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thorne_scratch

Did you keep a watch for a dead man's wind, did you see the woman with the comb in her hand

Dec 02, 2009 02:00

Louise is finally out of the hospital, after some surgery and a medicated coma, so that's good. It just isn't the holiday season if she hasn't scared the shit out of me with health issues or some kind of felony charge. So, I guess I feel okay about talking about her and the rest of New York now.

( We had two bags of blowpops, seventy-five miniature Dove bars, five bags of high-fructose chewy things, a plastic plate half-full of caramel ice cream topping, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored candy bars, dots, suckers, and balls... Also, five bottles of wine, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of candy corn, two pies, and two dozen hard lemonades. Not that we needed all that for the party, but once you get locked into a serious junk food collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the candy corn. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a grad student in the depths of a candy corn binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. )

meatworld, new york trip, louise, recipes

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aphelion_orion December 2 2009, 08:31:59 UTC

Wah. D: I hope Louise is better soon. And I hope you're okay. *hugs*

I admit here, it's less the trains themselves I worry about-though depending on how generous the national train companies are in their upgrading and maintenance of train cars, you may well end up riding something that has been in service for some 40 years and you can totally tell that its main route largely led it through slightly less urban Italy, what with the missing doorhandles, gutted air conditioning and obscene graffiti about Berlusconi and a goat on the side (sorry, anyone from Italy). What is infinitely more adventurous is the train stations, where you tend to be accosted by strange people who are after the contents of your bag sooner or later. XD

Mmm, that recipe kind of sounds like a dessert we have here, but I've never tried it with all the exotic spices or the coconut milk. This should be interesting. :3

thorne_scratch December 2 2009, 16:33:16 UTC

She's getting there! And is pleased to know people are thinking of her.

Amtrak is pretty well-run, so I don't have too many complaints. Te bus service from here to New York can get totally ghetto, though. I liked the trains I rode in Prague and Vienna; they seemed pretty good! And very scenic.

Rice pudding's a pretty common dessert; this was just a more Indian version of it, with the cardamom. Usually, I just see the recipe calling for nutmeg, or allspice. I like mucking about with food, though. Hee.

flidgetjerome December 2 2009, 09:32:21 UTC

Please inform Louise I am pleased and relieved she is better and that I continue to pine over her.

Also my heart is touched that when you're in a sex store, the second person you think of is me. (We all know that the first person you think of is Louise but since she was there I assume that you could have asked directly of her opinion as to which boner rabbit lollypop was superior).

thorne_scratch December 2 2009, 16:30:07 UTC

She will be delighted to hear this. (Her ex actually invited her to England to give a talk to his class. I think she is going to decline, but I should urge her to go, if only so you two can meet.)

Louise can tell you I was totally all about you and the dolphins in that store. I looked for seahorses for Twig, but to no avail.

sakuranochi December 2 2009, 10:46:59 UTC

I think people would think Doug and I were a gay couple if he didn't always manage to find the section of the restaurant tended by the most attractive waitress and proceed to hit on her every time we go anywhere. Well, I say hit on, but it isn't in a obnoxious or annoying way or anything, he's very flattering in a non-threatening way. He is probably the most well spoken, polite skirt chaser you could ever meet. He also only tips well if the server is female but that is a whole other issue.

What is fun for you sounds horribly awkward to me, but then I am English. Don't worry about the drinking though, you can have half of my liver.

thorne_scratch December 2 2009, 16:28:18 UTC

Well, it's not usually horrible, because society has their double standard about two men versus two women, but it does make it hard to hit on other people at times, because then they think we're either swingers (which we are not) or cads (which may have some truth to it.)

But dude, teach him to tip the male servers as well. That's not cool; dude waiters need their money as well.

I may have already borrowed a chunk of your liver.

sakuranochi December 2 2009, 20:23:37 UTC

That's cool, just return it when you are done with it.

thorne_scratch December 2 2009, 21:58:22 UTC

What if I get hungry?

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2metaldog December 2 2009, 14:23:00 UTC

It sounds like you had a blast. I shake my head in amazement at the hijinks you and Louise get up to and am plum amazed that you both remain at large.

thorne_scratch December 2 2009, 16:25:24 UTC

The first part of the night was great. The second part, with all the police and law breaking was not so much. But the important thing was nobody died. (That I know of.)

feels_like_fire December 2 2009, 19:29:02 UTC

Your weekends with Louise have taken on epic stature in my mind. I will never forget the text you sent me that weekend. I am glad that you seemed to (mostly!) have had fun, my dear. ♥

Speaking of which: Is your address the same this year as last year? Because yo ass is gettin' a holiday card, o yes indeed.

thorne_scratch December 2 2009, 20:16:45 UTC

Parts were pretty terrible, but there were some good parts as well. The longer it is, the more I can look back on it with humor. At least I didn't need bail?

My address is the same! I WANT CARDS! Email me yours again, and I'll send you something.