a bunch of people weren't free to come to reading club, so we sat in elisabeth's house instead and ate homemade mapo tofu and leftover fried rice and had intelligent conversation. elisabeth is studying hebrew and arabic and other such lit-ty things, and is currently translating her way through the book of ezekiel with a small group of brave souls. they're also learning new (hebrew) vocabulary at the rate of 100 words/week, starting from the most common and working their way down. (me: "what is the most common word in the bible?" her: "and.")



following which we watched the first six episodes of the tick, which is so awesomely bad that it's good. ("you know, when a tomato grows out of your forehead, it gets you thinking. what do we know about anything? life is just a big, wild, crazy, tossed salad. but you don't eat it, no sir, you live it! isn't it great?")