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severity_softlyWhat's the last thing you ate?
Eggs, bacon, and toast (with margarine and homemade blackberry jelly that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
innerslytherin had her parents bring by the last time they came through Knoxville). She's so good to me. :3
What's your favorite cheese?
I'm a cheese slut, but probably Muenster. I prefer white cheeses--Havarti (particularly caraway or dill flavored), mozzarella (braided and marinated in spicy stuff is the yum), swiss--but I love it all.
What's your favorite fish?
Grouper or Sea Bass, but fuck, they're expensive. Of the affordable fishes, I like Salmon. Mahi Mahi is good too, though I rarely find it fresh (so I have no clue how expensive the fresh stuff is outside of a restaurant) and the packaged frozen stuff sucks. Of course, I eat Tilapia the most, since it's the cheapest of the fish I like. :P
What's your favorite fruit?
MANGOES!!! :D
When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
I can't recall ever not liking the black ones. Green ones are still very dependent on my mood.
When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
My parents were very lenient about alcohol, so I tried beer when I was very young. I liked it so much and asked for it so often that my dad eventually started buying non-alcoholic beer to keep around for me. LOL! To this day, me going, "Yeah, I'll have a beer too," to a waitress in a restaurant when I was probably nine is an oft told story. ;)
When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
Can't remember not liking them. My dad was very much a guy who'd encourage me and my sister to try everything. There aren't many things I didn't like when I was little.
What was the best thing your parent/s used to make?
Every year, after Thanksgiving, my dad made "Hot Browns". It's basically toast, with leftover turkey slices on top, then this sort-of Hollandaise sauce covering it all, with bacon (and tomatoes for the adults) on top of that. Then it all got baked in the oven until it browned. To this day, I still remember it as the best part of Thanksgiving.
The last time I had it, it was still great, but it had lost some of it's magic from childhood. Still, very fond memories. :)
What's the native specialty of your home town?
Um... I don't remember having a "native specialty" growing up in southern California. Maybe Dodger Dogs. ;) Dude, from what I recall, they were amazing! *giggles*
What's your comfort food?
Growing up in California or not, my family is southern, so comfort to me is good old southern comfort food. Chicken and dumplings, anything with white gravy, anything fried...
What's your favorite type of chocolate?
Dark-dark-dark.
How do you like your steak?
I rarely eat steak. I like a little pink in the middle, though.
How do you like your burger?
Medium... and dependent on my mood, with either with blue cheese, bacon and chipoltle sauce, or standard mayo, mustard, lettuce, cheese...
How do you like your eggs?
Over medium with salt, pepper and Tabasco.
How do you like your potatoes?
Potatoes are amazing no matter what you do to them. Baked would be my least favorite method, though; scalloped and mashed (with garlic and chives), my favorites.
How do you take your coffee?
With cream and Equal, though I'll use Splenda or real sugar is no Equal is available. Those pink packets, Sweet 'n Low?? NASTY.
How do you take your tea?
Either plain or with a touch of sweetener, whether it's hot tea or iced.
What's your favorite mug?
For coffee, whichever is clean. For soup, either my massive Christmas mug or the Poison Ivy (Batman) mug, as they are the two big enough to fit a can of soup and a can of water in without overflowing. (I prefer my soup from a mug instead of a bowl.)
What's your cookie of choice?
I'm not a big cookie person... Girl Scout Samoas (they changed the name of those recently, but they will always be Samoas to me), or Pepperidge Farm Mint Milanos.
What's your ideal breakfast?
Fried eggs, link sausage (with maple syrup), hash browns. I know, boring. I like a good artery clogging breakfast. I DO love those crepe things at IHOP with the lingenberry butter, though, for a change.
What's your ideal sandwich?
I go through phases... right now, it's really boring...
What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)?
The fall back is always mushrooms, black olives, and sausage. Onions too, if they're in season. But I love to experiment with pizza. My current favorite is this pizza a local restaurant makes with shrimp and feta cheese on top! :)
What's your ideal pie (sweet or savory)?
I'm not a pie person, but I like blackberry cobbler, if, and only if, it has melty ice cream on top. I can't remember the last time I ate a savory pie, other than mini quiches, which were only okay.
