The Dancing Astrophysicist ([info]dancinastrophys) wrote,
@ 2005-11-15 23:14:00
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Current mood: chipper
Current music:Mary Poppins :)
Entry tags:food, tucson

Lovely Tucson
So I decided that I needed to get off the mountain for a little while (I'll have 7 more nights up there!). Therefore I took the 4:00 shuttle (so many people they actually have a bus!) and got down to the University of Arizona around 5:20. The headquarters of NOAO is on the U of A campus. I met up with my friend Brian for a little bit (he has generously offered his sofa bed for my sleepytime enjoyment) and he meandered off to his already-planned evening and I meandered off in search of things I wanted to see and do.
I decided to walk to a used bookstore in the area, right next to which was a movie theater playing independent flicks. I thought about seeing "Mirrormask" but then decided I'd rather eat dinner. I meandered farther up the street and ended up the place voted best Japanese in Tucson by the local independent weekly paper. It had both a casual, order at a register side and a dining side. I went for casual (being by myself). I had some really good yakisoba :) Then I wanted desert but they ended up having just run out of what I wanted so I tried (on the recommendation of the cashier dude - "it's an orgasm in your mouth!") this ice cream treat called a monaka:
Not quite an orgasm in the mouth, but quite good :) It was vanilla ice cream with thin sheets of chocolate in in encased in a puffy wafer-y type thing... You can kinda see in the cut-away on the package. And it is HUGE - as long as my hand and half as wide!! Damn. But it was good :)
I went to 2 used bookstores and a coffee shop as well :) Briefly chatted with a few people (I don't want to get hit on too bad as I'm only in town for a little while ;) )

Not much else to report currently...

Tomorrow I'll hang out at the U of A for a bit before I head back up the mountain on the 2 p.m. shuttle.


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This is why I'm not in marketing.
[info]sxoidmal
2005-11-17 12:19 am UTC (link)
What a sad story. I'm guessing the cashier hasn't had very good sex yet.

If I were to make a candy that were, in my experience, an orgasm in someone's mouth... well, you'd have to eat a few of them, maybe several, and they'd all taste different but always there's some little thing left wanting, and then for no reason one of them would be FANTASTIC, you'd eat it for THREE or FOUR HOURS, and then you wouldn't want another one for a couple months. If you tried the one that was fantastic again, it wouldn't be as good; moreover, it would tell the other snack food what you were like and none of them would be sold to you. You'd have to find a new, out-of-the-way store, with a snack food you've never heard of before. You tell yourself it's going to be different this time, you'll pace yourself, you'll build yourself up to making this a meaningful snack food experience, and then it turns out this is someone else's favorite snack food and he doesn't like to share. You decide to become a vegetarian, you tell yourself it's by choice, but after a couple years you realize there hasn't been any snack food around at all, you're stuck with boring things that grow in dirt.

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Re: This is why I'm not in marketing.
[info]dancinastrophys
2005-11-17 07:51 am UTC (link)
Wow.
That doesn't sound like much fun.
I really can't think of anything more to say than that.
I'm totally lame.

Wait, maybe not quite so lame...

Not for a couple of months?
And it's never that good again?
Maybe you have too many expectations of such candy.

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Re: This is why I'm not in marketing.
[info]sxoidmal
2005-11-18 12:49 am UTC (link)
I just mean once I've had it, then I'm set for a while. Everything else in that little vignette is an exaggeration, based in reality, for comedic device. But yeah, my expectations are kind of unrealistic, in that I'd like a really casual, comfortable, intimate kind of experience, whereas other people seem to be opposed to communication and feel the need to orchestrate all sorts of borrowed contrivances and crap...

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Re: This is why I'm not in marketing.
[info]dancinastrophys
2005-11-18 03:13 am UTC (link)
I figured on the exaggeration - I myself was quite amused :) It did lead me to laugh out loud at the end.
I'm not sure if such a thing so full of expectations and giving of oneself can be "casual" right away. Communication is sometimes a bit difficult I have found but perhaps I'm just not terribly good/practiced at it... Maybe I just don't know what to talk about and when. But perhaps the perfectionist in me has to have the perfect time to talk about stuff :) That's come and bit me in the butt a few times...
Orchestration has it's time and it's place, just like most everything - it can be quite a bit of fun, but also hollow if not careful.

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