Having stepped aside from the gaping hole that is the dragon's throat, I am now free to breath a sign of relief and throw myself into integrating arccos with dot products and coding Mathematica routines for torsion angles. My new literary companion is "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and I am sitting in Gourmet Burger Kitchen eating out alone for the first time. Mey has given me this book after my requesting to know more about her world and the world of her mother in Iran. I'm sensing some deep longing in her to share, and most importantly to be heard in this sense. Not just listened to, but deeply understood for some wrong--injustice in the past. So I am trying to learn, open to experiences here, always open...
Mey also has great taste in food, so she has suggested that I eat at a Turkish restaurant called "Anatolia", or a French one called "Cafe Rouge," and even there is a good British pub called "Mitre." My first week here, she invited me with some of her friends here to go to Al Casbah (any one have "Rock the Casbah...Rock the Casbah! going through their head?") which was an Algerian restaurant that was great fun! I met her mom, and some of the Spanish and French people from the Cambridge Theory Sector then.
I was planning the 20 min walk to one of these fantastic places, but I was absorbed in learning about new birth control methods and old friends from another life of teenage penitence for sins I did not commit...but you only learn this with time, and wisdom.
Everything closes by 9 pm here, so to be safe, this is where I eat. The food is undercooked, the burger big, but the red sweet relish makes it unappetizing. Oh well, this is fun, and new, and life has that wonderful, dreamy quality again...and I delight in its return. We will see what Lolita does in Tehran, just thinking about it makes me condone adultery and wish for bright, scandalous clothing. The rebel in me lives on, though being suppressed by my more "cultured" (clears throat) self (looks down nose snobbishly) :-P
Originally posted 1/08/2007
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