bitter magnet

today was the last day of the conference..jesus's talk was the first of the last block of talks (starting at 1:30). it was really good but unfortunately there weren't a lot of people there (lots of people had taken off before noon).

after the conference was over, a bunch of us (jesus, joerg, post-doc joerg, tetsuya, jim, and me) went out for dinner to celebrate. we ended up going to this mexican place called Maya, which was excellent. First off, instead of bread, before the meal they served nachos with guacamole (hurray--stuff i could eat and that also happened to be tasty at the same time). I ended up ordering two appetizers (quesadillas surtidas and sopa de elote), which were both amazing. For those of you who don't speak Spanish, sopa de elote is soup made of corn. This soup was particularly sweet, and had a dumpling it in with huitlacoche, which i found out is like a mushroom from the corn plant. at first, i didn't think i would like it since i don't like mushrooms at all, but this tasted quite different (it tasted good! :D ). Anyway, at the end i was so stuffed that i didn't order dessert (a rarity), even though some of the items looked especially good (like the postre de tres leches).

After dinner, my dad picked me up at my hotel, and we drove back to Santa Rosa. we ended up getting there around 10 something, so i went to sleep early.