January 2011
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The play I’m seeing tonight is two hours and forty minutes long.
I know that it will be good. The actors are talented, it looks pretty cool, and the playwright, that Shakespeare guy, I hear he does good stuff.
I have no stamina any more. But if you said, “Nine hours of The Norman Conquests, just like a couple of years ago,” I would so be there.
I will psych myself up by...
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You ever go, like, Hey! That’s my city’s skyline seen from an outer borough! and then a second later you’re really not so sure?
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Going into Buy Buy Baby for anti-nausea morning...
(The security guard at the door says “bye bye” when you leave.)
Upside: When you’re writing about something you’ve written about twice already, you finish faster and have time to read your semi-trashy but very-well-researched book about paleolithic people in France for a little while before you have to go to work.
Downside: If you have to type the words “sweet potato kugel” or even think about your family’s food traditions ever...
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Tanner made tostones tonight and HOLY SHIT. I am in love.
With tostones.
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The Spanish Steps are in ROME, lady, but I will... →
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Every time I teach this course, I get a little excited about the third class.
Because I use Meg in an example of argument structure:
My cat is little, therefore my cat is cute.
(Conclusion: my cat is cute; evidence: my cat is little; assumption: little cats are cute.)
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No one can accuse me of failing to take advantage of my newly reclaimed meat-eating.
Last night Tanner and I went out for dinner for his birthday. I got lox and latkes. Or, as we say when we’re in a German restaurant, smoked salmon and potato pancakes. Tanner got a sausage trio, which, ha, sausage trio.
We drank wine and beer and Glühwein and it all felt very fancy. He quizzed me on arcane...
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The universe will never let me forgive myself for not reading Jesse Eisenberg’s second play in a timely fashion and emailing him and becoming his dramaturg.
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]]>johnlempka replied to your post: The welcoming back of a working oven:
OMG do you name your chickens too!?
Well she was just lovely, and we were getting pretty intimate. She was also my first whole chicken, so I don’t know if naming will continue - also the meat-for-money deal wasn’t nearly as great as I expected, so I might stick with parts - but it felt right.
The welcoming back of a working oven:
chickpea chocolate cakebread
roasted broccoli
Geraldine, the chicken
chocolate chip cookies, the batter rested for a day like the New York Times taught us
roasted leeks and mushrooms (to come)
probably stock from Geraldine’s bones, on top of the stove but still, god bless cooking on fire instead of sorta hot coils
Not a bad weekend so far.
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Two weeks ago yesterday, I ended thirteen years of...
The chickpea cake tastes like Passover cake. I have a good brownie recipe that uses black beans the way this cake uses chickpeas, so I can say that the inclusion of beans does not damn a recipe. But damn. I mean, this one’s fine when it’s toasted and buttered, but cake doesn’t need that treatment; bread does.
Passover chocolate bread. This is why baked goods usually have...
In the oven! In the working oven! I think it broke... →
James: there are only two downton abbeys, i think, so both would technically be feasible.
Jaime: are both online?
James: yep
Jaime: lovely
Jaime: also, downton, not downtown? blew my mind.
James: well what the hell kind of sense would "downtown" abbey make?
Jaime: it's an abbey downtown. downton isn't a word!
James: it's a place! "downtown abbey" sounds like a bar, not an appropriately countried place for our purposes.
Jaime: well all i know is a gif of maggie smith in a swivel chair, so call me a country bumpkin and get over it.
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OUR GAS IS FIXED!
After three and a half months, the gas has been restored to our stove and oven. No more shitty electric cooktop! Four firey burners! An OVEN!
So, tumblr, what am I making tonight in our big, beautiful, functional oven?
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After my second interview for this job, I waited for the elevator with a doctor who had just briefed for his first field mission. We talked, wondered if there were stairs to the lobby, and he told me he thought I’d get the job.
I did, and when he came back from the field, six or nine months later, he was so happy to see me working here, and I was so happy to see him. An old friend!...
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Let me tell you, if you ever decide to stop being a vegetarian, do it right before restaurant week.
Today in things I wrote that I will never read,...
I just got emailed the pdf of an essay I wrote about rice pudding that was due about three weeks after the earthquake in Haiti. Yeah no.
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I took a practice SAT this morning, to see what kind of shape I’m in for the (fake) SAT that’s the first step towards a tutoring job. Because I don’t have a scantron-scanning machine in my kitchen, I’m not very sure what my score is, but I do know this: reading comprehension is totally, 100% evil. Triangles, on the other hand, are great.
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Man on the Phone: Are you a doctor?
Me: No, I'm the receptionist.
Man on the Phone: So you're a nurse?
Me: No, I'm the receptionist.
On Friday I legitimately asked the white personest...
Hi I don't want to clean the bathroom
The supermarket was out of Bon Ami. :(
Bon Ami is the best.
So is sitting on the couch.
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Jaime: are you sitting down? →
Tanner: oh my Tanner: oh my oh my oh my
meganwest replied to your post:meganwest replied to your photo: I WANT THEM TO…
Whoops.
Don’t worry! I totally like weird foods. This is chocolate cake made with chickpeas instead of flour. So. Yeah.
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meganwest replied to your photo: I WANT THEM TO FIX MY OVEN!
Ohhhhh that is the saddest little photo ever.
Erm, to clarify: the picture is of a cake I want to make. I cannot because our stove has no gas.