I want to internet flame her ass for being a judgmental goddamn hypocrite.

Yeah, the weird "Hey check it out, I'm SLUMMING with actual nerds! Isn't that a RIOT?" tone is... off-putting, to say the least. But then I looked at her other entries and she seems to be trying much too hard in general. So I've gone from annoyed to, "Oh, you're in your 30s and you still need to establish how cool you are all the time? Wow. Well, have at it then, you obviously need that validation a lot more than I do."

I find her food a little frightening, but she herself is just delightful.

exactly.

Now that I have read some more of her blog, I think I was giving her too much credit.

Nerdhater or Paula Deen?

Ha! Nerdhater. If Paula Deen has a blog, I would like to read it.

I have to agree with everyone that dissing Tom is Just. Not. Done.

At least she got the eyes right.

I should be grading, but my son just got out of bed and is making a play for staying up even later.

Vortex, how do you dry your pasta?

I don't usually bother to dry it. I make it and throw it in the water. The last time I made it ahead of time, I dried it on my ladderback dining room chairs.

Hmm. I always dried it although I usually cooked it right afterwards. Since that's the bit that really annoyed me, maybe I'll give it another shot.

I dried it on my ladderback dining room chairs.

I always cook straight it away as well, but use the chair method to hang up the strands so that they don't stick together while I'm making the rest.

You could buy a pasta drying stand, though a cursory Google didn't turn up any US outlets. (And googling "spaghetti tree" only turns up lots of nice references to the famous '50s hoax).