In this photograph there are two packages. One empty and one yet uneaten.

The package was full of almonds and fish, fish with heads. The empty package used to be full of the same, but I ate them all.

There’s a review of this food over at the blog JapaneseSnackReviews.blogspot.com They have a much better picture where you can see the fishes with their fish heads.

I enjoyed the experience of eating them. I don’t think I’ll seek them out, but I won’t shy from weird fish with head foods in the future. My friend and colleague Yoko gave them to me. She had been craving them and had gotten her mom to send her some from Japan. Apparently it was a snack she didn’t enjoy when she was a child but she started longing for.

I live a fun life. I have many adventures. I am feeling very lucky lately.

I’ve been up to a lot of fun things. One of them is writing an article with Yoko about Librarianship and Time management. I actually have to get back to working on said article.

But I have to brag! Last weekend I went in a helicopter with Rob to get a view of the city. It was pretty amazing. We flew from the Heliport down near south street sea port and flew around Governs Island, the statue of liberty and up and down Manhattan. City College looked amazing from the air (Shepard is a most visually striking building from the air). It was very cool getting to see both where I work and live from the air.

I paid my taxes!
This adult thing, it had since vibrant pros and cons.
This if the first year I paid taxes.
Instead of having taxes pay me.

evaluation are coming up at work
I’ve been doing a good job
But I’m skittish of inheriting more responsibilities, I’m still settling into a groove with my current collection of spinning plates

I’ve been dieting
Year before last year I lost 15 pounds
last year I gained it back
I don’t like the amount of brain space dieting takes from me, and how ready it is to lose my lost

My mom has been low carbing with great success. I am very impressed and inspired.

Last night I microwaved a spaghetti squash, gutted it and ate it with pesto. I also baked some if the seeds. twas fun and a yummy treat to nosh on while finishing my taxes

In the past I had split the squash on half, gutted it and baked it at 350 for forty minutes

This time I nuked out for ~11 minutes, let sit for 5 and gutted while hot. I think it took the same effort.

After it’s cooked you scrap stands out with a fork and the result looks a bit like pasta.

I promised my friends in Hawaii I would share this recipe mediase It is yummy and dead simple to make.

Ingredients:
Amy’s Thai soup, one can

Frozen bag of broccoli, one (I like the steam bags when I’m super lazy, ie most of the time)

Coconut oil

Some chicken

Rice, Jasmine

I cook the chicken in the coconut oil because it’s yummiest. I heat the soup and toss in broccoli and the chicken (once it is done) and eat the concoction over rice.

Sooooo

I thought I’d taken care of everything.

I hadn’t.

Russian hacker just ate my radioshow site.

I feel stupid and like I should have stopped them and I wasn’t diligent enough.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get stuff back to normal.

I have fallen in love with the view from Maria’s apartment.

This is a statue Alannah’s which is crazy awesome and depicts a scene straight out of the Chinese Cultural Revolution which I learned about for a class in my History Master’s program a semester back.

Notes from Portland -
Arcade games are awesome -
I went to Groundkontrol which is a bar / arcade. It had a great selection of pinball, including the Addams Family which is one my favorites, Dr. Who & the Twilight Zone themed pin ball.

I also went to Avalon Wunderland – this is a nickle arcade with a nice selection of games that normally cost a dollar and only cost 80 cents there. I enjoyed that and I very much felt I got my money’s worth.

I forgot to upload these, they are of a dilapidated house in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii.

I had fun in Dallas. These are pictures I took around the convention center where the ALA Midwinter 2012 Conference is being held.