What's your ideal salad?
Something with a spinach base. There's this wonderful salad at a local restaurant with a spinach base, artichoke hearts, mandarin oranges, mushrooms, and a mandarin dressing. YUM! I get it with grilled salmon or tofu on top! Double yum!
What food do you always like to have in the fridge?
Diet caffeine free coke (I bet I got through 8 12-packs a month), milk, eggs, bread, lunch meat (regular and vegetarian), broccoli, lettuce, cheese...
What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
Frozen corn, peas and edamame. Easy frozen meals. My dad just gave us this vacuum sealer for Christmas, though, so I may start buying fish and stuff in those big value family sized packs and freezing them in vacuum sealed bags. The last few times I put fish in there, they were freezer burnt before we ate them, but this should fix that! :D
What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
Pasta, canned soup, cereal, tea, chips and salsa (the husband devours that stuff)...
What spices can you not live without?
Salt and pepper, cumin, cayenne pepper, Tabasco, basil...
What sauces can you not live without?
Ummm.... soy sauce. I don't think salad dressings count. I hand make a lot of the sauces I like...
Where do you buy most of your food?
Kroger
How often do you go food shopping?
Whenever the fridge starts looking pathetic. We don't have kids. We can afford to live on Ramen for a few days and be lazy about shopping. LOL
What's the most you've spent on a single food item?
Umm... Probably crab legs, these frozen pre-scored ones. They were on sale, too, and my parents had raved about them. We made them and they made me ill. Never again.
What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
It's been a while. Most of my kitchen gadgets were bought for me, too. OH! I recently broke my coffee pot, and the husband bought me a new coffee maker. It's metal, so I can't break it, and only a five cup pot instead of a twelve cup one, since I'm the only one of us who drinks it. :) Oh yeah, he also bought a black one when every other single kitchen appliance we have is white. Because he's a man, and obviously unconcerned with such things. I told him if we started hearing the pitter patter of little grey emulsion blenders around the apartment, I was going to kill him. ;)
What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
My microplane/zester, the broiler (it was so cute, my husband was all proud because he heard someone on Food Network say it was the most underused appliance, and he was like, "my wife uses it all the time!" Bless him :3), the crock pot. I don't cook as much as I used to, but I want to again, and when I did, I used the crap out of my food processor too.
How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
Lately, not often. It's the damn depression. But I want to start doing it again, because it made me happy. Depression is a weird thing; you don't do things that make you happy because you're depressed, and then it makes you more depressed because you're not doing those things. *snort*
What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
Last night I made wasabi salmon with roasted asparagus and mushrooms.
What's your favorite thing to make for yourself?
Breakfast. I eat our hotel breakfast at work, but on my days off, it's sort of my thing. I get very exited just to make myself a real breakfast; eggs, toast, and either bacon or sausage.
What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig, chicken and turkey?
Most varieties of fish and shellfish that have been available to me, buffalo, lamb, duck... and frog. >.>
What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
In my apartment, if it falls on the floor, it's trash. I have two dogs and a cat, all of which shed and track around dirt/kitty litter. If it falls on the floor elsewhere, I trust it even less.
What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild?
When I was nine? I'm no so brave anymore, or confident in my ability to tell what's edible and what's not. And I don't have opportunity to wander through apple orchards or anything lately. lol
Place the following cuisines in order of preference (greatest to least):
1)Japanese
2)Thai
3)Chinese
4) Italian
5) French
6) Indian
Place the following boozes in order of preference (greatest to least):
I'm trying to quit drinking, so I'm not thinking about this one.
1) Brandy
2) Whiskey
3) Tequila
4) Vodka
5) Rum
6) Gin
Place the following flavors in order of preference (greatest to least):
1) Garlic
2) Basil
3) Ginger
4) Lime
5) Aniseed
Place the following fruits in order of preference (greatest to least):
For me, the tarter the fruit, the better...
