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[the_rck]

I lay down for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon, so Scott did the library run on his own. After he got back, we all went out shoe shopping for Cordelia. DSW was a bust. The cheapest shoes we could find in her size were still $46 once all of the discounts were applied. Cordelia had fun trying on some dress shoes, though. We ended up buying gym shoes at Target for about $35.

From there, we went to Blue Nile, an Ethiopian restaurant downtown, for dinner. It’s a communal plate meal with refills on various dishes included in the price. As usual, we got the vegetarian version. The version with meat has three types of meat only one of which we eat (and one of which we can’t have on the table at all because it’s beef). That doesn’t seem worthwhile when we enjoy the vegetable dishes and can make a meal out of those.

We walked to a nearby bookstore, and Cordelia bought a book. She really wanted one, but she hates the idea of buying something that turns out not to be spectacularly good, so she dithered for a while. I didn’t see what she ended up getting, but hopefully, she’ll enjoy it.

We drove out to Orange Leaf after that for frozen yogurt.

I sent in my snippets for the WIP Big Bang. I worry a lot that I won’t manage to finish by the deadline, but I think I need to try. I also think I forgot to include a summary/blurb with the snippets. Oops. I’ll check on that after Cordelia’s orthopedics appointment. If I did forget, I’ll see about sending a supplementary email to the mods.

My other must do things for today are washing the sheets and running the dishwasher. I’d definitely like to accomplish more than that, but if I’m too tired, I’m too tired. I think I can get through the essentials, though.

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[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Hmm, there's an Ethiopian restaurant in NYC called the Blue Nile as well. At least I think it's still there -- I've not eaten at that particular restaurant in awhile, mostly since it's not in a neighborhood on my usual flightpath . . .

[the_rck]

Scott asked his phone to find him directions to the Blue Nile, and the phone started trying to get us to Sudan. He got better directions when he said 'Blue Nile restaurant in Ann Arbor.' They still weren't really good directions because Apple is terrible with their map program, but we knew where we were going. We were just curious as to how the program would direct us when there wasn't a good way to get to there from where we were. The directions we got required a turn that Siri didn't bother to tell us about, so we were trying to figure out how staying on the road we were on would intersect us with the street we were supposed to turn onto.