How Newspaper Articles Affect You if You're Neuro-Diverse

Continuing with the newspaper...You put off reading the chronicle's front page Sunday profile of Thomas Keller, the chef of the French Laundry because you thought it would be too chic-chic.  (I just looked up this term for pretentiousness and see that it is of French origin, but they spell it chichi.)  

But you saved the June 8th newspaper just in case your curiosity overcame your better judgment.  You learn that there's very little space in his kitchen...that it opened in 1994, the year you finally got a full-time job...So as you retire, he is celebrating 20 years.  he has a kitchen that's immaculate, which yours is not...Herb Caen wrote about French Laundry in 1995.  The tasting menu is now $295.  "I've always been more about emotional cuisine," Keller says.  Me too!

He bought it from Don and Sally Schmitt and used the Louvre has a model!  "When I.M. Pei added the pyramids on top, it re-energized the entire property...but it didn't change the actual museum."

The French Laundry was build in 1890s and used as a French steam laundry in the early 1900s.  

top toques?  Toque is a hat?  A chef hat?  

Also on that saved front pages was an article by John King, urban design critic, on the rising seas, which are the waterfront's bigger issue, and Michael Cabanatuan's article on why Muni operators see sickout as crucial.  blue flu=when police call in sick

red rash=when firefighters call in sick

chalk dust fever=when teachers call in sick.  

Getting back to the rising seas, the Republicans don't see this as something that should be considered if considerations interfere with economic gains.  Low-lying South Florida is a retirement Mecca built on drained swampland.

SF's Tom Steyer may step in with $100 million to influence the national elections in favor of environmentalists  like Charlie Crist against the Business as usual approaches of Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rudio

But you still have to learn more about those Lyft rides that let passengers sing Karaoke.  

It is VERY hard for you to throw away unread newspapers.  But--hey--you've got to get that kitchen immaculate...or at least clean enough that the Health Department won't have to close it down.