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macworld redux

Well, MacWorld was fun. I only spent 2 hours there, but I could have spent all day. I still managed to walk away with a new mouse and a sweet new laptop bag. Actually, I just ordered the bag (at 40% off) and they're going to send me my "crisp suit" in 2 weeks.

But the big news isn't macworld - it's that the girl at the bakery is in love with me. Or at least that's how I interpreted it, you can choose to interpret it however you please. If you were my girlfriend, you would probably choose to interpret it as "the girl does not love ethan." But I digress.

So I was riding the muni home from macworld when this really raspy voice started coming from the seat behind me. The voice asked someone if they minded that he smoked. I didn't hear the answer, but whatever it was launched Mr. Raspy Voice onto a 20 minute schizophrenic tirade that touched on such issues as: cell phones, homosexuals, the X-box, gonorrhea, herpes, gays, fags, schizophrenia, smoking in bars and on busses, yuppies, etc. He lit up a cigarette as he began the tirade. We were in the back train of 2 cars, so the driver got no say in the smoking matter.

While entertaining at first, mr. raspy quickly began to depress me. He forced me off the train seven blocks early. I chose to walk those seven blocks in the rain rather than sit through his non-stop monologue for another 4 minutes. But this detour lead to a quick stop-in at the bakery for a slice of their gourmet pizza. Here's where the "girl at the bakery is in love with me" part comes in. I ordered a slice to go, and she was all "that'll be 5 minutes." So I sat down and chilled out for 5 minutes, and I tried to stump one of the other employees with questions from yesterday's jeopardy. She got them all wrong, but she's not the one who's in love with me so it doesn't matter. You know what? I don't really know where I'm going with this. Basically, the checkout girl smiled at me a lot and gave me two slices for the price of one. I THINK that means she liked me, but maybe it means that they were closing in 5 minutes and had a ton of extra food. Whatever - like I said, interpret it however you want to. It was good pizza though. Today's flavor was "marinated mushrooms, red onions, thyme oil, and P&P." If anyone knows what P&P is, please tell me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.