Enthusiasm and Its Lack

[mrissa]

Things About Which I Am Enthusiastic

1. SNOOOOOOOOOOW!

Okay, not real snow. But flurries. Enough flurries that a skiff of snow was blowing around on the road.

I am so pleased.

2. Most of the people I saw this weekend. Extremely enthusiastic. Yay, other monkeys. New monkeys! Previously known monkeys! Go, monkeys!

3. Space to be introverted. Go, immediate lack of monkeys!

4. That Orange Stuff (made by tnh). Wow. Layered and complex and astonishing. And with a kick like an entire team of army mules who were Clydesdales on their grandmother's side. I kept telling people about the orange stuff. It was noteworthy.

5. The hot chocolate at Mrs. London's down the street from the hotel. Bitter. Very fine. See also: brioche with vanilla custard and chocolate chips; farm bread with fennel sausage, stinky cheese, and arugula. Go, Mrs. London's. They made a travel day culinarily noteworthy in the good direction.

6. Mmmyyyyy precious. I will try to get a picture. One link broke when I went to take it off in security (and that was ridiculous anyway, but whatever), but next time I have tea with elisem I will ask her to fix it. It is called "The Day She Stopped Waiting," and it is so shiny.

7. Big piles of books on my desk, whee!

8. My book, the revisions to which I will start typing tonight or tomorrow. Book! Still looking interesting and fixable! Yay, book!

9. Being home.

10. Having gotten to be somewhere not-home that was pretty kind to me. (I've heard others didn't have that experience. I'm sorry.)

11. Hot water poodle on my lap.

Things About Which I Am Less Enthusiastic

1. Post-flight vertigo. Bah.

2. Post-travel laundry. Bah again.

Comments

[jenett]

The orange stuff really is amazing, isn't it? I am envious of the opportunity to drink it.

(Erm, not that I don't know the theory on my own, having been around for some of the making last April. But it's not quite the same flair.)

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Is the orange stuff a drink or a food? Did TNH give you a recipe?

Sorry about the vertigo.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Drink, and I wouldn't make it on my own -- wouldn't drink it except for really special occasions. Too strong for me to have more than a tiny bit very rarely.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

You have flurries? ::jealous::

[pameladean]

"Hot water poodle" cracked me up.

Welcome home.

P.

[gwynnega]

#5 sounds very delicious!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Nom nom nom, I am ready for some good hot chocolate. Although we have no flurries, because that rarely happens here.

[volund.livejournal.com]

The Orange Stuff is N-I-I-I-I-C-E ...

also

[jmmcdermott.livejournal.com]

you forgot the crepe place!

it's been like a month, and i still regret not ordering blueberry zeppelin.

(i really spend too much time regretting food-related things...)

saw your lj pic at jim hines blog and thought, "Hey! I met that person at World Fantasy Con! We had Crepes!"

-J M McD

Re: also

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, hi! There are definite advantages to putting my actual name and face on my lj.

Probably you should learn to make crepes. It would solve so many problems! Most of them involving lack of crepes, but still!

Re: also

[jmmcdermott.livejournal.com]

If you go back a few days in my blog, you'll notice I literally exploded my kitchen in flame and smoke whilst cooking ramen noodle soup.

I suspect if I attempted blueberry crepes, I'd open a vortex to some strange new dimension where blueberries rule over enslaved humans.

Re: also

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, that would have its interesting points.