a female deer

in a moment of uncertainty, i look up "roe" in www.m-w.com and find this:

Main Entry: roe
Pronunciation: 'rO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural roe or roes
Etymology: Middle English ro, from Old English rA; akin to Old High German rEh roe

and the definition ... is ...

DOE.

as in the deer, the female deer. (tell me you didn't sing it in your head)

so, roe is doe. doe is roe.

this is why i love the net. learning for the sake of learning ... that will bring us back to do(e)!

(of course, the other meaning of "roe" is "eggs of a fish especially when still enclosed in the ovarian membrane" so y'all can sleep soundly tonight)

THIS is an angry puffer fish. for your reference. i know that i am going to regret having a fish pic in the blog. 

the roe problem

ate california maki for lunch. having this type of maki usually presents me with a couple of problems:

1. having an abnormally small mouth makes it technically difficult to put the whole maki in. and when it's in there, i have to bear with a few seconds of looking like an angry puffer fish.

2. when all that's left in my mouth is bits of roe, i have to be very careful when i bite into them one by one. they feel very much like tongue papillae (look it up) and each bite leads to either the pleasant sensation of a mini-explosion of fishy flavor or the pinpoint, intense pain of losing a small body part.

shell-hurling trucker

saw an unusual sight while stuck in traffic yesterday. was initially distracted by flying objects being hurled at 5- to 10-second intervals through the air. realized that flying objects were peanut shells being hurled from the passenger seat to the back of huge pick-up-like truck. must be convenient to have a huge open trash can at the back of the car.

would've been more interesting though if there were people at the back. iwas, pre!

my most recent office pic. take a good look at a fourth of my face. this is my best angle yet.