quite nice.