Imported Facebook Note

Breakfast, Narcissism, and the History Channel

Good morning! Seeing as breakfast is being served and I'm not eating, I thought I'd write another breakfast note. My level of activity on Facebook has dropped significantly recently. The primary reason is that I don't really have any time to waste... the other is that, when I do get around to logging on, all I appear to be capable of doing is clicking through those pictures of me surfing. I log in, I see the picture of me surfing, I click on it. I click on the other picture of me surfing. I stare at the picture. I click to see the other picture. I stare at the other picture. I repeat this several times. Then I walk away, a little drunk with the recollection of every good ride I've ever caught but have not seen.

It is now night time... and I have a cranberry lemon loaf baking in the oven. It's going to be part of tomorrow's breakfast. You see, I have this German couple staying for nine days... so I figured serving the same breakfast nine days in a row would be a little tiresome for them... so one day I made banana bread... and they expressed such appreciation that the next day I made a lemon poppyseed loaf... and again, they expressed such appreciation that I then made an apple pecan bread for the following day... and now, it has become a sort of a habit to bake in the middle of the night.... actually... I really enjoy baking. Before I started baking things for breakfast... I made (within a period of three days) chocolate pecan cookies, madeleines, ginger cookies (with chunks of candied ginger), and palmitos. I don't actually want to eat stuff that I bake (with the exception of during the first three minutes that the baked goods are cool enough to be consumed) so this whole B&B thing (complete with a Jorge with a sweet tooth) is kind of perfect. Of course, it's possible for one to think that it's odd to stay up late and bake in the middle of the night when one really doesn't have to... (Jorge keeps telling me that I am "complètement déchaînée"... and not necessarily just about the baking either)

I was going to write a note on my Tofinoversary, which would have been July 28th... but I didn't get around to it because I was working till 2AM... so I guess this is close enough... August 1st was my first day working for the District of Tofino. It has been one full year since my career took an unexpected turn... and today I got a phone call from a friend asking me for a FOSS decision code for an ARC... and, oddly enough, I actually remembered it.

The other night, Jorge was watching the History Channel... apparently there was some sort of Hitler marathon... and he totally got into it... I sat down and started watching... and eventually Jorge went to bed and left me in front of the TV... I watched one Hitler documentary after another, and then a short film on Thorvald Eriksson, and then there was a documentary on mummy identification... and then out of nowhere, there was an episode of NCIS. I stayed up till three AM watching the History Channel. This what happens when you don't watch TV often... you forget how to stop watching TV. It was an interesting experience... all the history phDs they interviewed were good looking, under 40 women... what happened? I remember documentaries where every phD was super geriatric and slightly unhinged (insufficiently groomed, weird facial ticks, &c.)... television has changed.

I made Jorge promise never to leave the TV on and walk away again.

The lemon cranberry loaf has been taken out of the pan and is awesomeness incarnate (not that baked goods are carnate, necessarily)...

I suffering from ADD. There was a point to all this... but I've forgotten it now... I'm going to go set the table for breakfast and then go to bed...