Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!

Posted by on Apr 1, 2011 in dish | 0 comments mimi isn’t big on April Fool’s Day pranks (although the rubber band around the sink sprayer trick has proven reliable for years now), but foolery is something else entirely. Spending four years as the designated Court Jester at my college’s annual Christmas Madrigal Dinner didn’t happen by accident, you know. Neither was being cast as Puck in a freshman year production of A Midsummer Night’s...
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Spring Break

Posted by on Mar 25, 2011 in dish | 0 comments Four denizens of Chez mimi with no alarm clocks to set. Three new books waiting to be read. Two bare feet. One top down on Inga, the convertibeetle. Spring Break at last!
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The Bed List (Late Night Edition)

Posted by on Mar 18, 2011 in dish | 0 comments DVRs were made for faces like these. Since mimi is famous in her circle of friends for her “social narcolepsy,” aka, falling dead asleep at 9 pm while sitting upright, the DVR is her direct line to membership in Craig Ferguson’s Robot Skeleton Army. How many things can we adore about Craig aside from that lovely Glaswegian accent? Those twinkly eyes! The cheekiness of his monkey! The things IN...
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Girls’ Night In

Posted by on Mar 11, 2011 in dish | 0 comments Tomorrow is the church Men’s Retreat, so Mr. Man will be spiriting Frick away for an overnight and a cookout. While they’re shivering in a pup tent in 30-odd degree weather, Frack and I will be getting our X chromosome on.Admittedly, mimi doesn’t stray far into the female end of the spectrum. I somehow missed the Cute Shoes and Darling Accessories alleles in my genetic profile. Pink has never...
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Orange Blossom Special

Posted by on Mar 4, 2011 in dish | 0 comments The key scene in Marcel Proust’s À la recherce du temps perdu, or Remembrance of Things Past, is the madeleine episode, where the smell and taste of a cookie transports the narrator back to his childhood. (You can see a cartoon version of this famous French scene in the Pixar film Ratatouille). This happens to me every spring when the orange trees bloom.When we first moved to Central Florida, we...
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