DangerChicks (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dangerchicks) wrote,@ 2004-12-16 14:47:00 |
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Marcy: Slouching towards...sleep?
I am exhausted. I have no idea why. I have been getting a fairly normal amount of sleep, and when I felt absolutely hammered yesterday, I went to bed at 8-freaking-o'clock of the evening, and slept 12 1/2 hours. So how is it even possible that I feel quite tired today? Admittedly, it's not as bad as yesterday, when I was pinching myself in meetings to stay awake, but it's pretty bad.
Questions from Jules....
1. Dude, you don't drink coffee?I almost never drink coffee. When I first started hanging out with Mark, who makes excellent coffee, my consumption shot up from one cup a day to about eight cups a day and I could see I was well on my way to a serious addiction. So I stopped. I occasionally drink a cup, but not very often.
2. Since you asked about alcohol, what's your favorite cold weather libation? Hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps.
3. Speaking of which, do you ever make seasonal alcohol-enriched desserts ( of the non-flamed variety)? I sometimes make myself a pan of really fudgy brownies, then poke holes all over it with a fork and dump a bunch of Kahlua. Then put some ganache on top of that. I used to sprinkle crushed espresso beans over the top of that until I made myself sick eating chocolate-covered espresso beans and went off them for life.
But my mother makes brandy balls (vanilla wafers, walnuts and brandy, near as I can tell) a few weeks before Halloween. They are okay, but I don't miss them when I don't have them.
4. And, because I'm running out of ideas, do you prefer twinkly lights on the Christmas tree or steady-burning? Clear or multi-colored? Twinkly and clear. Or else steady and colored. I'm shocked that you did not ask me if I like big ones or little ones while you were at it (little ones).
The weather is quite odd here today. For example, it was 15F colder at my house than at my office this morning, and it's less than 20 miles from one to the other. Also, it can't decide if it's sunny, foggy, hazy, or rainy. Finally, it's been really dark all day long except for that too-bright sunshine in my front yard as I tried to see whether I was accurately scraping the ice off my car.
Do you think that once Eliot has a child to share Christmas with, that his attitude might change?
My mom had both knees replaced last week and is up and wandering around already. In fact, she was up and wandering around really fast after the surgery. It's such a weird operation. They cut your legs off and then stick them back on using fake-o parts. I mean, that's what it comes down to, and that freaks me out to think about. My brother came back from Central America in time for the operation, which I think my dad appreciated.
I'm glad you want to do the book. Maybe you could dig out the old draft book proposal and make some changes to it?
This week's episode of TAR was disturbing, although it was certainly beautifully edited. First, we see Gus waxing profound about the Middle Passage and the Berlin Wall, talking about how everywhere on earth are the artifacts of people's inhumanity towards other people. Then we get to watch that appalling man hit his wife, as if to say, and yeh, Gus, it's still going on. I'm a fan of Kris/Jon, Gus/Hera, and (to my surprise) the rasslers. But it won't kill me if the wife-hitter ends up in a turkish prison.
My turn...
1. So, Jules, what shoes do you want for Christmas? I want these, in blue.
2. Does your cable company still withhold Home and Garden TV from you? The best thing about switching from analog to digital cable was adding that channel in.
3. Where would you go on a solo vacation? I am thinking of going to Singapore and taking the train to Bangkok, up through penninsular Malaysia and Thailand.
4. How much music do you have squirreled away as MP3s? It turns out that I have 4600 songs, which is 12 days of music, or about 18.9GB. I should probably admit that I had to delete about 6GB, because I was running out of disk space on my PowerBook.
