Yesterday was rough. As I expected I lost a good chunk of the class with the advanced topics. God only knows how we're going to get through the expert topics today. I have low expectations for how well they do. But it was pretty frustrating yesterday. Plus there are a few people in class who refuse to stop doing their other work and then ask me questions. I fucking hate that. Either pay attention or leave. I don't have time for your shit. It was so bad we didn't even finish the last chapter of the class because they were all brain dead come 4pm and I said screw it, we will do it first thing tomorrow instead. That made them happy at least.
I hung out at the office for another hour because one of the students wanted to take me to his brother-in-laws restaurant for dinner. We headed out around 5 and drove into Montclair NJ. The place was great. It's a pay what you want place which is a weird concept to me, but apparently it works. He basically makes you order 1-2 dishes at a time and you can't order more until your done with those. At the end they ask for 8-10 per dish. They're all tapas size portions, almost tasting menu size, and I had four dishes plus dessert. A couple of them were meh, but a couple were beautiful. Like the whipped ricotta with honey and almonds for dessert. That was incredible. I picked us up a bottle of wine from the liquor store across the street as the restaurant doesn't have a liquor license. Turns out they are very stringent with those in NJ and a lot of places do bring your own type of service.
Got back to the hotel around 8. It was packed. There's something going on at the convention center next door and it's a mad house here. Ugh. I hid in my room and went to bed around 10. Two more days and I get a weekend. Here. Joy.
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