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qe2

brief daytime memery

Aug 14, 2007 15:59

Gacked from the always astonishing shayheyred:

Four jobs I've had or currently have in my life:
1. Lawyer. (...god, that still looks bizarre to me.)
2. Professional musician.
3. Administrative/executive assistant. (Over and over and over and OVER again.)
4. Bookstore clerk, specializing in kids' books.

Four countries I have been to:1. Slovenia ( Read more... )

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sprat August 14 2007, 20:15:13 UTC

Your food choices are making me huuungryyy. *wants*

Also, what the heck were you doing in Slovenia?

qe2 August 14 2007, 20:23:54 UTC

They're making me hungry, actually, and I just ate. (Plus they'd make an odd mixture. But still.)

My father really, really wanted to follow up his deanship with something that made him feel good and important and rewarded and worthwhile. He decided that something was a Fulbright. He didn't think he had a chance at going to his top choices - London, Edinburgh, etc. - but he'd always been curious about Eastern Europe and he figured those countries would be less sought-after, so he applied for a Fulbright to Slovenia. He got it, and he and my mother spent five (difficult) months there in 1999-2000. I went to visit them for a week in the fall; I figured I'd probably not get to Slovenia otherwise (embarrassing but factual), and for that reason it sounded like the trip of a lifetime. Which it was, for some values thereof. (I will never forget how appalled the garlic seller in the farmer's market was when I finally mustered enough broken German [the standard second language of Slovenians over 40] to tell her that we wanted, not a BRAID of ( ... )

sprat August 14 2007, 20:50:44 UTC

...we wanted, not a BRAID of garlic, but a HEAD of garlic. She was so disgusted by our garlic parsimony that she gave it to us :-).)

Heeee. There was clearly something very wrong with you -- best to cut the interaction as short as possible. *g*

qe2 August 14 2007, 21:06:58 UTC

*grins* Exactly so. If I'd been there myself, I'd have gone for the braid - me and garlic are likethisomg - but La Mama never was all that big on the fresh stuff.

thediva_laments August 14 2007, 20:28:01 UTC

I absolutely cannot believe that dark chocolate did not make that food list.

qe2 August 14 2007, 20:33:19 UTC

*grins* Point. (Y'know what I cannot believe? That I do not have a dark-chocolate icon. Must fix this.) In my defense, (1) the requested list was NOT of my four all-time favorite foods - just four foods I like to eat. Also, (2) my sweet tooth is at a low ebb right now - it does tend to do that - and after the breakfast and lunch I had today I am CRAVING vegetables and fiber.

thediva_laments August 14 2007, 20:34:17 UTC

Fair enough. Shall I make you a dark chocolate icon? Is there a chocolate quote you particularly like?

qe2 August 14 2007, 20:39:02 UTC

Hey, that'd be cool! Didn't intend to hint, but certainly won't say no. And no, I have nothing in mind - it just seems wrong for me not to have one, y'know? I trust (...) your creativity (...!).

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raucousraven August 14 2007, 21:29:16 UTC

4. Asleep.

YES PLEASE. Ex-Dee!

Also, mmmm, fries and aioli, mmmmmmmmm.

qe2 August 15 2007, 11:31:31 UTC

YES PLEASE. Ex-Dee!

Right? And yet, when I get home at night and could crash early, I head for wine and the 'puter instead. WTF, self-control?

Fries are about the only thing I will eat commercial mayonnaise on - well, the SG turns out to make a mean conventional US potato salad, so I guess that's two things - but homemade aioli is a creamy substance of a very different color. (Or. um. something less confusing.) Especially loaded with garlic.