2 posts tagged “gluten-free”
I couldn't think of a good title or theme to this entry -- so I am using the word "knish." It is a fun word to say...
I had lunch with a faculty member today, an older gentleman who has retired, but is still teaching one class a semester. It was quite lovely -- he's a sweet man, a gentleman in the truest sense. I really enjoyed it. I am also bemused by the number of faculty on campus who are disappointed that I am not working there full-time. Unfortunately, these people don't control reality at work, so there you go.
I had a gluten-free pizza last Friday that was pretty good -- the pizza place called this afternoon to ask how we liked them, and they told me about a new gluten-free place opening this Saturday in my town. Score!
Still no full-time employment on the horizon. Depressing... Don't know how badly this is going to screw up our lives.
I want cats. Our landlord will only get them if he can either a) look at their previous home environments and gauge the amount of damage they do, or b) if we declaw them. Seeing as I refuse to declaw my kittehs, and the humans in this house do more damage to the carpets than a kitteh, would, we are at an impasse. Sigh.
D is probably ADHD. No surprise. We will talk with the doctor Monday about what this means for a boy who is getting tested for possible inclusion in the gifted program this Saturday.
I miss snow. Gimme!
A few words...
- Every so often, I make a (gluten-free) meal that is so good that D asks me if I will go compete on "Top Chef." Very sweet of him, but I don't have the knife skills. However, sometimes I dream about going in as a gluten-free chef, to prove that gluten-free food can be yummy. Or maybe I'll just become rich and famous and find investors and start up a GF restaurant in the area.
- We let the kiddies stay up late last night to watch some history. (It occurred to me that I have watched a lot of history: shuttles exploding, terrorist attacks, people dying before their time. This time, regardless of which party won, we would have been watching history, and this time, no one would have had to die.) Watching the news coverage on WGN, a Chicago-based station that we can still get news from, one of the commentators, Judy Baar Topinka, was really cranky. Instead of talking about the history of the moment, she was grumbling, "Well, he's going to have a lot of work ahead of him." Well, duh. Maybe she is still bitter that the Illinois Republicans had to pull in Alan Keyes to run against Obama for the Senate seat back in 2004, because they couldn't get anyone else to do it.
- D asked, as the TV image showed Oprah looking proud and teary, who she was. "That's Oprah, honey." "Is she famous?" "Yes, so famous you don't have to use her last name." "Is she more famous than Britney Spears?" "Yes, quite a bit more so."
- D's Pokemon-themed birthday party is Saturday. I am NOT making these cupcakes. But at least there will be fabulous prizes.
