push me, and then just pull me
Reintegrating yourself into the working Universe after a timeout can sometimes seem terribly difficult; it was hard enough to string a sentence today, let alone discuss, think and plan science. Forget that the weather outside is the stuff of miracles, that there are a thousand and two things outside of work that you enjoy doing (more); today, coming back feels like a curtailment of my civil liberties. Except that I came back voluntarily, so I can't really complain.
While in Edinburgh - which was utterly super-extremo-wiki-fantasticamundo, by the way - I managed to find myself the requisite haggis at a chippie (a British institution); this one came deep fried in batter, and was totally gorgeous, perhaps better than many I've tried in the past. The guys running the chippie were pretty special too; a bunch of really funny Iraqis, their good humours accentuated by their strong Scottish accents - even their "Alaikum assalam"s came in a deep brogue, which was a nice variation on most Arabic I've ever heard.
During our stay, it was suggested to me that freezing white grapes - and consuming them - might be a very refreshing way to deal with the kind of terrible heat we're enduring down south (terrible? hee hee hee, more!). So I did that this evening. It's like natural sorbet; pretty good. Good enough for me to stick half of my remaining grapes in the freezer, at any rate. 'Course, I don't think they'd do much to cool me down, unless I used them as suppositories, but that's just wrong. Mmm, sleepiness is getting the better of me; time to head.
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Stairs, I think you might have just trumped Martha with the frozen white grape suggestion. Hmmm...maybe even Nigella! Who would have known?
I gather that Nigella Lawson has been a big hit in the USA; it's funny how a couple of our lesser celebrities will disappear from sight, only to emerge, like some resplendent lotus, as a popular icon from American television sets. She's a bit creepy though; her London appartment is directly opposite that of one of my mother's friends, and she'll stand on her balcony in the dark, cigarette in hand, and stare at my mother's friend like a graceless demon as she prepares (very good) Indonesian food (being Indonesian). We reckon we've discovered a source of Nigella's inspiration!
For breakfast today, I had a bowl of Wheetabix, a bowl of bran, and ...white grapes ...minor addiction!
A bowl of Weetabix and a bowl of bran? Is that because of the deep-fried haggis? Maybe using the frozen grapes "elsewhere" might not be such a bad idea, by the sound of it!
That's horrible - eew! No, I just tend to eat loads in the morning - I have four boxes of cereal that need finishing, so why stick with just one type per day? Anyhow, the haggis wasn't especially spicy, and was itself loaded with barley, so it's pretty good on the fibre side, as meat dishes go.
Ooooo....that's such a creepy description of Nigella! I'll never look at her the same way now. Yes, while she has been somewhat of a hit here on cable television ( I think she's even been on Oprah a couple of times and now writes regularly for the New York TImes even), I'm not able to catch her show anymore as I've dropped cable in favor of dish. I did, however, read a somewhat unflattering expose of her in Vanity Fair (big surprise) recently. She still seeing Charles Saatchi?
From what I'm told, yes; I hope she doesn't let him use her freezer though...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2093053.stm
I don't watch television much, and almost never when at college, so I don't know if she really features here these days either.
Do Saatchi and Lawson live together? If so, then, having read that article, I'd say that unless they have two freezers in their kitchen, then it must be the same freezer. Now you know Nigella's secret ingredient. Yuck!
As a side-comment to the whole "bran" thing I'll blog a certain garlic story, by the way. (If I had trackback I'd do it that way.)
That was a very touching recount indeed. I shall, however, never knowingly allow a clove of garlic to pass through the gates of Heaven, no matter how desperate I might be in said situation. Though to be honest, I wouldn't be that phased.
I'm not sure about their living situation, D, but, I know which situation I'd rather believe. It would explain plenty.
White grapes, suppositories, Martha Stewart, human blood, cereal, television, modern art, scandal, celebrities and religion ... congratulations Stairs, this comments section has it all! lol
Bah. That was me by the way. I tell you, I leave my computer for one day and it forgets all my settings... *smacks amnesiac computer with a large trout*
We aim to please.
I wonder if the Queen really refers to herself in the third and fourth persons? Quandary.
We are the Queen. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
Great suggestion-frozen white grapes. I like to snack on frozen blueberries, too. Yum!
frozen bananas make good ice lollies! freeze 'em when they are at the almost-overipe-about-to-go-mushy stage.
and can i just say that i now want to work 'utterly super-extremo-wiki-fantasticamundo' into a conversation.