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Nov. 21st, 2009 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyBecause now that the being-pissed-report is out of the way, things did improve as the day went on.
1. The Safeway tuna "poki" (which was simply slices of raw tuna on a bed of wakame seaweed salad) fit nicely in the top compartment of my bento with some rice in the bottom, and traveled well enough when stacked in my basket ontop of a frozen bag of blue ice. Kiffany was duly impressed with my impromptu picnic on the steps of the event site. "Chopsticks and everything." Well, yeah!
2. Got to watch some of my favorite people step up as the new Prince and Princess. Had an interesting conversation on the artistic process withmoira_ramsay . Sat in the peanut gallery with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aureelia . Admired helblonde and moriven 's Baby Bear, who is not much of a conversationalist yet, but seems like a very mellow, contented little guy.
3. Was told by Wilhelm that he once again included assignments on writing tanka and haiku while teaching his middle schoolers a world civilization unit on feudal Japan. Was only mildly appalled when he pulled out his iPhone to show me his Facebook page with a horror haiku about zombies. ("Undead want my skull/Chanting, "Brains! pounding the door/Load the Benelli." I just fired off: "Clouds hide the moon's face./Things that go bump in the night/Are waiting out there." )
4. Got offsite in enough time to make it to Mom's Apple Pie before the 6 PM closing time for a slice of killer Gravenstein apple pie withlayla_lilah , then mosey next door to the Henweigh Cafe for dinner. Yes, in that order. I had flank steak marinated in bourbon with sweet potato fries and asparagus, layla_lilah went for the Henweigh chicken pot pie. If you have cause to be up in the Sebastopol area for any reason, Mom's is definitely worth the detour. (On 116 just north of Guerneville Road). That pie was better than my grandmother's, which I didn't believe was possible. The Henweigh is also a decent place to get a meal. The one caveat: one has to exit the restaurant and cross the patio to use the restrooms, which is less than ideal on a chilly evening.
5. Will be going to a free Balinese music and dance concert tomorrow afternoon in Oakland, also withlayla_lilah .
1. The Safeway tuna "poki" (which was simply slices of raw tuna on a bed of wakame seaweed salad) fit nicely in the top compartment of my bento with some rice in the bottom, and traveled well enough when stacked in my basket ontop of a frozen bag of blue ice. Kiffany was duly impressed with my impromptu picnic on the steps of the event site. "Chopsticks and everything." Well, yeah!
2. Got to watch some of my favorite people step up as the new Prince and Princess. Had an interesting conversation on the artistic process with
moira_ramsay . Sat in the peanut gallery with aureelia . Admired helblonde and moriven 's Baby Bear, who is not much of a conversationalist yet, but seems like a very mellow, contented little guy. 3. Was told by Wilhelm that he once again included assignments on writing tanka and haiku while teaching his middle schoolers a world civilization unit on feudal Japan. Was only mildly appalled when he pulled out his iPhone to show me his Facebook page with a horror haiku about zombies. ("Undead want my skull/Chanting, "Brains! pounding the door/Load the Benelli." I just fired off: "Clouds hide the moon's face./Things that go bump in the night/Are waiting out there." )
4. Got offsite in enough time to make it to Mom's Apple Pie before the 6 PM closing time for a slice of killer Gravenstein apple pie with
layla_lilah , then mosey next door to the Henweigh Cafe for dinner. Yes, in that order. I had flank steak marinated in bourbon with sweet potato fries and asparagus, layla_lilah went for the Henweigh chicken pot pie. If you have cause to be up in the Sebastopol area for any reason, Mom's is definitely worth the detour. (On 116 just north of Guerneville Road). That pie was better than my grandmother's, which I didn't believe was possible. The Henweigh is also a decent place to get a meal. The one caveat: one has to exit the restaurant and cross the patio to use the restrooms, which is less than ideal on a chilly evening.5. Will be going to a free Balinese music and dance concert tomorrow afternoon in Oakland, also with
layla_lilah .
