REM concert on Friday evening. Liked a couple of songs but most of it was lost on me. That dude is seriously depressive. Who wants to pay up cash to get depressed?
Ethopian food at Demera on Saturday evening. Love it! It is suspiciously like South Indian food. The Ingera tastes like Dosa, the Sambussa is the Samosa and the Dor Wat tastes like Chettinad Chicken. And they eat with hands! Ethopians have a strange look - not African, not Aryan, a little North African, trim and athletic, complete with Cleopatra-esque noses and frizzy hair. I must say that this combination of genetic factors made the waitresses pretty pretty. To think about it , I can swear I know some Malayalee types who share 70% of the look. Strange. The effects of ancient trade routes persist many a thousand years.
Went to the Printers Row Book Fair on Sunday evening. Picked up these 7 books:
Keep The Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
The Rubaiyat - Omar Khayyam
The Beautiful and Damned - Scott Fitzgerald
Norton's Book of Personal Essays
Feynman's Rainbow - Leonard Mlodinow
Macroeconomics - Richard Froyen
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Guess how I paid for them? 28$!! I actually bought the Macroeconomics book for 1$ (obviously sold by someone who was totally lost on it's real economic value or just didn't care).
Then went across the street to the Chicago Blues Festival. Music was great but rain + mud + lots and lots of people = not fun.
Ethopian food at Demera on Saturday evening. Love it! It is suspiciously like South Indian food. The Ingera tastes like Dosa, the Sambussa is the Samosa and the Dor Wat tastes like Chettinad Chicken. And they eat with hands! Ethopians have a strange look - not African, not Aryan, a little North African, trim and athletic, complete with Cleopatra-esque noses and frizzy hair. I must say that this combination of genetic factors made the waitresses pretty pretty. To think about it , I can swear I know some Malayalee types who share 70% of the look. Strange. The effects of ancient trade routes persist many a thousand years.
Went to the Printers Row Book Fair on Sunday evening. Picked up these 7 books:
Keep The Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
The Rubaiyat - Omar Khayyam
The Beautiful and Damned - Scott Fitzgerald
Norton's Book of Personal Essays
Feynman's Rainbow - Leonard Mlodinow
Macroeconomics - Richard Froyen
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Guess how I paid for them? 28$!! I actually bought the Macroeconomics book for 1$ (obviously sold by someone who was totally lost on it's real economic value or just didn't care).
Then went across the street to the Chicago Blues Festival. Music was great but rain + mud + lots and lots of people = not fun.
1 comment:
...or cared about someone like you enough to help you out by downpricing :)..
tell me what you end up thinking of the rubaiyat.. and this should motivate you to finally make that trip to ethiopia..
- ro
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