It's good, GC. I'm trying to think how to work in something along the lines of

I appreciate your candor [and this is how I know I'll learn from you which is what I'm here to do]

I am, however, brain dead.

Where did you Passover shop, Hil? My DH has to do something about his Passover diet. I know Silver Spring has a large orthodox population.

I went to Kosher-Mart in Rockville. I've been to a few of the kosher grocery stores around here, and it seems like Kosher-Mart is the biggest.

p-c, to my gmail? Hasn't shown yet, so I will check the spamtrap at home.

How about:

Anyway, just wanted you to know that I appreciate your honesty and will strive to meet (hey, maybe even surpass!) your expectations in the future.

We are on friendly terms so I think he'll laugh at the parens remark.

OK, heh. After our discussion of the Gulu-Gulu cafe here, I decided to go for a quick beer to kill time before my massage. I order the Hennipin. It's pouring mostly foam. OK. I order the McChouffe- it looks like this: [link]

What I get, no lie, looks like this: [link]

I pointed out the color discrepancy and was told "It's a *Belgian* brown ale" as if somehow the color brown is completely different in Belgium. I take a sip; it is SO NOT anything EVEN resembling a) Belgian ale b) Scotch ale (one of the style inspirations) c) a brown ale. It is crisp and bitter- it's a fucking pilsner! I mean, it's so absurd, that I half expect that the hipsters are conducting some sort of social experiment to expose beer snobs as total fools. Despite the server's protestations, I return the beer and get a Sierra Nevada ESB in the bottle.

So funny.

Excellent, GC. Professors rarely get appreciated for their grading, and you'll have established a good working rapport.

You should reward yourself with a new pair of shoes!

You should reward yourself with a new pair of shoes!

We should all reward ourselves with new shoes!

Nora! Dude! That's beer fraud!!!

(And Sierra ESB is a fine bottled beer. But I'm sorry about your lost Hennepin, as it's a fave of mine...)

(Have I mentioned lately how y'all bring out my barely-hidden inner beer snob?)

Happy birthday, NoiseDesign!

Nora! Dude! That's beer fraud!!!

I emailed the cafe to express my displeasure. I included those links and raised my eyebrows at the fact that the McChouffe is the mort expensive draft beer