So, lunch today dahntahn was at Hobnobbers...a reccommendation from an attorney at NOLAC. Let me tell you, it was delish! So, you walk into this extremely poorly-lit bar...with a florescent-lighted cafeteria-style area in the way back of this establishment. The food was total homecookin', with a rotating list of daily specials. I had the salisbury steak with au gratin potatos. Not your average Eat n' Park wimpy-ass salisbury steak, but a Nerf football-sized ball of beef drenched in brown gravy. A. mazing.
And that's not the end of the story. Not by far. So we ate at the bar, Abita Restoration Ale (dedicated to rebuiling this city) in hand to wash down the goodness. The bartender, Lisa, inquired as to our buisness in NO & we told her about the Student Hurricane Network of law students. Then it got really interesting.
Lisa said that she has never been better. Life was treating her very well. Why, you might ask? Well, she had the foresight(?) to purchase a quarter-pound of pot around the time that Katrina hit. As a connoisseur of pot/hemp food, she whipped up a ton of pot brownies & sold them to folks after the storm. And she made a boatload of cash. And she did not have any bills or rent to pay. And she got a nice check from FEMA. And business at Hobnobbers was picking up. And her house was only missing its facade (she showed us a Christmas card/photo of her sitting in what looks like a doll house, as you can see everything inside from the outside). So, when I told her that she was the most positive person that I had met so far (as Katrina survivors go), she said that she was 99.9% happy. What constituted the tenth of a percent of unhappiness? Her boyfriend is currently in the hospital with pneumonia.
What a great outlook on life, huh?
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