d&d

Public admission:

I now play Dungeons & Dragons (Gamma World!) and I love it.

This is my character:

This is Julian's interpretation of my character:

This shows how seriously we take ourselves*:

 These are Julian's characters (he's plural):

This is how long we giggle over Julian's character:

Infinity

This is my sentence defending myself:

I get to spend one night a week sitting around a table with three guys/men, being creative and laughing til my sides ache.

*Not seriously

hump day

"Get your mind out of the gutter"

--"It lives there constantly. The sides are too slippery to get out."

"I am governor of the gutter."

Real life chats from real life girls who need new real life jobs.

In other news, my mind is currently here:

mail

In today's mail, I received:

A two-man tent*
A curling iron*
A pizza pan*
A beautiful, heartfelt thank you note/high five (#1 best thing of my week)
A packet for grad school
A prep book for the GRE
A Victoria Secret catalog
A homemade, tailored-just-to-me skirt (this was actually delivered via Sarah-mail)

Basically, May 24 = Christmas.



*FREE! Courtesy Gap Reward Points. Thank goodness I remembered to use them before my last day.

Sunday Reading

"We are defined by whom we have lost." - Anna Quindlen

"Whenever you laugh gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond...And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." - Norton Juster 

"I read The Phantom Tollbooth first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began 'This is the best book ever.'" - Anna Quindlen, The New York Times 

cooking again

I pack a pretty picnic basket:

Okay kids. It's asparagus season. Two recipes you CANNOT miss are the following:


1.) Asparagus Soup
My alterations:
Use a whole stick of butter, a whole onion, and 3 garlic cloves. Also, only use 1/2 pint sour cream and then a cup of heavy cream. Seriously. Do it.
*On a second batch, I also added chopped sage leaves, red pepper flakes, and some rosemary. Mmm yes. Do that as well.

2.) Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus
Absolutely no alterations (except I used just 2 stalks each and I think it made them easier to eat). Just make sure you let that dressing sit for a long as possible. The sage...oh. Incredible.