The community's founder was murdered yesterday during a prayer service.

That's horrible.

Here is a fun one: what are you having/did you have for lunch? What is your ideal workday lunch? (i.e. no cheating and saying "three martinis" unless you've ever really gotten away with that.)

Today I'm having a tuna melt. Best lunch in recent memory was when our favorite vendor took the entire ops team out to a terrific bistro and we ate a 3-course meal that took 3 hours. (There were no martinis, but there were three glasses of wine. Not much else got done that day.)

I'll be having winter squash soup--pureed butternut squash, potatoes, and apple, with milk and apple cider and various fallish apple-related spices. It's very good. Plus, I was more patient about cooking pre-puree this time, so unlike the last squash soup I made, this one does not have crunchy bits in it.

Katie, that sounds yummy. Could you post the recipe??

The community's founder was murdered yesterday during a prayer service.

Goodness, brenda. That's horrible.

This is uplifting! An excellent typo.

Nutty, thank you for noticing! The best laughter I had all day.

I'm gonna go with Kevin Spacey because I like to think I'm complicated.

I'm so totally imagining you with his face from now on.

I have no answer to any of my questions, by the way, other than the first movie one - an animated tv version of "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe".

what are you having/did you have for lunch?

Um, now that I think about it, I didn't have lunch today. I didn't skip it, I just never got a chance to it. Oops.

What is your ideal workday lunch?

I'm going to cheat. My ideal lunch is when a friend comes and steals me away from my computer so that I have to go and have a proper lunch, not a sandwich or something near my desk. It's more about the company than the food. But if I have to go with food, there's a traditional Tunisian food that my mom rarely makes (because it's a lot of work and mess), sort of fried buns with lots of good stuff inside, called frikasse. This description doesn't do them justice, I'm afraid.

Now I want to go have sushi with ita (there are kosher ones, really) for the lunch I didn't have.

Allyson, besides hearing the same on the radio this morning, [link]

What would I want for lunch? Something I didn't have to prepare. I've gotten so lazy about food lately. Not finding much interesting. I think this is due to the heat, the cold, the cold drugs and the stupid scratch on the underside of my tongue that makes eating painful. Bah.

I have just eaten a tupperware of cold tortellini, with my fingers. I have a somewhat mealy peach that I may or may not eat. And I filched two chocolates from the HR office. This is not my ideal lunch.

My normal lunch is two peanut butter sandwiches on Pep Farm German dark wheat bread, plus carrot sticks or an apple. Because actually I am all about the "lunch at work is for putting fuel into your body and not for epicurian pleasures."

what are you having/did you have for lunch?

Turkey sandwich and a minneola tangerine.

What is your ideal workday lunch?

Turkey sandwich and two minneola tangerines. Followed by taking the rest of the day off.

Katie, that sounds yummy. Could you post the recipe??

I'm at work right now, but I'll be home for lunch--I'll send an e-mail reminding myself to do it then.

Epicurean pleasures should be for every time!

Everything moving too slow today. Too slow.