If, when you're all worn out, you're exhausted.....
........when you're bright and chipper and full of pep, are you hausted?
If taking a bad situation and making it worse is exacerbating it.....
.......is the process of improving the situation acerbating it?
If, when it's time for bed, you extinguish the candles......
.......when it's time for romance, do you tinguish them?
(Alternatively, if to stand out from the crowd is to be distinguished....
......is to be just like everyone else to be tinguished?)
If you drive 45 mph past a school, and are exceeding the speed limit....
......do you keep your mama from complaining from the back seat by ceeding?
Just more of the weird word wonderings I do when I'm overtired and underslept.... :)
25 April 2008
02 April 2008
Really the Same? Or An Illusion?
It occurs to me, as I dine on leftover "bisketti" made like that of my childhood, that Everybody Knows that "spaghetti" and "bisketti" are the same thing; the latter's just a "cute" kid's way of saying spaghetti.
You know, I'm not so sure about that.
Spaghetti has long pasta strands that require a bit of coordinated twirling with a fork.
Bisketti has the pasta broken into short bits, and may have been cut even smaller by Mom, Grandma, or in time of desperation, yourself.
Spaghetti has a sauce---one of many possible sauces---ladled in a pool atop the center of a pile of pasta.
Bisketti has a sauce---always red sauce, with meat, unless it's Friday in Lent---mixed in, thoroughly, and if you're really lucky, has had time for the pasta to *absorb* the tomatoey goodness.
Spaghetti has a whole possible range of spiciness.
Bisketti is seasoned, definable as something other than plain tomato sauce, certainly, but not "spicy" in any recognizable sense of heat.
Heck, by those standards, there's less difference between spaghetti and ravioli (restaurant or homemade ravioli, not canned) than there is between spaghetti and bisketti.
I vote that those are two separate dishes, for sure. Bisketti's a comfort food. Spaghetti is an adult dining experience.
Sometimes I want spaghetti. And sometimes nothing will do but good ol' bisketti.
You know, I'm not so sure about that.
Spaghetti has long pasta strands that require a bit of coordinated twirling with a fork.
Bisketti has the pasta broken into short bits, and may have been cut even smaller by Mom, Grandma, or in time of desperation, yourself.
Spaghetti has a sauce---one of many possible sauces---ladled in a pool atop the center of a pile of pasta.
Bisketti has a sauce---always red sauce, with meat, unless it's Friday in Lent---mixed in, thoroughly, and if you're really lucky, has had time for the pasta to *absorb* the tomatoey goodness.
Spaghetti has a whole possible range of spiciness.
Bisketti is seasoned, definable as something other than plain tomato sauce, certainly, but not "spicy" in any recognizable sense of heat.
Heck, by those standards, there's less difference between spaghetti and ravioli (restaurant or homemade ravioli, not canned) than there is between spaghetti and bisketti.
I vote that those are two separate dishes, for sure. Bisketti's a comfort food. Spaghetti is an adult dining experience.
Sometimes I want spaghetti. And sometimes nothing will do but good ol' bisketti.
01 April 2008
OK: It's Cute Once, Don't Do It Again Department.....
Note to self:
Never, NEVER again sign up to take a class---online or not---that crams 16 weeks into 8 weeks if you're already working 30+ hours a week and taking two other "conventional" classes.
Just don't. This way lies madness.
Especially if the class is heavy on papers.
I may not see daylight again until May.
Oy.
Never, NEVER again sign up to take a class---online or not---that crams 16 weeks into 8 weeks if you're already working 30+ hours a week and taking two other "conventional" classes.
Just don't. This way lies madness.
Especially if the class is heavy on papers.
I may not see daylight again until May.
Oy.
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