the zoot is dead, long live the zoot.
this afternoon, after a very short illness involving some sort of benign tumor, our little black gerbil, zoot, died. she was a good gerbil, and always cleaned her whiskers. i'm glad i had the chance to share some of my life with her.
thanks, zoot. dingo and i will miss you.
2.25.2007
it kicks
i made this recipe tonight that i've been wanting to try ever since i saw it in an issue of New York magazine, which we've been receiving mysteriously for the past couple of months. generally a useless magazine for someone who lives in Montana, but this looked good, especially since Hank and I are both large fans of horseradish, "the radish that kicks." hee. get it?
yeah so anyway, here's the recipe, and I highly recommend it if, like me, you enjoy the spicy nose punch that this kickin' radish can deliver. it doesn't take very long, and seems like it would lend itself really well to experimentation, because it's quite simple. for example, you could probably cut the amount of horseradish in half if you didn't want it to be quite so potent!
Orecchiette w/ Horseradish and Parmesan
1 lb box orecchiette pasta
4 oz fresh horseradish
3 oz extra virgin olive oil
4 oz tomato sauce
pinch crushed red pepper
6 oz freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
fresh parsley, for garnish
Cook pasta in salted water. While cooking, grate horseradish. When the pasta is cooked al dente, reserve 4-6 oz. of pasta water, then strain and place pasta in a saute pan over low to medium heat. Add reserved water in stages and then add the olive oil, tomato sauce and crushed red pepper, tossing the pan all the while (the entire process should only take a few minutes). Remove pan from heat and add the horseradish, cheese, and parsley with one last toss.
yeah so anyway, here's the recipe, and I highly recommend it if, like me, you enjoy the spicy nose punch that this kickin' radish can deliver. it doesn't take very long, and seems like it would lend itself really well to experimentation, because it's quite simple. for example, you could probably cut the amount of horseradish in half if you didn't want it to be quite so potent!
Orecchiette w/ Horseradish and Parmesan
1 lb box orecchiette pasta
4 oz fresh horseradish
3 oz extra virgin olive oil
4 oz tomato sauce
pinch crushed red pepper
6 oz freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
fresh parsley, for garnish
Cook pasta in salted water. While cooking, grate horseradish. When the pasta is cooked al dente, reserve 4-6 oz. of pasta water, then strain and place pasta in a saute pan over low to medium heat. Add reserved water in stages and then add the olive oil, tomato sauce and crushed red pepper, tossing the pan all the while (the entire process should only take a few minutes). Remove pan from heat and add the horseradish, cheese, and parsley with one last toss.
2.20.2007
5th Annual IYSK Survey - at last.
Instead of sending this to everyone's emails, I'm posting it here (and also on my livejournal). I'm thinking of also doing a video version, in the B2.0 vein, but ...
We'll see if I can manage it. I'm not very ambitious these days (hence the delay on actually even filling this out in textual form).
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***The Survey
7) How long have you known Hank and Katherine?
I'm not sure I know myself, even now. What does it even mean to 'know someone'? Are we talkin' the biblical sense here? 'Cause if that's the case, I cannot answer this question in such a public-type forum. But I've been acquainted with Hank since August of 1998. He was a little bit thinner, his glasses were a little less hip, and he was wearing this horrible hat which I later found out had been given to him by a friend, after she found it lying in a ditch on the side of the road in Orlando. I hated that hat. I think he still has it though, the sentimental bastard.
8 What do you want from us?
I want a nickname like, but not, 'the Yeti' for B2.0. Also, a little more structure in our daily lives. And for me to finish my g.d. masters degree, before my self-loathing develops into some full-scale depression.
9 What have you been up to this past year (please be as detailed as possible, because we actually want to know)?
Oh 2006. The insanity - planning my own wedding while attending the weddings of brothers Jon (mine) and John (Hank's); traveling to and from said weddings (NH and Alabama); fostering and then adopting Cameo; volunteering at the Humane Society; saying goodbye to too many friends; getting in shape with a personal trainer; getting married in September and having the time of my life; going to Italy on the awesomest honeymoon ever; coming home and promptly getting out of shape and back in to my well-worn rut of do-nothing. Ah.
10 How much longer do you think you'll be doing what you're doing?
It's really hard to answer this-type question in a way that is humorous. Therefore I boycott this question.
11 Why are you doing it?
Because despite it all, I still like the idea of living, and because I love my friends and families.
12 What do you want to be doing?
Something meaningful and fun, which is also potentially lucrative, so I wouldn't feel like such a leech. Getting and staying in shape in fun ways (running does not count as fun - I'm thinking more like tap dance). Singing, dancing, and making art.
