meat

ohhhhhhhhh man. that's most of what i have said since lunch today. it was pretty damn fabulous. my sister took me up in honor of my upcoming birthday. the only problem was that i had to go back to school afterwards. we went to fogo de chao, a brazillian steakhouse. the idea is pretty much that you have a coaster type thing with a green side and a red side. if the green side is up, one of the dozens of men walking around with some kind of meat on a sword/skewer will ask you if you want what he has. they hold off if the coaster thing is on the red side. basically, this is the best way ever to eat a ton of good meats, and so i did. lamb chop, pork medallion, top and bottom sirloin, beef ribs, ribeye, filet mignon, bacon-wrapped and regular, also bacon-wrapped chicken, some sort of garlic steak, probably a couple of other things. a serious assortment. surprisingly, i have not napped. more importantly, i did eat a bunch of really good stuff. the experience itself was overall pretty excellent.
also excellent was going back to school and being like, hey, i just ate at fogo de chao and having everyone be like ohhhhhhhh shit. pleasing mix of happy-for-me and jealousy. one of my buddies got so excited that he was basically trying to talk me into going back soon, perhaps this evening. not going to happen, but it would be fun to go again for some otherwise somewhat notable occasion. i might be hungry enough again sometime this summer, or at least some time where i will be rushed to the comfiest bed of all time immediately after i decide i have had enough. while i certainly had plenty of time to enjoy myself today and did indeed do so, it would also be good to have plenty of time to sit around. i'm sure they want people to move along at some point and all that, but another thirty/forty minutes wouldn't have bothered them i don't think. the service was pretty excellent. if your green side is up and you do not have a plateful of meat, someone will come up and ask if they should direct the nearest sword-bearer ("gaucho" they call them, but i'm pretty sure that is more like a south american cowboy) to your table or if they need to find one with a certain type of meat you're waiting for. eager to avoid a possible tragic underserving of meat.
i thought for sure that the still-full stomach combined with reading civ pro would put me out, but not quite. but damn is that shit boring. property is almost is bad, and those are the two i have tomorrow. the current poll was put up during property on monday. i was in class and we were once again doing this really big waste of time thing where assholes i could give a fuck about go on about their opinions. look, i appreciate the attempt to encourage critical discussion of the material in class, but on the other hand, none of these people says anything real profound. mostly trite and annoying. i guess i could chip in my own two cents, but i usually don't have anything revolutionary to say about, say, restrictive covenants. i can give you arguments for both sides on anything, but hopefully anyone can. no need to check if people can do that every time we have class. also, if i did have anything good to say, i don't think anyone would be real interested in hearing it. man, i really fucking hate having class with seventy other people. totally not my style.
anyway, while people were going on about nothin about nothin about oil i started thinking about barn animal noises. brought me way back. cow says moo, sheep says baa (not marked), three singing pigs go la la la. i'm pretty sure "moo" was my first "word". i do not, however, know why i decided it should be a poll. i had a good idea for one, but i promptly forgot it. maybe i can rustle up another decent one at some point. also, look for mountain dew skoal (not marked! wiktionary says it is a toast, kind of like "cheers") at a gas station near you. especially meijer gas stations, since i own that shit.