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January 02, 2006
Post-Christmas Afflictions
As a result of our very successful trip to Chinatown for stocking presents, I am addicted to various Chinese candies and snack foods. Mainly "Haw Flakes" -- little paper-thin fruity sweet disks that stick to your teeth -- and "Jane-Jane Prepared Dried Shredded Squid." D, horrified by my squid munching, describes it as "something petrified and fishy and dead." He made me take it out of our bedroom so he wouldn't have nightmares about the smell. Also, I keep eating Hob Nobs just because we got about 15 cannisters of them and why not? I haven't even gotten to the Jacques Torres.
Oh, and Sudoku is addictive and bad. And, obviously, a huge time sink. You know it's bad if it keeps you up at night and then -- even though you left it at home on purpose to avoid wasting your entire commute on pointless puzzles -- you find yourself thinking about at work. What's worse is that I skipped ahead to a "difficult" puzzle, hoping to discover my inner Sudoku prodigy, and even though it took me ages to finish and was supremely frustrating, it has spoiled the easy stuff for me. My mother can no longer be mad at me for giving her Francis' Sit and Solve crosswords book (it destroyed a good chunk of time for her), since she gave me this damn Sudoku book. We're even now.
Posted by csageday at January 2, 2006 11:00 PM