Oh, and we can't forget...

Also, it's just a matter of time until they don't have



and then sh1t's goin' down.

What will happen with the Windermere murder mystery? Did they set us up to not miss the main land for a while? Ieieie. Oh, and if Luke effing seriously dies, that's just crap.

TV

Good Lord, when will this effing thing end? Just give them their due money and residuals; make a contract that meets the new technology and

GIVE ME BACK MY DAILY SHOW AND COLBERT REPORT

(Read a neat-o article about these fellers and this little lady at The Village Voice. Might as well, since there ain't no TV to atch 'em on. Youknowwhattamean?)

Please and thank you,

Me and everyone I know

Repost : It's What My French Poet's Call "Ennui"

Rain Makes Me Blank

6/8/06

By blank I guess I mean "ennui." (See the photo of Charles Baudelaire, French Symbolist poet and ultimate purveyor of ennui.) I slept too late today because I thought of too many things I needed to do on my one day off and that made me tired. Funny.

I feel like Mon-Wed are just vacuous days of ugh. Then Thursday-Sunday are so busy it's overwhelming. How do I balance this? I don't know.

I hate the perpetual rain. Rain makes me feel so blah. This, I guess, crossing Seattle off my list of potential places to move once I get done with here. [18 months later I've totally changed my story! They have a great library school!]

I need to think outside the US box, I believe. I wouldn't want to go somewhere so touristy as Kilarney or something, but I would like to go to some place English-speaking. I wonder if Glasgow or Edinburgh is rainy? I could find my third cousins, if any are trackable from John Watson and Stella Stevenson- Watson.

Speaking of names, if you take the street I first lived on and the name of my first pet, my name would be Cleopatra Verchild, which is just awesome. I've been thinking about pen names because I might write greeting cards. I wouldn't want my real name attached to that sentimental bull-poo.

November Rain was an awesome video

Repost : A Good Day for Woodman's

Today Would Be a Day for Woodmans

6/7/06

Today would be a lovely day to hang out with Emily at Woodman's and chatter away the rainy not-so-summer day. Poo to doing nothing due to

1. lack of cool places to go in serious rain storm

2. serious rainstorm

3. low funds

Woodmans. I miss it very very much. What is it? Oh, just tone of the best little bars in the world. The unofficial name is the "grad student bar." This means the crowd was usually cool people age mid twenties to mid 30s, maybe a little younger, maybe a little older.

Abe and Mark opened the bar and restaurant last May. It's gorgeous inside, all hardwood and finshed so shiny, you could glide along it. Abe is a great bartender who shakes your hand, remembers your name and always asks how things are going, remembering key details about your life, if you have ever told them to him.

Mark likes to experiment with the menu, which he told me he developed just by trying things from restaurants everywhere and putting his favorites on the menu. He told me this during a game of A$$hole I played at his apartment with his girlfriend K ate, and our mutual friends Ste ve and An na.

The best feature of Woodman's are the martinis. Each glass is pre-chilled for you once you order you drink. The ingredients are deliberated with care. They offer all sorts: straight, dry, vodka, flirtini, cosmopolitan, mango, chocolate, girl scout cookie (THAT was too good, by the way) and lots more.

Mostly though, it's the ambiance. You know how people always say they're happy with a good bottle of wine and some good conversation? That happens all the time at Woodmans.

Repost : Recipe for Carrot Ginger Soup

Soup Du Jour

6/7/06

I eye ball ingredients, but here's the approx. ingredients for the Carrot Ginger soup I made today. It is very tasty.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 10 oz package of baby carrots
• 1/2 c. uncooked rice
• 1 can of pumpkin
• 2 cans of broth
• 3 c. of water
• 1 tbs parsley
• 1 heaping tsp of ginger
• 1/2 tsp curry powder
• salt and pepper to taste
• sour cream

In a large pot boil on high 3 c. of water, a 10 oz package of baby carrots, a medium onion, chopped, and a half cup of rice. Boil for about 20 mins. or until the rice is tender. Remove from heat.

At the sink, put a sieve over a large bowl so that you can keep and use the strarchy, carroty water. It's tastier and thicker than plain hot water. Drain the veggies and rice into the sieve. After the drainage is complete, put the veggie and rice in a blender. Add one ladle full of the drained, starchy water into the blender. Liquefy the contents. If you have a crappy blender like me, you may need to stop and stir the contents so all of it gets well-blended.

The contents of the blender should be very thick but definitely in liquid form, so you may need to add more of the starchy water. After the veggie are blended, pour the contents back into the pot. (You may need to add more of the water from the bowl into the blender so that it's not too thick. It should easily pour back into the pot.)

Add a one can of pumpkin, 2 cans of broth (I used veggie broth b/c I'm a vegetarian), 1 tbs of parsley, a heaping tsp of ground ginger, 1/2 tsp of curry powder and salt and pepper. Use the starchy water if you want a thinner consistency. Stir all ingredients well, bring to a boil then simmer until piping hot.

Serving suggestion: Add a dollup of sour cream into the middle of the bowl and sprinkle a little more parsley over the top.