Like I said there was a lot more food provided at the computer-type conference than is the norm at librarians ones. So the only night I really went out for dinner was Monday. After the meetings ended, and to get a little exercise, I walked up Michigan Ave. to the big Borders. I bought a couple books that I’ve had on hold at the Madison Public Library that must be way too popular, because I’m just not getting them:
This is where I leave you, a really funny, big-Jewish-family, kind of romantic comedy; and Let the great world spin, that I’ve wanted to read since I saw the documentary Man On Wire, about Phillipe Petit’s walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The book starts with the real event and goes on into fiction.
Anyways, I got my books, and then I had been thinking about walking farther up North, maybe going to R. J. Grunts or someplace else in Lincoln Park, since it’s my old stomping grounds in Chicago, since I worked at the Chicago Historical Society – now the Chicago History Museum – from 1991 – 1995. But it was getting late, and i was getting lazy, so I walked back down Michigan to Illinois St. and the Star of Siam (after a quick iPhone check to make sure it still was in business.
And proceeded to order way more food than I could actually eat – I got a beef appetizer, and ate 2 1/3 of the 5 skewers of meat provided. Then I got a spicey crazy noodle, not noticing that It was going to come with shrimp and chicken mixed in with the noodles. I ate most of the noodle, and a few of the chicken hunks – I left the shrimp. I got a Tsingtao, and the finished it pretty quick – the waitress was most anxious for me to get another – they’re probably told to push the booze to increase the tab – but I could only drink half of it after all that meat.
My view, down the restaurant - I was sitting in a window seat
