Thursday, February 26, 2009
Last night, before the Top Chef finale (in which my beloved Hootie went down due to lack of self-confidence, and the Mountain Potato was crowned king), I attended a food cooperative sharing meeting. My student worker told me about this group, New Boston Collective, which puts in bulk orders for organic foods. These days I’ve [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Yesterday I kept getting emails regarding various Mardi Gras plans, which involved taking the day off work and roaming drunkenly downtown, and I kind of waved them off. We’re kind of busy at work these days, and I’m neither Catholic nor in need of plastic beads. E had mentioned maybe wanting to go to the [...]
Monday, February 23, 2009
Initially I found the lady who talks about her kids all the time annoying, but these days I have come around to admiring her impressive ability to turn every conversation, no matter how it begins, into being about her children. Today she wove a beautiful tapestry depicting her children’s illnesses out of the threads of [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Last week we decided to start rotating the reins for deciding potluck themes, and when we gave it over to our friend Jay, he went absolutely nuts with it: “Watermelon!” But wait, watermelon is definitely not in season. “No no, I meant metaphorical watermelon. Your dish can be visually like a watermelon, green on the [...]