I have figured out dinner! Almost. I've got rice cooking, and tofu is marinated in Caribbean jerk seasoning. (I have no idea how Caribbean it is, but it's easy and it's good.) Now I've got a package of frozen vegetables, and I'm trying to decide whether to just put some margarine on them or make a more interesting sauce.

edit: I just through together a coconut curry sauce for the vegetables. This feels like a real meal now.

If it says "Caribbean" probably not very. It's supposed to say "Jamaican," dammit.

It's weird because I get very high marks for cheerfulness and diplomacy when talking to the customers, so they know I'm not Surly McSurlyson. But I guess I need to make with the happy talk with the people I only know as voices over the wall.

My supervisor once told me in an annual review that some of the other people in the office regarded me as 'aloof'. I told him next year I was hoping to upgrade it to 'haughty'.

If it says "Caribbean" probably not very. It's supposed to say "Jamaican," dammit.

It's from a cookbook called, "Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen!" I'm not expecting much. I've made this recipe before and it tastes good, but it doesn't taste much like the jerk seasoning I've had at Jamaican restaurants.

It's from a cookbook called, "Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen!"

I love that cookbook. I have given it to so many people.

I think I inherited this cookbook from my sister. My mom bought it for her, and she was insulted by the insinuation that she didn't know how to cook, so she gave it to me. There are a lot of good recipes in there.

I told him next year I was hoping to upgrade it to 'haughty'.

I love you, billytea. Too bad you're very much taken. And very far away.

There's a vegan Jamaican restaurant in New York. Now I really want to go there. I think my next chance will be at the end of May. I noticed a restaurant in DC that said on their window that they have ital food, but they're never open any time I walk by.

Well, I can pick you up and bring you over and deliver you back to BART.

Alas, you have no carseat (and ain't no way I'm hauling ours around on BART). But if you're near-ish, possibly we could walk, or if you're definitely going to be in SF at some point we can just make sure to get home at a reasonable hour for bunny-flinging.

I kind of want to watch you watch Matilda watching an episode of Avatar. Her narration is always at least as entertaining as the show.

Alas, you have no carseat

She can ride in the trunk.

But if you're near-ish, possibly we could walk

I'm half a mile from either Macarthur or Rockridge. About a fifteen-minute walk.

I kind of want to watch you watch Matilda watching an episode of Avatar. Her narration is always at least as entertaining as the show.

Ha, that would be great!

if you're definitely going to be in SF at some point we can just make sure to get home at a reasonable hour for bunny-flinging.

Or I can swing by in the afternoon, no problem.