newman's dead?

as per meagan's exhortation, i am obliged to report that indeed, newman is dead.



i have always enjoyed his movies, cookies and salad dressings, so this is a very sad occasion. meagan is more upset than i am, as she still believes (well, she did until this morning) that he was sexy enough to have sex with. so, goodbye paul newman.

taco flavored kisses

ah yes, dinner time! wednesday night, using the veggies from this week's farmer's market i got a stew goin!



some peppers, squash, garlic and onions...



after juggling these around for a while, i chopped.


i could eat tomatoes for every meal. tomatoes on toast, with a touch of salt, pepper, and a bit of basil, is my new favorite treat.

anyhow, that's some good billy!

dinner was snackalicious, and when we were done meagan and i went to see the new cohen brother's movie. has anyone else seen this? do people "like" this movie? i'm still not sure. that scene where brad pitt gets shot through his head was pretty gross. and then when john malkovitch axes that loser on the street in broad daylight....wtf?

anyhow, since moving down here i've been cooking most of my meals, and it's nice to actually use my kitchen. however, there have been some issues correlated to cooking occurring in my kitchen. well, there are two issues, and one is my fault. the first issue is that meagan has a compost bin, and this has attracted flies. many, many flies. however, since the weather has changed, the flies have thankfully died. this leaves the second issue related to food morsels in the kitchen...

ANTS! droves and droves of ants, emanating from every crevasse and nook in our kitchen. will these die with the cold weather, or do i have to "do something" about this? well, if I can't get rid of them and they stay, I for one would like to welcome my new ant overlords. i just hope they don't make me work in their underground sugar caves.

ahh yes, and then there is kitty city. i'll have to get back on that later, since there are many things to report. at this point it's all very distressing and wet, so i'll need some time to decompress.

what is not distressing is this: the foundation for my zuul-fridge costume! have i mentioned that this year's halloween party is going to be awesome?

ok let's see.....the weather is decidedly cooler down here, which means a few things: the leaves are changing and becoming crunchy under my feet. it also means sweaters and pumpkin beers!

it also means indy doesn't pant like a maniac at the park. i still do, however.

oh right, and thursday night was taco night! i love taco night! i really would like to reinstate the american tradition of always eating the same thing for each night of the week. i've already told meagan that i want saturday night to be indian food night. and thursday was a good night for tacos.....so that leaves only 5 other nights where i have to forever commit to a certain food. suggestions? i think i'm down for anything, as long as it doesn't have the word "loaf" in it.

finally, last night, when i was having my shower, indy found his way into the bathroom, and he actually walked into the shower with me. normally, if he comes to greet me in the shower, he will merely poke his head into the shower, and maybe he will lick the wall a bit. last night, however, he jumped right in with me. not one to waste such an opportunity, i proceeded to lather him up and bathe him. he seemed to like it, but i realized that this a weird thing to do....you know, showering with your pet. i guess i've crossed that line that separates people who have animals, from those crazy pet owners who get naked with their pets. oops.

mister manager

ok, so i love this picture! maybe when the gents come down for halloween we will get another. also, it's taco night! what could be better?

fine pipe weather

i figured i'd fire up the briar and write a post about how finally the heat has left my southern home. i find this to be very satisfactory, as i no longer need to shower three times a day.


and things are looking up in other spheres for me right now. i'm starting to get secondaries for med school, which is nice, and my new job starts next week. also, the phillies look to be a playoff contender, and the eagles are only partially crapping their pants! but best of all, today at the farmer's market i found some deliciousness to make into a sauce for dinner. yum!



also, meagan and i just got a new dvd player, so i've started to revisit band of brothers (an amazing program), as well as arrested development this week.



and...and things on the kitty city front are slowly improving! meagan and i figured out that if we don't admonish her for biting us, then she doesn't pee in the bed! it turns out she was just being a resentful, urinating bitch! of course!

that's a pretty fair shake, if you ask me. i'll take obnoxious biting over puddles of urine every day of the week.


sadly, meagan is still having sudden shocks of fear in the middle of the night, worrying that the cat is peeing. this is both sad and very funny. "is the cat peeing? is the cat peeing? i think the cat just peed!" this is meagan and her coterie of study buddies.



and this is the view from our front porch. also very satisfactory. i've been spending my mornings out there reading and drinking my coffee. it's sooo nice and i can't believe how lucky meagan and i were to find this little house! it's exactly how i imagined myself a few months ago, rocking on my front porch, smoking a pipe, etc.


anyhow, yesterday morning i spent a while reading about necrotizing fasciitis. for those who don't know, let me tell you that you don't want that. it's so, so horrible, and if you get it somehow, well...you will most likely die, or at the very least lose parts of your body you probably don't want to lose.


like many others who continually read horrible accounts of rare diseases, i became paranoid that i'm gonna get this. so, to shake the paranoia and fear from my brain, i played with squirrel for a while.


aside from the biting, she's just what the doctor ordered.


very sphynx-like, i think.



and then i checked on meagan's flowers



and my cactus patch. looks healthy to me.







this definitely helped buck my paranoia of bacterial infections.



oh, and yesterday i was fortunate to play a round of southern, autumnal golf! i played a round with teo in august, and it was so ridiculously how that afternoon (104 degress when we teed off) i don't even recall the back nine. this round was much better. i even saw some deer on the course!

anyhow, for tonight i'm making a big dinner to celebrate hump day, and i think i'll work on my bloody mary recipe.

my friend josh, the current bidet

so let me tell you a few things about my friend josh. today is his birthday, and as such, i would like to celebrate some of his unique and god-given abilities. for example, pictured here one can see how coordinated he is. not everyone can complete a shuffle pass to their own beer, you know.

and what else can one share about josh.....i've known him for so long it's hard to parse all his wonderful qualities. during the years i have known him he peed on the palace of justice in france, was attacked by a dracula on wheels in romania, arm wrestled nazis (also in romania), drank out of a boot while looking for alligators in the south, and became a master of global affairs.

but there is so much more to josh! for example, he has fine looking horns...

he has an enchanting musk that even makes him giddy.

and his bionic eye still makes me envious.

he enjoys taking his retarded little brother out of the house from time to time. so that's nice.

and he's not ashamed of his heritage! you go girl!

so drink up josh!

and put your party face on!

go have one of your trademark bizarre dinners. but, don't be disappointed, pointed, pointed...

have many beers, and then tell seth what you really think about him

because today you are the bidet boy!

happy bidet, josh! can't wait till you come down here and strap on a proton pack!

ssssssssss

so i have a riddle for this blog's installment. well, it's more of a guessing game, really. ok, so here we go: what continues to go bump in the night in chapel hill? i'll give you a clue. it's the title for this blog post. think about it. before scrolling down, try sounding it out.



still can't get it? ok, it starts with "ur." give it a moment.


oh good, you got it! that's right, what goes bump in the night is the sound of urine forming a warm puddle between my legs at 7am.



i think my brain is broken with urine mist, because i really do smell urine everywhere now.
is it possible she knows how upset this makes me?



i miss waking up to this in alaska.







nothing but my own urine, or a bear attack, to spoil a night's sleep.
i love guessing games.