Meat love, part 7638
Jul. 29th, 2008 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneChorizo and eggs for breakfast -- I have not been this happy about a simple, one-skillet breakfast in a long time.
I hope I cooked the chorizo long enough. I don't have a meat thermometer it was raw pork before it hit the pan. I gave it about five minutes, put in the eggs and cooked for a little longer. It was hot enough to be yummy and still orange enough to make the eggs look like bloodshot eyes.
Oh man, it feels so good as the spices slide down my throat. It's like an angel rubbing my tummy.
I stayed up after work and went to bed at 10 p.m. instead of noon. I am giving myself earth sunlight for a couple days to see how it affects my psyche. So far, pretty good. I'm going for a walk soon.
Then again, it's good to get a warning from a local policeman that the guy taking down the trees on my block was about to land stuff on my car. Why don't I move it while I can, eh?
I was wondering about the noise yesterday and today. The cop explained that these trees have enough internal rot that that trunk-sized branches had been falling on houses (this happened a couple years ago, which is "last week" in Mass government time). Thus they're getting taken out now and replaced shortly. While I liked the trees for their plentiful shade and they aren't dead by a long stretch, I can see each decade's infestation and the lack of care. Rip it up and start again is a perfectly American approach.
The noise kept me from sleeping and kept me reading Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong. It's a book by a Canadian husband and wife (she originally an anglophone, he born a francophone, now both bilingual) fascinated by why France is so... nuts.
This book is giving me a deeper understanding of all that structure versus margins material I studied in college. France is a very centralized republic: it is not a confederacy like the U.S., Canada, Germany and Australia. Heck, it makes the UK look decentralized -- Corsica and Guadaloupe are treated far more strangely than Wales or Scotland. All power radiates from Paris and no American experience compares to this. Heck, we purposefully put our capitals nowhere near our big cities in case they get too potent. The exception is of course my darling Boston, which has too much power by being the biggest city in New England and the capital of the Commonwealth.
Suddenly, railing against centralized concepts has a different meaning when the author's home country has such an invasive government. There doesn't even seem to be a concept of "turn it down a notch". It seems like a very formal, very well dressed version of dick waving. I'll have to visit and see what it's really like.
Okay, the chain saws are getting on my nerves. I'm going to take a shower and head up to a coffee joint for a while. Oh chorizo, you soothe my soul but you cannot plug my ears hygienically.
I hope I cooked the chorizo long enough. I don't have a meat thermometer it was raw pork before it hit the pan. I gave it about five minutes, put in the eggs and cooked for a little longer. It was hot enough to be yummy and still orange enough to make the eggs look like bloodshot eyes.
Oh man, it feels so good as the spices slide down my throat. It's like an angel rubbing my tummy.
I stayed up after work and went to bed at 10 p.m. instead of noon. I am giving myself earth sunlight for a couple days to see how it affects my psyche. So far, pretty good. I'm going for a walk soon.
Then again, it's good to get a warning from a local policeman that the guy taking down the trees on my block was about to land stuff on my car. Why don't I move it while I can, eh?
I was wondering about the noise yesterday and today. The cop explained that these trees have enough internal rot that that trunk-sized branches had been falling on houses (this happened a couple years ago, which is "last week" in Mass government time). Thus they're getting taken out now and replaced shortly. While I liked the trees for their plentiful shade and they aren't dead by a long stretch, I can see each decade's infestation and the lack of care. Rip it up and start again is a perfectly American approach.
The noise kept me from sleeping and kept me reading Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong. It's a book by a Canadian husband and wife (she originally an anglophone, he born a francophone, now both bilingual) fascinated by why France is so... nuts.
This book is giving me a deeper understanding of all that structure versus margins material I studied in college. France is a very centralized republic: it is not a confederacy like the U.S., Canada, Germany and Australia. Heck, it makes the UK look decentralized -- Corsica and Guadaloupe are treated far more strangely than Wales or Scotland. All power radiates from Paris and no American experience compares to this. Heck, we purposefully put our capitals nowhere near our big cities in case they get too potent. The exception is of course my darling Boston, which has too much power by being the biggest city in New England and the capital of the Commonwealth.
Suddenly, railing against centralized concepts has a different meaning when the author's home country has such an invasive government. There doesn't even seem to be a concept of "turn it down a notch". It seems like a very formal, very well dressed version of dick waving. I'll have to visit and see what it's really like.
Okay, the chain saws are getting on my nerves. I'm going to take a shower and head up to a coffee joint for a while. Oh chorizo, you soothe my soul but you cannot plug my ears hygienically.
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