Starbucks. 11 am. A chai latte *, a muffin, and a popular book Evanston Library ^ (guilty pleasure of an aspiring academic, I love popular science books, especially the hard sciences and anthropology. I like to take notes foot, because it gives me a sense of "seriousness", but never read. It all started when Dad gave me a book called Einstein, relatively easy, as it was very difficult for a girl of seven years. Dad read it over, that yes. Yesterday's was "the evolution of god." My love for popular books diminishes as the discipline is closer to what I study: a bit leery of economics and history, I do not like politics or media).
I am, and I see a baby in the next table, more than two years, less than four- turns to face me. Fixed. Seriously. I look up and smile. I keep watching. The mother, embarrassed, says, "Jonah, You Have to smile When you stare." (You have to smile when you look fixed to the people "). American socialization 101. Nobody stares, and if you stare, they smile. D. had told me at the beginning of my stay, and I loved to attend this very important life lesson for Jonah. After Jonah's mother asked a muffin like mine, and I kept staring until I finished. The mother refused, short: it's not good for you. Thanks, mother of Jonah, for reminding me.
* The chai latte from Starbucks is rich, but preparing a horror. I try not to look. While Starbucks espresso follows the same logic of preparation that the real thing, is that claims of authenticity did not reach the chai. The real chai is made with a mixture of tea and spices, Hervis in milk or a mixture of milk and water, if you want to foam you can put more then boiled milk. The Starbucks is a concentrate of a tetra brick, with a little water and boiled milk in the coffee machine.
^ I was only six months to return to Buenos Aires definitely, but something I'll miss a lot is the Evanston Public Library. "In Buenos Aires there are public libraries? Has anyone ever got a book? I have used "sporadically Social Library, to borrow books "for the faculty," never "to read." A national library was only going to school, and I checked a few things in the archive. But take books home? Never. Does anyone do it? (WW said here that Americans are disgusting books from the library. But I always sac intact. Instead, I draw from the library at Northwestern University are almost always highlighted and more than once had crumbs).
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