slack

i am doing terribly at keeping all of you (b and j) updated with my activities. so here's what i've been up to.

bought some blood oranges, and was very excited because they are so very tasty. i'm really excited about citrus season this year. oh! the plump grapefruits are so delicious in february. took the first orange to work today, absentmindedly peeled it, and gasped in fright when i saw the dark red insides. had forgotten it was a blood orange.

j came to visit on the weekend, and it was great. i made him help me make fruit bars, which i have been wanting to do for a while. instead of starting with juicy fruit, we started with dried fruit, so the ratio of start volume to end volume was nearly 1. we made banana flavor, which tastes like banana bread that has been unrefrigerated for a while, and tart cherry flavor, which just tastes really fruity.

we also learned a lot of dirty jokes. very dirty. i can't tell them here.

this picture demonstrates the aftermath of breaking the don't-put-your-shoes-on-until-you're-sure-you-have-everything rule.



this picture shows my tulips, which apparently had a rough day, since they were beautiful when i left for work. (they perked up with some love)


a woman tonight at the gym asked me if a towel on the locker room bench was mine. when i said it wasn't, she used a shoe to fling it out into the middle of the floor, saying "some people are so disgusting". i burst out laughing, because flinging it onto the floor is nastier than forgetting it on a bench, but then had to pretend to be laughing at something else, because she didn't seem to think it was funny at all.

friends gave me a copy of the chapelle show season 2 dvd. it has been difficult to pace myself - i want to watch the episodes allinarow. it's the way dave chappelle seems to enjoy himself that makes it even more entertaining - like vince vaughn movies.

my straightlaced boss today again made a great joke at the expense of the boring guy who keeps asking me to lunch and won't take no or get the hint. my boss said, essentially, "i met mrs. boss through a group lunch, so you never know. mr. boring might make a good wife for you". i think we both snorted - it was unexpected.

i drove to alexandria to meet friends for a bit this evening. the whole dc metro area needs to get some damn road signs. all the signs point straight ahead, and then the road forks, and there are no signs at all. there are never any indications of cardinal directions (same is true of the metro trains). it's impossible. the route that i pre-plan is never, ever the route that i end up taking, and the route that i end up taking can never, ever be verified on a map.

and i've been up waaay to late all week!