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April 22, 2010

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April 22, 2010 - stacey. Tags: Washington, DC

breakfast: grapes, pineapple slices, watermelon

lunch: vegan day at bread and brew! I got a caesar salad with crispy capers and homemade garlic croutons. I also got their Vietnamese sandwich (vegan bahn mi with lemongrass-soy marinated tofu and mushroom pate) with plantain chips. The salad was amazing, the sandwich wasn’t great. I liked the mushroom pate, but the tofu didn’t have much flavor.

dinner: leftover caesar salad and fries from ollie’s trolley. eva and i tried to see women without men, but it was sold out, so we saw the secret in their eyes. We had time to kill before the movie started so we decided to get fries. the fries at Ollie’s Trolley are not the best. They have a strange seasoning on them.

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Quilty's comment:
April 23, 2010 at 6:55 pm

How was the movie??

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stacey's reply:
April 24th, 2010 at 9:17 pm

Hi Quilty:

Have you seen the movie? If so, what did you think of it? I am not sure what I think of the overall movie, but the cinematography was great.

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Quilty's reply:
April 25th, 2010 at 12:36 am

Yes, I had. I think the cinematography was great too; I like the plot line style because you never know if what happened was real or just Ben´s imagination. For example how the melodramatic too romantic train station scene is beatten down when Irene says that that was bullshit. It has also, some good quotes, like the “passion” one, the “never look fowards”, the one of the widow about taking good memories. And I love the stadium scene. I was like: How the heck??. By far is the best I seen this year. Another thing I like was Sandoval, he was my favorite character.

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katherine's reply:
April 25th, 2010 at 10:08 am

I’m going to check this movie out.
katherine's comment:
April 23, 2010 at 8:33 pm

I had those fries once! Do we know if they’re vegan? I remember feeling skeptical yet hungry, and just going for it.

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stacey's reply:
April 24th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

they said they are cooked in veggie oil. did you like them?

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katherine's reply:
April 25th, 2010 at 10:14 am

I did like them. I think I asked about the oil, but I was skeptical about the seasoning itself.

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