Last night, Jon and I had a very quiet evening. He baked his first potato (!) and I made some Weight Watchers “bar food” (jalapeño poppers and tater skins). They were quite good. I’d never used jalapeños before, and I didn’t have plastic gloves for the seeding, so I used fold-over baggies. The poppers were rolled in cornflake crumbs for that “fried” feeling.
I watched my fourth installment of Planet Earth—Deserts. Watching it calms me. The mating duel between two Nubian ibex was so violent it made me nauseous by the end. The ultimate winner crashed his horns into the horns of his opponent with such force that I felt sure the neck would snap. Duels can last for up to an hour.
Photo by David Eppstein
We also watched Seinfeld with the “Notes about Nothing” on and read. I’m more than halfway through The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver. It’s very good—her language is amazing, quite original descriptions and imagery. I am as yet unagented. And Jon found out that one of the positions he applied for received 400 applicants. It seems the hill keeps rising ahead of us.
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