Okay, so here’s how last night’s dinner came out:

The sauce was extremely good. We didn’t have much basil (about an ounce, I think) and since we’d boiled a whole pound of (dry) mezze penne, we really needed to stretch the sauce. So we made a pistachio pesto and thoroughly mixed that into a pint of Mornay (built from a butter roux, heavy cream, and parmesan) right before before serving to keep the basil’s flavor from getting cooked out. And I tossed the penne with a teensy bit of extra virgin olive oil to keep it from sucking up too much sauce.

So the pasta itself could’ve been a meal. Which was fortunate, because those salmon pinwheels sucked. The filling (feta and spinach) was okay, but the fish was very poor quality. They must not make those on site, cuz the other salmon fillets I’ve bought there have been excellent.

I went to McDonald’s for lunch today and the girl at the window had this nose piercing that must’ve been done pretty recently. The skin was all inflamed around the stud. Really gross. I think nose piercings in general are pretty nasty; especially the ones that go through the septum. This girl had hers through a nostril, but still: Eugh. I don’t mind the labret and eyebrow piercings (on other people, mind you), but the nose ones just scream “low class” to me for some reason. (Edit: Except for Paige, who’s cool enough that they work for her.) Same thing with those cylinder/plug things some people wear to stretch out their earlobes.

Still playing FFT:WotL. My main character (”Nwabudike,” after the CEO from Alpha Centauri) is now a level 12 monk, though I’m thinking about turning him into a geomancer (to get to ninja) after I pick up the Brawler ability. I talked to Jones about the game a bit today. We both agree that it’s much harder than FFTA. The cutscenes are amazing though.

Oh, and I finally watched The Golden Compass today. It was better than I thought it’d be. Surprisingly violent. The big battle at the end (featuring hundreds of witches swooping down from the sky, ranks of slavic wolf-demon guards, an armored polar bear, and a wild west sniper/aeronaut) was pretty cool.

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