More delights from the world of reality television

Tiffani won the Top Chef Christmas Special. Finally. This is good.

Erik voted out of Survivor, after Denise makes some decent decisions. Her best shot at this point is to stick with her alliance and hope she gets the last immunity. If she can do that, she can win. Any other path I can see puts her in also-ran territory, so I'm glad she chose to go for the gusto. I didn't like who she chose to take along on the reward. I did like that she took the time to mend fences afterward. If she can get in front of the jury, she has a lock on Peih-Gee's vote.
Courtney shouldn't have shot off her mouth like that.

Yeah, I, too, am good with Victoria staying on Project Runway. I wanted Ricky to go (I hate his hat and his time-management problems).
Elisa seems to have one hell of a resume, like, she's shown at Fashion Week and had her own retrospective and such. I don't know if that's the same as talent, but it is one hell of a resume.


Today's earrings: monkeys, aquamarines

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata

Not pleased about the outcome of tonight's Project Runway

...but it's not like I can really defend the jacket.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: pigs, citrine teardrops

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata

Call for holiday wish lists

I want exotic foodstuffs in attractive jars, representational silver earrings, publications about bees, the eye of the needle, and something else I forget, and tchochkes representing fruits and flowers that start with P.
I reserve the right to expand this list at a later date.

What do you want for Christmas?


Today's earrings: tree frogs, fish

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata

More cheese

b2 wanted to check out Fancy Restaurant, so we went, had a drink, had the cheese plate. (Always have the cheese plate, my friends.) She was most impressed by the truffled honey.

We agreed that James' ejection was overdue, and worked up some Schadenfreude about it.


Today's earrings: eyes, crows

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata

This is wrong.

avuncular (adj.)
means “typical of or suitable to an uncle”; it also has figurative senses meaning “kind, indulgent, undemanding, sexless”: His treatment of her was more avuncular than amorous. It’s perhaps a cliché in its most frequent company, avuncular advice. A curiosity: English has no similar adjective to deal with matters or qualities typical of an aunt: auntish and auntlike are about as close as we can come.
- - http://www.bartleby.com/68/54/654.html

[emphasis mine]

Something must be done to redress this intolerably inequitable situation. "Amita" is Latin for aunt. How does "amitous" sound to everyone? "Amitular"?


Today's earrings: owls, estrogen molecules

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata

Lipids: nourishing the spirit

Stopped on the way home to pick up the Wandering Albatross's Christmas present* and found this. So cute! I went on to dine at Fancy Restaurant, and had the cheese plate. (Always have the cheese plate, my friends.) Included was a section of a "crocodile tear" from Capriole. Utterly swoonworthy. They have sampler boxes. Christmas is coming. I'm just saying.


Today's earrings: tree frogs, circles of tangled green and yellow

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata
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*He asked for something that starts with the letter V, so he's getting Giant Microbe VD. I don't think this'll spoil the surprise because I don't think he's reading here. But, just to preserve a little mystery in case I'm wrong, I'm not going to say which disease I'm giving him.

So to speak.