Lavender creme brulee though? Da bombity bomb bomb. There's a place in San Diego that made the best...

isn't creosote the stuff that builds up in chimneys?

I just can't believe we made it through an entire "Who ate the first XXX" discussion and nobody mentioned olives!

Then there's hominy. "Let's drip water through ashes until we have a caustic liquid, then put dried corn in it until the skins come off. Then let's dry the kernals again and grind them up."

But things like olives, that require PREPARATION, are what gets me. I mean...sure, you try eating it. You try smoking it and eating it. You try drying it and eating it. But then you GIVE UP!

My theory on olives is that they fell in the ocean and then someone ate them.

It's sad, but even though it's been at LEAST four years since Jesse was a cowgirl at my come-as-you-aren't party, I see this and think she ought to have it. :)

I still think it's funny that on Twop they started off calling Padalecki Cute!Dean (from GG) and Ackles Hot!Dean. Because, it needed to be MORE confusing.

Skipping a kajillion posts to say: Holy Crap, people, why am I up at 12:45 am doing this $*&%*$& puzzle?! I only meant to take a look, sneak a peek, and here I am, three hours later, banging my head on the desk. I got the farm part, and I'm working my way through religions. This is evil crack. I have to go to bed, dammit.

Anyone watch Eleventh Hour on BBCA? I missed the first showing and need to decide in the next nine minutes. Patrick Stewart. On BBC. It sounds lovely. And if it is, I can grab Studio 60 elsewhere. I just need others to decide for me.

I have to run my own life? Tragedy!

There's more than one creosote-- [link] including the fragrant bush and the byproduct of fire.

Hey, Jesse--did you play the cowgirl game I got you?

and who got so easily addicted, because they hadn't had generations to get used to tobacco use -- sort of a reverse of the situation with the high rate of alcoholism among Native Americans

Wait--so now that Europeans have had a long time to get used to the use, why still addiction? And vice versa with the alcoholism? Wrong kind of learning?

My take on this whole thing is that we are completely underestimating the kind of time hungry people had on their hands.

I don't think it's about the time hungry people have on their hands--more the desperation. We're a "I'll try anything once" sort of a species, and we'll try anything nice more than once. And if it's not nice, try make it nice. Or start a support group.

My teaching was evaluated today at krav. I was expecting to be evaluated on Wednesday, and so wasn't prepared. But I picked the brain of one of the more senior instructors, and threw everything I had at it.

He really liked it! So much so that he wondered if he'd caught me on a bad day last time (he never said it was bad--just that I was an acquired taste (You think I'm harsh and sarcastic? What's your point?). This time, he barely had any nitpicking to do.

So cool. I never teach in front of him, so I forget what he likes. Mostly, I just did what *I* liked, and it worked out more than okay.

Anyone up and about? I'm working on application stuff for UCIrvine and I need to write a statement of my teaching philosophy and wow and I just not in the groove for getting this done.