Excuse me, Where's the Vomitorium?

My fever is gone!  Went to class all week.  It's been so nice to break out from the jam-packed pro-seminar schedule.  Things are much more relaxed now.

The other day in my literature class the professor needed someone read a poem aloud, and she started to approach me, but then she stopped herself and said, "No, no, you're from California" and promptly asked the girl behind me.  Is it really that obvious that I'm from the states?  Of all things to ask a foreign student to do, reading a poem aloud is probably the most benign.  I would have done it!  Oh, well.  

After class we went to the Salvador Dali museum, which was awesome.  It's small, but it holds a huge volume of works - the walls are crammed with rows and rows of crazy drawings and paintings.  He is insane.  Some of his sketchier works are very tongue-in-cheek and funny.  And one room was, to our dismay, entirely dedicated to very erotic paintings of horses...

Another highlight of the week:  yesterday the professor of our consortium class took three of us out for coffee after class.  On the way, he showed us a beautiful church and where Picasso used to live.  We sat in a pretty courtyard and chatted for a while.  He's so chill.

Last night me, Jordyn, Mike, Dan and Emma went to this famous seafood restaurant called Cap Pep.  It was phenomenal.  We didn't have to order a thing - we just sat down and they brought us plates for two hours.  The waiters were really friendly and animated, pretending to drop the wine bottles as they refilled our glasses (I fell for it every time) and poking fun at Jordyn for drinking too much.  Among the dishes we had were pan con tomate, thinly sliced salmon on crackers, lightly fried artichokes, one of the best tuna tartars I've ever had, some fish/egg dish, a perfectly cooked tortilla with a tangy sauce, green peppers, assorted clams and mussels, shrimp (you're supposed to suck on the shrimp heads - I'm the only one who dared to do it), a scrumptious steak dish, bratwurst with beans, and for dessert a tray of bite-sized dark chocolate pastries and shotglasses filled with lemon-flavored creme.  Needless to say, the bill was hefty.

I went to bed full and happy, woke up at 5:09 a.m., vomited, and went back to sleep.  Clam allergy, I think.

So the night left me without any cash, or entrails.

Whatever, it was worth it.