The little cafe in the School of the Arts is a great place to lunch and people watch, now that students are back. It's fun to guess, are they dance, drama, studio art, or music students. Although today is a bit warm.

Lunch is done. Back to the basement!

Aha, I see you cook like I do. (referring to Cash, not omnis)

Heh. Yeah. Not big with the actual measurements.

I use measuring implements if I'm doing actual baking but most of the time it's:

sprinkle into palm of my hand that looks right dump into pot.

argh did I kill the thread?

lemme try the kick start. Does anyone have a favorite vegetarian slow-cooker recipe they'd like to share?

OMG, the Crow dude on Jilli's fb discussion is making me cringe. Over. And. Over. Gonna stop reading now.

eta: Meep, and lots of ~ma.

I think my facebook is about to become home to a debate about why skimpy costumes for kids and tweens are not appropriate, and saying "It's just for Halloween" is not an excuse. This should be interesting to watch happen.

My objecton is that whore-ifying costumes SUCK regardless of your age. If you want to dress like a ladybug break out some paper mache and dress like a fucking ladybug. If you want to wear something skin-tight-sexy be catwoman or a mermaid or an Avatar or any of the THOUSANDS of scantily clad things you can compose largely of body paint or illusion fabric.

As far as youngish or even young kids dressing "sexy" if its a costume, sure if it follows those rules. Or is for a dance recital. A costume is a costume and clothes is clothes and my hypothetical 12 year old should get to exercise her imagination regardless of the world's pervs who will perv on her regardless of WHAT she is wearing.

oh don't get me started on teen dance recitals. I'd much rather open my front door and give them candy than watch them hump each other in the school cafetorium.

I can't seem to find my motivation to plow through this paper calendar of events. Yes, I didn't finish that task from yesterday. Are we sensing a theme here?

Slow cooker veggie:

about a pound of broccoli chopped, about a pound of onions chopped, sweet peppers and cherry tomatoes to taste. about 8 oz of pineapple (fresh, canned or frozen). about a half cup of coconut milk. 3 tablespoons curry powder. lots of garlic. black pepper. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 table brown sugar or honey. about 24 oz of firm tofu chopped small. 1/4 cup lemon juice, one quarter cup wine. Tablespoon olive oil. Cook in slow cooker. About an hour before done, add 4 oz whole wheat spahgetti, whole wheat angel hair, whole wheat vermacili or similar pasta. (Yeah, you can use brown rice pasta or bean threads or non-whole grain pasta. If not no-no for you I really think whole wheat pasta tastes best in this)