Here's a question for Ed or Adam. When you insert Married to the Sea comics, do you use the code on the side, or do you copy and paste the image. I tried the code but it cropped the image.

8 things

I saw this on the Johnson blog, and Melissa was kind enough to think I might return to blogging (not like you chumps in the tower, or Jay who still hasn't noticed I post again)

So by now most of you are familiar:


Here are the rules:
- Each player starts with eight random facts about themselves.
- Those who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight facts and post these rules.
- At the end of the post, choose some people to get tagged and list their names.


So here are my 8 facts about myself:

1. My middle name is Dean, the same as my Dad. It is a Mennonite tradition, particularly among men, to reuse the name of a father or grandfather, often as a middle name. One of my great, great...grandfathers was Dietrich Dietrich Peters, they actually gave him the same name twice. There was also a Johann Johann Neufeld. Crazy Mennos.

2. I have become a homebody. I'm not sure what it is, maybe just a result of getting older, maybe it is the lack of walkable proximity to friends. Whatever it is, I find myself home alone on a Friday night, blogging.

3. I'm not very interested in going to Rome. This might not be a big thing, but in the insular world of architecture it is blasphemous. That's probably part of why I haven't made it, although I've been to Europe twice and haven't set foot in Italy. Give me the nordic countries any day.

4. I get really nervous about talking on the phone. In fact I hate it. Maybe it has to do with the lack of visual communication, not being able to read body language. Maybe I'm just neurotic.

5. My perception of domestic comfort was shaped by Woody Allen. If you are familiar with his films, you know the interior of a New York intellectual's apartment. When I saw the recent film The Squid and the Whale (not Woody Allen) I was struck by the interiors, they resonated somehow. The other night I watched Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen) and finally made the connection. The tattered rugs, overloaded bookshelves... I can't describe it properly, but it is the picture of comfort. Fortunately my perception of healthy relationships isn't based on Woody Allen...

6. Although that leads to the fact that I have not had a relationship in more years than you can count on one hand. Not that I am opposed, in fact I would really like to meet the right girl. I guess fact 6 is that I am reluctantly single.

7. If I won the lottery, I think I would go to a culinary school. I don't want to work in a restaurant, I just want to be a classically trained chef. It would make for fantastic dinner parties.

8. I don't really like cake. If I ever get married I want to have a wedding cobbler.

Oh, and I'm editing this later cause I remembered something else... I've eaten horse. Yeah, that's right, I said it. Go ahead and hate me if you want. It was in Stockholm, at a recreation of a 16th century meal, and they had horse sausage and headcheese, and I ate both. I've also eaten congealed duck blood and rice on a stick in Taiwan.

Now I'm supposed to tell other people to do this. Um, maybe Sarah Helen if she hasn't?

The Box of Bounty

I finally signed the house up for a CSA (Pioneer Organics), and the first delivery came yesterday. The great thing is that I forgot it was coming, so it was a happy little surprise sitting on my doorstep.
Oh wait, that was my Red Lobster Love Child...


Here's the box, very utilitarian...


And the produce, artfully arranged on the dining room table... I started with the small box, but I feel safe in stepping it up a size or two.


I was particularly fond of this little guy. It doesn't come across so well in the photo, but this is one charming bell pepper.

So what have I made with the harvest? Nothing, yet. But the weekend is upon us, and I fancy a curry....

Muppet Personality Test

You Are Rowlf the Dog

Mellow and serious, you enjoy time alone cultivating your talents. You're a cool dog, and you always present a relaxed vibe. A talented pianist, you can play almost anything - especially songs by Beethoven. "My bark is worse than my bite, and my piano playing beats 'em both."

The Muppet Personality Test

I really want to keep up with the blogging, but I don't have much to say publicly at the moment. I will limit my ramblings to a few thoughts:

I love This American Life, and the fact that they have almost the entire archive available for free online. I listen t it nonstop when I have the office to myself.

My college reunion is coming up, so I've been reading over some emails from my senior year. If you have enough distance from the time, and something to go back to (journal, random scribbles) I highly recommend it. In many ways the exercise is proving cathartic, and hopefully will result in some sort of reflexive reaction. Is that a real term?