Magical Feast

Well somehow I got a crab fixation today. My sister had some, the OMA was talking about getting it at the Fisherman's Market by where he lives, and I just got a deep, abiding desire for it. So this afternoon, I showered off the grime and took my hungover self up to the HT Market where I got a very fine crab with 1 stunted leg, 3 HUGE white nectarines, 3 fairly fat black plums, a mess'0'tomatoes, 5 heads of garlic, a bag of chips, a bottle of selzter water and a sleeve of cashews for the low, low price of $23. BARGAIN. This, my friends, is why I adore Asian Markets. They had shrimpies on sale there, too, and someone bought FIVE POUNDS!!!! I thought that was a might fine idea, and one of these days when I'm flush (like after my Sealaska check or something) I think I will buy 3 or 4 pounds at a time and just have a shrimp feed like no other. Maybe when the OMA comes for Christmas.

That's right, I said Christmas. Last night he said "maybe; maybe" he would think about coming over but I'm pretty sure it's in the bag. I can't frickin wait to have him back in my clutches. It's all well and good going to visit him (which I'm going to do mid-November), but having him in MY house where we have all kinds of good memories from our very second date to just before he left will be bonzer, just bonzer! :)

So anyway, now I have plunged my arthropod friend (C. Magister) into a pot of roiling, boiling, salted water, he's gone claws up, and is just bubbling merrily away in there, having given his life for the greater good of my stomach. It's barbaric, isn't it, how we can just throw a living creature into a vat of boiling water and call it a day. Well, I don't know what to say. Other than "yum." :) Oh here's a little crab info in honor of C. Magister:

Males are attracted to potential mates by pheromones present in the urine of female Dungeness crabs. Upon locating an available female, the male initiates a protective pre-mating embrace that lasts for several days. In this embrace, the female is tucked underneath the male, oriented such that their abdomens touch and their heads face each other. Mating occurs only after the female has molted, and the female signals her readiness to molt by urinating on or near the antennae of the male. The female extrudes the eggs from her body several months later; however, they remain attached under her abdomen for three to five months until they hatch. Young crabs are free-swimming after hatching and go through five larval stages before reaching maturity after about ten moults or two years.

So it's 9:00, and I finally don't feel like dying (staying up til 3 a.m. drinking vats of beer can kind of put a kink in your Saturday plans), so I'm going to have a cup of double bergamot Earl Gray and get together with Mike Kelly's "Complete Idiot's Guide to Calculus" and finish ferreting out my limits and derivatives.

Life is good.

What I'm watching: Battlestar Galactica. (The ORIGINAL, TOO) :)