No, I’m not eating fast food.
C’mon, I just want to get back to the room and crash.
No. I am sitting down and having real food.
Well we walked to the other end of the airport and found out that Cuban place was counter service. I tried to get you real food, now you are stuck with fast food.
No, I don’t want shitty food, I want dinner!
Just get in the car. See, there’s a McDonalds. We can pull through the drive through and be in the room in less than ten minutes.
No. If you must force me into fast food, make it something, ANYTHING other than McDonalds.
You’re the one chain smoking cigars like you are looking forward to throat cancer. Now you are going to worry about what you eat?
Well, I never said I was rational. Look, there’s a seafood joint that claims it has the best Paella in town. We’ll eat there.
We can’t eat Paella.
Why not? Are you going to tell me we’ve just acquired an allergy to seafood?
No, Leviticus says it’s a sin to eat shellfish. You don’t want to provoke any angry deities with grudges against shrimps and clams do you?
Well now you’ve convinced me, we’re eating here.
Wouldn’t you like to hit the hotel room first and change into your street clothes?
No because once I hit the room I’ll stay put and order the crap from room service.
Ok, ok, I give. Damn, you are persistent…
So that’s the internal conversation that led me to sit here on a patio overlooking the beach sipping Dominican beers and eating what has indeed turned out to be some damn fine Paella. You know how you normally have to pace yourself and ration out the shrimp to last through the whole meal? Not here baby. I’m not sure I’ll have enough rice to go around with all the shrimp, squid, octopus, clams and oysters. There might even be too much! I’m coming back to this place. Even if it’s just to symbolically thumb my nose at yet another ridiculous church law.
I haven’t updated as much this week because I’ve been busier with work and I’ve also been working on another project for the website. Remember a few weeks ago when I hinted that I might want to do something new on the site? Well I finally got off my fat ass and did something about it. Not the site itself, that will still have to wait until I conjure up the time to work with Wade on it. But what I am working on I’m dressing up the finishing touches now and after I run it through someone else’s editorial process I’ll put it up here. It’s rough and it’s raw but if it turns out you guys like it, the rest will get better. Unless my editor (Teresa) thinks it’s crap, you should see something up here by Monday.
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