Tired!

[oyceter]

So tired now.... took the red-eye here. Also, I am worried that BART is going to tow my car. I bought prepaid airport parking from them and took the BART in, but I forgot to place the printout on my dashboard. And then I think I ended up parking in the daily parking, as opposed to the monthly parking, so that's two strikes. I'm just hoping that they fine me a ton, because my flight arrives back in SF around midnight, and I would very much like to be able to drive myself home.

Anyway! We ended up eating lunch at a tasty gourmet-ish Americana place. We got grits (!! I have never had grits before!), which were really tasty deep-fried corn meal things with chili mayonnaise. The chili mayo was particularly good, and the grits came in white and purple. I was fond of the purple, but that is just because I like purple food. rilina ended up getting the pulled pork with mashed potatoes and collard greens (very good) and I got macaroni and 3 peppercorn goat cheese, which was excellent. Also, there was a toasted disk of goat cheese on top that was delicious. And then! We had a donut sundae. The donuts at this place are AMAZING. I usually don't like donuts (outside of the chewy Mister Donut ones), but this donut was excellent. It was steaming hot and soft on the inside and wonderfully crunchy on the outside, and it was absolutely perfect with the ice cream and mound of whipped cream. I think we're going to go back tomorrow just for the donuts. My favorite part, outside of the amazing donut, was the giant pile of oyster shells right next to the restaurant door.

Then we melted back at Rilina's place and watched some music vids, then headed for the anime store. Alas, the anime store didn't have Bleach: the Styling (sorry rachelmanija and telophase! I'm going to check my local store when I get back as well) figurines or Naruto Shippuden figurines. Boooo. On the other hand, they had some very cute frog mugs.

I also found A. Merritt's The Fox Woman and Other Stories at the used bookstore and bought it solely because of the back cover copy:

Exotic
Romantic
Bizarre

Against the brittle twilight rose the ancient steps, strangely cushioned in orange and emerald moss as they wound up the side of the mountain. A woman approached them, heavy with child. From behind her came the savage chant of the wild man-beasts who pursued her. In her path stood a vixen, its head marked by the image of flame. She called to the vixen in her despair, "Lead me to safety that I may have vengeance—sister!" The vixen, the FOX WOMAN, spoke no answer. Yet even before the terrible cry had died in a ghostly echo, the vengeance was inexorably begun.

Then we snickered over the covers of Tokyo Babylon, in which Subaru wear a strangely pointy green hat, a hot pink outfit with a hot pink cross, and a white priest's outfit with a cross engraved with "Japan." Thankfully, all these items were worn separately, as together they may have caused blindness. I am trying to make Rilina post a poll to determine which is the worst, because the hot pink one is truly dreadful, but the green hat is also hilarious.

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Hush puppies! That would explain the deep-fried aspect! The purple element is fun, but not authentic, nor the chili mayonnaise, though it does sound good.