Things over A Few Days About a week passed since I arrived in Chicago. Since setting up a new life has been busy, I haven’t studied, prepared for recruiting or travelling in the downtown. I finally received my furniture from IKEA. I bought them on Aug 8, so it took as long as a week! After receiving them at 3pm yesterday, I spent hours to assemble my desk, chair and bed. Last night I had a gathering with members with who I’m going on a trip to Argentina from tomorrow. I came back home at around 11pm, so I couldn’t finish assembling my bed. So today I continued assembling it and on the way I realized one thing. One part is missing!! It’s a center beam which is fixed across top and bottom to support a mattress on my queen bed. Without it, you cannot put a mattress… That was really irritating and disappointing because I have to go to IKEA again and I can receive it after a while… However, my friend help buy it and arrange the delivery to my house on my day of arrival at Chicago from Argentina. I really appreciate my friend. Apart from furniture story, I went for dinner with my new friends. How this happened is that I’m sharing mobile family plan with one guy, who is from Hong Kong and studied and worked in the US. I asked him for dinner and I also brought my two Japanese friends. Since I was craving for Chinese food that time, I proposed to go to China Town to eat Sichuan food. The restaurant where we went was really nice (Of course, really spicy)! I got really satisfied with the food and it was a fun night. But, the problem as always was the next day I got upset stomach. However, I cannot stop eating spicy food! I’m leaving for Argentina tomorrow and so excited!!

New life in Chicago I moved to Chicago on Aug 8. I’m going to attend to university to purse an MBA. For me, living abroad is the second time since I lived in Singapore for three and half years until the end of June, but setting up new life is really tough. On the arrival day at Chicago, I went to IKEA and bought some furniture, but it turned out that the delivery date will be Aug 16… So, I stayed at my friend’s house for 4 nights and moved in to my condominium on Aug 12. I will do unit share with two roommates in three bedroom unit. One of them already arrived earlier than me and he was so kind that he lent me his mattress on the sofa in the living room, so I don’t need to sleep on the hard floor. I hope to receive my furniture successfully tomorrow. The classes will start from Sep, but there is a trip event in mid Aug. Incoming students can choose their destination from about 30 countries all over the world. You can list 5 destinations in order of priority and one of them is assigned as your trip destination(most likely your first or second choice). I chose five countries in central and south America because I moved here from Japan (I’m Japanese) and it doesn’t make sense that I will go to countries in Asia. As my wish, my destination was decided to Argentina. These days after arriving in Chicago has been really busy but I have to leave for a trip on this coming Sunday. By the way, jet lag is horrible. After coming to Chicago, I haven’t been able to sleep well. I can fall asleep at night but I wake up several times midnight, and after I wake up in the early morning, I cannot fall asleep again. So, everyday I wake up at around 5pm. This is maybe because I take a long nap, like three hours, everyday. Based on the internet, if you go to east side, your jet lag can be very bad, so I think the reason of my jet lag is that I came to the US from Japan, which is the east direction. I hope the jet lag to be cured soon. Today, I was considering which classes I will take and had Chinese food for dinner with future classmates in China Town. I’d like to write about these stories another day.

We could all get a beer In a drama, a hero was dumped by a lady and said "maybe in a few months after it's not so fresh we could all, you know, get a beer.". And then, the moment she was about to go back, he continued "Or, we could all get a beer now." What's the meaning and nuance of "all" in the sentence "we could all get a beer now."

Maybe in a few months after it's not so fresh In a drama, the hero said "maybe in a few months after it's not so fresh we could all, you know, get a beer" after he was dumped by a lady. What's the meaning and nuance of "in a few months after it's not so fresh"?

It's a great look, but you're looking at the wrong girl In a drama, at one party which the hero threw to invite a lady he was in love with, he tried to go out with her, but she said "It's a great look, but you're looking the wrong girl". What's the meaning and nuance of "It's a great look" and "you're looking the wrong girl"?

You're looking at me with that look In a drama, at one party the hero threw to invite a lady he was in love with, he tried to go out with her, but she said "We barely know each other and you're looking at me with that look and it's like..." What's the meaning and nuance of "you're looking at me with that look"?

Or the one before that In a drama, a hero threw a party to invite a lady he was in love with, but the lady started to chat up with another guy he introduced her. He took her up to the roof and said "I didn't throw this party to set you up with him or the one before that." What's the meaning and nuance of "or the one before that"?

Anybody seen a big-ass book? In a drama, a guy said "Have anyone seen -----------(a long-name book)", but no one responded. He said next "Anybody seen a big-ass book?" What's the meaning and nuance of "big-ass book"?

'cause that's just how we roll In a drama, a hero threw a party to invite a lady he was in love with. but finally she didn't show up. Next day, she called to him and said "I'm very sorry that I missed your party. Too bad it wasn't today." He lied her to have a party the day also and said "Yeah, it's a two-day party, 'cause that's just how we roll." What's the meaning of "'cause that's just how we roll."?