When riding in a car on the highway, I feel compelled to imagine a ball bouncing over each telephone/electrical pole in succession. Uneven spacing is a serious problem, as the imagined ball is sort of sluggish. This will go on until I start grinding my teeth and eventually force myself to stop.
OMG I totally do this. Except for the tooth-grinding part because the sound of tooth-grinding makes me want to jump out of my skin. (D has recently started grinding his teeth. Which is apparently a thing that babies DO because having teeth is a new and interesting sensation, but HOLY MOTHER OF GOD I HATE IT SO MUCH.)
I think my view of tourists has been influenced by growing up in a city like LA, because really the tourists are going to the same places as the locals (Disneyland, etc). But I always think for all the tourism LA is really not an easy place to see in a brief visit.
Also I am so amused to find the pizza discussion still going on. We do like our food here, don't we? Anyhoo, glad to know Zachary's is still making the great pizza, I've never had it anywhere else. And I don't think I've ever had a proper Chicago style deep dish, only those fatty, thick crusted ones sold in most chains.
Speaking of pizza, I want to go to lunch at Osteria Mozza at some point. It sounds like amazing pizza. But I need to get on the stick and make reservations--I figure DH and I can make it a date.
That site is totally worth a closer read tommyrot, but my first reaction is that a lot of people out there don't know the difference between a compulsion and a neurosis.
Speaking of pizza, I want to go to lunch at Osteria Mozza at some point. It sounds like amazing pizza. But I need to get on the stick and make reservations--I figure DH and I can make it a date.
S and I have been talking for several months about making a similar date for Osteria Mozza.
my first reaction is that a lot of people out there don't know the difference between a compulsion and a neurosis.
Yeah, that struck me too.
I seem to recall from my college Psych class that "neurosis" and "psychosis" have been abandoned as technical terms by psychology people. Or am I thinking of "manic-depressive"?
Also I am so amused to find the pizza discussion still going on.
Pizza is the new muffuletta.
I love it. The judges are librarians and booksellers, and that makes it even sweeter, I think.
That's awesome, Allyson. Congrats!
S and I have been talking for several months about making a similar date for Osteria Mozza.
I was resisting just because Batali can be such an ass, and it does sound like the waiters have a bit of attitude, but it sounds like it's more Silverton's restaurant, and it just sounds so good. Every time I've pried open the wallet to eat at one of the truly amazing restaurants in LA the experience has been, well, truly amazing, esp Lucques and Hatfields.
When I was a kid, I used to obsessively count things like driveways, mailboxes, cars while in the car until I gave myself a headache. I couldn't stop.
As an adult, I sometimes find myself counting words in sentences or song lyrics and making them fit on my five fingers. I make up rules like if the word has 3 letters or less, it can fit on a finger with another word. For some crazy reason, I mentioned this to my dad and found out that he does it, too! Freak family!
