That should have had more punctuation.

You're not that charming.

Watch it, or I'll turn my emotional vacuity on you.

I'm a purist--the One True Pizza is deep-dish cheese and sausage, with maybe a few mushrooms spread out, but not too many.

Going back for a minimeara:

brenda, you must have Italian Beef now that you're here in Chicago! Buona Beef is the most consistently good chain, but the individual places can vary in quality (Amato's, just north of North Ave and Harlem, is of the very highest YUM). I remember when a Chicagoan opened up a classic hotdog/beef/burger place near the Marquette campus when I was in college up in Milwaukee--all the Illinois natives bombarded the place for some home cooking!

Oh, and raw tomatoes have a nasty smell and taste, even the "bland" ones that are produced out of season around here--I'm with Nilly on this. Only good tomato is a cooked one, preferably made into a yummy red sauce.

My cat not only greets me at the door when I get home from work, but leads me directly to her food dish (she gets fed in the evening only, a policy I instituted when she tried to move her morning feeding up incrementally every day, until she woke me up at 4:00 in the morning with the loudest "MRROW!" I have ever heard out of her).

I am having salad. I think fries may be in my future though.

not helpful co-worker is making me pissy. how do I end up being the one that gets reprimanded if anything is sloppy? Others seem to get a pass all the time.

I'm being whiny victim person. gak, I hate her.

Isn't not that charming actually superficially charming?

By "charming" I refer to the amount of charming required to satisfy the definition above. So she's "not that charming" -- not charming enough to be evil.

I'll turn my emotional vacuity on you.

That, however, is prodigious, so I am afeared.

I feel emotionally vacuous right now, just participating in this conversation.

Okay, speaking of food, which of the following planned menus should I make for dinner tonight?

a. Chicken quesadillas & spanish rice
b. Quick baked cod & garlic rice with pine nuts
c. Pasta with salmon & dill
d. Pork tofu
e. Leftover calzones

Oh, and to go waaay back:

I'm guessing not much Xhosa representation in bubbly pop, huh?

You've forgotten Johnny Clegg and Savuka! Complete 1980s pop, with Zulu words and lots of !Click!, combined with synth drum kits. Loads of fun.

Quesadillas.

I think I'll be having cereal for dinner tonight. But at least I get leftover shrimp curry for lunch now.

Quesadillas cause everything is better with cheese.

ita, have you solved your bench-for-dining-table dilemma?