Weekend full o' links.

[rivka]

Home again today because of snow. I probably could've gotten in to work, but I called my boss around 8am and she thought it would be better to stay home. Her son's school is closed, which would've meant canceling our 10am meeting even if I had gone in - and she pointed out that patients are unlikely to slog through the snow to be research subjects. I have to agree. So I'm here at home, working intermittently on a research proposal, IMing with therealjae, and generally relaxing.

fourgates is visiting. He, mittelschmertz, and I wandered Baltimore for a while on Saturday - had brunch at the Paper Moon, visited the American Visionary Arts Museum, which turned out to have a depressing major exhibit of drug art, stopped for coffee at Ze Mean Bean, which was depressingly out of chai, and - despite the daunting cold - climbed Federal Hill for the harbor views. Stupendous dinner at Sushi King: the highlights were a white seaweed roll with four different kinds of fish, and something they were calling "Pretty in Red Roll," which had king crab and avocado inside, maguro tuna on the outside, a ribbon of spicy sauce, and a ribbon of creamy pale green sauce lightly laced with wasabi. It was as beautiful as it was delicious. (Okay, maybe nothing could be as beautiful as that roll was delicious. Wow.)

fourgates wanted to try our church, so when mittelschmertz dropped him off at my place on Sunday morning we attempted to go tearing off downtown, despite the falling snow. We didn't get very far before we discovered, via an enormous traffic jam, that the roads were treacherous. So we turned around instead, had breakfast at Frank's Diner (mmmm, marble cake), and went to my pistol range to put holes in paper for a while. I hadn't been to the range in forever, so it was nice to see that the owner remembered me. "She's a serious shooter," he said to someone, gesturing at me. "But she doesn't know that she is." Hmmm. (He might've just been trying to get me to renew my membership for another year. But we had a lot of fun, so I suppose that I might.)

Back at the apartment, we had a quiet afternoon and evening filled with talking, cuddling, West Wing videos, and kabobs. And today we're mostly snowed in, except that after I was excused from trying to drive downtown, fourgates took my car and headed downtown himself for an interview which might lead to a job in Baltimore. Other than that, and my research proposal thingy, no plans for today. That's a nice quality in a day, sometimes.

Updated to add: Still no cold, four days after curiousangel came down with a terrible one. Go, vitamin C!

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Ah! This explains why you didn't answer your phone when I called a while ago.

Have a pleasant day darling. I'm relieved to know you're not out driving around in it.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh! I didn't know you were back, or I would've called you. Glad to see you made it home safely.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm back, and pleased to report that the people in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia know how to drive in the snow.

Fortunately I didn't get caught up in the multi car pileup west of Frederick, but it had traffic stopped for 20+ miles.

[geekchick]

Still no cold, four days after curiousangel came down with a terrible one. Go, vitamin C!

Yay! If it's the same thing C. and I had over Christmas, it's awful. I was only really sick for three days, and I credit that to taking HUGE (like 20 grams spread out of the course of the day) quantities of vitamin C and lots of water. Good luck in continuing to avoid it. =)

No snow here today. Yet. There was a fresh dusting on my car this morning, but there was blue sky overhead when I left for work. Alas, all the roads were clear and dry. =/

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Frank's Diner

That's not the french toast place Bill and Paula took't me the once, is it?

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think so. It's right across 95 from us, on Rte 1. I think Bill would've taken you to the Double T diner, which I don't like nearly as much.

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Semi-suburban Maryland seems to be rife with diners.

[melebeth]

Paper Moon _and_ Ze Mean Bean in the same day? I ooze envy at you. Those are two of the places I miss most about having mostly moved.

P.S. Hi! I'm glad geminigirl pointed me to your journal.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm glad geminigirl pointed me to your journal.

I'm amazed that geminigirl knows you. Sometimes it's a freakishly small world.

Paper Moon _and_ Ze Mean Bean in the same day? I ooze envy at you.

And sushi for dinner, don't forget. It was a little ridiculous. But Ze Mean Bean was out of chai, which made the day much less of a pleasurefest than it might've been.

Sushi?

[jilesa.livejournal.com]

Stupendous dinner at Sushi King

Where might this 'Sushi King' be? I've been given a mission to find good sushi in Baltimore. (Warning: Suggestions of good sushi restaurants may be followed by invitations to help me scope out places for future outings with wayward_va. :) )

Re: Sushi?

[melebeth]

Although it hasn't been quite as amazing recently as it was a few years ago, I'm still terribly fond of Matsuri which is on South Charles St. at Cross St. in Federal Hill. Also, right across the street, the sushi place/bar in the Cross Street Market isn't half bad either.

Re: Sushi?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Where might this 'Sushi King' be? I've been given a mission to find good sushi in Baltimore.

Sushi King is way out in the benighted suburbs where curiousangel and I live - about a third of the way between Baltimore and DC. Good places downtown include Kawasaki, at N. Charles and Franklin, and the Purple Orchid, on the Inner Harbor at Pratt St., just before President. The Purple Orchid also has cream of crab soup to die for.

There's a little mom-and-pop Korean sushi bar in Fell's Point - Broadway, near Aliceanna - called Asahi, which is most notable for its cheapness. They've got a nice $6.95 sushi lunch special: three pieces of sashimi, three pieces of nigiri, and half a California roll.

[puppytown.livejournal.com]

Stupendous dinner at Sushi King: the highlights were a white seaweed roll with four different kinds of fish, and something they were calling "Pretty in Red Roll," which had king crab and avocado inside, maguro tuna on the outside, a ribbon of spicy sauce, and a ribbon of creamy pale green sauce lightly laced with wasabi. It was as beautiful as it was delicious. (Okay, maybe nothing could be as beautiful as that roll was delicious. Wow.)

Holy crap, that sounds good. We have good sushi here in Edmonton, but it's not very innovative. If nlindq and I ever get to Maryland/DC to visit minnaleigh, we're definitely visiting that restaurant!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think those grapefruit rolls therealjae is so fond of are pretty innovative. But yeah, the Pretty in Red roll was like nothing else I've ever had. The feeling will pass eventually, but right now it's all I want to eat.

(Oh, and welcome to my LJ!)