people make me tired.

[seryn]

We went to the neighborhood block party tonight. It was okay but 2 hours of standing around with people I don't know isn't exactly brilliant. Hot dogs, however, are vastly improved by being grilled.

Tai chi was good today. We didn't have any new people so there was more of the fun chi gong parts and less of explaining how to do the fun parts. The tai chi part was meh. I can't decide if the instruction is bad, if the choreography is butt-stupid, or if this is actually hard. I suck at it. After months, I still can't remember the whole routine, which takes like 3 minutes.

I've been watching the fourth season of Doc Martin and I'm not enjoying it so much. I'm sure it's because the focus has shifted from Martin being a fish out of water through no fault of his own to people laughing at Martin for not fitting in. No one in Port Wenn is exactly normal. The place is the live-action version of the Island of Misfit Toys.

Veronica Mars has turned out to be really lovely. I can understand why people were so gung-ho about it. I'm almost sorry I missed it when it was on.

I finished reading the fifth Vampire Academy book. I'm going to stop reading these. Nothing ever actually happens, it seems. And the parts that actually interest me are glossed over in favor of some soapish teenage drama and girl-babble about who likes who and how to facilitate that. But mostly I'm missing something.... the dhampir (half vampire; breeds from dhampir/vamp cross only) seem to exist to be bodyguards to full vampires who seem to exist to toss their hair around and look pretty. Even though the vampires have magic powers and are strong and fast as the dhampir, they do nothing to defend themselves. Even though in this book we discover that the vampire's enemies can be brought back from their killing frenzy permanently. The vampires got together and announced that they were going to continue to do jack to help and in fact they're going to require all dhampir to go to work bodyguarding. I don't understand why they keep doing it then. If you're going to get killed regardless, have no choice of profession, your children are going to be enslaved too, why would you not just walk away?

Sure the dhampir would all die out because there wouldn't be vampires who fuck them like whores and leave them to be considered trash by society. But it's worse to spend your life guarding useless fluff who enslaves your entire race and will enslave your children. Better to kill yourself immediately than to allow another generation to be enslaved. But better yet to walk away and live a normal life being a policeman or a soldier or an accountant or cooking French food or anything else. There are plenty of jobs where genetic stamina and strength would be valued and well compensated. And the useless fluff that can't defend itself? Why wouldn't you take all that power you've trained into your race and abduct them and rape them instead of allowing it to happen to your people? It's idiotic. And I can't watch it.

Haven't successfully planned any trips, but I have whole tabsets. It's just impossible to choose anything.

Comments

[sciarra]

One of my guilty pleasures is grilled hot dogs. I'll take them over hamburgers at a barbecue any day, and people are always surprised. However with a heat index of 112 here the last two days, I haven't felt like moving, let alone eating.

[seryn]

oh man... That really bites.

Barbeques are rare for me since most urban apartments don't permit grills.

You might be interested to know that the yogurt with apple juice freezes nicely and can be scraped out with a spoon, no thawing required.

[sciarra]

I had read that entry, and it sounds perfect for this weather. I cannot believe that we're hotter than my relatives' place in Florida. This is just so wrong.

[seryn]

We have your cold-air mix-in here. It's been unseasonably cold. When I was in San Francisco for the World Cup final, it was 49F when I arrived. Certainly would have been willing to take 20F of your heat that day!

I admit that one of the things attracting me to the Four Seasons on Maui is the description of uniformed waiters going around poolside with frozen fruit juice popsicles. (They also don't charge a resort fee, which I appreciate. It's probably dovetailed into the increased room prices, but I prefer that to being nickeled and dimed.)

When I get really hot, I can't eat anything sugary. My body just doesn't handle it well. It's hard to find higher protein foods that don't require cooking and it's easy to be sort of lack-luster toward doing anything about it. I ate a basket of cherry tomatoes one day. Another day I wrapped ham slices around pickles.

I didn't go back and mention on the frozen yogurt post that it was edible in the frozen state as opposed to just being a preservative method.

I'm going to make another batch with homemade strawberry "jam" (no pectin so it's really loose) in addition to the apple juice. Then I'll sprinkle it with peanut butter granola... and have a non-sandwich PBJ.

[corrvin]

Hard-boiled eggs require cooking but they're eaten cold. How's that?

[seryn]

Strangely most people don't seem to eat hard boiled eggs. I do, often enough that I don't have to look up the cooking time.

But there's no way to consider them an easy-to-eat food even if they're already cooked. The peeling is like 50/50 whether it will be horribly painstaking.