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Too Many Tomatoes
Jeff and I are keeping a blog about the farm this year. You can read it here:
http://toomanytomatoes.blogspot.com
The farm opened this week. Our first pickup day is tomorrow, so you can expect to see some yummy pictures of strawberries soon ... -
Our corner mailbox is gone
The mailbox that used to be at the corner of 47th and Baltimore is gone. A crossing guard saw me looking for it and told me that the Postal Service is removing mailboxes all over the city. Hunh? How am I supposed to mail things now?
Edit, 3:15pm: After a few calls to the post office it turns out that they removed 12 mailboxes from our neighborhood ( Read more... ) -
My year in books
In roughly chronological order:
Gil Marks. Olive Trees and Honey. A Jewish vegetarian cookbook with sections on such topics as the history of eggplant in Jewish cooking. Also maps of how various foods spread to the regions where they were incorporated into Jewish cooking. I've never seen a cookbook with maps before.
Stanley Kunitz. The Wild Braid ( Read more... ) -
Writing topics
I've been working on a couple of pieces of writing for a while now, and I think I'm stuck. I'm just too emotionally invested in them to be productive any more. Time to put them away and take a break ( Read more... ) -
New translation posted: The Maenads
I just finished the translation of The Maenads that I've been working on, now and then, for the past few months. (It's not really that long. I've just been busy.) It's a story by Julio Cortazar about a symphony concert that sort of ... gets out of hand. To put it mildly.
You can read the story here:
http://www.jenmaicha.com/translations/index. ( Read more... ) -
Bounty
I joined a farm this spring. Oh, I love it so ( Read more... ) -
Frozen shit. Office isolation. Untoasted bagels.
How much does it suck to work in New Brunswick. Especially at Robert Wood Johnson. Especially when you have to commute from far away. And get there 15 minutes before your building even opens. And fight with too many other people for a chance to park in a lot with not enough spaces. And the space you do find is against the stone wall of the train ( Read more... ) -
Bedouin camp
The parking lot at work is small, and fills up by 7:20 even though most of the people who park there don't start work until 8 or 8:30. Usually I fight to stay awake on the drive to work - at some red lights along Route 1 I even think about putting my car in park just in case I nod off for a few seconds - and when I finally get to the parking lot I ( Read more... ) -
More complaints from work
Why is the "Notes and Errata" PDF for the 2000 Census 295 pages long?? Le sigh. -
I made tofu!
.. But it was an accident. I didn't realize how long the soy milk had been in the fridge.