Today's food tally

[mrissa]

Two pieces of toast. One mug of juice. A bunch of water.

I really hope that's not the tally for tomorrow, too, or I will cry. I mean, not that I haven't. I've been feeling like Jo March weeping over J. Robert Oppenheimer's biography, and anachronisms be damned.

I still can't believe I named them Edward and Robert and didn't notice. And sided with Teller! Oof.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Or three chocolate raspberry cupcakes. ;)

[lutin.livejournal.com]

doof.

(forgot to log in.)

happy monday? or whatever.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have had zero chocolate raspberry cupcakes today.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to see this. I'd hoped Jun Bo might be another winner in the real Chinese race.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it was not going to be even without the food poisoning. Everything was very boring.

We didn't do dim sum, though.

[lutin.livejournal.com]

Tch.

Remedying recipe. (http://community.livejournal.com/vegancooking/1795410.html?thread=17919826#t17919826)

(regular milk, especially cream, would be
lovely in this. so too would melting chocolate
down (w/butter?), instead of using powder.)

[zalena.livejournal.com]

I've heard very good things about the Oppenheimer biography. But I don't read many biographies. They kind of scare me. Where does one start? Are their training wheels for biographies?

[ellarien]

Which Oppenheimer biography? I have American Prometheus on the imminent-reading shelf, but I'm not getting around to it very fast.

Feel better soon!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recipe, although I have to say that even if I had had chocolate raspberry cupcakes on hand, the food poisoning would have made sure I didn't eat them. This may or may not continue to be the case today.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would consider it if the issue was my throat, but I'm a little grossed out by it most of the time, and grossed out is not useful for making stuff stay put comfortably at this point.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, timprov is right: boring. They gave us a "Chinese menu" and a "Chinese-American menu" (both in English; dunno if they had one in Chinese with more/different stuff on it, and we ordered two entrees from the Chinese and one from the Chinese-American, with an appetizer and soup from the Chinese-American. It was all bland. They forgot the "hot" in the hot-and-sour soup, for example. It was sour-and-more-sour soup.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, I read biographies from the children's section when I was small. I don't really think that's what you meant, though.

The closest thing I could think of to a "training wheel" biography is an historical work that focuses on the reign of a particular ruler but is not about the ruler personally as much -- you can find that sort of thing pretty easily in the history sections. But I don't think you need a particular lot of reading protocols to get into a well-done biography. If you begin to wonder, within the first 50 pages, whether your subject was said to have walked on water, healed the sick, and raised the dead -- and it's a bio of Lyndon Johnson -- you've probably stumbled onto a hagiographic biography and can safely put it down and get a different one.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That'd be the one. I'm really enjoying it so far.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

I used C.P. Snow's _Variety of Men_ as my training wheels for biography. It doesn't mention Oppenheimer (the focus on people Snow knew personally means there are lots of thematically apt people who have to be left out), but I liked the essays on Rutherford and G.H. Hardy. I haven't reread it in more than 10 years, but I remember being touched by the combination of geekery and chattiness.

[lutin.livejournal.com]

D'oh!, of course.

When you're better & into chocolate, then.