moving

I just picked up a little ten foot truck (which is nonetheless the biggest vehicle I've ever driven) to carry my belongings out to Michigan. And my internet is going to get cut off at any second...

I will mention that when I went to NYC, my friends and I saw this rather interesting show in Central Park. It consisted of roller bladers, either in various costumes, stages of undress, or street clothes, dancing in their own distinct ways to music that...well I can't remember exactly but it tended to have a heavy dance beat but it was not techno (?) I think...to a back drop of about 40 people on a hill waving and swirling around multi-colored tie dyed flags.

And what that all was for, other than for the pure enjoyment/entertainment/amusement of the participants and the spectators, we did not know.

on the pleasures of dining

A new friend has had an interesting affect on my eating habits recently.

I have become a fan of eating a dinner salad very slowly. Not a wimpy salad, mind you, but a Greek salad, which includes feta cheese and olives and maybe just a few anchovies. Accompanied by a vinegar and oil type house dressing on the side.

So we talk, and I eat my salad very s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y. If the waiter keeps coming by and asking if I'm done, I say that I'm still working on it. My friend slowly consumes a bowl of french onion soup and a small tossed salad. Then for dessert, we each have a slow cup of peppermint tea.

This is not the way I was raised to eat.

Good yogurt tastes like dessert

I concluded today, after sampling the following:

1) Liberte "Six Grains Stirred Yogourt" (with raspberries, buckwheat, rice, barley, wheat, rye, oats) 1.5 % milkfat

2)Liberte Mediterranee Yogourt "Wild Blackberry fruit at the bottom" 8% milkfat

3) Stoney Field Farm "Vanilla Truffle" organic yogurt with cocoa at the bottom and pieces of a Hershey Bar thrown in for good measure. Fat content undetermined.

Dandelion Greens

Tonight, for the first time, I tried cooking myself some dandelion greens.

Tonight, I also found a very interesting article on the internet.



does it work?

If all goes well...

tomorrow I will be taking my first day trip to New York City, ever! I think in the morning I'll drive to New Jersey and I'll be meeting some friends from Maryland and Philly. How exciting!
This trip has been too long in coming.

I've been to Long Island before and I went to the Kennedy airport when I was six, but that doesn't really count.