#ONE OF HER GIANT CATS PROWLED ACROSS HER DESK RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA.

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Weirdly (maybe not-so-weirdly) I have experienced some similar interactions with neurodivergent feds who you kind of have to sheepdog into getting the results they’re assigned to get. Anyway: what are some delicious foods you’ve eaten lately, either stuff you’ve cooked or stuff others have made for you?

i have been hearing troubling rumblings about the records for this program for some time around my workplace but, safely sequestered in scripted as i have been up until this point, i was happy to consider them Not My Problem. and like. oh bud. oh bud. innocence is fucking bliss. the one redeeming quality of this particular host is that she has a 4-month-old dachshund who she occasionally shows on camera. otherwise TRUE CRIME IS A CANCER!!! TRUE CRIME IS A PLAGUE UPON SOCIETY!!!!

ennywhey.

this past christmas was a very exciting time for me and my dad because for the first time!!! my lola OFFICIALLY tasked us with making pancit (with me taking point) and pinakbet (with my dad taking point) for christmas lunch/dinner, with no oversight from her. neither recipe is particularly difficult per se (pancit is approximately a rice noodle stir-fry, and pinakbet is a soupy sauté of bitter melon, other veg, and pork, for the uninitiated), but the Passing Of The Torch was kind of a big deal for us. and honestly both things came out tasting...well, just like my lola's. which was very special.

i was especially stoked on the pinakbet, since as co-chef i was able to control ingredient ratios to my liking (more okra) and ramp up the ingredients (more okra) that i have been known to get a slap on the wrist for hogging (okra).

just before christmas my partner and i went to Atlanta to visit a friend doing a postdoc there and i tried lemon pepper wet wings for the first time and that was also very exciting. wings are one of those foods that i will always eat but never really crave, but this shit was off the fucking chain. i will dream of those wings for some time.

OH and while @the-everqueen was visiting i made tonkatsu and japanese-style curry! slightly labor-intensive, but a) it's validating to observe how much less afraid i am of frying things than i used to be! maybe i am improving my kitchen skills! and b) after we finished dinner we all just kind of. sat on the couch and stared blankly into space for a while. yknow how sometimes you eat something so good you go into deep victorian mourning for a brief period afterwards because it is now gone from you? yeah.

#chatter #ask games #HUGE UPDATE. i am now off the record but just before i remotely closed [former fbi agent]'s zoom connection #ONE OF HER GIANT CATS PROWLED ACROSS HER DESK RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. #and in that moment i was like maybe true crime isn't so bad after all........ #anyway that's over now true crime is evil again.