big ugly blow out with my boss yesterday ( Read more... )

also, chia pudding. so easy. mix 1/4 cup + 3 TBSP chia seeds in a bowl with 2 cups nondairy milk, 2 TBSP maple syrup, pinch of salt, 1 1/4 tsp vanilla. cover and refrigerate overnight. in the morning, add fruit or whatever. pretend you are eating frog eggs. reflect on how until lately the US just smeared these seeds on terra cotta shapes to ( Read more... )

Starling called me thursday crying so hysterically all i could make out was "monday". Turned out her cat at john's house, mysty, had been missing since monday. She was so upset, she said she didn't want to be there when mysty wasn't there and it was her fault because she chose mysty and if she'd chosen a different cat someone else would have ( Read more... )

for the karma files: starling just called me and told me they are coming home tomorrow because john's back is hurting from that capture the flag injury at bym. bet he wishes he had health insurance now. nothing like a bad back as you embark on your career as a stay at home dad carrying the kid around all day.

yeah, so he picked her up from the bus stop. I got home and texted him to bring her back immediately and he started a control freak thing of "come pick her up at the library, per the Police" (love that capitalization.) uh...you blew your whole police intimidation with the whole "I have her in the car and we're driving to the police station right ( Read more... )

wow, posting a lot, aren't I ( Read more... )

I say give any bailout money to the workers and let the big 3 DIE. shit. killing us with their gas guzzlers, their SUVs and their minivans, and now they want a bailout? give money to the people and let the corporations die. the high level execs can twist in the wind, too.

yay! thank god. I've never liked mccain so much as when he was conceding.

it's a beautiful thing.

now that I am not consumed with rage, I was able to make the plantain black bean thing. I still never found the exact recipe I was looking at, but I did find some plantain black bean "empanadas" online and read through enough to wing it. I really don't know what was up with me yesterday. it was beyond any anger proportional to the situation. I ( Read more... )

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"There will be time for many experiences."
"How old are you, Monsieur ( Read more... )