Archive for May, 2009

Not a Star Wars reference

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Started my new job today. Meant waking up a 5:00AM. I don’t know how people do it without Rockstar. But we don’t have a coffee maker. The only way to make coffee in my house is with a French press that my sister got as a gift. Drinking my old-tasting coffee out of my old looking cup, I kept wanting to say, “L’etat, je suis.” And spending extravagantly.

My job? Let’s just say that if you purchase a refurbished iPod Touch (MB528LLA) from an established regional reseller, iTouched it first.

F**k you, Lasagna

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Even though I’ve been eating it all year, I still don’t understand lasagna. I think we can move past criticizing that pretentious silent ‘g”. We’re all adults here.

But as far as I can tell, Lasagna is assembled like a tower of cards; in alternating sauce and noodle layers. Topped off by a cheese and egg layer to prevent crisping of the noodles and to slightly emulsify with the sauce.

But lasagna is eaten from above like a cake. Fork goes in the top. So why is it assembled sideways? Certain foods are assembled horizontally, like sandwiches, but they’re also eaten horizontally. Lasagna is assembled horizontally but eaten vertically. What?! Who engineered this food/wrote the eating procedure?

Whenever I eat lasagna, the layers slide off each other and the structure of lasagna becomes that of that of a really poorly executed flan. Or is there some important secret technique to eating lasagna that no one has let me in on?