Comments | danceswithwords: It's always time for soup

danceswithwords

It's always time for soup

Nov 28, 2006 16:42

I went on an unplanned road trip to way Northern California from Friday to Monday, after exchanging emails with a college friend. I figured I had the time, and it was a good time for her, and who knows when that will happen again, so hey. It was interesting. ( Read more... )

heroes, food: recipes, tales of the city

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dragonflymuse November 29 2006, 00:49:29 UTC

Sorry for the cold :( It is so hard to avoid stuff like that when you work in a group environment.

And pea soup is heaven in a bowl. Your recipe sounds yummy :) My grandfather made the best pea soup ever (in my grand daughterly opinion :g:) and he used the traditional hambone. I miss his cooking... it was such a part of who he was.

danceswithwords November 29 2006, 01:05:49 UTC

Sorry for the cold :( It is so hard to avoid stuff like that when you work in a group environment.

Thanks. All of my coworkers have small children in childcare, and it's like one neverending virus over here.

I love stories about family recipes like that. Sense memory can be such a powerful feeling.

cofax7 November 29 2006, 01:15:36 UTC

Your friend sounds a lot like my oldest friend, whom I met 30 years ago in junior high. She lives in a 250-year-old farmhouse in a cohousing community on Cape Cod, and they run their cars on biodiesel and don't own a television and grow a lot of their own food, and she volunteers at the local Waldorf School, and is basically about as opposite from me as you can get, lifestyle-wise. And yet it's always fantastic to see her.

danceswithwords November 29 2006, 01:46:30 UTC

Your friend sounds like a really interesting person. (Biodiesel!)

Sharing a formative time in life seems like a bond no amount of different growth can transcend. My friend and I spent a lot of time telling stories to her husband from that time, and it was amazing to share all those memories again with someone else who'd been there.

50mm November 29 2006, 02:45:07 UTC

I'm starving, have no idea what to do for dinner since it's late, so I'm reading LJ instead, and your Thanksgiving dinner sounds amazingly good (aside from the green beans heh). YUM!

danceswithwords November 29 2006, 17:40:51 UTC

It was amazingly good, and fortunately, since both the host and hostess cooked and everybody else brought dishes, nobody ended up stuck in the kitchen all day.

asta77 November 29 2006, 04:30:04 UTC

Sick again? We shall call you Office Cold (Insert Real Name Here).

The thing I most appreciated about Heroes is that Hiro, the hero, did not save the girl. I really thought he was going to succeed until he admitted that his power was bigger than him. Which may have also been a subtle nod to a higher power since we discover Charlie had an inoperable blood clot and could have died at any time regardless of Hiro's actions.

danceswithwords November 29 2006, 17:43:18 UTC

Sick again? We shall call you Office Cold (Insert Real Name Here).

I know! My early new year's resolution is to develop an immune system.

I really thought he was going to succeed until he admitted that his power was bigger than him.

I really liked that too, and I think it was a good move for the writers to introduce the concept that there are some things in life you can't change, superpowers or no. It places needed limitations on what they can do and keeps the scale human.

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danceswithwords December 1 2006, 22:05:06 UTC

I personally have no clue where all the people I knew then are now, but that's normal for me.

I, on the other hand, am still living 15 miles from my alma mater, and a lot of the graduates of my school stay in the area, so that makes it easier. :)

You really don't need to get me anything for Christmas! But if you insist, I'll try to give you something to work with rather than making you flail.