He asks me questions like, "where have you had the best pancakes in your life?"

I could tell you this! With sidebars on Best French Toast and Best Waffles.

This (oft male) tendency is roundly mocked in the movie Gregory's Girl.

But to me it's just an organizing principle that makes the subject more interesting. It forces me to remember and assess the experience. The ranking itself is fluid and far from binding. It's the process of making the list which is fun.

Smoked turkey on pumpernickel with romaine and mango chutney at Cremaldi's in Cambridge (don't know if it's still there--I used to live down the block).

Medianoche at Mambo's here in Burbank. Cuban pressed sandwiches, yum.

Fresh sliced turkey on a just-baked baguette with dijon mustard and shredded lettuce at Calvert's Goumet in Reston, Virgina.

A thin slice of ham on buttered bread, served with cornichons on the side at the cafe in the middle of the "The Fred" in The Haag.

Ahrg.

Dear Internets,

Can you please stop hating me by tomorrow morning. All I want to do is scope out the kind of replacement down comforter mom has offered to get me for xmas and buy a ticket. You spent all day today breaking on me and giving me nonsensical results (identical comforters from the same place $50 different? Magical disappearing and reappearing itineraries? Insisting my airport doesn't exist? PUHLEEZ)

Just work tomorrow, please? Pretty?

Sincerely, sarameg

My top five list in makeup land right now.

1. Smashbox Studio Seamless foundation in Petal
2. Laura Mercier loose powder in translucent
3. L'oreal Endless Kissable in 710 (Finest Wine)
4. MAC Lipstick "O"
5. Aromaleigh's Pure Minerals eyeshadow, pretty much anything from the Midsummer Night's Dream collection.

#3 is only on the list until I have time for actual face-doing again. It's a good throw-on-and-go color for when I'm rushed, which is all the freakin' time.

He asks me questions like, "where have you had the best pancakes in your life?"

I could tell you this! With sidebars on Best French Toast and Best Waffles.

When we go to a brunch place we've been to multiple times I ask, "what have I had here and what did I like?"

David Silver (from 90210, whatever the actor's name is)

Thank you! I knew he looked sort of distantly familiar. And, I only caught the last minute or two of that show, but it was really, really bad. In case anyone was wondering. Very bad.

You people who keep track of sandwiches are freaks. But perhaps I'd feel differently if I liked sandwiches more.

Pirate vs 1337. Is funny. Go read.

Sandwiches:

1) the pear and fontina on toasted bread at the Nile cafe.

2) the after thanksgiving sandwich of homemade bread, stuffing, cranberry sauce and dark meat Turkey.

3) the monte cristo that I got at the restaurant in the galleria when I smoked and it was one of the few places I could smoke.

4) My tuna fish salad esp when I make it just for me so it has cukecumbers as well as carrots.

5) egg salad, the simpler the better. but toast is mandatory . and crip lettuce leaves are good.

I can make top 5 lists with food. - not much else.

top mushroom dishes ever.

1) tiny little restaurant in Danbury, CT. ( bently's) we were one of the few people there. wild mushrrom stuffed pasta covered with sauteed wild mushrooms.

2) the musroom pate I make every year at thanksgiving...somehow I make it different every year and it is still amazing.

3) mushrooms sauteed with red wine

4) the omlet I used to get at jacqulines 9 a diner type place ) in bethel Ct. 1/2 mushroom, 1/2 egg. okay lots of swiss cheese. ( and think... I wouldn't have to share with Perkins)

5) meatloaf with whole mushrooms studded down the middle . such a happy surprise.

I've had two surprisingly excellent sandwiches in the past few days -- a muffaletta in Grand Central Station, and a medianoche from this Cuban place around the corner from my house. But...

I don't know how to make favorites lists. Even when I try, I keep thinking "oh, but this one too, and also this one, and don't forget that one" and end up with pretty-much-everything, and not in any order I can actually arrange, rather than five one-after-the-other.

This is totally me. It's an ongoing issue in my family, ever since I was a kid, and my parents would always ask me what my "favorite part" was -- of things like camp. I like many parts! For many reasons!!

There's a lot of nonprofit legal organizations involved, but we haven't filed a complaint yet-- meaning the case hasn't come to court yet, so no amici.

I was just trying to google a similar case, because I know one is pending, but couldn't find it. But ask away.

I actually decided to go to the drug store before class instead of seeing if you answered, but the topic of my advocacy class today was legal/judicial advocacy. We always have to come up with a question for the class, and answer it, and I thought I could give some of-the-moment example, but it's no big deal. Our speaker was this awesome guy from the ACLU. Edit: This awesome guy.