Mar. 13th, 2003 10:42 am
Little things
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muckefuckI left work early yesterday to meet Monshu at La Fonda. He blamed his lateness on a protracted CTA driver-switch. We had the arepa de choclo con camarón--why it took so long for me to order the one appetiser with BACON, I can't explain. My entree was the lomito de res. Whenever I see res in Spanish I parse it as "something", because that's what it used to mean in Catalan. (The modern meaning is "nothing"; cf. French rien.) So I think of de res as meaning "substantial" when really it just means "of beef".
I gave the owner trouble about the restaurant's write-up in the Reader last week. He said that former patrons who'd assumed they'd disappeared after the fire had been happily calling. The waitress only noticed after she'd run my card through that she'd forgotten to put Monshu's wine on our check, so she asked if we could just pay for it next time we came. I can't resist any treatment that makes me feel like a regular. Plus, the whole exchange was in Spanish, yet I actually understood it and replied appropriately.
We bought ice cream. Monshu had more energy left in him than I'd expected after two days of almost solid meetings plus his class--I ended up conking out before he did. Somehow, I never ended up making the phone calls I'd intended to.
I gave the owner trouble about the restaurant's write-up in the Reader last week. He said that former patrons who'd assumed they'd disappeared after the fire had been happily calling. The waitress only noticed after she'd run my card through that she'd forgotten to put Monshu's wine on our check, so she asked if we could just pay for it next time we came. I can't resist any treatment that makes me feel like a regular. Plus, the whole exchange was in Spanish, yet I actually understood it and replied appropriately.
We bought ice cream. Monshu had more energy left in him than I'd expected after two days of almost solid meetings plus his class--I ended up conking out before he did. Somehow, I never ended up making the phone calls I'd intended to.