i met james in chinatown for lunch, we went to shabuzen. it was early and we were the first customers, the bored wait staff eyeing us from the bar as we came in. i ordered up a chinese spicy broth with a watermelon smoothie while james had the tom yum broth with a diet coke. later, we went to the chinese bookstore by our old office to get some bubble ice tea. before we left, we swung by the old place. downstairs it still said "squid country safari" but the office was naturally empty.

my ultimate flea trap arrived this morning, a little too late since the exterminator already paid me a visit on saturday. what i thought to be about the size and shape of a smoke detector was actually a little bigger, about the diameter of a medium pie plate. i set it up and left it plugged in before i went out. when i came back home, i was disappointed to see that i wasn't able to catch any fleas. it's a no-win situation: i'll be unhappy if there aren't any fleas because i can't see the trap in action, but i'll be just as unhappy if there are fleas because it means the spraying didn't work. if i had to choose though, i rather not have any fleas, which apparently looked to be the case.

after a brief bout of diablo (waiting for my food to digest), i went out for a run. i swung by the harvard square post office first to drop off a netflix dvd (beating the 5pm pickup time, hoping it'll arrive in worcester by tomorrow) before taking my usual circuit around the charles river. i checked the trap when i got back home, empty still. the flea trap actually looks kind of pretty, like a floor lantern, except it catches fleas. after a shower, some more diablo, before heating up some chicken wings for dinner in front of the television for monday night football. patriots naturally beat the chiefs.