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[bronze_ribbons]

I'm thinking I should make and take a thermos of strawberry lassi into the office this morning, having woken up physically out of sorts. I'm hoping it's not a cold coming on -- that it's just taking my body a few days to readjust to a better-grade antihistamine (de-clog already, ears!), that some of the lassitude is lack of exercise, too much salty food this week, etc. -- but the combination of "too exhausted to get out of bed, too unsettled-in-the-stomach to sleep" is peculiar.

Then again, maybe it's just my body's way of telling me that steamed broccoli and avocado chunks do not go together, even though the combination didn't taste all that bad.

(I wouldn't inflict it on anyone else, mind, but it was 9:30 p.m. and those happened to be the green things within reach.)

All of that said, I've been up for a couple of hours now and am feeling better, and I'm also feeling pretty good about the plan for the day -- a couple of items will get crossed off (including paying for the library book I accidentally doused with soy sauce...). So, onwards.

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[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

Where exactly were you sitting that broccoli and avocado were both "within reach?" Do you regularly keep produce in your parlor?

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Doesn't everyone? ;-)

(At the butcher block in my kitchen, as it happens. On which is also piled The Chicago Manual of Style, Vegetarian Planet, two unripe mangoes, a tin of dog biscuits, two knives, a sack of garbanzo beans, and a half-consumed apple pie...)

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

You had pie at your disposal and yet you reached for the BROCCOLI?! *boggles*

Everyone should have The Chicago Manual of Style in their kitchen. By the way, a colleague has the ultra-new, ILLUSTRATED edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. I think you'd like it. ;^)

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Hrmph. If the pie had been green, there would have been no mystery about the stomachache...

The new TEOS does look intriguing... but I have yet to make it through Eats, Shoots & Leaves and my collection of Karen Elizabeth Gordon's handbooks, so I'm trying to be gooooood. *sigh*

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

I've skimmed my boss's KEG book (forget which one) and have been informed of the wonder that is ES&L but have not seriously spent time with either.

On a random note, any chance you're really my friend Fae in disguise? Because I've never seen you in the same place at the same time, and sometimes I wonder.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Is she a mouthy yet aloof Asian chick with a penchant for short skirts and single-malt Scotch? If so, possibly. ;-)

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

No. She's a black-humored, highly principled, incredibly smart, organic-food-eating freelance writer. Don't know about the Scotch.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lore/]

Then again, maybe it's just my body's way of telling me that steamed broccoli and avocado chunks do not go together, even though the combination didn't taste all that bad.

*stares*

Actually, I get the broccoli, I love broccoli, but mixing it with avocado...even though I do like avacado....hummmm.

*plots SO torture*

love, lore

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

*icon love*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lore/]

Hee! <3

love, lore

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

ooh. I like that one, too.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, with a bit of lemon juice and salt, it tasted no worse than many a potluck "salad"...

(My penchant for indulging in odd combinations (and irrational intolerance of "normal" ones such as chocolate milk, PB&J, and other cloying horrors) has perplexed countless mates and guests for years now. The BYM tends to take most of it in his stride, but there's also no faster way to shoo him out of the kitchen than by bringing out the Persian-style pickled garlic or the pickled Chinese flower cucumbers. ;-) )