Thursday night in Santa Monica with Leena … great Asian food and a nice walk on the 3rd Street Promenade. I, curiously enough, had never been there during my years at Pomona.
The same was true about UCLA, which is one reason I went to Westwood and Wilshire in the afternoon rather than to Santa Monica, since we could always go there for dinner. And dinner we had after strolling and noticing the street performers and the pedestrians, etc. And a tasty Thai iced tea was had by yours truly.
One doesn’t usually think of Walgreens as the place for stimulating conversation or interesting encounters, but we were both out of cash and needed an ATM, but was easier and cheaper to buy necessary goods at Walgreens and get cash back. These led to chatting with the cashier because they were mostly out of cash in the till at that hour and humorous negotiation, mis-swiping cards, and the like … that was the order of the day.
Today: off to campus with Nate via the Metrolink.
