May 16, 2008
The big complaint we have today–A., K., and myself–is the lack of condiments on the conference sandwich table. No mayonnaise? I thought we were in Milwaukee! Still, I loaded up a white roll with salami, cheese, tomato, and lettuce, and put a pile of crinkle-cut chips on my plate. I saved dessert–a peanut-and-chocolate cookie bar–for Fernando Elichirigoity’s keynote, an absolutely riveting exploration of “Living in the Age of Globally Distributed Algorithms.” I went back for seconds and picked up a gingerbread square while he talked about dolls that shop for themselves, pigeon bloggers, and called for a return to creativity and delight. Sparkled like the lemon seltzer.
May 16, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Turkey sandwich. Again.
May 17, 2008 at 6:25 am
Today I had a controversial lunch. I went to The Holy Land restaurant and ordered chicken Schnitzel in a pita, which came with a house-made cabbage slaw, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, some hot sauce that I quickly took off the plate and set down far away, and a sort-of tahini like sauce with (I think) terragon. I also drank a delicious icy blended lemonade with muddled mint, because it’s ninety degrees here (and no A/C anywhere). The food was good but on the wall next to me there was a photo of women in a kibbutz dated 1949, so then I was wondering about their stories, thinking about Israel and Palestine, and getting really upset, and sort of wished I’d gone to the taqueria next door instead (which then made me think of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, more upset, thought of the Sushi place next to that…you can guess the rest of my cyclical indigestion).