Here we go again, I'm driving in your car
Who has two thumbs and is feeling way better about life today?
Here's the whole thing: I drove to work today! In a car! And I was nearly an entire hour early--that's how much faster it was than my carefully planned public transit route. Obviously, I also drove the other way, which got me home more than half an hour earlier than yesterday, and it turns out there's a significant psychological difference between getting home at 7:10, which is a normal-person time to get home from work, and getting home at 7:45, which is practically the middle of the night when you have to be in bed by 10:30. Who knew? Obviously there will be days when traffic is Threat Level Midnight, and on those days I'll probably do the BART/MUNI dance, but let's all say hooray for driving! Except for, like, the environment. Sorry, Earth.
Today was also a real work day, in the sense that I got to write some stuff and contribute to some other people's stuff, and at the end of the day we went out into the production area and shot some of the stuff we'd just written...which is sort of magical, right, that we do stuff like that? It all involved a silly British accent and throwing a week-old Costco cake on the floor, and sort of ended up looking like a terrorist video, but that was also part of the appeal, unexpectedly. (The actors were company employees, who apparently appear in stuff all the time along with actors we hire? OH GREAT.) I guess this is my life now?
And I feel the need to share with you guys this recipe, which captainoz passed along to me years ago and which I kind of ignored until I became obsessed with it a few weeks back. It's delicious, and quick, AND I've changed it so that I use spinach instead of watercress (because a) who has watercress? and b) who wants the leftovers of a bag of watercress lying around?) and red pepper flakes instead of a red pepper (because a) I hate chopping and seeding jalapenos, and b) I decided the fresh pepper wasn't pulling its weight in the flavor profile). So it's basically the best and you should make it, and then bring leftovers to work and make your colleagues jealous.
I think I forgot to bring home dessert for myself. This feels especially tragic right at this moment, especially because it's time for jammies and the White Collar summer season premiere, and in what way does dessert not fit into that equation?
Here's the whole thing: I drove to work today! In a car! And I was nearly an entire hour early--that's how much faster it was than my carefully planned public transit route. Obviously, I also drove the other way, which got me home more than half an hour earlier than yesterday, and it turns out there's a significant psychological difference between getting home at 7:10, which is a normal-person time to get home from work, and getting home at 7:45, which is practically the middle of the night when you have to be in bed by 10:30. Who knew? Obviously there will be days when traffic is Threat Level Midnight, and on those days I'll probably do the BART/MUNI dance, but let's all say hooray for driving! Except for, like, the environment. Sorry, Earth.
Today was also a real work day, in the sense that I got to write some stuff and contribute to some other people's stuff, and at the end of the day we went out into the production area and shot some of the stuff we'd just written...which is sort of magical, right, that we do stuff like that? It all involved a silly British accent and throwing a week-old Costco cake on the floor, and sort of ended up looking like a terrorist video, but that was also part of the appeal, unexpectedly. (The actors were company employees, who apparently appear in stuff all the time along with actors we hire? OH GREAT.) I guess this is my life now?
And I feel the need to share with you guys this recipe, which captainoz passed along to me years ago and which I kind of ignored until I became obsessed with it a few weeks back. It's delicious, and quick, AND I've changed it so that I use spinach instead of watercress (because a) who has watercress? and b) who wants the leftovers of a bag of watercress lying around?) and red pepper flakes instead of a red pepper (because a) I hate chopping and seeding jalapenos, and b) I decided the fresh pepper wasn't pulling its weight in the flavor profile). So it's basically the best and you should make it, and then bring leftovers to work and make your colleagues jealous.
I think I forgot to bring home dessert for myself. This feels especially tragic right at this moment, especially because it's time for jammies and the White Collar summer season premiere, and in what way does dessert not fit into that equation?