Apples and peanut butter utterly rock. MFN, your husband is just wrong like a thing that is wrong.

I am mostly all about the tart, and thus a big fan of Granny Smiths, but sometimes I supplement with the odd Pink Lady or two -- very sweet, but so crisp. Mmmmm. A Pink Lady that's been sitting in the fridge for a half hour or so? OMGSOGOOD. Also, very pretty.

The modern Red Delicious, OTOH, is an abomination, with the Golden Delicious not far behind. Mealy-textured apples make the baby Jesus scream like you just stuck Him with a pin.

My DH will only eat Gala apples. He misses out on so much good stuff being picky!

I have skipped like a skippy thing.

I am back from our 36 hour trip to NYC for DH's college friend's wedding on Sunday night. I went to brunch in Brooklyn on Sunday a.m. with a good friend from law school and a good friend from library school and it turned out that Jessica was there with E and family! Then we went around the corner on our way to Bergen Bagels so my DH could get a couple (because, you know, a full plate of Challah french toast doesn't fill him up) and we walked by a place called "Adam's Books." My DH says, "Last month [college roommate] told me that his brother wanted to open a bookstore in New York -- wouldn't it be funny if this was it?" It was. I spent the rest of the day wondering who else we'd meet.

Ooh, that sounds nice. I just put in some cinnamon, brown sugar and some brandy, then the creme fraiche on top. Probably too desserty though.

Oh! I just remembered I have some x-sharp cheddar from the farmer's market at home so I can have apples w/ pb AND apples w/ cheese for dinner! I WIN!

Sparky, it sounds like you used up a year's worth of wacky coincidences in two days. Welcome home.

JZ, a big "Woo hoo!" for a return to the world of the vertical.

SO FUNNY.

Just today, I checked out www.rileyfarms.com to go apple picking. I LOVE apples.

Sparky, it sounds like you used up a year's worth of wacky coincidences in two days. Welcome home.

Thanks! I should pick your brain sometime in the next couple of weeks because I have an interview at the end of the month at a school you attended, and I really want the offer.

Catching up slowly... {{vw}}, Congrats, BT!, Happy Birthdays to various folks!

All this apple talk is making me hungry.

I should pick your brain sometime in the next couple of weeks because I have an interview at the end of the month at a school you attended, and I really want the offer.

Ahh, yes. Do you still have my email address and cell phone number?

JZ, a big "Woo hoo!" for a return to the world of the vertical.

Thanks! Although, of course, now that I'm able to be up and about again my former desperate hunger to go back to work has completely vanished. I can walk around and write and sew and draw and go to the movies and go out visiting people! Work? Fuck that noise! Except that the doctor has already contacted my personnel office, so the jig is up.

Maybe if I make myself look extra-pale before heading to the doctor's office today, I can at least malinger my way to returning just half-time.

whoo my friend's company accepted my freelance bid thingy. Now I'm going to have 3 jobs going through October -- my regular day job, my Sat. gig at my friends' bookstore, and proofreading about 900 pages o' crazy English as a second language educational material. I'm totally going to need a vacation at the end of it. A lovely tropical vacation. sigh...really I need to pay down credit card bills.

hooray for JZ being up and about! Boo on having to waste that good up and about time being at work!