argh

i wrote a long post last night, but once i clicked “publish” it was gone!  i was all pissed off and wrote an e-mail to support and refused to write another post.  this morning i woke up and realized that i never titled the post and so it’s probably floating around in cyberspace, all lonely and discombobulated.  poor post! [wordpress found my post!  i added in any interesting parts that weren’t included earlier.  check out the calorie restriction link if you missed it earlier]

here is a truncated version of the post.

this weekend i visited tp in washington dc.  we ate way too much food (ethiopian, french, and crabs crabs and more crabs) and had a great time doing it.  she lives in a great neighborhood in dc near the eastern market where we bought some baby red russian kale, cheese and bread.  we also got some great soy lattes poured in a very creative way by the goofy latte boy. the first he poured behind his back.  well, essentially behind his butt, so i generously gave that one to tp.  for mine he made a coworker bend down and he poured the latte from up high.  interestingly, mine wasn’t as pretty as tp’s.

the crabs were probably the highlight of the weekend (other than the lovely tp of course).  we went down to the wharf, which i didn’t even know existed, and found some amazing seafood.  the wharf is a floating dock with a number of seafood vendors selling all sorts of seafood.  great looking shrimp as big as lobster tails, giant red snappers, oysters, clams, and of course, crabs.  we bought live crabs that were then steamed by the guy working there.  as i told tp (i think i was a little obsessed with the notion) a few times, watching them get picked up and thrown in the basket for steaming was as close to the life/death cycle we needed to get.

after that weekend i felt a strong need to restrict my caloric intake.  Not like the crazy Calorie Restriction people in thearticle here (seriously, even if you live longer what kind of life are you living?), but along the lines of looking at cooking light for
recipes rather than epicurious.  last night i made a caribbean pork with plantain dish.  i doubt it was authentic but it was tasty, and tonight i’ll be trying my hand at indian food.

there has been some progress on knitting.  the clapotis is coming along and i’m almost out of yarn again!  the scarf is fine but not really picture-worthy. 

i’m thinking about two new projects: this one and this one (in longer sleeves and yes, i would wear a camisole underneath.  sadly, i couldn’t get away with that much peeking out)