13 What's next in your life?
Graduating. Married life. Moving back east? A new job? My life is very much one big question mark at the moment.
14 How You Doin'?
Sigh.
15 What's the best book you read this year?
I may have read over a hundred books this year (I'm not sure if that's a lot, or if that number is accurate or not). Not all of them have been good, for sure, but my point is I can't really remember, because I don't make a list. But I think that the book I enjoyed reading the most (I'm not saying it's the best, because it didn't really change my life or anything) was Going Postal by Terry Prachett, and the book that made the biggest impression on me (I cried the most while reading it) was The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd. Stupid patriarchy.
16 Describe a perfect day.
The day after I successfully defend my masters thesis. As long as no one I love or care about in any way dies that day, I'm pretty sure it'll be the best day of my life so far. Looking forward to it.
17 Assuming that all things come to an end...how do you think humans will go extinct?
I really think it could be in a Dr. Strangelove kinda way. Otherwise, most of us will be killed off by massive famines and cancer and suchlike and those left over will (eventually) evolve into something else.
18 How are you feeling about kids these days?
I like my nephew quite a lot and I wish I could spend more time with him. I am completely ambivalent about other people's kids, unless they are screaming or whining and then I want to hurt them (not really, but I have very little patience). I really, really don't want any of my own right now. But maybe someday.
19 My own question: What is your favorite flower? I like different flowers in different seasons, but I really love bearded iris. Especially the yellow ones and the brown ones. Reminds me of my mom's gardens growing up in CT.
20 Ambrozzo tastes better than anything else, what does ambrozzo taste like?
Fresh baked baguette from Le Petit (still slightly warm) with Lifeline butter (free range/organic/local - yum!). Hells yes! Or cardamom ice cream from The Big Dipper. Oh, the cardamom. Hmm, good thing I'm not lactose intolerant, eh?
21 If you were a cliché, what cliché would you be?
"At the end of my rope" or "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
22 What is your least favorite part of any given day?
The end of the day, when I realize that, once again, I have not made a damn bit of progress on finishing my degree. I really hate myself sometimes.
23 Do you enjoy science fiction?
Quite a bit, but I think I like fantasy better. Probably has something to do with my whole escapism problem.
24 Cheese or Chocolate?
While I really, really do enjoy cheese (esp. with wine), and pretty much any form it comes in, if I were presented with cheese and chocolate on the same plate (as long as it was dark chocolate, not really a fan of milk or white) and told to pick one or the other, I would definitely pick the chocolate every time. Sorry, Tillamook. (Aside: Tillamook would be a great name for a cat! My Cameo loves cheese, esp. Tillamook vintage white cheddar.)
25 Where would you live if you could live anywhere?
Here (Missoula), if all my friends and family were in accessible distance, not across the freakin' country. Or southern France, if I didn't care about family and friends. Oh, to be Provencal.
26 What was your first concert?
I think it's funny that everyone assumes this means concert they went to go see, because I think about concerts I performed in, which were happening long before I ever went to see someone else in concert. I did a lot of singing when I was younger. I also went to Broadway shows before I ever went to Radio 104 Fest, which was, I think my first Ticketmaster-type concert, and which featured The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, among other now obscure '90s artists.
27 If you could start a business that would be instantly successful, what kind of business would it be?
A punk rock diner? As long as I don't have to actually run it after it gets started up.
28 Invisibility or Time Travel?
I guess time travel, but neither really appeals to me. I'd rather have more practical magical talents.
29 What's wrong with the world?
Patriarchy, and father gods.
Yeee haw!
We'll see if I can manage it. I'm not very ambitious these days (hence the delay on actually even filling this out in textual form).
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***The Survey
7) How long have you known Hank and Katherine?
I'm not sure I know myself, even now. What does it even mean to 'know someone'? Are we talkin' the biblical sense here? 'Cause if that's the case, I cannot answer this question in such a public-type forum. But I've been acquainted with Hank since August of 1998. He was a little bit thinner, his glasses were a little less hip, and he was wearing this horrible hat which I later found out had been given to him by a friend, after she found it lying in a ditch on the side of the road in Orlando. I hated that hat. I think he still has it though, the sentimental bastard.
8 What do you want from us?
I want a nickname like, but not, 'the Yeti' for B2.0. Also, a little more structure in our daily lives. And for me to finish my g.d. masters degree, before my self-loathing develops into some full-scale depression.
