Cetacean

[porphyry]

I went to the doctor today (a whole month gone already!) and everything seems to be going well in spite of my forty-three-year old egg; the best part, though, is that now, at sixteen weeks, I feel so much better than I did a few weeks ago. After my appointment, I called Malkhos.

"Well," I said, "The critter's still alive," sparing him the details of fundal height and so on.

"I didn't think it would be otherwise," he replied, sagely as ever.

"Next time, I get to find out the gender," I said. "So our arguments about what to name this child can begin in earnest."

"Oh, I have that all figured out," he said, sounding almost smug, but I let it pass.

Even Madeline is taking the whole thing much better than before; I was pretty sure her generally cheerful disposition would win out in the end. Once I talked to her about it, it seemed that her greatest fear was that I wouldn't love her anymore--as if I could ever ever do that!--or that I would love her less, somehow, but I suppose that's a normal fear for a four-year-old.

When I got back today, I told her next time I would find out what I was having. "What would you like me to have, Madeline?" I asked her.

She jumped up and down happily. "A dolphin!" she replied. She's always wanted a pet dolphin.

Comments

[benicek.livejournal.com]

I eat so many rollmop herring that Eva says I am going to become one.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

You know, I think it might be herring that Malkhos eats, too, but I can't say for sure. I've never gotten close enough to him when he eats it to find out. The cats continually harrass him when he eats his tinned fish, however.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Herring are wonderful animals to eat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollmops

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Oh, God. I was "ewww"-ing over the picture in the link, so what does Malkhos do but pull two tins of herring and a tin of eels--eels!--from his desk. Probably the eels will sicken and then kill him. Yuck!

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Eels are lovely and healthy! Why is fish so terrifying to white northern Europeans? I can't figure it out. Yet we happily consume fatal quantities of fat, sugar and alcohol.

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

I had some anguille persilée (parsleyed eel) once upon a holiday in France. Seriously YUMMY!!!

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

Make that two Ls: persillée

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Oh, God. I have to go vomit. :)

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Exactly. You are the Voice of Reason.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Well, eels are so... slimy. Eel-y. Probably incredibly salty and gooey. Malkhos is now pressing me to eat some right now, so I must run away.

[vonjunzt.livejournal.com]

I like my fish with large quantities of Mercury and other heavy metals. It's part of my Paracelsian diet.

Actually given the importance of cod in our history, it's a bit surprising fish isn't more important in Euroamerican cuisine.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay, APART from the mercury.