Craig turned a hose on JJ Abrams
recently. Apparently, the man walked across Craig's yard en route to a writer
who lives in the same building. Craig gave him a hard stare in
response to the startled sound Abrams made. It could be that Craig
has grown tired of finding either A-listers or large Macaw parrots in
his yard. We never did find out why Jack Nicholson was in there.
Craig had been in too much of a hurry to hose him at the time. He
always regretted that. When I asked why he hosed Abrams, Craig said
it was in part for wasting Karl Urban in Star Trek but mostly for
Super 8. Strangely, that wasn't why he called on Wednesday. He was
making sure I was properly ashed for the holy day. Despite his
carefully constructed persona of a remorseless heathen, Craig is
fairly religious. He was not very impressed with my pledge for Lent.
I go meatless on Fridays and sometimes more days a week. I responded
that he has no idea how much I like bacon. This is a hardship. I
almost blew the pledge on Ash Wednesday because I was on automatic
pilot making breakfast. I managed not to blow it. And since it was
also National Margarita Day (who decides these things?), a good time
was had by all.
Meatless Dilemmas
I do a lot of prep for my meatless days
during Lent. I soak and cook all different kinds of beans. I make
mushroom and vegetable stocks for soups. I've become really picky
about soups. I really prefer a homemade stock. It's the snacks that
make meat free days difficult. Sandwiches are just too easy.
Especially the Jambon et fromage on a baguette (ham and cheese). I can make a tray of
mini sandwiches That will tide Jon and I over until dinner. I have to
think to remember to replace the filling with fig jam and soft
cheese. I try hard to make dishes that Jon and I both would eat. And
he doesn't eat a particular dish, I try to find ways of making it so
that it could be frozen for later. I really enjoy savory souffles,
but my hubs does not. Most recipes call for servings of four or more.
I had a recipe for chocolate souffles that c45+0an be frozen and
baked later, but I had had no luck finding a cheese souffle recipe
that could be done ,the same way. Then, one day I was up at 4am
watching Sara's Secrets
on the Cooking Channel. She made a twice baked goat cheese souffle. I figured that if it could be baked twice, maybe it could be frozen
in between. I even wrote Ms. Moulton to ask her. She told me to try
and let her know how it worked. It worked beautifully! And she
praised me for the discovery, to boot! Jon is convinced that I will
write a cookbook someday. He's also certain that I will be making him
bento box lunches at some point. Both are probably true.
Juggling Genres
So far, I'm successfully switching my
brain back and fourth between scripts and manga and business
proposals. I even have a schedule for when I work on what to keep
things moving forward in some fashion and have time for cooking and
other shiny objects that get my attention like Mannix turning up on
Murder She Wrote. That's been distracting me for at least twenty
minutes. At any rate, I find I need significant breaks between
projects to shift fully from one into the other. My brain gets really
tired when I try to take on too much too quickly. On fun benefit
about editing manga that I didn't expect was the impact on my
learning Japanese. My team was trying to figure out what a sound
effect was. It was written in thin, tiny characters. I wrote them out
to figure out what it was. Then, I realized it was the name of the
leading man. Jon read it and confirmed. “When did you start writing
in Japanese,” he asked. I replied, “Just now!” I had been
practicing the characters of one form of writing, but had yet to
really write words. It's very exciting.
Updates
There still isn't anything that I can
discuss freely. As far as I know, it should be only a few more weeks
of secrecy.
Stay tuned.
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