fancy pants pizza

my and yet another new food buddy cari went up to slut lake the other day because we had the day off. she wanted to take me to this pizzeria called settebelo. i'm usually against fancy pants pizzeria places because i'm a giant fan of joe schmoe pizzerias and snotty people in nice clothes eating pizza is kind of a joke to me. however. this was really good pizza and i can completely appreciate the high end gourmand stuff. i got a pizza with prosciutto and kalmata olives and basil and a crushed tomato sauce. it didn't seem like the sauce was seasoned with anything more than a bit of salt, which may have come from the prosciutto, and the saltiness was balanced very well by the tang of the olives and the sweetness of the basil. they had a pretty tasty crust too. they use a wood fired oven there that i can also appreciate. surprisingly it wasn't too expensive, i was expecting to pay more than i did, but for what we ate it was more than reasonable. service was fine, nothing to complain or rave about. all the dudes working the oven seemed to be italians, which is a plus. i think its always a good idea to have the folks cooking be from the place where the food comes from, i.e., mexicans cooking indian food is always a bad idea. after we ate we had a bit of time to kill so we headed over to randys records for a sec, i met cari because she buys records too, so we spent about 45 mins in randys (and about 60 bux) and headed back to the brovo. was a pretty good outing.

kind of an interesting day yesterday...

i got to school and i walked into my senior seminar class yesterday morning and who was there but none other than one of my older sister's old buddy from memphis tennesee, heather b. hamilton. her name is heather b. armstrong now cuz she got married and most people know her as dooce. it was kinda funny to walk in and give her a little wave and watch the years roll back and see the shock of recognition spread across her face. haha it was pretty funny. i hadn't seen her in about fifteen years. she told me i look like a man now. good to know i guess. so after class a few of us went to nicolitalia and got some pizza. they got a primavera and a chicken mushroom alfredo pizza. they're pretty good pizzas, but i would have gotten a tuscany or a margarita or chicken pesto. still good. we got to chat for a bit and catch up with promises to hang out again soon. after that me and erin flynn went up to salt lake to check out some 2nd hand furniture stores to see if we could find some cool stuff for her new apt. the first and most obvious choice was the green ant. have i said how much i love the green ant? well i do. adam's a cool guy and he's always got something even cooler in his store and doesn't rip you off. i imagine one day'll he'll be the guy i sell some stuff to. after green ant we hit a few more places near sugarhouse with no luck. i stepped in some crap somewhere along the way, then we got over to 3rd south and hit some of the antique shops there. both of us decided we were hungry and we ran into the new este pizza on 2nd south. it turned out to be like the first day they were open. it was kinda funny, its kinda like the hip and cool version of este. the one in sugarhouse is full of hardcore kids. funny contrast. i wonder if they'll open one in provo and it will be a ska version. i got 2 slices. somehow they've managed to discover a way to re-heat pizza so it doesn't taste like rubbery butt. after we finished up at este we ran into some provo kid transplants and talked to them for a bit and headed over to randys. i found some cool 45's and a couple of rad rocknroll and r+b compilations a cool earl bostic dance record and a cool everly bros lp. i only spent about 43 bux on all of it too. i feel pretty proud. its a good thing i didn't have more time and their stock wasn't better. we left and after i got home i took ned out for a walk. yup. ned is back. i got him the other night. its funny, he's pretty theraputic in the sense that i have to wake up and walk him before i go to school so i can't stay in bed all day staring at the ceiling. ned ensures i wake up in a timely fashion and he's a good cuddler. i mean, he's no woman, but for now it'll have to do. so after walking ned i went over to errin and vigors to watch the election stuff. i new obama had won, but from the time i had left and gotten to their place more electoral college results came in. obama spanked mccains wrinkled white ass, my friends, and not once did i hear the term landslide being used. there were no narrow margins in this election. someone brought some really good hummus to the party and i couldn't stop eating the pita chips and hummus. there were also some sort of vinegary chip that i kept eating. i really dug mccain and obama's speeches. finally we have a leader thats a good orator. i also ate some wafer and creme cookies that were there. pretty good.