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Yes, I do like salmon sushi. Mackerel will probably always be my favorite, sushi-wise.

Raw clams are great too.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not feel like eating my lean cuisine today. :( I was so good about not buying lunch there for awhile now it's gone to hell. I will probably go get an overpriced "wrap" in a moment.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, scallops seem to be best when cooked as little as possible. I hated them when I was a kid, because even though the coast isn't far from here, I rarely had access to seafood that wasn't frozen and breaded. Do that to a scallop and it's like eating vaguely fishy pencil erasers.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

vaguely fishy pencil erasers

OTM

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

No one was selling Girl Scout cookies outside my grocery store, btw, but I don't know if that's the usual place round here or not. Plus it was fifteen degrees out.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

They would have to be some hardy Girl Scouts to venture out in that weather.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Tep, I'm not sure if you're in MN, but often in early March there are Girl Scouts inside stores selling the cookies. You can just pick up a box and eat it right away. I've seen them at the local colleges, too, come to think of it.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmmm mackerel sushi is the best. Do we like onigiri as well? I had one the other day for the first time. I'm working my way up to the plum one.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yum onigiri!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, I'm in NH at the moment. But I'll keep an eye open!

I love ume onigiri. Oh man. The sushi joint in Bloomington that I liked so much had them on the back page, and they were one of my backups if I couldn't decide what else I wanted along with scallop and sweet shrimp sashimi.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

is onigiri eggs or squid?

an ethiopian rest. is opening up here, so excited.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

yay ethiopian food!

I don't think I've had onigiri! But it looks delicious! I'll tell you one thing, I don't love Uni. I do, however love the flying fish eggs and salmon roe.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Onigiri are rice balls -- the rice is pressed around a filling (ume is pickled plum, it's sweet and very sour but having all that rice cuts the taste enough; they also had octopus and tuna, not sure what else is common).

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never had Ethiopian food. But I want to!

When I visited Japan in 1996, you could get onigiri from vending machines. They were surprisingly good. I have a friend who makes them as well, but since she moved to Iowa, I haven't had them for a while.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd love to visit Japan. . .

I haven't had eth. in many years but am looking forward to it again. actually I look forward to eating all foods. who am I kidding?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/395801042_acdc5e6583.jpg?v=0

Ava REQUIRES petting. Now!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

aww, such a sweet kitty on such a classy chair!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweet?!

Pushy little broad is more like it.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

that's wheezy. never seen a pushier, more loudmouth cat.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha. She's only been there for what, a month, and she already acts as if she owns the place?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

adorable tuxedo cat!

Biff is a total loud mouth too. He's such a punk, but then he does adorable things like curling up next to you and resting his head against your cheek.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Wheezy is a brat. she dominates the bed and you risk getting nipped if you push her. when she wants food she yells so loudly I'm sure the whole neighborhood can hear her. (this doesn't bother me so much except when I first get up and stumble into the kitchen. I try to tell myself to take a deep breath and get used to it. Baby cries are surely worse.)

Neither she nor our other shelter pet, Missy, are grateful. I constantly threaten to return them to their concrete kennels if they don't show us some respect. Only Bandit, gotten off of craigslist, is loving and thankful.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Wheezy! So sassy! Biff whines and complains, esp. for wet food in the evening. He's such a jerk, but he's so adorable, and really can be the sweetest fellow imaginable. He LOVES to be held, and will yell at me if I put him down before he wants to actually get down. Gertrude, I'm convinced is the sweetest cat in the world. She has the best disposition. So friendly! She has befriended Stella, the stray kitty, who still hides a lot, but comes out and hangs out whenever I'm knitting on the couch. She and Biff don't really get along (because Biff is a bully), but it's way better than it was before.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm so late in the game but Che Casino means what a disaster or chaos but it also means bordello. I used this on a professor in Rome to describe Roma II (his college and where I was on Erasmus) a few years ago, he didn't like me before and positively hated me afterwards!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

What a cathouse! ;)

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly!

Also it was Roma III, pedantic I know...

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Question for y'all: how do I handle this situation? I have a radio show here in nashville, and I'm getting emails from listeners who want me to DJ with them, or exchange mix cds! I politely bowed out of the co-DJing with "I find that I'm really lazy and can barely prepare for one show" (said a bit more tactfully). I want to respond, because I appreciate that people like my show, and it's the nice thing to do. But, I don't really want to meet these people.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You can always just explain that, while you wish you could whatever it is you don't want to do, your busy schedule just doesn't allow it at this time.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds good! I really don't want to sound like a jerk, because I appreciate everyone who listens. Today, though, I got a weird call of, "Did I meet you in Franklin? You were really good looking! You sound familiar." "Uhh, no, that wasn't me."

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank them for their interest in your show and for taking the time to write you to tell you they like it but explain that with the time demands on you from work, family, friends, etcetera, it wouldn't be fair to them to imply that you could dj with them or share mix cds. Then encourage them to continue writing with comments or suggestions.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I think what Sara says is good molly. maybe add that if you're time allows in the future you'd let them and maybe do something then? (that might be dishonest though). I have this problem with social activities period. ugh.

just returned from a pysch visit, 3 hours late to work, $200 and two vials of blood lighter. ugh. also a new script. for buspar. supposed to reign in my anxiety and "chatter". we'll see.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I like "chatter" myself... less anxiety is always good, however.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

the chatter is in my head. it get's annoying sometimes.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I suppose in that case it makes sense; I hope it works!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I just have a dumb, never shut up brain that makes it hard for me to concentrate, sleep etc. The best help I've found so far is keeping a notebook with me to write things down just to get them out of my head (kind of like Dumbledore's penseive) or wearing headphones to lull my dumb brain to sleep with sweet music.

i'm pretty happy med-wise right now and don't really want to f with things but apparently buspar is pretty mild. maybe it will work. who knows.

still dragging from fasting for blood draw all morning. waiting to meet with boss. boo.

What's up with ethan this morning starting 10 million jean teasdale-esqe threads?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

The best help I've found so far is keeping a notebook with me to write things down just to get them out of my head

And we're back to why I started this thread in the first place! Finally, someone gets it.

Anyway, happy Mardi Gras, y'all!

― luna (luna), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, I forgot ILX! The best mental help tool evah! ;)

happy mardi gras to you too!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Faites gras, tout le monde!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I just had an email from my sister that she made a king cake - so jealous!

Happy Mardi Gras, TITTWISers!

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

ohmigod I am dragging so hard. I feel like I'm a south park construction paper character today. what did that witchy phleabotimist take out with my blood? Do you think I could get out of work the rest of the day and go drink for mardi gras?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Sam, I write stuff down for a similar reason. Unfortunately I tend to ignore what I wrote down - thus, I have a fleet of Post-It notes on my desk.

And yes - happy Mardi Gras!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the spirit(s), Sam.

"I don't feel well enough to work. Do you mind if I go drink, instead?"

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

While we're celebrating;

Happy Cherry Pie Day, too.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

food and caffiene are not helping me. gah!

oh man. . .now I really want cherry pie. (and beer.)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Channelling your inner Homer, eh, Sam?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

:( I think homer lives in my belly. he needs to live.

I feel like I want something else to eat besdies my lean cuisne but can't think of anything I want. (probably a good sign I don't need anything.)

I need to shut up and get back to php'ing and documentation-writin' and other lovely things.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been froggin' out and dunkin' croissant in my coffee. So good!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been froggin' out and dunkin' croissant in my coffee. So good!

Le sigh. I miss my mornings in Besancon.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I know it's not the done thing, but it's so good.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Puis-je t'offrir une petite cédille, molly? ;)

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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