I’m sitting on the third floor of the Eugene hilton thinking about what to eat tomorrow. For reasons I’m not legally allowed to discuss (ponder that one for a moment) I’m down here for the next few weeks, and thanks to the Special Olympics and the fact that all the non-ghetto hotels in Eugene are full, I’m staying at the Hilton. This trip also comes with food expenses paid, and I’ve taken it upon myself to spend this budget eating at some of the better restaurants in town. I’m plotting a trip to Misako for sushi tomorrow, and I’ll be tapping A Taste of India for dinner. Thursday night I’ll be paying a visit to Ambrosia. Caspian will be providing the gyros and breakfast pitas…and the bacon-encrusted french toast. For snacks and coffee I’ll be paying visits to Cafe Paradiso. I’m trying to avoid the ‘upscale’ chain restaurants because, well, yech. Eugene has a varied dining scene, and I spent a lot of time drooling over the food when I was going to school here and didn’t have the disposable income to sample them. I’m getting my revenge for the next month, and hopefully I’ll escape back to Portland without gout. It’s going to be hard to find to go swimming at Dexter, but I’m planning to give it a shot if the insane late July weather holds true for the rest of the week.

I’ll be hitting Timberline on Sunday for some first-day-of-August snowboarding. I can feel the andrenaline-fueled euphoria already. Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful, hate me because I’m a lucky son of a bitch.

No links for you tonight, my rabidly loyal readers. Sorry. Keep checking. If you have any suggestions for restaurants in the Lane county area that I should be visiting, let me know in the comments section.