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shinewithalltheuntold asked: Pickles.

I hate them. I hate how them come with sandwiches and burgers by default. I hate having to tell waiters “no pickles, not even on the plate,” I hate how they’re juicy and if they get left on things the taste permeates the sandwich or burger or fries. I hate the way they smell. I hate that deviled eggs usually have some pickle juice in them and I don’t hate deviled eggs.

(I will admit I was amused when I was (recently!) told that the person I was talking to had NEVER heard of anyone not liking pickles.)

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witchpieceoftoast said: OMG SAME!!! like, they contaminate things!!! why would you just stick them on plates and make everything soggy and gross tasting and blech!
shinewithalltheuntold said: So, obviously I already knew that about you, but sometimes I just like to hear you rant about pickles. :)

1. Work out
2. Shower
3. Eat breakfast
4. Throw up breakfast
5. Discover that the toilet won’t flush because piece is broken
6. Try to fix toilet with superglue
7. Get superglue all over self
8. Spend several minutes with nail polish on hands
9. Go to work because feeling better now
10. Get sent home.

I went and saw The Ugly Truth this weekend. Reading a review (any review, it seems) before I went would have saved me $9.75 and a lot of feminist rage--the more I think about the movie, the less I liked it. I'm not cutting that because I'm regarding this post as a PSA. If you want more detail, you should read this review by Sady Doyle at the Guardian, which says everything I would say if plagiarism weren't wrong.

HOWEVER, I saw it with a wonderful friend, and generally had a good night of CSI-watching and wheat-free food-eating!

*looks at mention of wheat-free food above and realizes she may not have said anything about it before*

So. My dad thinks he's allergic to wheat, and a couple of you online have said recently that you were, too, and so, in a moment of COMPLETE AND UTTER INSANITY I decided that, as an experiment in solidarity or culinary adventure or...well, I'm not exactly sure what, I would give up wheat for a month. I started about a week ago, and it's been hell. Or at least it was last week. If it hadn't been so hot, I could have cooked and it would be going much easier, I'm sure. Fact: you have to cook rice in order to eat it, and, unlike bread, rice mostly doesn't come ready-to-eat. Also, the rice bread looks scary and I think I'm refusing to try it.

Anyway, I discovered some good food already, and hope to make more things now that it is not 100 F in my kitchen.

I was productive this morning, and not only put several things on my hiveminder.com todo list, but also checked them off--including scheduling a service appointment for my car, ordering new contacts, and moving several "I must read" books from scattered lists to an excel file. If I ever read all the books on my lists, it'll be a miracle. Do you know that people keep writing new ones all the time? Astonishing.

I also actually saw last night's episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent (LOCI), and now I can't actually remember much of it. I'm kinda meh on the whole thing except the characters, but TPTB just don't give me enough to really do anything with!