southern-bound.

and so on friday, i begin a number of months during which i will take several flights:

on this last friday of april, i will fly to atlanta and attempt to not drink myself dead. fingers crossed! in new york, i hardly drink as hard or as often as i do when i'm in georgia; there is something about that state that turns me into a lush.

on a saturday at the end of may, i will fly to new orleans and spend the weekend helping to demolish mold-ridden remnants of the ninth ward. i will sleep in bunk beds with strangers and eat the food they hand me.

on a friday in the middle of june, i will fly back to georgia to celebrate the marriage of two friends.

on a saturday in july, i will fly to south carolina for the first vacation i've had with my father in 13 years. i will ride a bike across kiawah island and prepare my family avocado and citrus salad, grilled jerk-spiced portobello mushrooms over cumin rice, green apple salsa, and coconut milk bread pudding.

on the other weekends? i will sip bloody marys with scarnsworth and kate moss and we will sun ourselves at beaches in queens.

salsa that ends your search.

where i will be in seven days!

as long as she ate the mouse, she can't see nor hear.

this one's for s.m.!

it's the most delectable dessert -- vegan treats' chocolate peanut butter mousse bomb cake. found at curly's and atlas and teany. i'm bringing s.m. a piece when i fly in next friday but i can't wait that long, myself: i'm hitting up curly's tonight!

yummers.

in other food-related news, scarny and i had a farewell (until i see him next weekend) at bao noodles last night. i had the curry tofu and he had the pho; we started it off with vegetable spring rolls. quite good. ended the night with a hofbrau lager at rolf's -- known for its exquisite (and a bit over-the-top) decor around the holidays.

stuck!

i was just telling scarny the other day that he should take a trip over to roosevelt island via the tram. it offers some of the most beautiful views of the city and for only $2 on one's metrocard.

well, take the train, scarny.

chicks and bunnies.

calorically-dense carnival foods -- unmasked!

after my last post, i thought i'd post a few more tasty tidbits about the foods found at the fair:

5 oz. fried snickers bar: 445 calories
5 1/2 oz bag o' cotton candy: 625 calories
4.5 oz. soft pretzel (sans mustard): 340 calories
average plain funnel cake: 760 calories
20 fl. oz. orange julius: 490 calories
nachos (40 chips with 4 oz. cheese) 1100 calories
8" churro: 325 calories
13 oz. chili cheese fries: 745 calories
18 oz. pork ribs: 1360 calories
10 oz. kettle corn: 1200 calories
8 oz. peanuts in shell: 930 calories
16 oz. dippin' dots ice cream: 600 calories

oh, i'm so evil.

chop-lickin' yumminess.

because this page does part-time as a food blog (when not being a dating diary or a knit-along, or a travel journal), i must bring to your attention the BEST easter candy known to humankind:

the cadbury mini-egg.



as paddy o'poppycock wrote somewhere on the interweb:

"I don't remember exactly where I was the first time I had Cadbury Mini Eggs, but I remember the sensation I felt the moment I bit through the candy shell. It was as if I'd tasted chocolate for the first time, that all previous chocolate was just preparing me for these mini-eggs. I wouldn't realize just how great these oval nuggets of nirvana really were until years later when I first partook in lovemaking. Or as I called it at the time, "The physical act of two people nearly replicating the pleasure of eating a Cadbury Mini Egg."

sadly, i have yet to find them in the city.

spicy sweet succulent

made some cinnamon-oatmeal-orange-cranberry cookies last night, and made 'em vegan just because. my coworker (THE coworker, of times past) asked me if eating them magically made him a vegan and, of course, i told him he better know where to pick up some birkenstocks in nyc, hippie.

he then told me that he "passed gas and it smelled like... love."

work is odd.

quite excited about my trip to atl/ath at the end of the month. so excited, in fact, that i bought a kelly green cotton eyelet strapless sundress at h&m yesterday just because. i probably won't even bring the damn thing, but it felt like georgia to me and so i just had to have it.

oh, and i treated myself to some vietnamese cuisine with a trip to bao noodles last night (scarny! bao noodles!) and had some rice vermicelli with spring rolls, cucumbers, bean sprouts, cilantro and sweet soy sauce. washed it down with a glass of pinot grigio and read the article on muzak in this week's "new yorker".

what else is important to me at this time?

running three miles three times per week, visiting my mom, roasting vegetables, smiling more, laughing more, being more pleasant au generale, walking two miles to and from work every day, watching movies in bed, listening to kcrw's "good food" on my ipod, reading "the year of magical thinking" by joan didion.



spring has sprung, despite the snow.

commencement.

sadly, the agent and i have parted ways. don't wish to say much more than that.

in happier news, i have decided to grace the lovely peach state with my presence between the dates of april 28 and may 1. oh! to return to the land of taco stand!

this weekend was beautiful and glorious: ran three miles on saturday, got a sassy new haircut (i'm rocking long bangs now, folks), did some shopping at the greenmarket (purple carrots! blue peruvian potatoes! garlic chives!), watched "the future of food" on dvd, drank orange-infused vodka at mama's, ate yummy sushi with kate moss and her sister, had brunch with my brother (though, sadly, the bloody marys were sub-par), walked-walked-walked all over the city and enjoyed the sunshine! i had forgotten how much i love sitting on the east river promenade with a whole wheat bagel and a cup of coffee and the times. even got a bit of a burn on the right side of my neck. my skin hasn't seen real sun in some time.

in the happiest news of all, scarny is about to become a full-fledged resident of our lovely city. can. not. wait.

'tis all.