I didn't feel left out, really. I just skipped over Neo's quiz. I looked at the first few questions of Solon's. It must have been pretty easy, I think, because if you had even a clue about the subject, the answers were so far reaching that it wasn't hard to guess. It wasn't like the questions were about things I had never even heard of. I do find Neo's quizzes show-offy, but we all have our little ideosyncracies and foibles and showing off isn't so bad in the grand scheme of things.
It's a lovely day here. The friend I've been speaking of finally got her power back last night. When I got home from downtown this afternoon, I found a huge mantis on the mailbox in the hall so I used a letter to move it outside so it wouldn't get accidentally smushed and it wouldn't get trapped when the workmen who are doing something with tile in the apartment of my cranky downstairs neighbor close the outside door. Gee it was a big one. And just now I made the loveliest salad from stuff I found in the fridge. Grape tomatoes, cilantro, roasted Chinese eggplant, feta, and olive oil. And I had bought some kitchen scissors in that international grocery yesterday--the kind of scissors that they always use in Korean bbq places--and I used them to cut the tomatoes, cilantro, and eggplant. Never touched a knife. I'm scratching my head why it never occurred to me to get some of those scissors before. I sure love that grocery store. The grape tomatoes were a buck. I haven't yet found a way to spend twenty dollars there.
Life is good, even when you don't know the ins and outs of Kant. |
