Imagine my suprise at reading this thread over what turned out to be a chopped apple, walnut, and TIP salad.

I'm hoping to have Trisherina at dinner.

balsamic vinaigrette.

honey and mustard

Oh why not....ranch.

toasted sesame oil

I can't believe no one has professed Green Goddess yet.

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¿ Can you describe an unfulfilled wish or project that you have been meaning to get around to (or used to dream about) but have not yet found the time to do ?

I want to learn to play the cello. And to speak Icelandic.

I have a sculpture project (involving liquids) that I want to do one day.

^Intriguing. Care to describe it further? A kinetic fountain? Jars of curdled milk stacked into an artful commentary on early American politics?

I have 2 books for kiddos that I would like to try to publish, but I'm all shy about them.

i would prefer to remain vague about it and let you imagine something wonderful

ooh yeah--

• clean my house
• hang up curtains
• finish building kitchen
• water plants
• do laundry

Points 1 (except replace house by flat), 4 and 5 Frieda listed, plus:

• Seriously, seriously start writing up my thesis
• Learn how to Perl like a semi-god
• Figure out what to do with my life after next spring
• Manicure & paint my toe-nails
• Read the rest of Dante's Divine Comedy
• Either continue to learn Russian or start with Chinese
• Some other things I just can't remember...

Off the top of my head, I'd like to read the entire Penguin Collection (I'm around 20 in :cool: ) and form a band, no matter how crappy we sound.

I've always wanted to make a windchime. I've got some nice-sounding chimes somewhere, I just need something to hang them off - oh, and find where I put them. I guess this one goes back in the procrastination basket.

wind chimes are so that stupid people know there is a breeze

remember that your neighbors may not love 'em as much as you do. trust me. i was a chime stealin' neighbor at one time. ;)

new question:

why aren't you boycotting the beijing olympics?

Mmh, well, for passive boycott (not watching the TV transmissions, not buying any merchandising products) it is too early. Only thing one can do in that direction now is not buying tickets to watch the games live (something I could not afford / would not do for Olympics in any other place abroad, so it didn't cross my thoughts anyways).
Do you mean active boycott like going to/organising demos, writing complaint letters to official places, the media etc.? Dunno, exactly. One part is a hybrid of laziness/lack of time, the other a kind of paralysation as there are a myriad of things that go totally wrong on the planet: For which to engage fully? Or engage for everything a bit?
:confused: :(

Roy and HG may call it.

I am just too damned fond of eating dim sum while watching shotput.

Because the point of the Olympics is to suspend just the sort of political disagreement that a boycott embodies.

i am boycotting the beijing olympics. but i boycott all olympics so it's kind of an empty gesture.

There is a good chance i won't be watching them, unless i stop by my folk's place to have lunch during August 2008 (they have a tv).

where are they being held?

where are you being held?

i agree aa, but it's gonna be the biggest propaganda exercise since berlin'36.

:(

because i'm not politicially involved enough to care and i think there are other countries that lock people away, participate in arms races, suppress nations and the people in it, and have a huge propaganda machine going on.

what i hope is that the olympic spirit will stay in china.. that it actually might do some good for the chinese people.

i don't believe in the olympic spirit. i put five rings under my pillow last night and they were still there this morning. shouldn't the olympic spirit have at least left me a bronze medal? i mean at least?

your performance wasnt really that good.

if nothing else, it'll be interesting to see if they manage to curb atmospheric pollution for the duration of the games. that crap wafts all the way across the pacific and makes it sometimes even as far as utah...not that we don't have our own love affair with particulate emissions here in the valley...

Question for Tuesday, October 9, 2007
 

What would it take for me to get you to rub my left shoulder (right beside my neck) besides "pretty please?"

I would trade you for two hours of housework.

One or two cups latte macchiato (or cappuccino) - one or two depending on how you content you were with the service.

Just ask. :)

*rub rub rub*

a piece of homemade pecan pie with vanilla ice cream

nothing.. i give shoulder rubs for free :)

A plane ticket

a set of those electric shiatsu thumbs they sell at sharper image.

go buy a set for me and I'll lend it to you :)