still making tofu
same store, sunnier locationfingerpainting
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fingerpainting
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just a memory jogger pour moi
The Art of the Tart (savory tarts)
No Easter Eggs Here
None of us really like hard-boiled eggs (unless they’re tea eggs) except for Melonhead, so we’ll be making S’Meeps instead this weekend.
Mmm, jerky
1. I love staying in hotels. Any night in a hotel is lovely, even if it’s just in Champaign near the highway.
2. A great demotivator for writing is not liking the person for whom you are writing. Can I write a whole paper in haiku?
3. I always think I’ll like Three-Cup Chicken (one cup sugar, one cup wine, one cup soy sauce) more than I do.
4. Sincerity is hard to feign.
5. Why do people on raw diets all look like beef jerky?
Ginger
Updated: Oh, dear. I am really getting old and/or completely boring. I already wrote about menthol and pickled ginger.
- Menthol smells like pickled ginger.
- I do not know what is more annoying: repeating “you know,” “I don’t know,” “right?” or “could” repeatedly.
- El Goblino is at a sleepover tonight with the grandparents. Why am I not sleeping? I do not know.
- The Melonhead confused a marker for her bone tonight, and now her muzzle is slightly tinged with orange.
- My Chinese soap opera arrives tomorrow.
Chianti
1. I washed my hands with Johnson+Johnson’s Vapor/menthol baby wash, and now my hands smell like pickled ginger.
2. When I told Pedro that, he replied, “Are you just hungry?”
3. The Goblin fell asleep on my stomach tonight while insisting on watching ‘Finding Nemo.’ And then I ate her with a side of fava beans.
4. I hope recent events will not change the future of our friendships. If so, we’ll always have Pittsburgh.
5. Vegas, baby! Or should I say, Vegas, toddler! T-minus two days.
Willard! Not Heathers.
1. If you are a cross between Crispin Glover and Christian Slater, drop the Christian Slater.
2. Twice this week I have followed the same car during my morning commute. It has a bunch of bumper stickers, one of which reads, “Frodo lost the ring. Bush found it.”
3. I cry a lot, but I have a high tolerance for pain. So sticks and stones WON’T break my bones, but if you pass out during my class, I will turn into a blubbering idiot.
4. A girl came in for help with an essay (not in Chinese), and then it became apparent that she just needed to talk. We started with Montesquieu and then moved through competitive friends, laissez-faire parents, competition, shyness, Chinese documentaries, and Adam Smith. Gosh, I love high schoolers.
5.Bob Chinn’s tomorrow! Pedro invited us only because he has a coupon! and then Sosie kept saying, “Coupon! Coupon!”
