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Fri I lifted and didn't hurt myself, probably bc I did mostly core and balance exercises.
Sat was centered around food. Shocking, right? Lunch was a birthday party at Sushi Samba - they make some yummy girly drinks and the food was pretty good. Then the birthday girl wanted to go to Murray's Cheese Shop, so we did. I'd never been there and had considered going to their Cheese 101 that night before I developed dinner plans. As a cheese neophyte, I found it overwhelming, but the mad squidman bought us all cheese sticks, which I happily munched on my way home. Then it was time to get dressed for dinner.
When it comes to great food, there are people who want something that's made from the finest ingredients with the greatest skill. What I don't get is, if you can have the finest ingredients and the greatest skill, why wouldn't you also want innovative and brilliant pairings of flavors too? Fortunately for me (and my fourteen dinner companions on Sat night) we got all of the above. Jack is an occasional restaurant, meaning it's open for one fixed menu meal per month, but what a meal. I probably would not have ordered any of those items if they'd been on a menu bc there was something new or different or that I don't like in pretty much every course, and yet each was delicious. And the flavors! ( cut for those who don't want to be hungry )
I have to admit, before dinner, I was expecting innovative pairings - the chefs are some of my fave mad (kitchen) scientists - but I didn't expect how brilliantly textured the food would be. I didn't expect how beautiful the presentation would be or how well the meal would move from course to course, with layers of flavors resting on each other, rather than competing. I loved every choice the chefs made, even if I wouldn't've made the same choices and would've been WRONG. I'm currently figuring out how I can drag OperaBoss and my siblings out to Brooklyn.
Sun, I could barely eat, bc nothing looked good :) Spent the day studying, but despite not goofing off, didn't get all that much done. I discovered a section I'd annotated, but couldn't remember, so I re-read that, and finished the reading I've been working on. Despite spending the day with the books, I got less than one unit done :( The only cheering thing about that was discovered that all the citations for the fi unit are from the late nineties, so they probably weren't teaching this stuff in school when I was there. i.e. studying harder then wouldn't've made this easier. Ran 4mi in 40mins in shorts, didn't go to yoga. ah well.
Sat was centered around food. Shocking, right? Lunch was a birthday party at Sushi Samba - they make some yummy girly drinks and the food was pretty good. Then the birthday girl wanted to go to Murray's Cheese Shop, so we did. I'd never been there and had considered going to their Cheese 101 that night before I developed dinner plans. As a cheese neophyte, I found it overwhelming, but the mad squidman bought us all cheese sticks, which I happily munched on my way home. Then it was time to get dressed for dinner.
When it comes to great food, there are people who want something that's made from the finest ingredients with the greatest skill. What I don't get is, if you can have the finest ingredients and the greatest skill, why wouldn't you also want innovative and brilliant pairings of flavors too? Fortunately for me (and my fourteen dinner companions on Sat night) we got all of the above. Jack is an occasional restaurant, meaning it's open for one fixed menu meal per month, but what a meal. I probably would not have ordered any of those items if they'd been on a menu bc there was something new or different or that I don't like in pretty much every course, and yet each was delicious. And the flavors! ( cut for those who don't want to be hungry )
I have to admit, before dinner, I was expecting innovative pairings - the chefs are some of my fave mad (kitchen) scientists - but I didn't expect how brilliantly textured the food would be. I didn't expect how beautiful the presentation would be or how well the meal would move from course to course, with layers of flavors resting on each other, rather than competing. I loved every choice the chefs made, even if I wouldn't've made the same choices and would've been WRONG. I'm currently figuring out how I can drag OperaBoss and my siblings out to Brooklyn.
Sun, I could barely eat, bc nothing looked good :) Spent the day studying, but despite not goofing off, didn't get all that much done. I discovered a section I'd annotated, but couldn't remember, so I re-read that, and finished the reading I've been working on. Despite spending the day with the books, I got less than one unit done :( The only cheering thing about that was discovered that all the citations for the fi unit are from the late nineties, so they probably weren't teaching this stuff in school when I was there. i.e. studying harder then wouldn't've made this easier. Ran 4mi in 40mins in shorts, didn't go to yoga. ah well.