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May. 1st, 2006 11:04 pm
today and other subjects
Got my new cell phone last week. It looks so cheap, but then again it was free. I haven't even added everyone yet; I gave up by the time I got to J. I love my plan though - nights start at 7PM! AWESOME.
Yesterday Mark decided to roast a duck. We used a recipe from the Anthony Bourdain Les Halles cookbook, so yes, it was a French recipe, and it took him nearly half a day to do it. It was delicious - of course, it didn't taste anything like Chinese roast duck, but the sauce was very sweet, and the meat came out pretty tender, and the skin - YUM. I took some pictures - maybe I'll post them up later. We froze the leftover duck fat, and maybe we'll cook it in something else - duck confit, anyone?
I also went to the San Carlos Library annual book sale. I took advantage of their $5 bag sale and got myself a ton of books - some Terry Brooks, Al Franken, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alice Walker, Connie Willis, Samuel Delany, etc, etc. I also got the Hillary Clinton autobiography, and today someone left out the Bill Clinton autobiography. The Bill Clinton autobiography is 957 pages long. I have no idea when I'll get to them.
Right now I'm in the middle of re-reading Octavia Butler's series Lilith's Brood. It always sucks me in - whenever I read it on the train I only know that I'm in San Francisco because the train stops completely.
In other news, Mark's sister had dinner with my family for the first time, and she took everything in stride, much better than either of us predicted. My relatives all thought she was very pretty, and kept telling her that she was "beautiful". She played with Kaitlin, sat next to my mom at the dinner table and listened to her burp really long and loudly; I showed her the chicken feet soup (which I don't really like, but she'd never seen chicken feet before).
Today a bunch of restaurants were closed for Day Without Immigrants. Most of them had signs up, and there was a pretty large demonstration downtown. On the way home, I saw a bunch of them with their signs sitting next to the train station, with tired looks on their faces. I wish I could have gone, but I'm backlogged, and taking on the resigned person's tasks, and some of that stuff goes back pretty far. It's pretty empty in our department, since there's only one other person who's actually there full-time.
Yesterday Mark decided to roast a duck. We used a recipe from the Anthony Bourdain Les Halles cookbook, so yes, it was a French recipe, and it took him nearly half a day to do it. It was delicious - of course, it didn't taste anything like Chinese roast duck, but the sauce was very sweet, and the meat came out pretty tender, and the skin - YUM. I took some pictures - maybe I'll post them up later. We froze the leftover duck fat, and maybe we'll cook it in something else - duck confit, anyone?
I also went to the San Carlos Library annual book sale. I took advantage of their $5 bag sale and got myself a ton of books - some Terry Brooks, Al Franken, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alice Walker, Connie Willis, Samuel Delany, etc, etc. I also got the Hillary Clinton autobiography, and today someone left out the Bill Clinton autobiography. The Bill Clinton autobiography is 957 pages long. I have no idea when I'll get to them.
Right now I'm in the middle of re-reading Octavia Butler's series Lilith's Brood. It always sucks me in - whenever I read it on the train I only know that I'm in San Francisco because the train stops completely.
In other news, Mark's sister had dinner with my family for the first time, and she took everything in stride, much better than either of us predicted. My relatives all thought she was very pretty, and kept telling her that she was "beautiful". She played with Kaitlin, sat next to my mom at the dinner table and listened to her burp really long and loudly; I showed her the chicken feet soup (which I don't really like, but she'd never seen chicken feet before).
Today a bunch of restaurants were closed for Day Without Immigrants. Most of them had signs up, and there was a pretty large demonstration downtown. On the way home, I saw a bunch of them with their signs sitting next to the train station, with tired looks on their faces. I wish I could have gone, but I'm backlogged, and taking on the resigned person's tasks, and some of that stuff goes back pretty far. It's pretty empty in our department, since there's only one other person who's actually there full-time.
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