eating out too much

jj slept very late and we all went to cafe commerce on the park, for lunch salad/pizza/burger dining outside. very nice. then i went to a gallery where there was supposed to be a brunch. since i couldn’t get info on it ahead of time, i just showed up during normal gallery hours. they had had a brunch and it was winding down. i got to see many paintings of a new artist acquaintance and others. very much like my style of painting. right in neighborhood of new apt. later, p and i were invited to dinner at tom and becca’s. it was an anglophone doggy parent party. 4 couples who know each other through the dogs. tom and becca from LA; bob and anne, americans, long time residents of paris; susan and steven from england, and us. becca has been taking private cooking lessons and she and tom whipped up a fancy french meal. was excellent. fois gras appetizer, pork loin in cream sauce, potato gratin, full cheese course, dessert – wild strawberries, blackberries, raspberries with butter cookies on the side.

i was telling the story of my friend from conversation group, larissa, a russian going for french citizenship. she has had various interviews where they ask questions about very private things, making various embarrassing implications and being very aggressive. they said if your kids are in an international school – you’re not really integrating, you’re holding on to other cultures. you speak russian at home. not good. then bob told me that he and anne applied for french citizenship a few years ago. they went through the same thing. the questions were very blunt and put him on the defensive. at one point they asked if he belonged to any associations. he said, “well, yes, i’m a member of the “AACCM - association des amis des chiens de champs de mars”. (“the association of friends of dogs of the champs de mars”). “ah oui? what is that?” apparently it changed the entire tone of the conversation, with the interviewer asking many questions about dogs etc. made me laugh. he got his citizenship.

anyway, that was 5 meals in the last 3 days that i ate out, which makes me nervous - too many calories that way.  eating out makes it difficult to keep fat intake down.

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