November 19, 2009
Macintosh apple (the eating kind!), mah beloved watch watch, CDG wallet, my favorite badge that travels with me (no MFI = no Uncle Milty Institutee.) Priority Mail label stickers. Journal article. My new calendrical system that is no longer digital but paper-based is enabled by a Moleskin 18 month organizer. (Also, I have renamed the months after my childhood pets and the 20th of Pee-Wee is now the “Day of Total Omnipotence,”)My deep and abiding love for Postal Service Priority Mail sticker labels (and the compulsion to own stacks and stacks of them) will have them waiting for me at the Lake Park branch door, shackles in hand, and a Spaniard holding a 99 year lease to privatize, necessitated by a 6 billion dollar operating deficit exaggerated by all sorts of missing labels, in the other. (Well, technically, the labels are free. And I spend $400 in Priority Mail postage costs a month…ok, ok. I’ll just say it plain, don’t kill me when it happens.) On the other hand, McKinsey Madrid is gonna make the post cards I send to you from Upstate Maximum Security Prison arrive wrapped in “paper” made of Jamón Jabugo de Cinco Jotas.And they’ll have their first new jobs upstate since the Erie was turned exclusively into a very long rubber tubing summertime-fun activity.

Macintosh apple (the eating kind!), mah beloved watch watch, CDG wallet, my favorite badge that travels with me (no MFI = no Uncle Milty Institutee.) Priority Mail label stickers. Journal article. My new calendrical system that is no longer digital but paper-based is enabled by a Moleskin 18 month organizer. (Also, I have renamed the months after my childhood pets and the 20th of Pee-Wee is now the “Day of Total Omnipotence,”)

My deep and abiding love for Postal Service Priority Mail sticker labels (and the compulsion to own stacks and stacks of them) will have them waiting for me at the Lake Park branch door, shackles in hand, and a Spaniard holding a 99 year lease to privatize, necessitated by a 6 billion dollar operating deficit exaggerated by all sorts of missing labels, in the other. (Well, technically, the labels are free. And I spend $400 in Priority Mail postage costs a month…ok, ok. I’ll just say it plain, don’t kill me when it happens.)


On the other hand, McKinsey Madrid is gonna make the post cards I send to you from Upstate Maximum Security Prison arrive wrapped in “paper” made of Jamón Jabugo de Cinco Jotas.

And they’ll have their first new jobs upstate since the Erie was turned exclusively into a very long rubber tubing summertime-fun activity.

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November 11, 2009
I am proud of this one: I rolled out and cut by hand spinach spaghettini! It is dressed simply, in olive oil, garlic and parmesan.On the side, I made a sour red lentil and spinach soup with onions. It’s spiced in a South Asian direction — heavy on the mustard seeds, cumin and tumeric. We had a lot of fresh spinach to get rid of.

I am proud of this one: I rolled out and cut by hand spinach spaghettini! It is dressed simply, in olive oil, garlic and parmesan.

On the side, I made a sour red lentil and spinach soup with onions. It’s spiced in a South Asian direction — heavy on the mustard seeds, cumin and tumeric. We had a lot of fresh spinach to get rid of.

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Jer’s Armenian meatloaf (pork and beef, cloves and nutmeg, rice and spinach), roasted beets in a mint/herb dressing, odds and ends of cheeses discovered in our refrigerator (Gruyere, Clochet, a Spanish Zamorano). Roasted squash soup w/ marjoram and thyme. Not pictured is a MacBook. We don’t eat dinner in front of the television, but we do listen to the Savage Love Podcast at the dinner table (and exchange arch commentary between bites of salad.)

Jer’s Armenian meatloaf (pork and beef, cloves and nutmeg, rice and spinach), roasted beets in a mint/herb dressing, odds and ends of cheeses discovered in our refrigerator (Gruyere, Clochet, a Spanish Zamorano). Roasted squash soup w/ marjoram and thyme.

Not pictured is a MacBook. We don’t eat dinner in front of the television, but we do listen to the Savage Love Podcast at the dinner table (and exchange arch commentary between bites of salad.)

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Apologies for the not-being-around business. My dissertation is interesting to me these days, and a main project is gaining some of the weight I lost over the last year — the result of my illness du global south. On my doctor’s orders, I am drinking, in bulk, a not-so-delicious shake called “Ensure”* and supplementing with meals. Cases of Ensure are not only heavy (how do the oldsters get these mineral laden liquid bricks home I wonder?), but a bottle is nearly equivalent in price to two pieces of Popeye’s chicken (or one third a piece of nigiri), either of which I would rather be eating. Here are photos of the meals I’m taking to supplement my Ensure. Above: last Friday we made Mexican tortilla soup, made with dried pasilla and guajillo peppers, roasted tomatoes and our own chicken stock.Garnished with roasted ancho chiles, avocado, Salvadorean-style tortillas, and crumbled guajillo peppers. *a bit ominous, this name, no? Ensure what? That I don’t die?

Apologies for the not-being-around business. My dissertation is interesting to me these days, and a main project is gaining some of the weight I lost over the last year — the result of my illness du global south.

On my doctor’s orders, I am drinking, in bulk, a not-so-delicious shake called “Ensure”* and supplementing with meals. Cases of Ensure are not only heavy (how do the oldsters get these mineral laden liquid bricks home I wonder?), but a bottle is nearly equivalent in price to two pieces of Popeye’s chicken (or one third a piece of nigiri), either of which I would rather be eating.

Here are photos of the meals I’m taking to supplement my Ensure.

Above: last Friday we made Mexican tortilla soup, made with dried pasilla and guajillo peppers, roasted tomatoes and our own chicken stock.

Garnished with roasted ancho chiles, avocado, Salvadorean-style tortillas, and crumbled guajillo peppers.

*a bit ominous, this name, no? Ensure what? That I don’t die?

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October 18, 2009

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT THIS DELIGHTFUL SLOW LORIS.

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October 12, 2009
When the cat’s away, the mouse will eat three cupcakes in lieu of dinner. Chicks.

When the cat’s away, the mouse will eat three cupcakes in lieu of dinner. Chicks.

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October 11, 2009
In Bloomingdale/LeDroit Park, our new hood. I’ve got to come up with a “tag” soon. Gotta lay claim to some territory.

In Bloomingdale/LeDroit Park, our new hood.

I’ve got to come up with a “tag” soon. Gotta lay claim to some territory.

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How curious. It is only by coincidence that my loving nickname for Jer, “Old Man Eloquent,” is shared by John Q. Adams.

How curious. It is only by coincidence that my loving nickname for Jer, “Old Man Eloquent,” is shared by John Q. Adams.

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The succulents are trying to make their way, too.

The succulents are trying to make their way, too.

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DC Garden Early Days Sept 2009

DC Garden Early Days Sept 2009

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