May 15, 2008
If you’d told me this morning that I’d be going back for seconds on beef salad, I would have said you were crazy. But it was really, really good! Sesame beef with peppers and onions. Less well received: turkey salad. None of us could tell what it was until somebody went and asked. Mostly, it tasted squishy. I supplemented with two buttered rolls (heaven!), some broccoli/cauliflower salad (vinegar-y), and a turtle brownie (chocolate, caramel, and nuts!). I ate relaxed and happy, having read my paper this morning, while listening to the wonderful Hope Olson talk about deconstruction and postcolonial methodologies in information studies. Her discussion of the potential of tagging relationships rather than entities was the intellectual equivalent of the beef salad: I was left wanting more. K. and A. shared my table, and I had the seltzer.
May 15, 2008 at 7:47 pm
It is my great hope that someday someone will describe my work as “the intellectual equivalent of the beef salad.”
May 16, 2008 at 2:13 am
ooh, beef salad sounds amazing, tagging relationships rather than entities too.
today I split half a huge sandwich with baby’s mama: soft focaccia rosemary bread, mayo, tomato, lettuce, salami and some sort of mild white cheese (probably mozzarella), plus I enjoyed a can of S. Pellegrino Limonata (obviously someone went to the Italian deli), and I shared a pear and one strawberry with the baby. Baby’s dad had a sandwich on a French roll that had an inedibly hard crust, so he sadly picked out all the sandwich bits and left the bread in pieces on a plate. For later? Bread stew? Not sure.