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my head hurts.  my headaches seem to cycle in and out of my life, and i think i’m in a cycling in phase.  they’re not migraines or anything that severe, but they’re strong enough to make me whine about it.  not that it takes much to make me whine…

tonight i thought i was going out with work people, but that fell through so i’m cooking.  it’s been an ethnic food kind of week (caribbean and then indian) so i thought we should try for mexican!  i sent a some links from epicurious and was personally leaning towards a quesadilla (no, you don’t really need a recipe for that but whatever.  i’m a recipe kind of girl.  actually, epicurious has some great mexican recipes that are not suitable for weeknight cooking but i’m totally going to take a look soon and maybe make a mole or something very time consuming).  a, predictably, chose this which sounds very yummy to me too so i’m not too sad about nixing the quesadilla idea.  i’ll post pictures once it’s done if it looks pretty.

i’ve been lazy with the knitting, though i’ve started the decreases on my clapotis which means the end is in sight!  my deadline was originally to be next thursday which is when i travel home to visit my moms and pops.  i don’t think i’m going to make the deadline…

part of the reason my knitting is moving slowly (aside from the lazy part that is.  crusty shorts, where are you?  you’d be so proud right now!) is that i’m very into this book i’m reading right now.  on beauty by zadie smith.  lately i’ve been VERY into novels about the intricacies of relationships (family, romantic, or otherwise), and this fits that category perfectly.  in fact, smith says she owes a great deal to e.m. forster for providing a model, which made sooo much sense as soon as i read it.  i had been thinking jane austen but that wasn’t quite right.  for some reason i had resisted reading any of smith’s books, and i had actually picked this up a few months ago and just hadn’t gotten around to reading it until now.  she’s incredibly creative with her descriptions of people and how they look and talk.  now i’ll have to go get white teeth.  for a while i was a little obsessed with alice munro, another good “intricacies of relationships” writer…