Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Lunch at Canvas with Melissa, Ena, and Joel. We got to ride in Melissa's Honda Accord. We sat surrounded by modern art and ate chicken salad focaccia sandwiches, minestrone and chicken noodle soup, and salads. I flipped through an InStyle Magazine that happened to be on the table (one page showed a history of Angela Bassett's hairstyles) while we discussed things such as "How do artists decide the prices of each piece?" and watched another cafe-goer cuddle with the tiny dog he brought along by hiding it under his shirt. Joel took us all to near-tears and back home by explaining plot-turn-by-plot-turn the season finale of The Osbournes. "Cut!" Dinner at home with Patrick: pasta with vegetables. Watched The Iron Ladies on DVD with Patrick—a comedy recommended to him by one of the guys behind the counter at Superstar on 18th. The movie is not awful but not great—doesn't really register on my radar, but at least I didn't fall asleep. I was surprised at the end to discover that the film was based on a true story. I had no idea.