June 2005

Hiatus

by zora on June 13, 2005

A-l-b-u-q-u-e-r-q-u-e. I am so tired of typing that combination of letters. You’d think I’d be able to do it my sleep by now, y’know, having been doing it since typing class in 6th grade, and now having typed it about 20 times a day for the past week. But no. There’s always a u going [...]

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Mmm, mouse turds

by zora on June 5, 2005

This afternoon I was wallowing in that wonderful treat the Dutch call muizestrontjes, or “little mouse turds.” (Actually, per recent official Dutch spelling changes, I guess it should be muizenstrontjes.) That’s the not-such-a-stretch term for chocolate jimmies, or sprinkles, which the Dutch, in all their ingeniousness, sprinkle on warm buttered toast, so they get a [...]

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Was this what I ate?

by zora on June 3, 2005

Ever since my trip to Mexico last November, when a hitchhiker had me nibble on some mysterious forest critter, I’ve taken to looking at cute little animals and trying to imagine them without their fur, and smoked and stapled to a wooden board. This one looks like a good candidate: It’s an agouti. I still [...]

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