1) Pineapple
2) Orange
3) Cherry
4) Apple (tart green ones, or those "pink lady" apples)
5) Melon (except honeydew, urgh)
6) Banana
Bread and spread:
ANY kind of bread! Except maybe sourdough (unless it has clam chowder in it)! I like butter/margarine, apple butter on biscuits, blackberry jelly on toast. Not really a spread, but part of the reason I like over medium eggs is to soak up all the yolky goodness with the toast...
What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
Burger King for the fries, McDonald's for the sandwiches (unless I want spicy chicken, then Wendy's). Taco Bell for The CHEAP.
What are three of the best dining-out experiences you've had?
1) Kampai used to have great sushi specials for lunch. REALLY cheap, fantastic sushi. They don't do it anymore, though, and that makes me cry a little inside. My husband and I used to meet there for quiet lunches. :)
2) There was a restaurant we used to go to in Northern California for Christmas. I can't remember its name, but I remember the stories. The place used to be a whore house, and it had all these private dining rooms upstairs that used to... well, be where the girls worked. The food was terrific and the atmosphere was great (and had a lot of character, too!)
3) *sigh* I don't know. This is a hard question. I recall with a lot of fondness most of the Christmas dinners I've had with my family, and they rate up there, even if maybe if I don't even remember the restaurant name. There WAS a mother's day once that me and my sister took my mom to brunch in the city (San Fransisco) to this restaurant overlooking the bay. My dad was gone, but sent a huge bouquet of flowers to the restaurant. The food was great, but that was secondary. I think that's my issue with this question; my great dining experiences have less to do with food and more to do with the day itself.
Favorite cookbook/s?
How it all Vegan (by Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer--a vegan cookbook with personality!), A Good Day for Soup (Jeannette Ferrary and Lousie Fiszer), and Happy Days with the Naked Chef (Jamie Oliver--which we don't cook from often, but it's GORGEOUS, and I drool over the IDEA of cooking most of those things)
Got any favorite food blogs?
The only one I follow is Vegan Yum Yum. Seriously, it's beautiful, and the recipes are all mouthwatering.
What's the next thing you'll eat?
I'm making potato corn chowder tonight. My parents bought it as a mix and put in our stockings for Christmas. Apparently, they are big fans of this brand's soup mixes. I can't wait!
Eggs, bacon, and toast (with margarine and homemade blackberry jelly that
innerslytherin had her parents bring by the last time they came through Knoxville). She's so good to me. :3What's your favorite cheese?
I'm a cheese slut, but probably Muenster. I prefer white cheeses--Havarti (particularly caraway or dill flavored), mozzarella (braided and marinated in spicy stuff is the yum), swiss--but I love it all.
What's your favorite fish?
Grouper or Sea Bass, but fuck, they're expensive. Of the affordable fishes, I like Salmon. Mahi Mahi is good too, though I rarely find it fresh (so I have no clue how expensive the fresh stuff is outside of a restaurant) and the packaged frozen stuff sucks. Of course, I eat Tilapia the most, since it's the cheapest of the fish I like. :P
What's your favorite fruit?
MANGOES!!! :D
When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
I can't recall ever not liking the black ones. Green ones are still very dependent on my mood.
When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
My parents were very lenient about alcohol, so I tried beer when I was very young. I liked it so much and asked for it so often that my dad eventually started buying non-alcoholic beer to keep around for me. LOL! To this day, me going, "Yeah, I'll have a beer too," to a waitress in a restaurant when I was probably nine is an oft told story. ;)
When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
Can't remember not liking them. My dad was very much a guy who'd encourage me and my sister to try everything. There aren't many things I didn't like when I was little.
What was the best thing your parent/s used to make?
Every year, after Thanksgiving, my dad made "Hot Browns". It's basically toast, with leftover turkey slices on top, then this sort-of Hollandaise sauce covering it all, with bacon (and tomatoes for the adults) on top of that. Then it all got baked in the oven until it browned. To this day, I still remember it as the best part of Thanksgiving.
The last time I had it, it was still great, but it had lost some of it's magic from childhood. Still, very fond memories. :)
What's the native specialty of your home town?
Um... I don't remember having a "native specialty" growing up in southern California. Maybe Dodger Dogs. ;) Dude, from what I recall, they were amazing! *giggles*
What's your comfort food?
