Thursday

Last night, my colleagues and I continued our Brooklyn Restaurant week sampling, trying out the The Soul Spot, a Caribbean/soul food restaurant, on Atlantic Ave. and Smith St. Good food for a little place. Pricing moderate. Mmm.

Tomorrow, we’ll be doing Planet Thailand in Williamsburg. This restaurant week thing has been fun.

Oh, and yeah, Tax Day tomorrow. Cue the Beatles: “Yeah, I’m the Tax Man. Yea-ah…”

Reflections:

–> I picked Illinois to win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament; of course, that didn’t work out (U of North Carolina; oh well). Now, I’m trying to avoid making predictions about the Mets – if they can just break even after their losing streak, that’d be just great.

–> It took weeks, but I did it – I finished reading Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Quite epic. Left me thinking a lot.

Hmm. That was some “Alias” episode last night – see, last week, Jack entered a nuclear plant’s radioactive chamber to turn the thing off, so that he could save his daughter Sydney’s life. Sydney, though, doesn’t realize the risk he took, and Marshall (the lovable tech guy) desparately tries to tell Jack that he’s developing a mutation/potentially fatal cancer-like condition. Very bad. Meanwhile, Vaughn struggles to figure out if it’s worth it to go rogue on the CIA, while he’s blackmailed to believe that his CIA agent father is alive and a traitor. Meaty stuff. Liked the episode – it had the crazy “Alias” style of old.

TGIF tomorrow…

Brooklyn Restaurant Week!

It’s Brooklyn Restaurant Week, 4/11/05 to 4/20/05! Three course meals for $19.55, at selected restaurants, in honor of the Dodgers. My colleagues and I checked out Dhaka, a new Indian restaurant on Atlantic Ave., and we enjoyed the selection/moderate pricing, such that we ended up getting outside the 19.55 special (well, that meant ordering soup, appetizer and main course, and I just wasn’t into soup tonight). But, anyway, the food was quite good and very filling. Highly recommended; the owners/maitre d’s were practically more than enthusiastic about asking us to recommend the place to our friends. (Yeah, can we have a retainer to do that? — 😉 — talk about networking) — no, really, very good food, and I’m not into Indian food.

Anyway, so my colleagues and I are plotting to try another restaurant. So fun. Here’s the detailed list on the selected restaurants, plus the NY Daily News’ comments on their favorite Brooklyn restaurants of the list.

Beautiful weather. It is spring indeed.

Sunny Saturday

Suffice it to say – I’m at Alma Mater as I write this, for Dean’s Day (wherein we enjoy some lectures and stuff) — lunch – sooo good. Chicken, nicely spiced and perhaps roasted – atop of a bed of wild rice and shredded squash – mmm. Plus, tiramisu — mmm. Alma Mater’s really did nice.

Oh, and again – the one thing I miss about college/higher education – the easy access to Internet/e-mail.

Well, more importantly, the weather’s beautiful. So nice. Sun. A little brisk, but sun…

I may post again later. Or I may just want to frolic in the sun…