I did some errands today. Nothing very special to mention.
I visited one of my favorite shop in Old Town (Urban Wave Company, www.urbanwavecompany.com): they sell little purses made with used American license plates (Little Earth is the company manufacturing these purses).Most of you certainly have noticed that I don’t use a “classic” handbag, like the real “ladies” are supposed to carry. Instead, I use this small metallic cylinder made with a Texas license plate. It’s called a “Cyclone Purse”. Very cool. I like original things, so today I bought a Mississippi purse. The license plate is light green with a flower, very nice. I’ll show when I come back. I also met Ronald, the Swiss guy who owns the shop. He immediately recognized me (Ah, here’s my Belgian friend!).
I visited one of my favorite shop in Old Town (Urban Wave Company, www.urbanwavecompany.com): they sell little purses made with used American license plates (Little Earth is the company manufacturing these purses).Most of you certainly have noticed that I don’t use a “classic” handbag, like the real “ladies” are supposed to carry. Instead, I use this small metallic cylinder made with a Texas license plate. It’s called a “Cyclone Purse”. Very cool. I like original things, so today I bought a Mississippi purse. The license plate is light green with a flower, very nice. I’ll show when I come back. I also met Ronald, the Swiss guy who owns the shop. He immediately recognized me (Ah, here’s my Belgian friend!).
At the end of the day, I met a Portuguese friend from Belgium (we used to work on our PhD’s in the same lab in Brussels). He now works at UCSD as a postdoctoral researcher. At 7 PM, we went to a bookstore in Del Mar, some 20 miles North of San Diego to listen to Dr. Gary Small, a neuroscientist from UCLA. Dr. Small was presenting his last book “iBrain”, about the influence of modern technologies on the evolution of the human brain. His presentation was nice (the lady sitting behind me was laughing very loudly during the presentation) and I bought his book, which he signed after his presentation. And I almost got a wiener dog with the book. Indeed, there dog was standing on top of the counter next to the cashier, and when I was searching for my money, he tried to climb on my shoulders and lick my face. I think the dog liked me very much!!!
After the presentation, we went to a nice Thai restaurant next to the bookstore. It was a good evening! I ate red curry with shrimps, and had mango with sticky rice as dessert.
Before returning to my studio, I stopped in Coronado and had a look at the San Diego Bay by night. It was calm and the view of the San Diego skyline was fantastic. The weather was quite cloudy tonight, as you can see in the pictures.
