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Back to Journal  « Meanwhile, Back in Chapel Hill | Clarion Week 2: Clarion Cuisine | Clarion Week 2: Clarion Theme Song at ISBW » Clarion Week 2: Clarion Cuisine July 6, 2006 On our walk to Michael Swanwick's reading at the Archives bookshop in Lansing, a few of us stopped for dinner at Beggar's Banquet. What we expected to be a half hour meal ended up closer to 1.5 hours and we consequently missed the reading. Very unfortunate, but it's hard to regret having a non-Owen-Hall meal. The vegetables were fresh and everything had taste without requiring help from Mrs. Dash. The cafeteria food hasn't been agreeing with my stomach. I guess our within-walking-distance food co-op back home has been spoiling me and I'm used to too much organic in my diet. Or maybe I'm just getting old. The Owen Hall salad bar is almost entirely iceberg lettuce. I've taken to skipping the lettuce entirely and making myself cucumber-broccoli-tomato salads and that's my standby. I got some pseudo-natural peanut butter and put that on fruit at least once per day. We've made infrequent runs to the local health food store and I'm getting some good food to supplement my Owen Hall base, but my fridge is too small and wallet too thin to fulfill my entire diet that way. But I have Odwalla bars, Stretch Island fruit leather, the occasional fresh fruit, organic pop-tarts, Stacy's Pita Chips, and some hummus. I have dried blueberries and dates to put on cereal with non-organic milk (oh, how I miss Maple View Farm--a local dairy farm in NC that doesn't use BGH). Tastewise, I'm coping. I have a bottle of Mrs. Dash Garlic and Herb seasoning, which is the exact substance that allowed me to tolerate the rather bland Ashland University food as an undergrad. I'd just be happy if I can find a few bland things from the Owen Hall cafeteria that don't bother my stomach. Filed under Clarion, Journal  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalYeah, even poor Mrs. Dash needs to sit back and put up her feet once in awhile. Posted by: Shveta at July 6, 2006 4:55 PM 
I have no wit so I'll just say: heh. Posted by: Alex at July 11, 2006 8:00 AM
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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