blt-ass

blt-ass. bacon lettuce tomato avocado sesame sticks sunflower seeds. lots of ranch dressing.

i am very wary of people who do not appreciate mayonaisse, mayonaisse based condiments and condiments in general. the more the merrier. maybe this is why no matter how much i power walk, i stay the same.

isn't it lovely when you find yourself reading a book that you stumbled on without designs.. and it turns out to be most pertinent to what you are thinking about, blogging about, etc? today i picked up this book called 'the sea, the sea' by iris murdoch. so far, it has got me, hook- line- and sinker.

it is about this guy who seemingly has been in the theatre for a long time, and has just retired to live near the sea. he opens with a description of the sea, he is just warming up to tell you about his writing: "it is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which i have employed before. what i wrote before was written in water and deliberately so." i like thinking about that. reminds me of what my dad would have us do when we were kids. he would set us up on the driveway or the house on a sunny day with buckets of water and his old painter brushes. hours of entertainment.

but this guy wants you to know that he is just recording his thoughts and life and observations at this point, knowing that more is going to come out along the way. parallels? yes.

and then he describes his lunch. and how he has thought of writing a cookbook.. . that all his readers/cookers "would be hedonists". i have never thought of myself as a hedonist before, and i am fairly sure that this word has some negative connotation attached to it... but i think i might be willing to claim it as a fair descriptor- definitely where food is concerned.

"in food and drink, as in many (not all) other matters, simple joys are the best as any intelligent self lover knows." simple joys = salad dripping with ranch dressing, a perfectly ripe avocado, crispy romaine lettuce, and sitting around with jenna.