Otherwise entitled 'How I'm Gorging Myself With Food In Portland'

So yesterday I went with my client for some dimsum in Portland's Chinatown. The Chinatown here is a whole 3 blocks long, but you have all the essential Chinatown hangouts - dimsum restaurant, bakery, giftshop, seedy bookshop. I love dimsum. Just like Spanish tapas. Little portions of tasty treats. And as always, my eyes are bigger than my stomach. Ate a LOT of stuff. They had this pork roll wrapped up maki roll style in seaweed that was awesome, and stuffed crab claw that was mouth watering. By the time I got to my sticky sesame seed bun I was about ready to hurl. But it was DAMN good.

I'm eating SO much here, as I'm sure you can tell from my posting. I lost a good amount of weight in SLC due to nerves, but I think I gained it all back, and then some!

I'm not in the greatest of moods right now. I was supposed to leave Portland at 2:30 today, but the client wanted to have a full day with me. So I had a choice of being a bitch and saying NO....I'M GOING HOME, or taking one for the team and moving my flight back. My choices (well, not really MY choices) for a flight home was a United flight at 11pm getting into Chicago at 5am, or a Northwest flight with a connection in Minneapolis at 7am tomorrow, getting in at 2:30pm. Which is 4 hours before Sammy's wedding. (Yes, my boy is getting married tomorrow! I'm so excited!) I would have jumped to take the United flight, but it's $640. The Northwest change is only $100. I don't know why the hell airline flights cost so much. I remember having a flight to Seattle or something for $2099 once. Business traveling sucks. Well, I'm not the one paying for it. But it DOES control what flights I get. If a client is cheap, I'm stuck on ATA with the fiesta crew. Well, at least ATA has good biscuits. Anyway, I'm stuck taking the 7am flight. If I miss Sam's wedding someone's gonna get some legs broken.

Well, at least I can look forward to some good eating tonight!

Posted by Yano at March 7, 2003 06:32 PM

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