Growing up in California or not, my family is southern, so comfort to me is good old southern comfort food. Chicken and dumplings, anything with white gravy, anything fried...
What's your favorite type of chocolate?
Dark-dark-dark.
How do you like your steak?
I rarely eat steak. I like a little pink in the middle, though.
How do you like your burger?
Medium... and dependent on my mood, with either with blue cheese, bacon and chipoltle sauce, or standard mayo, mustard, lettuce, cheese...
How do you like your eggs?
Over medium with salt, pepper and Tabasco.
How do you like your potatoes?
Potatoes are amazing no matter what you do to them. Baked would be my least favorite method, though; scalloped and mashed (with garlic and chives), my favorites.
How do you take your coffee?
With cream and Equal, though I'll use Splenda or real sugar is no Equal is available. Those pink packets, Sweet 'n Low?? NASTY.
How do you take your tea?
Either plain or with a touch of sweetener, whether it's hot tea or iced.
What's your favorite mug?
For coffee, whichever is clean. For soup, either my massive Christmas mug or the Poison Ivy (Batman) mug, as they are the two big enough to fit a can of soup and a can of water in without overflowing. (I prefer my soup from a mug instead of a bowl.)
What's your cookie of choice?
I'm not a big cookie person... Girl Scout Samoas (they changed the name of those recently, but they will always be Samoas to me), or Pepperidge Farm Mint Milanos.
What's your ideal breakfast?
Fried eggs, link sausage (with maple syrup), hash browns. I know, boring. I like a good artery clogging breakfast. I DO love those crepe things at IHOP with the lingenberry butter, though, for a change.
What's your ideal sandwich?
I go through phases... right now, it's really boring...
What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)?
The fall back is always mushrooms, black olives, and sausage. Onions too, if they're in season. But I love to experiment with pizza. My current favorite is this pizza a local restaurant makes with shrimp and feta cheese on top! :)
What's your ideal pie (sweet or savory)?
I'm not a pie person, but I like blackberry cobbler, if, and only if, it has melty ice cream on top. I can't remember the last time I ate a savory pie, other than mini quiches, which were only okay.
What's your ideal salad?
Something with a spinach base. There's this wonderful salad at a local restaurant with a spinach base, artichoke hearts, mandarin oranges, mushrooms, and a mandarin dressing. YUM! I get it with grilled salmon or tofu on top! Double yum!
What food do you always like to have in the fridge?
Diet caffeine free coke (I bet I got through 8 12-packs a month), milk, eggs, bread, lunch meat (regular and vegetarian), broccoli, lettuce, cheese...
What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
Frozen corn, peas and edamame. Easy frozen meals. My dad just gave us this vacuum sealer for Christmas, though, so I may start buying fish and stuff in those big value family sized packs and freezing them in vacuum sealed bags. The last few times I put fish in there, they were freezer burnt before we ate them, but this should fix that! :D
What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
Pasta, canned soup, cereal, tea, chips and salsa (the husband devours that stuff)...
What spices can you not live without?
Salt and pepper, cumin, cayenne pepper, Tabasco, basil...
What sauces can you not live without?
Ummm.... soy sauce. I don't think salad dressings count. I hand make a lot of the sauces I like...
Where do you buy most of your food?
Kroger
How often do you go food shopping?
Whenever the fridge starts looking pathetic. We don't have kids. We can afford to live on Ramen for a few days and be lazy about shopping. LOL
What's the most you've spent on a single food item?
Umm... Probably crab legs, these frozen pre-scored ones. They were on sale, too, and my parents had raved about them. We made them and they made me ill. Never again.
What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
It's been a while. Most of my kitchen gadgets were bought for me, too. OH! I recently broke my coffee pot, and the husband bought me a new coffee maker. It's metal, so I can't break it, and only a five cup pot instead of a twelve cup one, since I'm the only one of us who drinks it. :) Oh yeah, he also bought a black one when every other single kitchen appliance we have is white. Because he's a man, and obviously unconcerned with such things. I told him if we started hearing the pitter patter of little grey emulsion blenders around the apartment, I was going to kill him. ;)
What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
My microplane/zester, the broiler (it was so cute, my husband was all proud because he heard someone on Food Network say it was the most underused appliance, and he was like, "my wife uses it all the time!" Bless him :3), the crock pot. I don't cook as much as I used to, but I want to again, and when I did, I used the crap out of my food processor too.
