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Monkey Monday: back to the regular TracyFood schedule edition 12 November 2007 9:54 am

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, bangkok, monkeys, nepal, pictures, restaurants, travel, vegetarianism , trackback

On Friday I mentioned that I have a few different ideas for ways to start writing about the Nepal trip, but I also want to get back into writing regular TracyFood posts: recipes, interesting food news, book and restaurant reviews, and of course rants about restaurant customers. So I thought today I would make a list of possible topics to write about, including stuff I put on hold because I was going on this crazy trip, and also maybe mix in some random stuff I saw on the InterGoogleTubes that were so TracyFood I was glad not to have missed them this past month. So. Here I go. (As always, if you’re reading this and want to hear more about any of it, that’s what comments are for, and they are much appreciated.)

I have been eating brown gack daily for the better part of a week now, and it is the better part not just because it’s been more than four days, but also because brown gack is delicious and completely unlike what I ate in Nepal and Bangkok, which is not to say that I didn’t eat incredibly well on my trip, because I did.

I’m pretty sure I still have a job! On Friday, after two wonderfully lazy days spent mostly at home, I finally braved getting on a bike for the first time in a month and rode first to the library (where it turned out I didn’t have my card) and then to Morning Glory, where I was greeted with many hugs and told to come back on Sunday so I could talk to the boss-lady about getting back on the schedule. Of course, by the time I got my act together on Sunday she’d already gone home for the day, so I have to try again today, but that suits me fine; I finally found my gifts for Morning Glory: a little souvenir from Krishnarpan restaurant and the prayer scarf I got from our trek’s lead cook, Nettre, when our groups went their separate ways after Tengboche.

While I’m mentioning Krishnarpan restaurant at Dwarika’s Hotel, remind me to write a big ol’ essay about that deliciousness. Also while I’m on the topic of restaurants, I have a story for Ella about eating pad thai from a street vendor in Bangkok.

Erm, what else? Well, freaking Flickr did something completely whack to all the time stamps on all my pictures! But I’m working on getting it sorted out, more or less — the time change between Pacific time zone and Nepal time is 12 hours and 45 minutes, plus there’s Daylight Savings Time to contend with, so mostly I’m just shifting everything forward by 12 hours and hoping that gets me to within an hour of the right time. If I get really ambitious, I could use the World Clock’s time zone converter on every single picture, but oy. Titles and captions are challenging enough!

Oh! And before I forget them, October was apparently Make Funnies About Vegetarianism Month or something, because both Get Fuzzy and Diesel Sweeties did exactly that. The Get Fuzzy strips are already starting to disappear from the Comics.com archive, but you might still be able to catch a few here (12 October), here (13 October), here (15 October), here (16 October), and so on (Bucky hates cows and wants to eat them! It’s funny!) The Diesel Sweeties archive is forever, but I particularly liked October 28, October 29, October 30, and this little Spider Jerusalem reference. Yes, I am an enormous nerd.