Spending my weekend night eating leftover pizza and then hiding out in the room with the A/C, watching Netflix and paging through my Smitten Kitchen cookbook to think about meals for next week, is really nice. (Saturday is CSA day, so I like to plan ahead for the week based on that. Jerusalem and Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge are excellent summer ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if anyone from the odd quad Battlestar Galactica watching crowd still reads this, but if you do...I just started watching, and it turns out tons of the stuff I thought was complicated, hard to follow plot is in the pilot. Don't I feel silly. I guess it's easier to watch it happen then to hear it secondhand while trying to pay attention ( Read more... )

Today I went running and tried to push myself more than usual. Robert and I ran together twice over the holidays, since neither of us is familiar enough with the other's home town to go alone, and our last run was short so we pushed ourselves to go faster. Apparently this has inspired both of us, because today he took 4 minutes off his usual time ( Read more... )

I made this squash recipe last night and it was easy, cheap, and tasty: http://www.closetcooking.com/2011/03/chipotle-butternut-squash.htmlRead more... )

Man, the end of season 4 of the Wire = saddest "Christmas episodes" I've ever seen on TV.

Add to last entry about losing things: one of my two favorite pairs of shoes and a denim skirt. Those must be in the apartment somewhere, right?

Sigh....

Me, reading about "heterotopias": Hmm, I bet you could consider a voyage a heterotopia. I will think about that ( Read more... )

This is my first Thanksgiving spent not with my family (excluding the one in Turkey, where I didn't celebrate it at all). It's actually turning out to be FOUR Thanksgivings ( Read more... )

On a petty note, I am really annoyed with how my schedule is preventing me from making lasagna. I have an open container of ricotta to use up and really want to make it, but it takes around half an hour to assemble and an hour and a half to cook, so I need 2 hours at home, ending at a time that is reasonably dinner appropriate (i.e., not beginning ( Read more... )

Discovery of the day: Armenian folk industrial metal. It exists. Or at least it did until 2007. And it's pretty good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxRSbY2yVI&feature=related