Lovely observation

One of summer's pleasures in DC is seeing the fireflies- I LOVE them! I was dancing my way home (not trying too hard to be inconspicuous) from the gym, and had to sit down in the park outside M. Vernon Square to be entranced by them. Nature sure is awesome sometimes.
(the word "sometimes" is merited: mosquitoes, cockroaches, beetles that eat my mom's roses...)
;-)

Overeducated

It's a terrible thing when a person is so educated but has no outlet for the knowledge she has learned/ earned. Here I sit, with a Ph. D. in Advanced Agony of Brian's Depression, and now that he's history, I'll have to start a-whole-nother field in order to get any credit, or earn money, if you will. That's crummy.

Beauty of Solitude

I recently showed a friend of mine the book I am currently reading (cue appearance of neat widget from shelfari at left), titled "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant." His response was "this makes me sad and depressed, just reading the title." But he didn't get it. Cooking for yourself, just like cooking for others, is an expression of caring and thoughtfulness. It allows for self-reflection and meditation time. It lets the hands work away, while the mind, although reading numbers divided by a small diagonal line, can ease into matters it doesn't like to tackle head-on, but rather, come at them sideways, like a crab. At least that's how my mind likes to work. Especially on big or transformative issues. What do you think?

Victories, in Threes

1) This morning, in one hour, I made 66 cookies of the cinnamon oatmeal chocolate chip with walnut variety. Before work.
2) Yesterday, I both wrote my Morning Pages and exercised to my bhangra video at home for 40 minutes. Before work.
3) The day before, I delighted in a second viewing of the trapeze artist school that has popped up 10 minutes away from my house in the parking lot used by NY-DC buses. Nets and cables and everything- so random and so fun!
This is an effort to prop myself up from 1) Verizon the Devil Spawn screwing me over again 2) having to cancel my trip to NYC this weekend, messing up my schedule and 3) seeing the dentist and having him tell me that my lower wisdom teeth are actually coming in backward. I believe this to be incorrect and exaggerated. But we'll see.
I will have to come up with a lot more victories to fortify me this weekend, because next week I have an eye dilation (invasive), a teeth-cleaning (hygienist with no bedside manner), and who knows what else.
And I really have to choose my library movies more carefully, by the way. The last two viewed- Chinatown and Tess of the D'Urbervilles- were utterly depressing and not adventure stories as I thought they would be. Bring back Happy-Go-Lucky!

Second Round!

Chronologically, first is the other cool perspective from my last trip to NYC: here's the view of Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights.
Chocolate Cacao Nib with Lime cookies, by Elise from Simply Recipes







Then the Red Meal for Kim!
And finally, my first yeast-containing experiment: overnight cinnamon rolls from Sarah at Pink of Perfection :-)