I've reached that stage of being done with the day and tired and a little angry such that I am unable to make rational decisions any more.  Fortunately, it's luch time - the moment when I can redeem by mood and transform the afternoon into something more rewarding than how I feel right now.  Unfortunately I can't decide what to eat.

Help me peoples ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, I'm all angsty about my job again.  I need to vomit out my fears and frustrations around feeling like I can never get a handle on ALL of it.  I seem to be able to get parts of it under control - witness my deft arranging of an itinerary for a visiting guest a whole month in advance as opposed to the panicked three days before of my ( Read more... )

One kilogram of decent quality, shockingly cheap garlic
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Three hours to separate into individual cloves, peel and trim said kilogram of garlic
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Three solid glugs of a surprisingly fruity olive oil, three big pinches of kosher salt and some generous grinds of pepper
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Approximately eight hours in the oven at 200F (a girl's gotta sleep sometime)
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BFB is teh sick again.  It's obviously me hanging out at that place with all the sick children in it five to six days a week that has done this to him.  What can I say, I'm some sort of Typhoid Mary apparently.  But, no worries, I'm due to get my flu shot in five days.

I also made this lovely squash based food item for supper tonight.  Garlic and ( Read more... )

I'm taking a series of classes on Wednesday evenings through work.  My attempt to fool myself into thinking that my life isn't limited only to my work and making it all fucking work.  They run until after 9:00 and with the buses it means I don't get home until after 10:00.  Thursday I have an 8:00 a.m. meeting.  The irony that the over arching ( Read more... )

So.  I'm trying to sort out a new time for a recurring monthly meeting.  Now, to be fair, I'm just starting to figure out just how... contentious, relations in the program I work for are but I'm at my freakin' wits end with these people.

Over the last four months the feedback I've received has centred around two major issues: 1) I can be difficult ( Read more... )

Attention please, your attention please....

VOTE!!!

Today is voting day in Canada - if you can, get out there and vote.

Thank you.

Did you know that today is a gloriously sunny fall day here in Vancouver?  Well it is and, boy howdy, am I glad to be able to stand up.

On Sunday morning while BFB was sleeping in I motored over to freakykitten , a_narchist  and Tomas' house to deliver organic apple juice and ginger and just generally help out with what most of us thought was an ugly but fairly basic ( Read more... )

I hate doing minutes.  Oh yes, hate it.  I've watched two hours dribble down the drain this morning struggling with a set of minutes that should have been done, oh, a month ago.  I've managed to get the page exceptionally well formatted and filled in.  The only thing left to do is the actual freaking minutes!  I discovered yesterday that if I take ( Read more... )

1) Feeling overwhelmed and lost because you know enough to know that you're behind in your job but not knowing exactly how and just how much ( Read more... )