read a lot of a good novel. wrote some stuff that’s mostly worth something for an hour, I contemplated. I worked out some more plot for a story that’s been icking around in my head for years. I went to my classes, one of them got canceled and as a result we’ll have to get rid of a play I was looking forward to reading but I’ve arranged to study it along with another person in the class and discuss it with her and the professor, so that’s awesome. (who’s about to publish a new translation of it.) I ate soup. I made a pretty good vegetarian soup yesterday. that is all. gotta clean up in here and read and sleep in a little tomorrow.
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today was awesome.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007out to dinner
Saturday, October 20th, 2007with two Uncle Johns my aunt and my cousin. It should be nice, haven’t seen them in a while. bought two CDs on the advice of my co-worker Dave: U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind and The Joshua Tree. Time to get to dinner.
soup and sandwich
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007is what I’ve been eating for dinner for a while now. It’s been good. It’s started to get cold and I’ve been sick so it’d be difficult to find a more apt food for the occasion. Also, soup is easy as hell to make and sandwiches more so…I’m tired, it was a long day of class.
This sounds interesting. Jane and Andy Kelly: Frankfurt Book Fair ‘08.
My Father’s Son
Sunday, October 14th, 2007So I’m sitting here thinking about eating breakfast tomorrow since I think I’ll be going out to eat with my roommates at Steve’s Kitchen on Harvard Ave in Boston, the only place I’ll eat out now [certainly for any meal before noon.] I think since I’m trying to give up eating out/prepared food failing a special occasion. So I’m sitting there thinking and I think “I’m not that hungry since I’ve eaten 3 square meals today, square meals I think, Everything I ate was on bread, which is square.” Then, I laughed out loud at my own punnyness. Thanks Dad, Thanks.
a very good day
Thursday, October 11th, 2007It’s misting rain and about 55 degrees here with some light breezes. This weather is damn near perfect as far as I’m concerned. I have a topic for my Linguistics paper. It’s going to be on Tom Wait’s changing use of metaphor and regional dialect in his songs. This might be the weiredest paper topic ever but my professor seemed about 50% as excited as I was and the man is near comatose when he starts class at 8am so this is a big step forward. I’m reading Virgina Woolf’s To The Lighthouse which I was sort of indifferent toward thematically until the end when it crossed into really good and interesting territory. I just started Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound” which is also awesome. Classes are awesome, learning is awesome, reading is awesome: Life is pretty good. Just have to stay on top of everything. Time to read some more stuff for class. I also made a pretty good corn and ham soup.
Recipe:
1 can sweet corn
1 can chicken broth
~3/4 cup diced ham steak
~1/2 cup heavy cream
add these things in a pot, grind in some black pepper,
heat at low boil until you get bored +10 minutes. (i think i boiled it for like 30 approx but you’re not cooking anything really so it’s not that important)
eat with bread.
This seemed to yeild an interesting mix of combined sweetness from the corn and saltyness from the broth and the meaty ham taste. It was pretty good and filling with the creamy broth and all the stuff in there. (and all the break I ate while waiting for it to cook.)
on an unrelated note: I’m pretty pissed none of the “buy this” buttons seem to work in steam regardless of what I do. I really just want to play Portal.
Also, this wind generator that works like the Tacoma narrows shouldn’t have is pretty awesome. It’d be great to see these get made and used, I wonder what the output wattage for something about a meter long would be, or if you could put them under the spans of bridges like the Tacoma narrows, assuming they were designed to take those sorts of extra stresses, this seems like a logical place to put them since I can recall dropping things from the north side of the Bear Mountain Bridge over the Hudson and watching them get essentially sucked south by the wind directly under the deck of the bridge. Also, the inventor of that wind generator appears to be a colleague of a recent Macarthur Genius Award recipient. (here via Wired.)