I was sitting in my window with a ricotta-prosciutto sandwich and a cold cucumber-tomato-feta-peppercorn salad, and Lejeune on Leiris (“A lui tout seul, le serpent est l’image des deux sexes : globalement phallique ; mais à son extrêmité antérieure bée une bouche, au fond de laquelle darde, prête à la piqûre, une langue menaçante. Le serpent, c’est le phallus en abîme, le symbole des rapports de la castration et du phallus, et de leur fuite à l’infini,” ah bon), and Leonard Cohen in the background very softly murmuring to dear Heather; and the weekend sun was coming in like lightness and good times. And it made me remember how the other day I had occasion to be walking through some administrative office at school, down the fluourescent-lit linoleum-floored hallways with collapsible Officemax-esque cubicles on either side, miserable, miserable; and how it’d made me think that all too soon I’m going to have to join the working ranks again. God help us all, surely there’s got to be more than “smart casual” in my future. Anyone want to hire a world-travelin’ fast-talkin’ sweet-smilin’ dancefloor-groovin’ cute-shoe-rockin’ girl with a tongue for words and a taste for lemon tart?
posted by stellou at 7:51 PM
12 Comments:
Smart casual aint that bad if you get an office with a window.
Alas... I too am going through the same thought process. There has to be more than 9-5. I'm thinking of a career as a travelling cake maker. Infact I think I'll make it a real goal.
And may I ask... what kind of bread held the ricotta and prosciutto?
With a description like that and a blog like this, who wouldn't want to hire you?
If I make any sort of career moves this year, it should lead towards a dress code that approves of jeans everyday --- otherwise, it ain't worth it!
hem. i thought you'd be heading towards a dresscode of polka dots, stripes and ribbons. oh, and gold shoes.
Hey, Saffron: Traveling cake maker!!!! I LOV IT. That sounds like the kind of thing that needs a van with, like, a revolving whisk on the top. Or icing. Lucky!!!
Also, you may always ask. The sandwich was a slice of seven grain, lightly toasted. (I generally do open sandwiches, unless I have to travel with them. Too much bread otherwise, which I think distracts from the filling.) There was a little butter, a leafy layer of arugula, a dollopy layer of ricotta, and a couple of slices of proscuitto on the top. And cracked black pepper, of course, of course.
tym: jeans? jeans??? cheh!!!!! :-p somemore, jeans in singapore? you not hot meh?? hngh!
cc: YAH LAH. may i direct you one flight up to:
stellou said...
tym: jeans? jeans??? cheh!!!!! :-p somemore, jeans in singapore? you not hot meh?? hngh!
9:20 AM
eh, but your dresscode makes me sound like cath kidston at the disco. hem. not a bad thing.
ourobouros... Serpantor! and then... well, if Serpantor was made of cake, and he hadn't been the fusion of Bonaparte and Hannibal the cannibal, I'm sure he'd taste of sharp lemon with cumin tart, and would probably nibble himself to one tiny crumb.
You should be a food writer... I always have to stuff something in my mouth after I read you... ooohhh, chocolate!
um. ok. i went to the cath kidston website and i noted (and filed) that she has drink glasses similar to the ones i bought at kmart, except that mine were four for $2, and hers are £10 each. i don't know what the point i'm trying to make is, except that maybe you would be a more highclass (rhymes with ass) spots and stripes gal than most.
Well! I hadn't thought of how I'd actually travel. But really I wasa just hopinf that I'd say catch a flight here and there to famous, wealthy people's kitchens and bake them a cake or two. But I like the idea of icing type paintwork on a van. Maybe with sprinkles.
Nardac: oh. my. word. now whenever i see one of those snake-eating-its-own-tail things, i'm going to see that delicious circle shape as forming the crispy butter crust of a lemon-cumin tart. mmmm.
hey, cc, you don't know meh? i am vaaaiiry high-class! hngh!
but, eh, yah, truly she has no problem charging for things.
but, eh, did you notice that things include enamel things? enamel things!!!
Saffron: Sprinkles!! And icing-type paintwork!! Really, at this point in the planning you cannot walk away. And, also, I assume we're talking a VW microbus, clearly...
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