9 What have you been up to this past year (please be as detailed as possible, because we actually want to know)?
Oh 2006. The insanity - planning my own wedding while attending the weddings of brothers Jon (mine) and John (Hank's); traveling to and from said weddings (NH and Alabama); fostering and then adopting Cameo; volunteering at the Humane Society; saying goodbye to too many friends; getting in shape with a personal trainer; getting married in September and having the time of my life; going to Italy on the awesomest honeymoon ever; coming home and promptly getting out of shape and back in to my well-worn rut of do-nothing. Ah.
10 How much longer do you think you'll be doing what you're doing?
It's really hard to answer this-type question in a way that is humorous. Therefore I boycott this question.
11 Why are you doing it?
Because despite it all, I still like the idea of living, and because I love my friends and families.
12 What do you want to be doing?
Something meaningful and fun, which is also potentially lucrative, so I wouldn't feel like such a leech. Getting and staying in shape in fun ways (running does not count as fun - I'm thinking more like tap dance). Singing, dancing, and making art.
13 What's next in your life?
Graduating. Married life. Moving back east? A new job? My life is very much one big question mark at the moment.
14 How You Doin'?
Sigh.
15 What's the best book you read this year?
I may have read over a hundred books this year (I'm not sure if that's a lot, or if that number is accurate or not). Not all of them have been good, for sure, but my point is I can't really remember, because I don't make a list. But I think that the book I enjoyed reading the most (I'm not saying it's the best, because it didn't really change my life or anything) was Going Postal by Terry Prachett, and the book that made the biggest impression on me (I cried the most while reading it) was The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd. Stupid patriarchy.
16 Describe a perfect day.
The day after I successfully defend my masters thesis. As long as no one I love or care about in any way dies that day, I'm pretty sure it'll be the best day of my life so far. Looking forward to it.
17 Assuming that all things come to an end...how do you think humans will go extinct?
I really think it could be in a Dr. Strangelove kinda way. Otherwise, most of us will be killed off by massive famines and cancer and suchlike and those left over will (eventually) evolve into something else.
18 How are you feeling about kids these days?
I like my nephew quite a lot and I wish I could spend more time with him. I am completely ambivalent about other people's kids, unless they are screaming or whining and then I want to hurt them (not really, but I have very little patience). I really, really don't want any of my own right now. But maybe someday.
19 My own question: What is your favorite flower? I like different flowers in different seasons, but I really love bearded iris. Especially the yellow ones and the brown ones. Reminds me of my mom's gardens growing up in CT.
20 Ambrozzo tastes better than anything else, what does ambrozzo taste like?
Fresh baked baguette from Le Petit (still slightly warm) with Lifeline butter (free range/organic/local - yum!). Hells yes! Or cardamom ice cream from The Big Dipper. Oh, the cardamom. Hmm, good thing I'm not lactose intolerant, eh?
21 If you were a cliché, what cliché would you be?
"At the end of my rope" or "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
22 What is your least favorite part of any given day?
The end of the day, when I realize that, once again, I have not made a damn bit of progress on finishing my degree. I really hate myself sometimes.
23 Do you enjoy science fiction?
Quite a bit, but I think I like fantasy better. Probably has something to do with my whole escapism problem.
24 Cheese or Chocolate?
While I really, really do enjoy cheese (esp. with wine), and pretty much any form it comes in, if I were presented with cheese and chocolate on the same plate (as long as it was dark chocolate, not really a fan of milk or white) and told to pick one or the other, I would definitely pick the chocolate every time. Sorry, Tillamook. (Aside: Tillamook would be a great name for a cat! My Cameo loves cheese, esp. Tillamook vintage white cheddar.)
25 Where would you live if you could live anywhere?
Here (Missoula), if all my friends and family were in accessible distance, not across the freakin' country. Or southern France, if I didn't care about family and friends. Oh, to be Provencal.
26 What was your first concert?
I think it's funny that everyone assumes this means concert they went to go see, because I think about concerts I performed in, which were happening long before I ever went to see someone else in concert. I did a lot of singing when I was younger. I also went to Broadway shows before I ever went to Radio 104 Fest, which was, I think my first Ticketmaster-type concert, and which featured The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, among other now obscure '90s artists.
27 If you could start a business that would be instantly successful, what kind of business would it be?
A punk rock diner? As long as I don't have to actually run it after it gets started up.
28 Invisibility or Time Travel?
I guess time travel, but neither really appeals to me. I'd rather have more practical magical talents.
29 What's wrong with the world?
Patriarchy, and father gods.
Yeee haw!
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