Timelies all!

Good press release, Allyson.

I'm eating an apple right now instead of the leftover pan-fried pork dumplings in my fridge. I get points from someone for that, right? Hec?

I validate your dietary choice! Five points!

I want to see Allyson on TV!

Don't worry about expectations. At the very, very, very least you'll earn your publisher back what they spent on you and that's way better than most books. The more likely scenario is that they'll make some good money on it and you'll get to do another book. And there's the outside chance that it'll get huge and everybody rolls around in bed eating truffles for months. After which it gets optioned and turned into a Judd Apatow movie and you get to buy a cute bungalow in Pasadena.

unagi and avocado - favorite sushi

I want it now

nice PR allyson - time to just go with the flow

OK, what foods absolutely do not belong in sushi?

One of the local sushi restaurants has a Philly steak and cheese hand roll. Not a Philly roll with salmon and cream cheese. Steak and cheese.

If anyone sees my motivation fleeing for the border, tell it to send me a postcard.

Is the steak cooked? Because I do like beef sashimi, and am now really wanting raw beef and cream cheese with some soury sweet rice.

Or would if I could stomach red meat at the moment.

I was too repulsed by the thought to order one and see. But given the clientelle, I would assume cooked. Possibly with the cheese being of the whiz variety.

My favorite thing at Roy's is the Lakanilau Roll, which is seared kobe beef and crab dynamite. YUM.

Of course, now I'm hungry and want to go get some.

Announcement: Today, I learned that there is a new rule I may have to deal with a lot that revolves around the word "uncertificated"

Analysis: The word "uncertificated" makes my head hurts.

I'm supposed to write cover letters for Daily Show and Colbert Report.

I knew it. Though I was expecting Letterman. Craig Ferguson would be cool, too.

All your veggie talk makes me kind of sad, being of the supertaster ilk (those for whom flavors are whacked). Hubby came in yesterday with a handful of sugar peas he'd just picked off the plant. "Here, have some of these before I scarf them all." I figured, 'OK, they don't get any fresher, and people keep saying sugar peas are really sweet, so let's try it.' I bit into it, and all I tasted was green and bitter. I shrugged and handed the other half back to Hubby, "Sorry, it tastes like everything else."

He bit into another one and handed me the other half. "Try that one."

I did, the exact same taste. "So you're tasting something sweet?"

Him: "They're like candy, but with a subtle, rich taste, too."

I still think it's a damned plot by the rest of the world. You only dig delightedly into veggies because you've been mindwashed. It must be a little like a blind man having colors explained to him.

Judging by my reaction to grapefruit (people consume those? recreationally? Jaysus) I'd filed myself as a supertaster. But I think most vegetables taste like nothing. Until they kick right over and taste like metal.

However, that worked well for me today--lunch was shrimp (yeah, just steamed shrimp) and a small piece of steamed zucchini. Still moving slowly.

Did Weta exist before the LotR movies, or did they come out of the production effort. I just stumbled onto a National Geographic article about them helping with lizard research that's just a little bit odder for their association with big movies, but less odd when you consider the etymology of their name.