lisah, the kitchen is amazing!
Jesse, I've been cutting up cherry tomatoes and putting them in everything they're being left out of. Fast food burger? Takes about 3. Buggers are trickier to slice, but...
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jun 16, 2008 7:35:20 am PDT #3340 of 10003
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 7:38:47 am PDT #3341 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just keep forgetting. I was getting all riled up to call Au Bon Pain headquarters to complain, before I remembered. At least the local-chain I was at the other night gave me tomatoes on my sandwich.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2008 7:40:54 am PDT #3342 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Freshdirect wouldn't even let me order regular tomatoes this week, even though NY, NJ and just about anywhere else my tomatoes might come from are all on the FDA's "safe" list. Feh.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 7:41:44 am PDT #3343 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jeez, really?
Jessica - Jun 16, 2008 7:43:29 am PDT #3344 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nope, they're currently only offering cherry, grape, and vine-on. (And when I was ordering yesterday, they had run out of both grape and vine-on.)
Hil R. - Jun 16, 2008 7:44:24 am PDT #3345 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I can think in the metric system for small quantities, like the sizes we dealt with in science classes, but not for bigger quantities.
I woke up achy all over. My back, my shoulders, my arms, my neck, and achy. Must have slept funny or something.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 16, 2008 7:47:11 am PDT #3346 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I has tomatoes.
I went to the public market and bought directly from a farmer, though.
I cannot think in the metric system at all, which is sort of a pain because I think it would be easier to adjust sewing patterns if things were divisible by 10. But I am really good at dividing 1/4's of inches.
Nilly - Jun 16, 2008 7:48:23 am PDT #3347 of 10003
Swouncing
We convert back and forth all the time!
Wow, that's such a layer of difficulty - not the converting, of course, but the not-having-intuition-regarding-sizes. I know that I need to convert in my head before I can even begin to imagine how large a whatever-inches-long something is. It's like I need to count in another language - I know the numbers, but I wanna say them in the *right* way (which is, of course, Hebrew).
My mom, after more than 30 years in Israel and in Hebrew, still counts in French.
Someone once commented that if the US ever converts to the metric system the only people who'll be comfortable with it will be scientists and drug dealers.
Hee.
Insert obligatory fresh-tomatoes-are-evil remark here. I hope it at least sends some ~ma Dana's way, because IIRC she is very right in thinking that, too.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 7:49:24 am PDT #3348 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Insert obligatory fresh-tomatoes-are-evil remark here.
Oh yeah, you would be thrilled!
Nilly - Jun 16, 2008 7:52:35 am PDT #3349 of 10003
Swouncing
Oh yeah, you would be thrilled!
Well, I love it when I have stuff from my salad to joyfully share with everyone I may be eating with, so the existence of tomatoes is not entirely evil in and of itself. But since usually I'm ignorant of the possibility of purchasing - let alone eating - such vile things, I wouldn't notice it if they're completely gone from the markets.
In short, there are plenty of tomatoes here. I wish I could share them with all y'all who miss them.