Wednesday

Dinner with Olga at Don Pascuale's tonight. You should be able to tell by that half-Spanish, half-English possessive noun that the menu was in Spanish sentences and Italian words. So was the food, but it was also really good. I had the Penne Putanesca, which might mean something dirty in all three languages. When we are together with Olga, we always talk about the news. Last dinner, over sashimi at an Asian fusion place called Kampai, she told us about this, but since it had not been written yet, I could not mention it until now. This is a pretty big deal, and I am certain that your local paper ran this article today. Also in the news: Arnold ran into trouble yesterday on the campaign trail, discovering some of his gubernatorial constituents were looking for the asinine republican immigration bigot they hired:

"This one woman came up to me and said, 'Stop the invasion.' It was that kind of dialogue, and not, 'Hey, is there something we can do about immigration?' And I think that's going into a dangerous area." [said Mr. Schwarzenegger, courtesy the AP]

Apparently, this is backlash from his backing-off on a bill denying undocumented migrants necessary government services. Arnold came right out and admitted he was "wrong" about his previous anti-immigrant stance after actually working with area children. Schwarzenegger reportedly smiled through yesterday's heckling interrogation, reminding people that while we was still a republican, and an actor, he was also an immigrant. Then Schwarzenegger called to say he was putting off his high profile, trade-strengthening mission to Monterrey until after he is (maybe) reelected. Mexico will either get a lame duck or a mandate, fate is spinning its wheels. If you can't stand the caliente get out of the cocina, right, governor? [Cavin]