eating out

it's easily my biggest weakness: expensive food. fancy food. over the top, hundreds of dollars worth of food. a meal that will cost about what a normal person would spend on a month's worth of food.

last nights effort was, after a day of looking at Places To Eat in my locality, discovering that there was a chefs hat italian place walking distance from both my bus stop to the city, and my apartment, having Desperate Need to eat pasta. 

i'm now ranking the place - Dieci e Mezzo - as my favourite canberra fine-dining-y eatery.  the food was incredible. In-Cred-I-Ble. the oysters were big fat bouncy rock oysters, exceptionally fresh (without a doubt the freshest i have had in canberra), and the side sauce thing was not overpowering.  also, served on the side.  never put that shit on the oysters, Fancy Places. i like always having one or two oysters completely natural.

the main was a tortellini with pumpkin, goats cheese and these things called 'mustard fruit' which were intensely salty, but perfect with the pasta.

dessert, a panacotta made on almond milk.  oh god.  and extremely well priced, for a restaurant of that quality. only issue, very little vegetarian on the current menu - but apparently they change the menu about once a month.

THIS is their website. go and marvel at their amazing menu. go and eat there. i would possibly rank the meal i had last night as the best i've had in canberra. and that is a Big Call.


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in vaguely library related news, here is an article i read about cover hacking of books.  it's a pretty good article.

(so far i am not doing awesomely at Blog in June. mentally, i keep thinking of Death in June every time i type it.  Death in June are different).

fancy coffee

today, Dom & i went to the South Side and got fancy coffee.  cold pressed, strange contraption-y, bizzaro, delicious coffee.  the barista gave us a second Fancy Coffee for free!  i now have had about three too many coffees and feel kinda sick and confused as a result, but the fancy coffee made me happy none-the-less.

already failing at Blog In June, i didn't post yesterday.  i did, however, get into a fight about men wearing dresses & skirts, and how clothing shouldn't be gendered.  sometimes. i am shocked and alarmed that there are intelligent educated people out there who genuinely take issue with men choosing to wear 'female' clothing.  socialised notions of gender are bullshit.  regardless of what gender one identifies as, who gives if you choose to wear a skirt, or a suit, or high heels?  what has it got to do with your gender?  or your sex?  it's a skirt. it's an item of clothing that, rather than joining between the legs, does not join. it allows for freer walking, and some people, regardless of their gender, prefer them to the feeling of pants. personally, i like skirts, dresses and pants, and i don't feel that i feel this way due to the fact that i am a ciz-female.  it's because i like skirts, dresses and pants, and societally, i have zero problems wearing any of them, due to the way ciz women are free to wear whatever they want without fear of persecution.

i read a fascinating article about how the gendering of female clothing is an excellent example of misogyny - how 'threatening' female clothing is to masculinity, because taking on a marker of female identity, for a male, is a far more challenging thing than for a woman to take on a marker of masculinity.

needless to say, i got pretty angry during the fight last night.