I got a copy yesterday, and it's fantastic. If you know any families with tiny hu-mans, newly arrived or on the way, I'd strongly recommend it. Or, hell, even if you're just a novice cook like me-- the majority of the recipes are for all ages (sometimes with toddler- or adult-friendly modifications), and are all delicious, simple to make, and crammed with life-giving nutrimentation.
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04:26:31 PM,Saturday 18 March 2006
I am going to adopt this kid and raise him to glory as my rightful heir.
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01:24:04 PM,Saturday 18 March 2006
I am two bits old.
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09:14:29 AM,Friday 17 March 2006
I'm kind of tempted to go to this. I like both songs I've heard of theirs (both from Neil's blogswaps-- "After Life Goes By" and "Bird Bird Bird") quite a lot, and the timing seems to be practical.
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05:19:48 PM,Friday 10 March 2006
Yes, Virginia, there are ninjas.
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05:16:32 PM,Friday 10 March 2006
I came home to find this set to my desktop wallpaper. God, I'm in love with this girl.
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09:50:28 PM,Wednesday 8 March 2006
I just watched the 8-minute St John's promotional DVD, and now I want to cry. I thought I'd gotten over that.
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10:56:36 PM,Monday 6 March 2006
Blogging from school, where I don't have to count internet time against my official Eudaimonia meter. Today was the first time we came down here as a class. Things are progressing. I'm looking forward to him starting the speed tests, though-- as soon as I pass three 60s, I can test out and start laying on the throttle, instead of diligently cooling my heels like I have been so far. I love my English class-- it's all ridiculously picky and arbitrary usage and punctuation rules, the textbook is simultaneously snide and useful, with lots of frivolous sidebars, and the teacher is a baby-faced prescriptivist pedant with perpetual yarmulke hair-- i.e., adorable.
I'm not quite as busy as Kerne-- I do have about two and a half hours before bedtime on Mondays and Wednesdays and four hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fridays I get off at 5:00, and weekends are free, of course, except for quartet practice (incidentally, if y'all have gotten the blogswaps, the last track on my CD is one of the ones we've been working on, but at 2/3 the speed and ten times the spazziness). But it's still busy enough that I feel guilty when I'm blogging anything more substantial than a one-liner. Like him, I usually want to spend my free time with my girlfriend; not living together further complicates the problem. Unlike him, I certainly haven't gone off the concept of blogs-- I aim to keep one all my life. And I still read and comment on the blogmass, which helps with the isolation that living in a massive amazing city with limited money, very limited time, and few social contacts inevitably breeds.
I'm happy, though. The days are getting warm, I like my job, I'm crazy about steno (Did 11 minutes of a show about truffles yesterday. Would have finished it, but it was late and I was tired, so I switched to qwerty. "Truffle" is a grand word to write in steno, though-- "TRUFL". Trips off the fingers. My other current favorite is "gorgeous", which is spelled "TKPWORPBLGS", but is just about as easy to stroke, and, if possible, even more satisfying.), and my girl and I have been having adventures, wedged between the swotting.
For Valentine's day, we went to Aquavit, home of Swedish-Ethiopian Fusion Cuisine, which was pretty damn fun. Wild food, not all of it to our taste, but daring and virtuosic enough that you were pleased to give it your tongue's full attention, and gravlax to drown kings for.
A dude drew my portrait on the subway for $10. It looked like my mom. Earlier that day, I saw a kid my age dressed in typical indie threads and sporting magnificent ginger spiral moustaches.
I've been reading lots of pulp-- Neal Stephenson, Jack London, Terry Jones, and other great stuff that fits in my jacket pocket and gets negative litrachaw points.
I also got a root canal a few weeks ago, which is only exciting because my dentist's name is Igor. Yes, that's why I picked him. Yes, it fits him perfectly.
Last Saturday we couldn't go to Frontalot, 'cause we were otherwise occupied in going to unbelievably trashy restaurants and movamenting sexy to Brazilian club music. Well worth the sacrifice. Next time he comes around, though, damnit.
My steno bag's zipper broke, and I made do by ripping out the trumpet-shaped plush-lined styrofoam in my trumpet case and wedging all my equipment in there, then attaching a shoulder strap from a laptop case. Damn serviceable, if I do say so. I'm usually good for a kludge.
That there's the end of my exciting news. Brace yourself for another month of radio silence interspersed with dashed-off links and flailings.
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09:03:20 PM,Monday 6 March 2006
I'm thinking "Cowboy Leg Beautiful Pole" is a chapter heading from Death in Big Arm.
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07:36:26 PM,Sunday 5 March 2006
Delicious explanatory quote from the OED Word of the Day today:
"Confess, what elegant square or lumpish hamlet
Lives free from nymphological disquiet?"
-- 1953 R. GRAVES Poems 4
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11:10:37 PM,Wednesday 1 March 2006
Frontalot!
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11:48:21 PM,Monday 27 February 2006
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07:56:22 PM,Saturday 25 February 2006
So hey.
So yay!
So nu?
So woo!
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08:59:32 AM,Thursday 23 February 2006
Tuckered. Got enough sleep last night for once, but still tuckered. Not plumb tuckered, though, so that's something. Also, 100 on my first steno test, and got sloppy but readable notes on a minute of 60 wpm dictation (we're currently going at 30 wpm). So woo.
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10:37:27 PM,Wednesday 22 February 2006
I miss my wood-burning kit.
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10:29:56 AM,Wednesday 22 February 2006
via Sola.
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04:53:28 PM,Tuesday 21 February 2006
Sent out blogswaps a couple days ago. Dunno if they've arrived, but here's the listing for mine on Art of the Mix: Wuther.
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04:22:04 PM,Sunday 19 February 2006
My dad is always randomly busting out into this song.
(via Remi.)
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03:07:46 PM,Saturday 18 February 2006
I never realized how crucial LRF support could be. Makes the difference between efficient work and really troublesome nagging pain.
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02:05:57 PM,Friday 17 February 2006
