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It’s Thursday! That means I don’t teach until later this evening. It also means I get to meet my lovely friend Frau for supper! Tonight we will be joined by my equally lovely sister, and possibly my lovely friend Janice, and the early evening promises to be fun.

All my friends are lovely. Aren’t yours?

We’re meeting at a tiny Chinese buffet. There’s nothing it can BE but fun. I do love a tiny, local, tucked-away in an odd place, restaurant.

How odd is the location? Well.

It’s an authentic Chinese restaurant (owned and staffed by genuine Chinese people) (who don’t speak much English) and it’s almost hidden in one of those slightly aging urban strip malls that has degenerated into a Big Lots, a Dollar General Store, and a huge grocery store, with nothing left of the original little shops but a Beauty College, a Quickie Cash If You Sign Over Your Future Paycheck racket, and this little eatery.

The food is delicious and the service is incredible. I highly recommend it.

Frau is the one who first introduced me to it. Then I met another friend there for lunch. And tonight I’m meeting TWO sweeties there.

It’s awesome in its cheapness and authenticity and cool. If you’re in the area, please join us. We’re meeting around fourish.

And then I go to school. Tonight, I’m having a special on consistent tense and person, and parallel structure. Come, and be enlightened.