Love: Soup - in general, but especially in the winter when I'm under the weather, as I have been for weeks now. This recipe from Epicurious, with cheese tortellini, kielbasa, kale and cannellini beans, is one we make often, and the bit of heat from the red pepper flakes helps clear out the sinuses. When we first made it years ago we forgot to buy a fennel bulb and liked how the recipe turned out anyway, so I've always omitted that bit.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Cheese-Tortellini-Soup-with-Cannellini-Kielbasa-and-Kale-106143
Like: Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy. This is not great literature by any means, but these books made for a fun roller coaster ride-type read and helped pass the time home sick from work. I seem to have a thing for bleak, futuristic fiction with strong women characters. (See The Passage in List 1).
Discovery: Modern 50 in Virginia is, according to them, "a multi-disciplinary art and design collective which strives to create an ever-evolving nonlinear consumer lifestyles collection." What it is in more straight-forward language is a huge warehouse of really cool vintage and industrial stuff - hundreds of tables, lamps, storage units, chairs and assorted oddities. Perusing the site is the kind of time suck that works well when you're lounging in bed sick.
Obsession: It's a couple years old, but Amy Winehouse's slowed down version of "Valerie," from her B-Sides album, has been just what the doctor ordered lately. Warning, this is one of those homemade videos with pictures cut to the album track.
Complaint: Like Woody Allen's Mickey in Hannah & Her Sisters, I have a really bad habit of diagnosing any symptoms I have as cancer. I need Web MD and the Mayo Clinic's website to be blocked on my computer.
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