'Time Bomb'
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.
I think it's funny that Wisconsin has such a large German, Polish, eastern European contingent that one of the first things they taught us how to cook in Home Ec was latkes.
Huh. I don't think I ever had latkes until I moved to Chicago. (And I grew up in a very German part of Wisconsin.)
I suspect it's a product of the times I grew up in, tommyrot. Between junior high and high school (early 70s), Home Ec became one of those classes that was no longer mandatory for girls and was now open to boys. But when it was still mandatory, they had very strict expectations of what they felt girls should be learning to cook/sew. In seventh grade, it was skirts, because, heaven forbid, a female might want to wear pants! (And, too, skirts are much simpler to sew. Although, when I took it, I was allowed to sew pants, because I was the only student with previous sewing experience. I'd already won a pair of scissors in a sewing contest. Hee.) So the food choices and clothing requirements were based very much on "traditional" foods, etc. I think, except for the Original Pancake House, potato pancakes have gone out of style years ago.
Huh. I never got the Grinch = bitter old Jewish man connection before. Pro'lly because as a kid I had almost no exposure to Jewish culture.
I did get the Klingon = Soviet Union connection, though.
Now I want to go to Podhalanka (the Polish restaurant tommyrot, shrift, and MFNLaw and I went to last winter) for those kickass potato pancakes. They were seriously great--crispy on the outside, fluffy potato on the inside.
Who else is at work today?
Me!! I drove through the four inches of new-fallen snow to find just about no one here. Oh, well, I'm only here for a half-day, so I'll be gone by 1:30.
That xkcd comic reminded me of a video my 12-y.o. nephew made, of Lego Batman and Robin battling an alliance of Lego stormtroopers and rebels. Very clever with the stop-motion animation!
Speaking of regional food, I've started a recipe blog of my family's recipes. Today's entry is baking as I type this.
Today's agenda, until Matilda and I go to pick up Hec this afternoon and drive out to the East Bay, is:
•Wrap all Matilda, Emmett, and (once he's left for work) Hec presents
•Hem the pants of Emmett's new/used eBay tux
•run to the bookstore on Haight, find a book for Emmett's mom
•make zucchini bread and lemon cream cheese spread
•run up to work to distribute same to coworkers
•pack up overnight clothes, diapers, meds, etc.
The wishlist of stuff I'd like to do but probably won't have the time for:
•Fabric store on Haight, pick up thread
•take in waist of big rustly ballgown skirt so it's a wearable option on Christmas
•run to Ross to get a pretty top to wear with the skirt
•scan Craigslist and Vehix.com and contact all the decent new listings
I'm actually kind of excited about the holiday. Brother and BIL are coming in from NYC tonight, other brother is coming in from Portland, OR if the weather permits (please, please), Matilda's all excited, my church is having a fun casual kid-friendly bilingual mass with singing led by our kickass choir and possibly our part-time mariachi band tomorrow morning, and my dad is hosting Christmas dinner and I don't have to do a damn thing but show up.
If I weren't still in a pissy mood from the way yesterday ended, I'd be just about happy (I'm posting a big angry rant in LJ about it because it's just too long and bitter for Natter, but, suffice it to say that I would really, really like a new job in a drama-free office, please?).
Huh. I never got the Grinch = bitter old Jewish man connection before. Pro'lly because as a kid I had almost no exposure to Jewish culture.
I grew up chock-full-o-Jews and I've never thought or heard anything of the sort.
The idea of baked latkes is ridiculous. The entire point of latkes is that they're fried in oil!
Oh, she argues that point, the baked ones have SOME oil in them!
Seriously. She's going to blog on it! It'll all be ok.