Archive for November, 2005

the tasting menu

Friday, November 18th, 2005 at about 9:37 pm

maggie and i went out to bistro 561 for an elaborate 6 course + dessert lunchy today… apparently to honor a chef who is trying to help kids eat better at school and fight the obesity epidemic.

really, we came to eat.

the student waiters brought out dish after tiny dish of fancy food made by student chefs from the nearby culinary school while we downed glass after glass of passion fruit iced tea. mmm. maggie and i agreed that the soup was fab… and made even better because it was served in a little espresso cup. the quail was just… quail… and the foie gras wasn’t exciting. i did like the sorbet on the mint leaves and the duck confit “tacos”.

::burp::

grilled cheesepeanut butter and jellytacosapple brown betty
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by mi

sucks.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 at about 12:00 pm

emergency room waiting area: 3:30 - 6pm
emergency room actual room: 6pm - 1am
private room: 1am - present

boo.

Posted in out and about
by mi

i miss film.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 at about 6:11 am

don’t get me wrong, my digital cameras are the cat’s pajamas… but there’s something about carrying around a plastic camera that makes me see the world differently– and the pictures that come back are almost always a big ol’ package of fun.

time to break out the holga/diana again.
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buffalo hump, won’t cha come out tonight

Friday, November 4th, 2005 at about 8:44 am

as i was walking around old town the other day, i glanced into a store window and saw my reflection. it had a hump, my hump, my ugly un-lady lump. pair that with my moon facies and hirsuitism… makes me look like either kim the cushingoid fantastico or kim, PCOS wonder of the world. no abdominal striae, please.

on to more exciting news…

the munny show was loads of fun. maggie and i made our way down to echo park to find an obscure little brick building bumpin’ all kinds of strange pseudo-ethnic music. two giant bouncers guarded the velvet ropes outside the door– one gave me a strange look when he saw my ID, and then laughed. the other fumbled for a while with my little blue wristband. lol.

we spent some time checking out the munnies for auction– you can see them here. i loved the basketball head one and the strange green ping pong table-esqe guy. alas, my funds were limited, so we headed off to the decorating tables, munnies in hand. maggie and i ended up getting the same set of “mystery” gifts… but a boy across from our table heard my whining about my lack of cell phone and gave me his. woot woot! nice boy. i gave him my dy-no-mite. so… we painted and painted and i realized that i suck at painting… so i proceeded to dunk everything in glitter and hot-glued eyeballs all over my ice cream cone. it’s blueberry, i swear! we had only planned on staying for an hour or, so, but by the time we looked at our watches, it was 10ish and we hadn’t had dinner yet! so… we packed up our not-quite-dry toys and ran to saladang song… which had closed for the evening. boo! we ended up at cheesecake factory. mmm.

at home, i unpacked. my munny was a bit banged up, and my banana had lost some of its bling… but it was a good night.

we’ll have to do it again sometime soon.

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by mi

blast from the past

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 at about 6:50 pm
neogeo.gifan old friend emailed me today (hi tom!)… and reminded me that my websites from high school were still active.
annie and i clicked through them, and laughed our heads off at my absolute wierdness. i’m sure that 10 years from now i’ll think the same thing about my current ramblings… why else would i post anything?

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more birthday fun

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 at about 9:13 am

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last night william made the trek down to my side of town, and we met up with steven for some booby and gruesome medical gossip. mmmm. steven brought me a bottle of line prevention serum to help me combat the effects of my old age. ::sob::

and… in the mail… there will be…. a fingerose! in pink! from william! woot woot!

williamme and stevenfood galore

by mi

whew.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 at about 3:02 pm

after coming home to a power outtage, i began singing (in my head, of course):

my a-part-ment has no po-wer
and the milk is getting sour
but to me it is not scar-y
because i stay a-way from dair-y

oh, the madness.

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by mi