How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
Lately, not often. It's the damn depression. But I want to start doing it again, because it made me happy. Depression is a weird thing; you don't do things that make you happy because you're depressed, and then it makes you more depressed because you're not doing those things. *snort*
What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
Last night I made wasabi salmon with roasted asparagus and mushrooms.
What's your favorite thing to make for yourself?
Breakfast. I eat our hotel breakfast at work, but on my days off, it's sort of my thing. I get very exited just to make myself a real breakfast; eggs, toast, and either bacon or sausage.
What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig, chicken and turkey?
Most varieties of fish and shellfish that have been available to me, buffalo, lamb, duck... and frog. >.>
What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
In my apartment, if it falls on the floor, it's trash. I have two dogs and a cat, all of which shed and track around dirt/kitty litter. If it falls on the floor elsewhere, I trust it even less.
What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild?
When I was nine? I'm no so brave anymore, or confident in my ability to tell what's edible and what's not. And I don't have opportunity to wander through apple orchards or anything lately. lol
Place the following cuisines in order of preference (greatest to least):
1)Japanese
2)Thai
3)Chinese
4) Italian
5) French
6) Indian
Place the following boozes in order of preference (greatest to least):
I'm trying to quit drinking, so I'm not thinking about this one.
2) Whiskey
3) Tequila
4) Vodka
5) Rum
6) Gin
Place the following flavors in order of preference (greatest to least):
1) Garlic
2) Basil
3) Ginger
4) Lime
5) Aniseed
Place the following fruits in order of preference (greatest to least):
For me, the tarter the fruit, the better...
1) Pineapple
2) Orange
3) Cherry
4) Apple (tart green ones, or those "pink lady" apples)
5) Melon (except honeydew, urgh)
6) Banana
Bread and spread:
ANY kind of bread! Except maybe sourdough (unless it has clam chowder in it)! I like butter/margarine, apple butter on biscuits, blackberry jelly on toast. Not really a spread, but part of the reason I like over medium eggs is to soak up all the yolky goodness with the toast...
What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
Burger King for the fries, McDonald's for the sandwiches (unless I want spicy chicken, then Wendy's). Taco Bell for The CHEAP.
What are three of the best dining-out experiences you've had?
1) Kampai used to have great sushi specials for lunch. REALLY cheap, fantastic sushi. They don't do it anymore, though, and that makes me cry a little inside. My husband and I used to meet there for quiet lunches. :)
2) There was a restaurant we used to go to in Northern California for Christmas. I can't remember its name, but I remember the stories. The place used to be a whore house, and it had all these private dining rooms upstairs that used to... well, be where the girls worked. The food was terrific and the atmosphere was great (and had a lot of character, too!)
3) *sigh* I don't know. This is a hard question. I recall with a lot of fondness most of the Christmas dinners I've had with my family, and they rate up there, even if maybe if I don't even remember the restaurant name. There WAS a mother's day once that me and my sister took my mom to brunch in the city (San Fransisco) to this restaurant overlooking the bay. My dad was gone, but sent a huge bouquet of flowers to the restaurant. The food was great, but that was secondary. I think that's my issue with this question; my great dining experiences have less to do with food and more to do with the day itself.
Favorite cookbook/s?
How it all Vegan (by Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer--a vegan cookbook with personality!), A Good Day for Soup (Jeannette Ferrary and Lousie Fiszer), and Happy Days with the Naked Chef (Jamie Oliver--which we don't cook from often, but it's GORGEOUS, and I drool over the IDEA of cooking most of those things)
Got any favorite food blogs?
The only one I follow is Vegan Yum Yum. Seriously, it's beautiful, and the recipes are all mouthwatering.
What's the next thing you'll eat?
