I am lovin it!
In the past 36 houres, the following happend: I had dinner with 3 very interesting and opinionated jewish bloggers in a Chinese kosher restaurant (I know!) in Brookline. It was lots of fun: Good food, great disscussion. And get this: They paid for my meal. This egyptian got 3 jews to pay for his dinner. There must be an award for that in Egypt or something. I think it even beats the time I got invited by my jewish ex-girlfriend to Passover dinner, you know? An egyptian at passover dinner. Imagine how that was like!
I got stopped at the airport for 15 minutes because apparently my name resembeld a name of someone else on the No-fly list. Yeah, did I mention how much I love Logan airport? It's always so good to me!
I convinced the hotel receptionist in DC to let me check in 3 houres early for no extra charge, just because she thought it was "oh so awesome" that I am from Egypt. Did I mention how much I love that I am from Egypt? I swear to god, You couldn't come from a cooler background if you are dealing with americans, in their eyes anyway.
Then the following happend really really fast: I had lunch with one of the smartest people at Cato institute, followed by one of the coolest dinners ever with a gorgeous yet unfortunately married Jordanian, and a very mysterious egyptian blogger, and a very low key lebanese cutie who deliverd to me the greetings of one of my favorite lebanese bloggers, and the evening concluded with me meeting a very infamous syrian heretic and his beautiful wife. The fastest day in my life and for good reason: DC has the coolest people in the arab blogsphere. I need to move there.
When you think about it, in the past 36 houres, I broke bread with 3 jews (one of which is russian), an american, a jordanian, an egyptian, a lebanese and a syrian. I felt like I was in a middle-east peace summit, except that it was one where all you did was eat and people paid for your meals. Did I mention how I love DC now? I need to go there again. And that is all folks, now on to the news!
posted by The Sandmonkey @ 1/13/2006 11:23:00 AM
4 Comments:
Sorry I missed you, Sandmonkey. I agree that you should join the DC gang.
Yalla, good luck.
Hey man, are you gonna be in NYC? Let me know if you're gonna be in the city, get another free meal! (From a poor college student, so I can't promise a feast) "gagarrik at gmail dot com"
So, you had dinner with 3 Jewish guys one night, and 3 Arab girls the next? Something seems... odd... to me about that, but I can't quite figure out what it is :)
Sounds like you are having a great time! Now quit messing around and get a job so you can stay!
Ah, so sorry I didn't get to meet you while you were in DC! [But as a poor grad student, I probably couldn't have afforded to take you out to dinner] I agree, we have a good number of fascinating bloggers...and good restaurants. Come back soon!
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