cosi lunch, indian dinner

i painted this morning. am working on a commission of an icelandic pony. i realized that this is a good direction to go. people with horses LOVE their horses and would love paintings of them. people with horses are often able to afford a painting of their horse. will pursue this. 

with the end of our time in paris in sight, i am trying to get out and about the city more. recently, i had passed by a special sandwich shop that i remembered from when i lived here 15 years ago. it’s called “cosi” and they make their own sandwich bread right there. i guess this doesn’t sound too special since all the bakeries in france make sandwiches from their own bread too, but this shop also makes really interesting sandwiches. they sold their concept to an american company, so there is a sandwich chain in the US also called “cosi” but i think this is better than the chain. anyway, i had been wanting to go back and try the food there again. i needed to pick up our malaria pills for india. these are going to be very expensive. i found a discount drug store in the same area, so i went to cosi for lunch. it was delicious! home baked thin foccacia and very interesting combinations.  a good place to know in the st. germain area. 

i passed by a bakery which is part of a chain called “paul”. they had written above their door “pain rustique et de fantasie”, literally “rustic bread and bread of fantasy”. i laughed. only in france would they have fantasies about bread. i also passed by a gelato store called “GROM” which is quite famous. need to come back and try that. 

found my discount pharmacy, “citypharma” which was PACKED with people, and bought 200 euros worth of malaria pills. saved 120 euros. decided to walk home. 

i was supposed to go to an indian restaurant with the conversation group for lunch, but most people dropped out and we had cancelled. so decided to try it out with p tonight. i feel that i’m in training for india. i am afraid of how i will handle the spicy food when we go there in 2 weeks, so i need to get used to it. for some reason the conversation group had used MY name for the reservation (i guess i’ve made my reputation as the food fanatic), so i was embarrassed to make another reservation in my name. so i used p’s name. he was first to arrive, and when he asked for the reservation in my name, they said, “no, no, she cancelled”. so HE was confused and THEY were confused. then i arrived and told them it was in p’s name – i had tried to NOT confuse them, but instead ended up confusing everyone. they even came back to confirm that p was p. the dinner was fine. p said he thought it was good. i came home and had tummy troubles. gosh!

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