slack dough chaos

Jeff and me, at Izmi. Photo by Ray Van Kleef.


Thinking about food more lately. Partly because I was talking to Amanda Snyder on the phone recently and was starving by the end of it because we talked about cooking. And partly because I've started to cook more with fresh ingredients instead of always relying on "stick it in the oven" type of meals. If any of you have VERY simple but healthy/yummy recipes, I'd appreciate you sending or posting one or two of your favourites.

Spent part of Saturday at The Red Tea Box, a wonderful tea shop near Jeff's office where I can sit in a comfy chair and read and sip interesting tea from china cups. I had the soup special, which was celeriac and kohlrabi and white bean soup...YUM.

Wandered over to a used bookstore a few doors down the street afterward, one of those wonderful and somewhat musty bookstores with narrow aisles, books stacked to the ceiling, and a store owner with attitude. My purchases:

The Practice of Poetry
ed. Robin Bihn and Chase Twichell

The Fact of a Doorframe
Poems selected and new
1950-1984
by Adrienne Rich



Store display at the Red Tea Box.


Sent out two queries yesterday, two today. Article due Friday.

I have resigned myself to using the ViaVoice for at least another month. I've also started collecting the most amusing of ViaVoice's mistakes, just to keep a sense of humor about it all (Rand gave me this idea). Here is a sample:

-- I said, "I hope you slept ok last night", which ViaVoice interpreted as: "Ice-Cold you of slack dough chaos made"

-- I said, "quit this" (wanting to quit a program), which ViaVoice interpreted as: "Religious summit deposit"

As Rand pointed out, I could turn this into another article. :-)



Ray and Jeff at Izmi.

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