Friday

February 16, 2001

For sale on ebay---searching for 'donut'

my skimping on dessert

I wake up in the middle of a complicated dream. Many friends are in it. My friend Maggie from South Africa. Someone that might be FFP's cousin is picking stuff up at either a store or a construction site. He's neatly folding things. I'm reassuring someone that I know where my keys are.

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Work on one thing at a time. Stay calm. Calm. Help other people stay calm. It's a good thing because as I work on a couple of presentations I find out that someone has an idea that I'll go to Hamburg in a couple of weeks and deliver some other presentation.

"We were wondering if you wanted to build up some more airline miles."

Well, no. I like to build airline miles by using my credit cards and then fly someplace for fun. Oh, well. I may still get out of it.

It's not productive to get too excited. It really isn't. Remember that.

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Today I received an e-mail from a perfect stranger asking me where to get a fake donut. Something about my incipient fake food collection. But who knew perfect strangers would read my journal and expect me to know about that? Of course, I searched ebay. I really like this postcard for sale there. But it turns out gag donuts are available on the WEB. This isn't information you needed? Oh, well.

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AMOA (Austin Museum of Art) had an opening of two shows. One featured work of photos and prints of Edward Ruscha. The other featured artists with a 'sense of play.' A very cool environment has also been created to allow kids to create art installations after seeing the exhibit. They can hang paintings and place sculpture in a dollhouse museum and create installations with a wall of cubby holes and an environment of color and texture and shape. (I wanted to play. Very cool.)

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Then we went off to Westwood to exhaust our food requirement for the quarter. I had something they call the seafood martini which is shrimp, scallops and a bit of lobster sauteed in a vermouth sauce in a martini glass with speared olives. Too cute? Maybe, but actually quite tasty.

I had the lobster enchiladas. The veg of the day was a couple of kinds of beans. Tasty. FFP had a steak, a filet, that looked luscious.

Then we foolishly ordered a dessert. FFP was trying to get berries (which the waiter also cadged a few of) but we got the angel food cake with the bright red strawberry sauce. I've hidden the true color. Mouseover if you dare.

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We feel asleep over the LD of Howard's End. LD technology is gone, gone, gone. But we still have disks and a player. We have DVD, too, of course. We only made it through one disk.

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