East of Eden

Monday was fun. I've been becoming better friends with a girl at work and we hung out the entire day practically. It's nice to just make quality friends with women while being single, rather than assuming every interaction has to be a hook-up. I think that comes with just being more comfortable with my alone time.

We went down to have sushi in Boulder because I sold her on tempura ice cream. She has a sweet-tooth that is unrivaled by anyone, well, except for me, perhaps. I love Sushi Tora and that was the intended destination, but for some reason their sign says "Gone Fishing" on Mondays. So we had to scoot over to sushi Zanmai off Pearl. I typically like that place, but they were a little sloppy that night. All of the fish on the sashimi platter had lemons surrounding it and looked sort of dingy, except for the tuna which was delicious. The fish tasted fine but it was over-powered by the flavor of lemon. It was her first encounter with sashimi, so I was hoping it was less safe than it was. She told me her favorite was octopus, and well, that's alright in my book. I also didn't really care for avocado randomly appearing in two of our spicy tuna rolls. It's like they were half committed to the preparation of the roll. Desert was great though: cookie-dough ice cream, wrapped in pound cake, flash tempura fried, over fresh fruit. Mmm. I love sushi.

No stop in Boulder is complete, for me, unless I can hit up the Boulder Book Store and buy a book I'll never read. This time though, I'm going to stick through it. My friend and I made a pact to read fifty pages a week (depending on how much time we have) and discuss chapters on Sundays when we work together. If we can get through a book we might make an official book club. Haha. We are reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I remember you were reading this Staci, did you finish it? I have never read anything by Steinbeck so I am excited. I am dually excited to have someone to keep me motivated in reading it since my addiction to electronic simulations has devoured my attention span.

After we picked up our books we went to Amante for coffee, which closed at 7 due to new winter hours. It was well past eight at this point so we headed over to the Med for cappucinos and ANOTHER dessert. Oh man. I was fully-loaded on sugar by the time I got home.

I had a great time though. It's nice hanging out from 2:00 on. It allows me to have a little time to myself late at night.