Forgot to add, don’t forget to enter to win my contest

http://feistyfoodie.blogspot.com/2008/07/sole-piccata-win-cookbook.html

Overheard in the elevator this morning, between two attorneys:

“How was your weekend?”
“Mine was great!  How about yours?”
“… I worked… both days…”

No thanks!  There you go, in a nutshell, why I didn’t go to law school. 

So please stop fucking asking, kthx.

Even more horrifying is when people ask what I do and I speak so dismissively of my own passion, writing.  I don’t know why I do that.  To be perfectly honest, I’m not that passionate about food writing because I don’t think I’m that good at it.  I mean, I do it, and people read it, but my descriptions lack the poetic flow of some other food writers who are, well, amazing at their trade.  Anyway, that’s not the point of this paragraph.  I’m just saying, I don’t understand why I am just like, “Oh, I write about food…,” and y’know, it kind of annoys me when people are like, “Oh…” with this air of “So what?”  Well, you frikkin’ asked… It’s not like I’m sitting there bragging about it.  I don’t know.  I think what’s bothering me is that on Saturday, I was talking to someone about food and handed them my business card- which lists my websites on there- they looked it over, and then turned to me and asked, “But what do you do for a living?”  I looked him in the eye and said, “I’m a food writer” because… I don’t know you (I had literally just met him while standing on line for a milkshake).  That’s pretty damn nosy even if I hadn’t just given you my business card… and yeah, I’m a food writer.  Period. 

This other world I live in… it doesn’t exist for me sometimes…

Somewhat related, I discovered something disturbing about myself this weekend.  It’s fixable, and I guess I’ll fix it, but I’m not that happy about it.  Sigh.  When am I ever that happy though?

A shut out last night.  That makes their 9th straight win.  *squee*  I love my team.  And yes, that’s DW at bat =P

Bento!

Cheers!

Man, seriously, door closes, window opens, life is handing me some really surprising choices and options lately.  I am thrilled with most of them and happy with the rate things are going…

How was my 4th of July weekend…?  BBQ, fireworks by the bridge, BBQ again at my sister’s, more food, and then playing tour guide around the city on Sunday… I didn’t realize I knew so much about the Financial District.  Random stuff you pick up along the way, really… But I guess it is one of the most rife-with-history areas in NYC, considering it’s probably one of, if not the, oldest section… (I mean, it dates back to Dutch times!) 

Anyways, lots going on, so I’ll make this quick.

Picture taken from my bus… see under the bridge?  It’s a waterfall!

Still on the bus… free standing waterfall, looks stupid and look how much water is going into the parking lot.

Late night snack on the 4th… this, from a Greek diner, was only OKAY… and then I got really sick later that night.  Maybe that was from too much vodka though?

Sunday’s lunch, plate #1… they’re getting funky with the sushi!  Pretty darn tasty though.  You see the one up top, left of the inari?  It had caviar on top… and was huge, but you couldn’t really bite it to eat it, it would just fall apart.. so I put the whole damn thing in my mouth.  Hahaha.  It was… interesting… trying to chew it, with no room for my tongue to move… lol.

Plate #2… yum yum… some of this stuff… actually more than half the stuff here fell very flat unfortunately…

And… bento!!!  YUMMY!!!

Happy Tuesday, y’all.

… not the reality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/dining/13incompatible.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Don’t these people have better fucking things to worry about???

http://feistyfoodie.blogspot.com/2008/07/top-berry-luncheon.html

For those of you who watch Top Chef, I met CJ yesterday.

For everyone else- me neither!  I have no idea who he is, and he seemed a bit miffed that we weren’t all OMFG.  I only knew who he was cuz he was wearing a chef jacket that said “Top Chef” on it, and it said “CJ” whatever on it.  Ah well.  Good times.

I love press events

Anyway, I’ll be posting about it later, so you’ll have to find out there.

Teaser shot!  The goodie “bag” from the event.  Haha.

Ciao ciao,

me