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marykaykare is visiting New York for a few days. cattitude and I got to Jing Fong slightly after the stated time (I'd woken him a bit after nine, which seemed the best tradeoff between letting him sleep and him having time for a shower and coffee and such), and were riding up the escalator, discussing how many we were going to be and the odds that L was already there. And the person in front of us turned around and said something like "I know you." I admitted to not recognizing her, which turned out to be a combination of a mostly-online friendship and context failure: it was a surprise sneerpout, who as far as I had known was in Geneva. (She's in New York very briefly, and hadn't planned to tell anyone, but when Mary Kay posted about visiting, Sneerpout contacted her, and MK invited her to dim sum.) We settled on telling the restaurant we were a party of six, and nibbled on nice things like bacon-wrapped shrimp. We found Mary Kay about ten minutes later: she had arrived early and waited downstairs, where we managed not to spot her, or vice versa, because I wasn't looking for our people downstairs. L showed up a while after that, and said something about having lain down for just a moment next to the cat, and "That trick never works." Which indeed it doesn't. So, plenty of nice food, though we had to flag a waitress and order the sticky rice in lotus leaf that I wanted, and conversation.
A bit after 1:00, we paid our bill, walked past crowds waiting in the downstairs lobby, and proceeded west on Canal Street. Cattitude and I found the last vendor in the world who sells the pony tail holders we like, and got many: he counted what we had selected, and urged us to get another five because they were ten for a dollar. (This includes some bright blue, of which a few will go topapersky, and quite a few forest green, plus the odd magenta, white, and chartreuse.) A grocery on Canal Street supplied the Szechuan peppercorns Cattitude has been wanting to get, and powdered miso for Sneerpout, who says it's not available in Geneva. After that, we explored Pearl Paint, which had been the main goal of the post-dim sum part of the plan. Mostly, I watched Mary Kay, and to some extent Cattitude and Sneerpout, spot things they needed, wanted, or were amused by. (I don't need to explore Pearl Paint, and spent a bunch of time saying things like "I already have a bunch of those" and "I'm not using the glittery pens I have now, I don't need more.") Eventually, Sneerpout was worn out, and went in search of a cold drink while Mary Kay finished exploring. We rendezvous'd at a Starbucks, and drank assorted (mostly chilled) caffeinated drinks, and talked, a while longer, enjoying seats and air conditioning.
Cattitude and I headed home from there, because I didn't have the energy for much more, especially if it involved significant walking.
L arranged dim sum today, because
marykaykare is visiting New York for a few days. cattitude and I got to Jing Fong slightly after the stated time (I'd woken him a bit after nine, which seemed the best tradeoff between letting him sleep and him having time for a shower and coffee and such), and were riding up the escalator, discussing how many we were going to be and the odds that L was already there. And the person in front of us turned around and said something like "I know you." I admitted to not recognizing her, which turned out to be a combination of a mostly-online friendship and context failure: it was a surprise sneerpout, who as far as I had known was in Geneva. (She's in New York very briefly, and hadn't planned to tell anyone, but when Mary Kay posted about visiting, Sneerpout contacted her, and MK invited her to dim sum.) We settled on telling the restaurant we were a party of six, and nibbled on nice things like bacon-wrapped shrimp. We found Mary Kay about ten minutes later: she had arrived early and waited downstairs, where we managed not to spot her, or vice versa, because I wasn't looking for our people downstairs. L showed up a while after that, and said something about having lain down for just a moment next to the cat, and "That trick never works." Which indeed it doesn't. So, plenty of nice food, though we had to flag a waitress and order the sticky rice in lotus leaf that I wanted, and conversation.A bit after 1:00, we paid our bill, walked past crowds waiting in the downstairs lobby, and proceeded west on Canal Street. Cattitude and I found the last vendor in the world who sells the pony tail holders we like, and got many: he counted what we had selected, and urged us to get another five because they were ten for a dollar. (This includes some bright blue, of which a few will go to
papersky, and quite a few forest green, plus the odd magenta, white, and chartreuse.) A grocery on Canal Street supplied the Szechuan peppercorns Cattitude has been wanting to get, and powdered miso for Sneerpout, who says it's not available in Geneva. After that, we explored Pearl Paint, which had been the main goal of the post-dim sum part of the plan. Mostly, I watched Mary Kay, and to some extent Cattitude and Sneerpout, spot things they needed, wanted, or were amused by. (I don't need to explore Pearl Paint, and spent a bunch of time saying things like "I already have a bunch of those" and "I'm not using the glittery pens I have now, I don't need more.") Eventually, Sneerpout was worn out, and went in search of a cold drink while Mary Kay finished exploring. We rendezvous'd at a Starbucks, and drank assorted (mostly chilled) caffeinated drinks, and talked, a while longer, enjoying seats and air conditioning.Cattitude and I headed home from there, because I didn't have the energy for much more, especially if it involved significant walking.