friday, october 19, 2007
The best things to eat in Santa Barbara
I wrote this a few months ago for a class. See also: my map of restaurants.
A bowl of scrambled eggs and salty potatoes at the dining commons at 7 am after you worked on a paper all night, and when your friend sits down next to you, you startle because you weren’t expecting anyone else to be awake.
A cookiewich from the IV Drip shared with a friend who let you choose the cookies and ice cream, and while you’re eating it outside, a guy walking by says “They know what’s up! Cookiewiches, yeah!” to his friends.
The bran muffins from Nicoletti’s after 9 pm because they’re 90 cents each and tasty and possibly healthy, and you’re hungry because you forgot to eat dinner and can’t stand eating the “late night” dining commons food again.
A tofu-ginger salad at the Sojourner Café, a mostly-vegetarian restaurant where your carnivorous friend has taken you, but you’re not sure whether he means it as a date until he kisses you afterward.
The rest of a bag of bulk candy bought impulsively from the UCen Corner Store that you offer to the random prospective CCS student who wandered into the CCS Computer Science computer lab.
A pizza full of artichokes and broccoli and pesto from Woodstock’s at one in the morning, when there is nothing else open that your boyfriend likes (he disdains the 24-hour burritos in favor of piles of pineapple and Canadian bacon).
comments (2)
I've never read "startle" in that form. Only, "get startled" not "startle." Can you really use it both ways?
– lizzy on 10/28/2007 20:33:06
sure, why not! look it up in the oed - it's covered under definition 3, although "rare (superseded by passive of sense 5)."
– britta on 10/28/2007 22:12:16
