Occasional forays into thought

Of the many gifts God has given man, chief among them woman (after Christ), high up on the ranks would be the French for their amazing ability to make food that is simply amazing. I just got back from Le Pot Au Feu, and having the most amazing Beef Wellington. It happens to be one of my all-time favorite dishes, and the way Chef Philippe Bressolier made it was simply mouthwatering. Oh - if I wasn't stuffed, I would be getting hungry again. I snagged a picture of it, but have to download and then upload it and then link it. Next time I get online I'll try to do that so you can see what I had and you're missing.

Later :)

Call me a dork, but I just saw “Up a Creek Without a Paddle,” and I found it frickin’ hilarious. I laughed so much my checks hurt. As I try to think about how to describe it, I realize anew how stupid it is, but that doesn’t change the fact of its funniness. Strike it up to my strange sense of humor, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I only saw it on a whim, but it was better than a lot of the movies that have come out this summer. It actually tried for a moral at the end even, and in a fun way pulled it off I think. And wow, for the girl in it I think I would put up with going “au natural” on the legs. Take some getting used to, but hey.
Anyway, I was just thinking the other day what a vida loca I have, but I rarely blog about it. In this last week alone I was paid to take a shirt from Macy’s (I mean, Macys paid me – it wasn’t some kind of dare or something), I managed to get a golf cart stuck between two bollards, and I rescued twin baby skunks for a storm drain. Okay, that last one didn’t really happen. Yet. It would be cool if it did though. Oh, I did watch “The Ladies Man” with my friends in the History Corner at school with my friends at two in the morning. I admit, another dumb move. It had it’s laughs also, but “Without a Paddle” was much better. Moving up the serious scale I’ve been going over the intricacies of a breathy “th” and a vibrating “th” sound with the Japanese student I’ve been tutoring. Last week my buddies and I were comparing what we were doing over the weekend, and Andrew thought his weekend was pretty good – getting paid $25 bucks an hour to help someone move. I countered with getting $20 bucks an hour to tutor a cute 20-year-old Japanese student. Everyone said I had the better deal. Actually, I came up with a new tongue twister today to help her practice the nasty intricacies of the English language. It is as follows: “With the wishes of Wisconsin we’ve weathered worse worries than this.” Get to work on r, w, th (both kinds), s, and z sounds all in one sentence. Maybe it doesn’t make as much sense as the ragged rascal or she who sells sea shells, but it gets the job done.
Moving beyond that – let’s see – I got to configure three computers at work this week, installing about twenty pieces of software on each. Actually, I like doing stuff like that. I know, I’m a geek. But see, geek is the new chic. Geek is sexy. So, if you don’t know that, you need to get with it and join the twenty-first century.
I guess one more cool thing about my life. If you know English stuff, you might know Tobias Wolff, and he just signed off this week as my advisor. how cool is that. I mean, I’m just about done, so I won’t be getting to work with him much at all on my education, but still, I think that’s pretty cool that I can say Tobias Wolff is my advisor.
As long as we’re moving towards more serious stuff, I should mention that my mom is getting some serious work done this week. She’s going in for a angiogram/angioplasty. Heart problems need to be taken care of so that they can work on the knee problems. Pray for her.