I'm making potato corn chowder tonight. My parents bought it as a mix and put in our stockings for Christmas. Apparently, they are big fans of this brand's soup mixes. I can't wait!
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Date: 2009-01-11 10:11 pm (UTC)I follow the Vegan Yum Yum blogger on Twitter. She was going to do a cookbook--I hope she still will.
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Date: 2009-01-11 11:44 pm (UTC)Cool meme - it made me hungry!
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Date: 2009-01-12 12:32 am (UTC)I used to be vegetarian, my husband still is, so we honestly eat very little meat at home. We both eat fish though, but otherwise I have my breakfast meats and my regular lunch meat, and he has the veggie lunch meat and veggie burgers.
Um, my favorite brand of veggie lunch meat was Tofurky (which also made a decent Thanksgiving turkey substitute), but there are a few other brands, so of which are good (LightLife was another brand I liked), and some of which were awful. It's all soy based. :)
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Date: 2009-01-12 01:25 am (UTC)What, you never ate carne asada fries or Ramen noodles with lime and hot sauce? Total SoCal cuisine. Not to mention ice cream at 10 o'clock at night in the middle of winter (warm weather, yum).
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Date: 2009-01-12 06:12 am (UTC)When I first moved to TN, I SO missed warm winters. Now I don't because the winters here are getting frighteningly warmer and warmer every year. This winter, even in Tennessee, we've had 70 degree days. It's more than a little freaky.
And speaking of carne asada, while the winters here get warmer, the Mexican food gets better too! LOL Ten years ago my city was much whiter that it is now, and and the influx of more racial/ethnic diversity has brought some better ethnic food! ;) Well, you know, and diversity, which is good in and of itself. :P
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Date: 2009-01-12 06:42 am (UTC)It's hard to find good Mexican food around here (which is baffling, because my school is in a very racially diverse locale), and the Mexican food on campus is simply APPALLING. -__- Maybe I should start visiting home more often, where the good Mexican restaurants are cheap and easy to find.
Now I don't because the winters here are getting frighteningly warmer and warmer every year.
This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at nights. I mean, damn. Global warming much? The last few weeks around here have been like summer, which sadly is not unusual. Welcome to SoCal, land of one season. (I'm fairly ambivalent toward the warm weather. Me and the sun do NOT get along. On the other hand, I've worn tank tops and flip flops every day of the last week, so... *shrugs* Maybe I shouldn't complain too much)
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Date: 2009-01-12 06:52 am (UTC)Are you in SoCal? And it's hard to find good Mexican food? Or are you from SoCal and living somewhere else. I remember the mexican food rockin when I lived there.
This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at nights. I mean, damn. Global warming much?
No kidding. The first winter here I thought I was going to die, and that was even after five years in NoCal where there WERE seasons. And we got SNOW and shit. Now, nothing. Just gets warmer and warmer and scares me not a little bit.
I'm fairly ambivalent toward the warm weather. Me and the sun do NOT get along.
Me too. I'd rather shiver than sweat. I like a nice moderate-to-cool Autumn day, any time.
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Date: 2009-01-12 07:25 am (UTC)I'm still in SoCal, but a couple hundred miles north of where I lived before (which was really very close to the border). I live on campus and don't have a car, so when I want to eat out I'm limited to what's within walking distance - and for some reason there aren't many Mexican restaurants in close proximity to campus. NO IDEA WHY. When I go home, I make a point of eating at awesome little hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurants as often as I can.
I'm not really sure that I could handle moving somewhere cold - I mean, snow tires? Winter wardrobes? Shoveling snow? I don't have any practical knowledge of these things. But I'm not entirely sure I want to live the rest of my life in SoCal, or anywhere else with the same climate. For one thing, I sunburn RIDICULOUSLY easily, and for another, I LOVE overcast weather. My oldest sister moved to Seattle recently, and I think she might be on to something with that idea. For that matter, they have pretty good chowder up there, too...
This is the reason I voted Green Party, although popular consensus thinks it's because I'm a lunatic - ah well, most of them thought it anyway. Global warming honestly just scares the shit out of me. The fact that it's noticeable over the course of a few years, in a non-scientific way...yikes.