Week update - emphasis on food

Friday - "The Island" film outing. One of my friends assured me it *was* good. We agreed to argue tonight. After the film we went to Chilli's and had small variations on our usual dishes, which were scrummy. We managed to forgo pudding! and had Irish Coffee instead. Never have, and was nice, but mightn't make a habit of it. Sonicdrift is lovely: there are very few friends we can talk happily for fifteen minutes without an awkward silence, and she falls into the small group we can talk animatedly for hours.

Weekend - Sleep, Quorn with Sharwood's sauce on rice, some classic films, some writing. Ask me about how the honorary toad bands together with the other garden animals to steal the peaches, and ends up double-crossing them at the last minute.

Monday - "Excaliber" at Mobbsy's. He described it best as what Monty Python and the Holy Grail would have been a spoof of, if it came first. Except they didn't cover the sex-in-plate-armour bit.

Thursday - Vanessa's moving out dinner. Stuffed peppers (peppers cut open, filled with rice cooked with salsa, onions, mushrooms, olives and maybe halapenos) and garlic corgettes (slice into strips, marinate overnight in olive oil, vinegar, oregano and garlic and bake) and grasshopper pie (not literally -- marshmallow, creme de menth and chocolate!). I was very pleased, because it was simple but good. And I've really been inspired by courgette before, but these were lovely in both taste and texture.

Today - Amazon books and DVD paraphenalia (I know these aren't compatible)

Books! Squee! I got a DVD player/recorder from amazon, and took the opportunity to buy a few books I'd been waiting for with free shipping. Except that I bought so many I could have had free shipping anyway. A selection of hugo winners (A bit late, sorry. But I'm glad JS&mN won.) and Vorkosigan (The Cordelia books, I think I've everything but Civil Campaign now.) and a random or two I'd been recommended.

It's the first time I've had anything delivered to work, and they turned up on my desk no hassle. Except I don't have a rucksack today, so I'll have to wait till tues now. But I have lots of worldcon books left :)

I checked the order status and the DVD player is listed as Manifested for collection. I hadn't supposed 'making' a DVD player was so literal.

Hell, I should be able to manifest things from thin air myself, but I thought that was cheating.

PS. I do know what it means. I'm joking.