what are you into right now?

you can call those friends, really

they probably just think you're really busy with a kid and don't need bothering

We talk like twice a week and have been close friends continuously since 1990! I don't really need any training in the friend department, at least not with her. I'm not your friends. I'm good.

ok now I'm into watching all the British shows on Hulu. I highly recommend the latest season of The Thick of It.

its not even restricted to those assholes who pay for Hulu Plus!

I have to watch that through my hands.

LL - I am and have been totally kidding. Tone is not conveying well.

mh - We've made it clear to them ALL that we're around and would love to hear from them. Seriously.

those jerks!

better start calling them once a week, whether they deserve it or not

Meh - just over-tired and undersocialized. Sounds like a new parent, huh?

shouldn't you be crowing about the ravens (so to speak)? parenthood really *has* changed u man

It has. I'm a pretty toned-down fan at this point. We made the SB. I'm not a Niners hater. It should be a good game.

- Watching the Ravens win in the Playoffs.

my uncle coached for the ravens for a while before he coached for the jets

Woah - are you related to the Ryan family?

Lawd Jesus no, I'm related to his right-hand man though.

-spiced apple cider/Fireball whiskey hot toddies (which quincie served me last time I visited her and OMG they are insanely good)
-getting stoned and playing Earthbound
-William Orbit's "Guerilla Beach Mix" of Madonna's "I'll Remember", which is stunningly beautiful and easily one of the best things he's ever done (I mean it's more a WO track f. Madonna on vocals)

how far are u into earthbound

I played once before like 6 or 7 yrs ago but this time around I just got to Twoson

I have to go back and get the Mr. baseball Cap I think

i always avoided the bad guys in twoson somehow apart from the mushrooms in the cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0R8MYGREmg
btw

Downton Abbey: Watched the first two seasons and caught up with the third
Beaded necklaces: Weird for me, never have been before, don't own any, until now
Cayenne pepper: On everything,my taste buds must be bored
Eating lots of sweets: Usually I am a fruit and veggie worshipper who snacks on dairy but the sweet tooth has been a real nag lately
Instagram: New phone....
Sculpting my eyebrows

The History Channel - was an avid watcher of Pawn Stars all the way through uni, but have only recently picked up on American Restoration, American Pickers and Storage Wars. This stuff is just so easy to watch without really engaging whatsoever.

Rowntrees Fruit Gums - delicious, and the after-taste you get from drinking water after eating these things is an absolute delight. They also last for ages if you chew slowly so when I'm sneaking them into my mouth whilst sat in court I don't have to draw attention to myself by continually rustling about and grabbing more.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke - a little bit twee and slow, kinda wish there was a little more jeopardy at times, but it's pretty charming and I'm really enjoying the portrayal of magic in this book as opposed to the magic in something like Harry Potter. It's pleasantly eerie and creepy and fairytale-ish - mysterious chiming bells and dancing music that always appear to be coming from the next room in the house, little glades of trees that lead to dark paths through forests that can't possibly be there in reality, rooms that suddenly appear at the end of a corridor in the house and lead to a different house entirely etc. It's much more fun than "Here's a wand, point it like a gun and here is the one word spell to make fire / water / kill people" and so on. Looooong book for what it is, though.

Tartan - a recent development, since I knocked up my own kilt for a party thrown in honour of Rabbie Burns the other night. Never really tried skirts before but I've worn it around the house for the last few days and I'm finding it peculiarly liberating. Perhaps this could be the first step in a wonderful voyage of self-discovery?

Veins of the Queen by Robyn Hitchcock.

Workaholics with Adam, Blake and 'Ders. Funniest new programme I've come across since I finally sat down with Arrested Development a couple of years ago.

Oh, and Christian Benteke.

A different kind of future for me...maybe. The first serious inklings I've had for a very long time.

the minutemen
hardcore in general

lots of holes in my musical appreciation, kinda feeling like I wanna go exploring again like the old days

aero jr
evoken
cooking and baking
e.r. eddison
ricolino spicy fruti gomas

"lots of holes in my musical appreciation, kinda feeling like I wanna go exploring again like the old days"

Feeling the lack of this in my own life at the moment. In the past 6 months I've gone from having more free time than I knew what to do with, enough to spend 2 or 3 hours most days just listening to new music and exploring old bits and bobs on Spotify, to suddenly having maybe 2 or 3 hours of free time a day full-stop. I really don't know where those extra hours I want for music appreciation are gonna come from.

buying into in orbit's excitement (apprehension?) for ~the future~

- making soup (still. I think I've been into this for a couple of weeks now)
- trying to live in an unhurried way
- Downton Abbey. The clothes!

latino/latin american culture
dr who (starting w/ the eccleston season)
hearing as much new music as possible
being more communicative
feeling better abt shit in general

- selling things on ebay for extra cash to spend on other things
- the matt scudder novels by lawrence block.
- french press that i got for my birthday makes much better coffee than our regular coffee pot, uses less too!
- 78rpm records

- my new Japanese mandolin! So much cucumber salad

haha for a minute I thought you meant a musical instrument and then the cucumber confused me totally

all this stuff. tonight anyway. i'm all about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflVHf43E40

@ VG yeah I've always been scared offa them because people say they're dangerous but I just wear protective gloves and it's a miracle for veggies. I julienned 5 lbs of carrots in 5 minutes

I have the v-slicer version, the plastic one that comes with the veggie holder thing - I'm terrified of the OG japanese ones (but I'm also v accident prone with knives so )

But I'm jealous of yr slicing-fu

my grandma has a mandoline and I werq'd that shit for some taters one and i was like daayyyuuumm this shit is magick, I gotta get me wunna these.

- staying in on weeknights/embracing homebodiness
- clarice lispector
- winter family's 'red sugar' lp
- chimichurri

chimichurri!

Counselling
Halo 4
Music from before I was born (early 80s)

simple things
fantasizing about adult-like routine, domesticity, stability
tulips
eggs

- snickerdoodle soda

what?!

what on earth is that?

whut

Moving
Avoiding despair
All the same old things
Cara cara oranges
Spring?

it's a very real soda brewed by the ice-cream-and-microbrewery place around the corner from my building xp

it tastes like a snickerdoodle.

Like cinnamon cream soda?

something like that yeah