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May. 14th, 2010 02:43 pm
It turns out that this guy I've been working with for like 6 years is a hottie. I never knew this before because we'd never met. He lives in another state and every time he's ever come out for work I've always missed him. Yesterday we had a rare big group gathering and met him for the first time. I was like, uh wow, okay. He's married so at least I don't have to feel all regretful or anything. :D
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gardening, I haven't found responses to a post I made helpful. :/ It's about how I think I'm burning my basil seedlings. It may be that I'm just in denial, but I REALLY don't think the problem is bugs or diseases. I'm pretty sure that what's happening is that the windowpane is intensifying/concentrating the sunlight coming through, especially the sunlight in the afternoon. It hasn't been a problem before now because it's been so cloudy most of the time. I haven't seen evidence of bugs at all, and if there were bugs, they would probably be affecting ALL the basil in the pot, as well as all the other seedlings that I'm keeping in the room. Not only that, I used the same potting soil for everything, so if there were diseases in that soil, again wouldn't it affect ALL the seedlings? Or even if it were a basil-specific disease, it should also affect the basil I planted in the cells with the tomato, etc. seedlings. So, yeah. I'm just going to move the pot around the windowsill to see if I can stop whatever's happening, and if that doesn't work, I'll just put it under the Grow lamp. I'd really rather not, though, because it's getting crowded under there and the potted basil has been doing *much* better than the celled basil, which kind of proves that there's no substitution for real sunlight.
I watched the "Into the Wild" movie and didn't much like it. I didn't like the actors (except Kristen Stewart), and I didn't think the way it was directed really made the best use of the material. I know, I guess Sean Penn won all these awards for his work, but I'd bet that few of those people who lauded him ever read the book. It's not even that I wanted to have everything that was in the book, in the movie (like all those side stories). I just would have rather have seen more linear storytelling, really get to know Chris the way we do in the book, see the events that made him who he was, why he made the decisions he made, etc. I thought the Chris in the movie was even less sympathetic than he was in the book, there was no context for why he would have camped out at this random bus in the Alaska wild, we didn't truly understand why anyone would be so drawn to him (the few minutes each of these 'tramping' buddies got, was far too little) or that he had a strong relationship with any of those people, as it was clear in the book that he did. So, pretty disappointing adaptation, as far as I'm concerned. However, what's REALLY good about the movie is Eddie Vedder's music. *SO* good.
For the first time since participating on
gardening, I haven't found responses to a post I made helpful. :/ It's about how I think I'm burning my basil seedlings. It may be that I'm just in denial, but I REALLY don't think the problem is bugs or diseases. I'm pretty sure that what's happening is that the windowpane is intensifying/concentrating the sunlight coming through, especially the sunlight in the afternoon. It hasn't been a problem before now because it's been so cloudy most of the time. I haven't seen evidence of bugs at all, and if there were bugs, they would probably be affecting ALL the basil in the pot, as well as all the other seedlings that I'm keeping in the room. Not only that, I used the same potting soil for everything, so if there were diseases in that soil, again wouldn't it affect ALL the seedlings? Or even if it were a basil-specific disease, it should also affect the basil I planted in the cells with the tomato, etc. seedlings. So, yeah. I'm just going to move the pot around the windowsill to see if I can stop whatever's happening, and if that doesn't work, I'll just put it under the Grow lamp. I'd really rather not, though, because it's getting crowded under there and the potted basil has been doing *much* better than the celled basil, which kind of proves that there's no substitution for real sunlight.I watched the "Into the Wild" movie and didn't much like it. I didn't like the actors (except Kristen Stewart), and I didn't think the way it was directed really made the best use of the material. I know, I guess Sean Penn won all these awards for his work, but I'd bet that few of those people who lauded him ever read the book. It's not even that I wanted to have everything that was in the book, in the movie (like all those side stories). I just would have rather have seen more linear storytelling, really get to know Chris the way we do in the book, see the events that made him who he was, why he made the decisions he made, etc. I thought the Chris in the movie was even less sympathetic than he was in the book, there was no context for why he would have camped out at this random bus in the Alaska wild, we didn't truly understand why anyone would be so drawn to him (the few minutes each of these 'tramping' buddies got, was far too little) or that he had a strong relationship with any of those people, as it was clear in the book that he did. So, pretty disappointing adaptation, as far as I'm concerned. However, what's REALLY good about the movie is Eddie Vedder's music. *SO* good.
