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"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."
May. 25th, 2006 11:01 am
I didn't get to see Marian Keyes yesterday. Online mapping failed me and I ended up going way far north, when I should have been going way far south. It doesn't help that I have NO sense of direction whatsoever (when someone says "go north on such-and-such" it's completely meaningless to me). By the time I figured out I was going the wrong way (actually Jade figured it out since I was on the phone with her and she was consulting maps), it was too late, I wouldn't have made it in a reasonable amount of time, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corianderstem would have missed most of the talk. I was really bummed about that, and frustrated, because f*ck you, online maps!
It wasn't a complete loss, however. I was right near the Market, so I took the opportunity to buy cheese. They have the BEST handmade cheese shop there, Beecher's, thatropo and her sister discovered the last time she visited. Their Flagship cheese is the best cheese ever. Amazingly enough, there was a parking space right nearby (virtually unheard of), but it was on the lefthand side of the street and I had to parallel park. There was much sweating until a kind passerby helped me with how close I was getting to the car behind me. Anyway, at Beecher's I also bought a 16 oz container of macaroni & cheese (except ... it wasn't macaroni, it was penne), which was good but STILL not as good as Stouffer's (I know, I'm so wrong), a wedge of Flagship, and 1/4lb of fresh cheese curds. Now, I had never even heard of cheese curds until corianderstem mentioned them awhile back, and I am delighted to report that they DO, in fact, squeak in your mouth when you eat them! And they're good. Hee!
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The white-button mushroom patch that I ordered? Apparently not going to be arriving until June. Just to make it more challenging for me or what?? They have a money-back guarantee though, so if I don't harvest 4lbs of mushrooms they'll be hearing from me. >< Not shipping until June, honestly.
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So I'm about halfway through Speaker for the Dead now, and I'm enjoying it a lot. Not the same way I enjoyed Ender's Game, but that's a pretty high bar. Could Ender and Valentine be more incesty? What is causing the piggies to kill, when they kill? Will I ever like Novinha? Should the Hive Queen/buggers really be given another opportunity? Are we sure they're harmless? Is it possible for anyone to not love Ender?
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My office has a bunch of no-good food stealers. Remember the incident a few months back, in which someone took my leftovers? That was disturbing, but I chalked it up to misidentification -- after all, a lot of take-out containers look very alike. However, two days ago I was in the cafeteria buying lunch when a coworker gave me one of those "unlimited spend" cards and told me to abuse it. I got my entree, plus a bowl of soup and two of those fancy boxed ice cream sandwiches (biscotti cookies, with strawberry and vanilla ice cream). I ate one of them that day and stuck the other one in the freezer. When I went to retrieve it yesterday? You guessed it. Ice cream sandwich GONE. No misunderstanding possible -- it was individually boxed and was the only one of its kind. Someone basically saw it, knew it wasn't theirs, and took it anyway. WTF. The people around here make a lot of money. They can't afford to buy their own f*cking ice cream sandwiches instead of STEALING it?! Could they possibly have wanted it THAT badly? What the hell is WRONG with people. And now I have no choice but to conclude that the leftovers incident wasn't a mistake, but was deliberate also. Ugh. I hate people.
corianderstem would have missed most of the talk. I was really bummed about that, and frustrated, because f*ck you, online maps!It wasn't a complete loss, however. I was right near the Market, so I took the opportunity to buy cheese. They have the BEST handmade cheese shop there, Beecher's, that
ropo and her sister discovered the last time she visited. Their Flagship cheese is the best cheese ever. Amazingly enough, there was a parking space right nearby (virtually unheard of), but it was on the lefthand side of the street and I had to parallel park. There was much sweating until a kind passerby helped me with how close I was getting to the car behind me. Anyway, at Beecher's I also bought a 16 oz container of macaroni & cheese (except ... it wasn't macaroni, it was penne), which was good but STILL not as good as Stouffer's (I know, I'm so wrong), a wedge of Flagship, and 1/4lb of fresh cheese curds. Now, I had never even heard of cheese curds until corianderstem mentioned them awhile back, and I am delighted to report that they DO, in fact, squeak in your mouth when you eat them! And they're good. Hee!+++
The white-button mushroom patch that I ordered? Apparently not going to be arriving until June. Just to make it more challenging for me or what?? They have a money-back guarantee though, so if I don't harvest 4lbs of mushrooms they'll be hearing from me. >< Not shipping until June, honestly.
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So I'm about halfway through Speaker for the Dead now, and I'm enjoying it a lot. Not the same way I enjoyed Ender's Game, but that's a pretty high bar. Could Ender and Valentine be more incesty? What is causing the piggies to kill, when they kill? Will I ever like Novinha? Should the Hive Queen/buggers really be given another opportunity? Are we sure they're harmless? Is it possible for anyone to not love Ender?
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My office has a bunch of no-good food stealers. Remember the incident a few months back, in which someone took my leftovers? That was disturbing, but I chalked it up to misidentification -- after all, a lot of take-out containers look very alike. However, two days ago I was in the cafeteria buying lunch when a coworker gave me one of those "unlimited spend" cards and told me to abuse it. I got my entree, plus a bowl of soup and two of those fancy boxed ice cream sandwiches (biscotti cookies, with strawberry and vanilla ice cream). I ate one of them that day and stuck the other one in the freezer. When I went to retrieve it yesterday? You guessed it. Ice cream sandwich GONE. No misunderstanding possible -- it was individually boxed and was the only one of its kind. Someone basically saw it, knew it wasn't theirs, and took it anyway. WTF. The people around here make a lot of money. They can't afford to buy their own f*cking ice cream sandwiches instead of STEALING it?! Could they possibly have wanted it THAT badly? What the hell is WRONG with people. And now I have no choice but to conclude that the leftovers incident wasn't a mistake, but was deliberate also. Ugh. I hate people.
