Random Esquire

1. My father is currently in China doing some work. He e-mailed this to me today:

Guess who I saw at the airport when I landed? All or many of the Miss Universe contestants arrived at the same time as I did. Miss Nigeria must be 7 feet tall. They look better on TV than in real life.

dad

I don’t know this struck me as absurdly funny but it did.

2. Boss and I jumped into the car to go out for dinner at Dragonfly Mandarin. Thoughts of a good glass of wine, great sesame beef and fresh green beans danced around in my head. We walked up to the restaurant and saw a note on the window that said that the restaurant had suffered a fire and would re-open in a week. I sighed. Boss, however, did not. This is because there is a place across the street that sells…cheese fries. So cheese fries it was.

3. I am listening to the book Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts which, it turns out, will be a movie. It is truly hilarous because the narrator does an Indian accent perfectly. My favorite part thus far is when an Indian character says to an Australian, “You could be doing the sexy business and making a great joy of your body!” Something like that. Which has me refering to sex as “doing the sexy business.”