Lena Chen: Worst christmas gift ever received?
Daniel Ha: From relatives, I’ve received the same shirt twice in a row.
Lena Chen: My father got me a Chococat scarf and mitten set when I was 18. EIGHTEEN. Do you know what Chococat is?
Daniel Ha: That’s the Sanrio black cat, no?
Lena Chen: Yes. I joke quite frequently that because my parents divorced when I was 13, my dad’s conception of me is permanently stuck at that age.
Daniel Ha: I bought a Chococat branded something for a girl once. I was in 7th grade.

[In reference to previous entry]

Daniel Ha: Honestly, you sound like an old girlfriend I had.
Me: Haha, do I?
Daniel Ha: She wrote introspective stuff about herself.
Me: Is there a reason she’s no longer your girlfriend?
Daniel Ha: Yeah, she was a bitch.

Me: I mean, look at him. He’s beautiful in this strangely poetic, tortured kind of way.

ZAP: It’s called “home-schooled.”

Me: “Do you know of any good Middle Eastern food in Boston?”

ZAP: “There’s a place at Charles MGH.”

Me: “What is it?”

ZAP: “Moroccan. Wait, Pakistani? I don’t know. Some country we bombed.”

Jason: “My car’s old, and it could break down. I don’t want to get stuck in bumblefuck Connecticut.”

Tara: “But you bum-fuck in Boston!”

Jason: “True. But this is Boston.”

Tara: “What about bumfucking in New Haven?”

Jason: “That’s called AIDS.”