Flames... Flames on the sides of my face...

SO. I am never eating at Edo again.

Went into downtown today, foraging for beads and wire and to replace a couple things I lost in Ashland. Ate at the Bay Centre, as I usually do in downtown. Went Edo, which is sort of a combination of Mongolian BBQ with very few choices and basic meat and noodles Japanese. My order was the first one on the line and the grill guy put in the veggies and the noodles and the meat and then starting piling up a plate for the guy behind me in line. I was ready to take it away and eat it while it was hot, but first I did as I usually do and asked for extra sauce. He looked at me and grinned and said "Men first" and finished the guy behind me's plate before putting extra sauce on mine.

I swear, my whole brain went into WTF shock. So. Angry. Never ever eating there again. EVER.

30 Days of Shakespeare - Day 29

Day #29: Your Favorite Sonnet
Y'know, I was composing a whole long post about how I like 18 ("Shall I compare thee...") and 23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage...") and 14 ("Not from the stars...") and 38 ("How can my Muse want...") and the language and all, before coming around to my actual favourite, 121. And then a combination of the Edo fiasco and deep frustration at this season of Eureka kind of took away my interest in the delicate sonnets for the moment and leaves me with this.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be, receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed,
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses, reckon up their own,
I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown
Unless this general evil they maintain,
All men are bad and in their badness reign.

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