Sarah McClusky used a fork for her Ethiopian tonight

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Not on the waitperson, I should hope.

But in typical Sarah style she did it with aplomb and cuteness than charmed the management into bringing out a pan of fresh, smoking, in-house roasted coffee beans for our olractory...um...well I guess they intended it to be pleasure. (Actually the 2 incidences were not necessarily connected.)

Also, Jaymc uttered a guttural sigh of satiation.

One day I will be able to maintain a blog aside from ILX.

ILX REAL LIFE GOSSIP ALERT

Will hit the 500 replies mark within 12 hours.

Doubtful, as it's midnight EST and like...6 AM on a Saturday GMT.

No more than 150, surely. It's a weekend.

Oh shit! I will never get used to Central time. It's AM-ish EST.

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Also, Nick spilled his water. And I drank too much. And CoCo was quiet and had beautiful shining hair that caught the light in every environment she stepped into.

And I drank too much.

^^^ Rosetta Stone of this thread

Revised total: 700 by Tuesday at the very latest.

Wait. Are you suggesting that *I* drank too much?

I realize now that I didn't tell on myself. But "too much"?

I want to go to dinner w/ you guys!

Further status reports/gossip:

Dan M and Sisiut are out at the Green Mill (2 blocks from my house) where they somehow skipped the $12 cover charge and are tossing back boozahol until 5 AM closing time.

I, however, being the model of temperance and chastity that I am, am up sipping water, petting my parrot and kitty, reading Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams plays. And giving the eyeball to a civil procedure book.

Kit Kat - I saw you on IB and it was some weird internet convergence moment. But yeah, your wedding was beautiful.

But am considering hitting the bathhouse in a minute.

j/k

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ILX gossip: Jesse has been to a bathhouse.

I did as in Rome, or as in Ethiopia as it were, for quite some time, but decided the inerja bread was deadening the taste of the food wrapped inside it. Also, I didn't really like its sponginess in general.

ENBB, Are you planning your own?

(That is me, kitkat, posting under Nick's name because I'm too lazy to log out of the home computer. Also I wouldn't want him to forget to log back in under his own name, making it appear that I am a noise board regular.)

Mr. Que is not a fan of Ethiopian, largely on the basis of injera sponginess and finger eating thing. Perhaps if I proffered a fork in lieu of injera he would come to love the Ethiopian as I do? I mean we live in DC, fer chrissake, where good Ethiopian restaurants abound!

Injera is weird. It is kind of like eating glove leather, except easier to chew. I still like it, though.

It's skin-like.

It leaves your fingers all tacky. Nevertheless I like injera. Was the injera not so good there?

I like injera. Maybe I will get some African food tonight.

The injera was fine. I can't really remember what it tastes like elsewhere enough to compare. Plus it's been a couple years since I ate Ethiopian before last night. It was more sour than I remember.

Yeah, I don't think it was bad for what it was, I just didn't want to fill up on a bunch of bland sponginess.

Also, ENBB, I failed to mention that I ran into a couple other ILXors on IB too.

Was this Ras Dashen or Ethiopian Diamond?

Ras Dashen.