Thanks, vw! I cook that way, too (when I cook, which isn't often). It's what I like about Rachael Ray. She doesn't make a big deal out of the fact that sometimes you can use decent shortcuts due to lack of time.

I wish I had a Trader Joe's near here.

I also wish I had one of Hec's drink. Yum.

I bet taquitos would actually be wicked easy to make. I think Deena makes them every once in a while. It's probably just meat wrapped in a soft tortilla then baked or fried. Easy peasy.

It's so exciting to read these stories of Nicole's experience in SF. She's going to look back on this and identify it as a time when the pieces settled together a little more solidly and her pride in her own eccentricity got a big boost. Go her! And go everyone for showing her how wonderful it is to be weird!

This. Oh, so much, this. I'm so happy Nicole is having a good time, and that she's still as much of an glorious eccentric as she was when I got the chance to meet her.

t waves tiredly

Stealing a few minutes to myself (house guests are swimming in neighbors' pool). Love them so very much but am so in need of down time, I can't tell you.

Thanks for all the congrats, everyone. We're very excited about the new house and about living together. Libkitty, we're moving over the first couple of weeks of August. We'd already planned and prepaid for a week in Seattle from July 26th to August 1st, and Drew is flat out with work until then anyway. So...August it is.

So glad that Nicole is having such a blast with Hec and JZ and Emmett. So sorry that vw is dealing with icky meds side effects.

I just had to read way too much material on the NY State math curriculum.

I feel your pain.

After looking through it, it actually seems like a more coherent curriculum than the standard one

I have some pretty big issues with it, actually, though those honestly basically come down to "If you were going to throw the traditional curriculum order out the window, thereby making it nigh impossible for students to easily switch states, couldn't you have taken the opprtunity to improve it SIGNIFICANTLY?" As it is, they learn basically the same material but they do it in an order that confuses both teachers and students looking elsewhere for help.

By 2008, New York should have switched back to a more standard Algebra->Geometry->Algebra II curriculum. At my school, since we're brand new, we're hoping to be allowed to start that immediately.

I'm trying to decide whether or not to take my dose of Predinsone tonight. My PCP is out, and I don't know the person covering for her, so I'm not sure that person would be overly helpful if I had him/her paged.

The other option I have is to page the doctor on call at the clinic. I'm pretty sure that the doctor who stopped in to listen to my lungs on Friday said she was on call all weekend if I needed anything. But, I've never seen her before, and she may not even remember me, because I wasn't her patient...she was just called in as a second opinion for the NP.

But, this rash is definitely a side effect of the prednisone. And, I'm pretty sure that the other symptoms I've been experiencing the last 30 hour, or so, are also side effects of the steroids.

Why does my body hate me so?

I'm so happy Nicole is having a good time, and that she's still as much of an glorious eccentric as she was when I got the chance to meet her.

You know who Nicole has been reminding me of? Tales of Teenage Ple. Pretty and twisted and smart and talented and alienated and full wroth where Michael Jackson impersonating = Rocky Horror performances.

I took Nicole and Emmett into Golden Gate Park this afternoon. It was gorgeous today, and AIDS Walk so it was crowded and carnivalesque on top of the usual Sunday stuff. The carousel was free and so was the face painting so we indulged them both. There were belly dancers out, and the regular swing dancers and roller disco, and at Stow Lake an entire troupe of Jane Austen Society Members in full Regency costume boating on the lake.

And honestly? That's not a particularly unusual July Sunday for San Francisco. Except that it wasn't foggy today.

argh, vw. Those damn steroids! Damn them! Damn those damn steroids! Page the doctor at the clinic. It'll be a long night otherwise.

Just ate grilled tuna and grill roasted beets from the farm, and I am once again happy in my healthy eating. Just in time for the craptastic eat on the run week ahead! Well, tomorrow we're going to try some sort of improvised curry tilapia naan "taco" with raita thing. But the rest of the week is food on the go. Le sigh. Glad this class is over quickly!

Tomorrow kicks off week 2 of the new job. I signed up for lunchtime yoga at work, and it starts tomorrow. So, I'm pretty excited about it.

Oh, now I'm furious. The answering service just gave me shit and wouldn't page the doctor.

Nora always has teh best meals, man...

Though mine was yummy, I just ate too much. I'm in Cleveland, and last week when I was going to San Antonio, there was an article in the airline magazine about good restaurants here, so I went to one. Had salad, and then scallops with asparagus risotto and these weird crispy fried carrots (they were like the fried onions in a can that you put in greenbean casserole!).

Then I stopped at a frozen custard place right by it, and had a "baby cone", which was a teeny tiny little cone for 75 cents. So perfect!

Sadly, the hotel room is set up so I can't watch TV and be on the internet at the same time. BOO.

edit: Damn, VW, that is not cool!