Habia una vez, I taught school in rural Louisiana. Which was crazytown for a variety of reasons. Once, I was in the middle of punishing the whole class for something or other, and when I threatened just one more thing, one of the kids called out from the back: “Aw, is that lagniappe?” I had [...]
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Lagniappe!
February 22, 2012Marketing
February 21, 2012Friday, my boss asked me if I was going to start gardening this weekend. “Start?” I said. “I’ve been gardening!” That is the glory of Northern California… veggie gardening is a year-round project. In addition to the sea of favas and crazy-kale, the cabbage and cauliflower (behind the cabbage) has been particularly lovely this year. [...]
Rage
February 15, 2012This has been a crap week. Monday afternoon, I discovered that someone filed federal taxes using my name, date of birth, and social-EFFING-security number. That no good punk got their refund wired directly to their account today. How nice for them, right? You know what I get? An estimated 77 clock hours trying to reclaim [...]
Mind Over Body
February 8, 2012Superbowl Sunday, Westerman and I went skiing/snowboarding. It was Westerman’s genius idea to go snowboarding on Superbowl Sunday, because look around me in that photo. Do you see ANYONE else? There were a few other people there, but not enough for us to EVER have to wait in a line of any kind. It was [...]
Tidy/Untidy
January 31, 2012Oooh, this week. The garbage that is this week began on Saturday, when I started editing this giant project for work that was due this week. It is a long and stupid story, but the conclusion is: nobody did what they were supposed to do, so my boss and I have been working on it [...]
Seed Starting
January 22, 2012Yesterday I planted up a few more seeds to get a head start on early spring planting, and my little greenhouse is starting to fill up. My current, preferred method of seed starting: potting soil plus vermiculite mixed up, plus leftover six-pack plant things, plus masking tape labels. They’re all shelf-ed up in the greenhouse. [...]
Hippie Hair, Hippie Other Things
January 17, 2012Yesterday morning, it occurred to me that I had not washed my hair in over a week. A few years ago, I religiously washed my hair every other day. Sometimes every day, but every other at the least. Day one, my hair could be worn down. But day two, it was so greasy, I had [...]
Molly
January 8, 2012Today Molly, Westerman and Javier’s dog, goes back home after three weeks of staying here while her dads were traveling to assorted exciting places. Three weeks is the longest I’ve dog-sat Molly, and after about two weeks, I think she just gave up all hope of ever going to her real home again and decided [...]
Saturday
January 8, 2012After my shift walking dogs at the Humane Society, the remainder of Saturday was spent doing a glorious lot of nothing. Well, not nothing… but lots of reading. The weather has been very strange– it gets down to freezing at night, but is almost 70 during the day. The plants are very confused. My favas [...]
Last Day of Vacay
January 4, 2012Tomorrow I have to go back to work. I’ve had a long time off (one of the many reasons my job is awesome), but still I’m not ready to go back. Sigh. However, the sun was out today, and that made a huge difference. Yesterday was cold and grey and cloudy, and I spent the [...]
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