The only things I talk about: porny literature and food. SOB.

[myricarubra]

Yesterday:

Trenette with lobster in tomato sauce! It was an otherworldly experience. WONDROUS. The pasta was amazing and the lobster was enormous and it took me half an hour to eat the whole thing. THEN I WENT INTO FOOD COMA. The dessert was also amazing, because chocolate biscuit-like cake plus gelato sprinkled with hazelnut bits = A+++. (Before &

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[jibrailis]

Effie it hurts me sometimes to read your posts because then I remember that I do not have good food in my life, and I end up weeping into my pillow while trying to gnaw my own knuckles. Trenette with lobster, oh dear lord. *gnaw gnaw gnaw*

If you like TOTALLY ABSURD TRAVELOGUES, you should read The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. It's not Greco-Roman, but it's a 14th century travelogue that, as the writer leaves Europe and heads towards Asia, gets increasingly, increasingly ridiculous, where at the end he's like I'M IN CHINA, DUDES, and you go WHAT WHAT THIS IS A CHINA I DID NOT KNOW EXISTED. So bizarre, so hilarious.

But no Socrates and Homer, which is bummer.

[myricarubra]

Good food is the most important thing in my life! I dress like a hobo but I eat like a king.* Well, I could eat normally and dress normally, but sadly my priorities are set in stone, ahahaha. LOBSTERS NANCY. I haven't eaten a proper lobster in... MONTHS... It was the tastiest, most delicious, best-textured lobster I have ever had the pleasure to eat. I would totally have shared the trenette&lobster with you because at a certain point I was sure I would burst from all the food. But I endured and I finished all the things on the plate. OM NOM NOM.

14th century! I am really fond of this century! And also, BIZARRE AND HILARIOUS = ALSO A+++. Although, to be totally honest, I would rather have another piece of chocolate cake plus gelato plus little delicious bits of hazelnut. I MISS IT SO.

*not really true, I dress like a hobo because I can't... bring myself to care... is this sad.

[jibrailis]

It's okay, Effie, half of the time I still put on my shirt inside out, and I do not realize this until the middle of the day when it's impossible to run into a bathroom and change.

I haven't had a lobster in years! I should rectify this soon.

[myricarubra]

I have a childhood trauma about shirts inside out that I am never going to forget. That is why I always check twice before heading out!

Lobsters are delicious! In tomato sauce with pasta? FANTASTIC. :D

[myricarubra]

I know! I had never had a caramel apple before, so I thought all the glistening, pretty red caramel was fairly common... Google tells me it is not, in fact, very common! :O!

[jibrailis]

WHY DOES TWITTER HATE THE THOUGHT OF US TOGETHER. ;___;

Though granted, I don't tweet much original content -- most of my tweets are replies to other people that might not show up on your feed because you don't follow the other people. Maybe that's why you don't see many tweets from me?

[myricarubra]

Nance we will run away to Paris and we will live on croissants and tea and it will be marvellous!

replies to other people that might not show up on your feed because you don't follow the other people

Oh! I didn't know that! Is that how it works, then? I don't think I like it, because I am super interested in anything you say (♥), and I'd like to read your replies to people I don't follow!

I am making >:( faces at you, twitter!

[jibrailis]

It will indeed be marvelous! In the meantime, we will have to content ourselves with the lives we lead now, all of which is to say, how are you, Effie? What did you eat today? What new absurd classical text did you read? Tell me all!

[myricarubra]

Nance are we going to be young men together? I am not displeased by this parasite idea! :')

I have been eating lots of potato chips because we bought them when we went to watch HP 7.1 and it was an enormous pack :( And it would be wasteful to throw it away, or that's what we tell ourselves while guiltily basking in their deliciousness...! But also CHINESE HOT POT :D I love it, and I love how spicy my family makes it! The only good thing about winter is HOT POTS. Because in my world, everything is somehow linked to food.

I am reading Virgil's Eclogues! They are not as outwardly absurd as other texts, but they are deeply hilarious (in my opinion) and I can't read them without going AHAHAHA VIRGIL :D or AHAHAHA NO D: VIRGIL. Poor Virgil. Did you know he was too shy to be a good orator :D

...this comment has somehow lapsed into me vomiting words at you, hasn't it? Nance how are you, do you live your everyday life thinking about how awesome you rightly are :D