TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

suzy, come home immediately to FAP at Japanese restaurant of your choice, plz.

My mom and tempura = old friends. She totally kvetches whenever I go to the one Uptown and bring nothing for her. I sensibly point out that flaccid tempura lives in styrofoam boxes, so no go.

I have finished my rolls. Next: G&T and cigs du jazz.

Afternoon. Today I had waffles, picked up CDs by a bunch of homosexuals, saw loud protesters and bought alcohol. Tonight: art.

suzy, I <3 your mom.

suzy AND Ned - have fun evenings! My big plans: weight lifting, finish the g.d. paper forEVER, and watch last week's Lost.

I will also eat my weight in Special K bars, which I have just made moments ago.

You're planning on doing that all at once, I trust.

xpost For me the problem with tempura is that they don't just bring out 20 beautifully deep-fried shrimps and a bit of salad. Three shrimp plus vegetable frybabies, nein danke.

i am in love with the pumpkin tempura at my local sushi place. they also have a tempura oyster sometimes as a special...best.

Well Ned, of COURSE

suzy - I don't mind some of the vegetables, but yeah, the shrimp is better. I love noodles, so sometimes I'll just get whatever the tempura noodle thing is with maybe two tempura shrimp and a big bowl of hot noodles.

bell_labs - omg that sounds kind of awesome.

srsly, I just ate a ton of food, but I'm all mmmmmm tempura, sushi, noodles, oysters, and plz some mochi for dessert

Well Ned, of COURSE

That's good, because I wouldn't want you doing anything impractical.

Thanks for looking out for me, Ned. I know you worry.

i could eat about 40 oysters right now. i will make do with beer and caesar salad though!

omg caesar salad MMMMMMM

Friday night I will get my favorite one b.c. we have both a babysitter AND reservations.

bell_labs, is this is an experiment to make me eat everything in the state within the next week or so?

My dinner -- soft shell tacos with a rice/beans mix whipped up from scratch plus cilantro and spices, a fresh salad, sparkling water with a wedge of lime. Yay simplicity!

Mmmmm that does sound good. I really like cilantro (unlike, apparently, a large portion of ILX).

Ned, you should offer cooking lessons to people. I bet you'd get a lot of students!

i don't know how ned finds the time to cook all this good food

He doesn't like to talk about it, but Ned has 12 arms.

Just a little forethought and inspiration -- always have some basics around to work with (had some beans and rice already, the cilantro and salad stuff came with the latest basket, etc.) and go nuts. And what I did was terribly simple, only twenty minutes of prep at most.

I bet Ned's kitchen is also spotless. ;_;

Time to start this weight lifting b.s. I will bump the thread at intervals, so the rest of you should be out having fun. OR ELSE

less food porn more listening to my awesome hillbilly song

Dan, you can never have enough food porn. SURELY YOU KNOW THIS

I am listening to your song NOW, though.

It still amazes the hell out of me that I can just do that by hitting a few buttons on my computer.

I didn't think it was a "hillbilly" song ;_;

Otherwise, very good!

but it has a banjo on it

Until you wear a straw hat, overalls and bare feet, I'm not going to be convinced.

PS If you do that, I'm definitely going to make sure to be there with my camera.

I think I have officially ruined my image of Dan by imagining him as an extra on Hee Haw.

effusive statement of

Second draft of paper finished; time to eat more bars.

I think I have officially ruined my image of Dan by imagining him as an extra on Hee Haw.

How Dan sees himself:

http://www.morethings.com/music/prince/prince_rogers_nelson_images/prince-roger-nelson-playing-guitar.jpg

How Sara sees Dan:

http://7deadlysinners.typepad.com/sinners/images/hillbilly.jpg

Sad, really.

scarily accurate

GET OUT OF MY BRANE, YOU TWO

It's dark in there anyway.

Good night, ITR. I have to get up tomorrow and walk in a "race" in St. Paul that A. & I insanely agreed to a couple of months ago. Argh, I just want to stay home and sleeeeeep.

effusive statement of...

so pointless to bump but my life feels empty of meaning otherwise

i must have had a total of 50 goddamn americans in the restaurant tonight - all here on cruise ships or bus tours, all old and grumpy and picky. not sure where they were all from, but at least one couple was from ohio. is this what all mid-western americans turn into when they hit old age? this one guy asked me 'is this really EYE-talian??". "yes sir, it is". "oh good because we're EYE-talian". OH REALLY I COULDN'T TELL FROM YOUR TERRIBLE MISPRONUNCIATION.

but thank you for your $15 tip on your $250 bill.

It's never pointless to commune with ITR.

Pronouncing "Italian" that way is thoroughly embarrassing, not to mention RONG. Also, if I start acting like that when I'm old, please kill me immediately thx.

I hope you have a better day today, Rubyredd.

I'm going to go do this walk/race thing that I agreed to months ago, which I now realize was a blatantly idiotic thing to do. I just want to go back to bed.

Yay I am singing today
boo I was drinking last night

Have fun singing!

I was supposed to be drinking with my cousin and watching MST3K last night, but sick kids and the g.d. paper made that not happen. So I'm still kinda jealous of you, Dan.

We are leaving for St. Paul in a few minutes. I am v. cranky about this.

I was supposed to be drinking with my cousin and watching MST3K last night, but sick kids and the g.d. paper made that not happen.

Burn the paper and punish the kids for their illness. They are not keeping your priorities in mind.

i am hungry like a bear

Burning the ground, he breaks from the crowd

Oh wait.

sleepy and sated like a bear now

i need to PACK. what do i need for VEGAS?

like am i going to want to wear fancy cocktail dresses to the casinos, as television and movies have led me to believe?