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[aslant]

there are only fifteen days left until our trip to texas. i cannot tell you how many times people have said to me, either joking or serious, "but it's a dry heat."


next tuesday i want to go the isabella stewart gardner museum, because they have a free outdoor cinema night of silent films with live piano accompaniment. k will be working there, his work is doing the lights & sound rigging for a month's worth of the gardner's centennial summer celebration. it will be nice to go and spy on him at work :)

we made salmon and artichokes last night, yum yum. i have been inventing sauces lately - i made up an olive oil + garlic + sardines + basil + dijon dipping sauce for the artichoke leaves, and then over the weekend i made up a raspberry syrupy thing, since we were out of maple syrup. it was quite yummy on our challah french toast.


my mother sent me a low, wide-mouthed pitcher/bowl from a pottery gallery in utah, where my parents went recently on vacation. it came by surprise in a big box last night and i was wracking my brain trying to remember if i had bought something on ebay recently....it is a beautiful blue color and came with a matching blue-handled whisk. it is a french design, and perfect for crepes and quiches and souffles and other things involving whisking things and pouring things. i am perhaps overly excited about this present. i am a fool for beautiful kitchen things.

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[nevers.livejournal.com]

ohh, free outdoor silent films with live piano at such a beautiful museum!!!

the pitcher sounds beautiful as well.

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[aslant.livejournal.com]

are you back from the interview? how did it go?


i'm very excited about the silent film night. when i was in florence, the year-long class i took at universita di firenze was on silent film. it was amazing, even if i struggled to keep up with the content of the lectures. three of my close friends there took it as well, and after the first day we were cursing that myth of italian university students never going to class etc - everyone in our classroom was taking notes rabidly, transcribing the prof's lecture almost verbatim. & i had nightmares for weeks about the oral exam at the end of the year. bah. but it was one of the most amazing classes i've ever taken. i'm excited to see some of the films i studied again.

[kleinekatze.livejournal.com]

papa didn't think that you'd like the bowl/whisk. mom had a good laugh at him last night.

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[aslant.livejournal.com]

i don't think dad has been witness to my bowl fetish as much as mom has. i used to steal bowls from the kitchen for months at a time when i was in high school. just because i HAD to have them in my room.

also, i would have thought he'd like it, too...it's perfect for crepe batter! it's pourable! how could it be more perfect?

hehe.

christ i am so bored today.
you should go read this. it is instructive + funny as hell. do you read nerve.com often? good stuff. i am so totally buying 'the big bang' as soon as i get my lazy ass to amazon. you should read the exerpts of it on nerve. oh the hilarity.

niagra falls between her legs

[kleinekatze.livejournal.com]

i read i read! holy crap that's funnier than anything i've read in a along time. that format that he used for the "lab" that's the same format that we used in high school for physics/chem/biology, same instructions and everything. funny as hell to see it used in that context.

dad probably liked it but didn't think that you'd like it so much...

thumbs up

[aslant.livejournal.com]

oh the 'i did it for science' things are up every couple of weeks or so. & it's always that same guy & his girlfriend. the last one was about sex on drugs - an evaluation of sex on viagra, pot, acid, e, and shrooms. unfortunately you have to get nerve premium to read their archives. oh well.