Born Again Cheese Eater

2:34pm: merry xmas
we have a tree

i realized i have a 2g ipod

i have a huge stash of taiwanese tea

life is good

8:21am: 13 kg over the weight limit...

I was happy because I managed to cram everything into my luggage coming back from Taiwan.
Then I get to the airport and find out I'm 13 kg over my weight limit when I try to check my bags >.<

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6:42am: attacked by my roast pork
i was assaulted with a spray of pig juices. i've never been attacked by my roast pork before!

on another disturbing note, the daily show with jon stewart is blocked in the UK. how am i supposed to keep current with the news? this would be illegal in the US!

4:31pm: jelly rolypoly
so in great britain they don't celebrate armistice day or veteran's day, but they do a 2 min of silence the sunday before. why 2 min? why not just 1? why not take the entire day off?

and i never realized how much the brits hate the french. or 'ate the french as they say 'ere. apparently, st. edmund died in exile in france, the worst fate possible, at least for a brit.

and everything has to be called by a different name.

on top of that, there was a postal strike here, but i'm pretty sure that's been over for a month. so whenever stuff doesn't arrive, they first blame the post. and then after a couple more calls and some more pestering, they're like, oops, we never sent it. originally i thought the brits were phlegmatic, controlled and organized. i guess i got them confused with the germans. they're phlegmatic, polite, and they're totally about doing nothing very politely. no one knows what's going on, and they're so scatter-brained. i feel like i'm chasing after cats.

2:23pm: Discovery!

Oh yeah, I figured out how to use my iPod to post

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2:21pm: 115 bottles of booze on the wall

Sooo... I thought I had 30 or 40 but i had to do an inventory recently....

All I have to say is, I am glad such things as packers exist. Otherwise I'd be so dead.

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9:22pm: taiwan censorship
so at the southwark mercure in london, websites related to taiwan were blocked. i was trying to access yahoo taiwan to read about the flooding... but couldn't. taipei times was also blocked. i was going to look at more, but then the taxi came.

i wonder if it's all the mercures or just london or just that hotel.

so it raises the thought, if taiwan would cease to be, not because china swallowed it, but because the world silenced it.

8:58am: kaiten
i love the idea of conveyor belt sushi, even though it keeps flopping. yo! sushi was a little disappointing. will have to come back and try kulu kulu, which may be the place that sold me on the idea of picking your sushi off the belt.

1:30pm: london
hanging out in random places in london.

never sure if i should go to the left or right. i usually pick the wrong side and get overrun by brits and/or non-brits.

also getting overwhelmed by body odors. i guess deodorant is theoretical here. maybe they're trying to go green.

feel like i'm worth 30 extra points if i get run over. i've learned i have to look behind me even, before i cross the street, since i've almost gotten killed by cars coming from behind me making a turn. plus, stop signs seem theoretical, too. they stop at the end of the street, but not necessarily to let you cross. so i'm not sure when to cross.

when people greet me, i'm never sure what language they're speaking. it's this blur of words, and my brain tries to process it through english, french, spanish, italian, unknown. it goes through a couple iterations, finally settling on "unknown." as i walk away, i realize that they were asking "how are you?" oops.

3:54pm: curry
i just bought a curry plant. it smells soooo good. i might just sniff the leaves and not bother cooking it.

11:04am: cheese
i love making cheese! it is so much fun!

10:53am: jury duty
got called for it again. except it's in the middle of nowhere. what a pain.

8:52am: harry potter
noooooo!!!!
they pushed the release date from this month to next summer!!!

5:05pm: csa
i'm totally frustrated by my veggie csa. she flaked a couple weeks, no communication, and i'm getting sick of parsley. but maybe i should give up on csas and just go to farmers markets or go to whole paycheck.

12:48pm: weird phone calls
i just got this weird phone call...

this guy calls my home phone (which i haven't given out in probably six years or more) and asks, "Hi are you Livarot?"

I'm like yes....
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um? what was the guy thinking? is this a new form of telemarketing? if so, it's kind of scary...

4:53pm: yogurt
i made yogurt, which was surprisingly easy. i should have done this with extra milk before. and with the whey, i made bread.

6:44pm: dolphin burger
does anyone know the story behind "dolphin burgers"? i remember being mildly disturbed by that appellation.

11:10am: tallinn hates my passwords
i'm having problems logging in :(

i'm also overwhelmed by the regional food.

7:23pm: i vehemently detest john malkovich
you have ruined so many movies for me. granted, they weren't that great to begin with, but your irritating presence and affected accent grate on even the most patient nerves. watching knockaround guys was horrible, but would have been better without your existence. i wanted to watch dangerous liaisons, but the idea of being subjected to your horror again has made me hesitate. o why must you be so miserably awful john malkovich?

11:01am: фром россия выф лов
санкт петербург ыз беютыфул.

12:44am: cats
i'm having a cat craving. i want to hold one in my lap and pet it.

12:37am: box
i'm totally excited about getting a weekly box of groceries. looking into it right now. i hope it'll work out. but then i might actually have to start cooking :(

on the bright side, i bought incense & a super cute incense holder.

4:01pm: opi
i bought keys to karma instead of big apple red, because they were out at this store i found walking around with woodstock218. i don't know if i regret this purchase yet, it's deeper than i would have liked. oh well.

9:46pm: marche
shrimp and something soup daily soup actually really good
steak tartar wasn't really ground, more like coarsely coarsely chopped, but i liked it better that way
rabbit & fennel couscous yummy
turbot very tender and flaky
rabbit chablis not bad
apple, passionfruit, mango sorbet all very good, but i have a penchant for passionfruit

11:06pm: cyrano's bistrot
butternut squash soup which i always adore
skatewing with risotto the skatewing was good, but it had a nut crust, which in my opinion detracted from the fish, because it's supposed to be tender, so i didn't like the contrast. but that's just me. otherwise, it was excellent.