it's Sum Sum Sum Sum Sum Sumertime

[theevilchemist]

I'm heading downtown to hang out at the library. I'm going to avoid home as much as possible until fall. Today, at work I was in one of those "I'm so happy I feel like vomitting" moods

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[kristinkannibal]

you know, i've always harbored a secret desire to work at a grocery store. postal carrier is also pretty high up on "the list".

i totally hear you on the "foodjoy" thing. it's so refreshing to be with someone who's open to experimentation and PARTICIPATION in that department!

here's to your proactive summer and mayhaps i'll see you at the august nocturna!

Yea!

[theevilchemist]

Some of the best moments of a relationship is gushing over food you make, and food you share. Every celebration in a person's life is celebrated with food.

Can't wait to see you!
jv

[mystress]

Like Dan Savage says (paraphrasing here), all of your relationships will fail, until you find one that doesn't.

Of Course He's Right

[theevilchemist]

Yeah, I'm just sort of in a pickle, b/c my usual strategy of single shot accuracy isn't compatible now. It takes more time than I have right now.

All of my past relationships, save two were great and I don't regret them at all, even if they did fail.

I'm thinking I should be less picky, but I don't want a 3rd bad relationship.
jv

[kambriel]

I understand what you mean food-wise. It was such a personal and long-standing decision to not eat meat ~ I became a vegetarian back in 1986 ~ that I'm not sure I could rectify being in an intimate, long-term relationship with someone who did. I'm sure there are plenty of omnivores that would feel the same way ~ that not feeling like they'd be able to share in all those new epicurean discoveries... It's one of those things where people are bound to have a few insurmountable differences regardless of how compatible they are, but why stack the decks against such a personal thing right from the get go?

[theevilchemist]

I'm sure there are plenty of omnivores that would feel the same way

It's odd, b/c a lot of my friends seem to think that meat eating is a trivial reason to not date someone, yet more trivial IMO, reasons like height, body type, income, profession, are perfectly legitimate reasons not to date someone.

It's more than just a dietary preference for me, and the omnivore women I dated early on didn't understand that. When I dated my 1st vegetarian the intimacy level was far deeper than with omnivores.

People eat so often, it's just more enjoyable when it's a celebration rather than a compromise.

jv

[kambriel]

Eating animal flesh is fundamentally no different to me as eating human flesh, and I'd think people would understand straightaway if you drew the line at not wanting to date someone who just happened to eat humans, but were otherwise a fantastic person. People who do eat meat might take huge exception to that kind of thought process, but to someone for whom animals/humans fall into the same greater family, it's really not that much of a stretch. I accept with humility the lifestyles of indigenous people who truly do rely on animals as food (and materials) for survival ~ who waste not, but I feel for those of us given a choice ~ for whom eating animals is a casual, thoughtless process besides "yum!", that's just in my mind not enough justification for taking another's life

[lorralie]

Interesting that you mentioned the poop micronizer! Only last week I spotted someone scooping poop on my way home from work and wondered why someone hasn't invented a portable spray that one could carry which would freeze dry pop making it far easier to hygienically collect the solidified patties?!

Your idea is even better because mine is hardly environmentally friendly!

[blixa23]

Someone kinda did, but it doesn't freeze dry the poop, just "freezing" it to 60-something degrees F.

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/01/25/poop-freeze-spray-will-turn-dog-doo-icy-cold/

JV, if you build it, we will come. Er, I'll definitely buy one off ya.

heh,

[theevilchemist]

I'm going to make a prototype this week out of an acrylic tube and a weed garden weasel. My brother has 5 dogs so I'll have plenty or raw material. :)

[theevilchemist]

Your idea is even better because mine is hardly environmentally friendly!

If you use compressed CO2, it would be carbon neutral :)

I got the idea when I was in Berlin, and there was poop all over the sidewalk!
Poop sucks, b/c it's wet and it smells, but cat boxes don't smell, b/c the litter dries it and absorbs the odor. I figure if I could find a quick way to dry it, people would be more inclined to dispose of it properly.

jv

[azhriaz]

A longer heads up than last year: we may be in town for Lollapolooza the first weekend of August. Think you'll be around?

Yep!

[theevilchemist]

Send me a txt a coupla days before.

yea!
jv