THE MOST AMAZING PIZZA EVER MADE IN OUR KITCHEN
So, Dan and I have recently been on a kick to perfect pizza. It was, at the beginning, his quest, having been raised by a woman who makes the most phenomenal pizza you've ever eaten. Atkins dieters, eat your hearts out because this lady's crust is the shit. Well, today i called him up while he was at home and asked if he wanted pizza tonight. The last time we were in Maine, we purchased two things at the local mill: dutch chocolate powder and Debbie's secret ingredient, yearst. Yearst is, of course, just really really really good yeast. So we made pizza tonite with yearst. And HOLY SHIT what a difference. We had the same recipe as before, which we had hitherto dismissed as a crappy recipe. It turns out the recipe is fine -- it was the yeast that sucked! But now that we have our amazing yearst, we're all set. And this stuff was $2.89 to fill a peanut butter jar with! And it's so good! Our dough not only tasted far superior to the previous batch, but it rose about twice as much! Now, this recipe is good for four pizzas! (Mini -- we make individual pizzas in pie pans.) So tonite, Dan had keilbasa and garlic on his, and i had BBQ tofu, red peppers, garlic, and onion. The sauce also happened to be excellent. What a fabulous meal. The only downfall? It's friggin' HOT out, and i can't stand to eat when it's like this. So i have 6/7 of a pizza left. That's lunch and dinner tomorrow, i guess! I'm just so thrilled that it came out well. Our pizza is far from perfect, but now with super-yearst, we're getting closer. Next to conquer? Ginger snaps. Any good recipes?
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Sunday, May 09, 2004
The New Post on the New and Improved Blog
I apologize for the length of time that has gone by, but as I am beginning to notice, time flies faster and faster as I get older. My friend Claudette from Hampshire College currently lives in Somerville, which is about a 15 minute drive away, and I probably see her every two or three months. I blame it partially on the 9-5, which I have realized really doesn’t suit me very well. If I work earlier in the day, like a 7-3, or even earlier, then I have the rest of the day to do something. If I work a 12-8, then I have my mornings to sleep in so I can do something when I get out of work. But if I work 9-5, as I do right now, I don’t get home early enough to do anything with my evening after eating dinner and still manage to get to bed in time. It doesn’t work out very well for me. I know I’d do more with my time off work if I had different hours. Not to mention the fact that I work during business hours and can never make it to the post office, and I work out in the middle of nowhere (for Boston), so I can’t do anything with my lunchbreak.
So I don’t know if you’ve been reading my blog regularly or not (I don’t blame you if you haven’t – I can barely keep up on my blog myself), but I took a much-needed mini-vacation down South myself last weekend. I went to visit my college friend Patty at Duke University in North Carolina, and we drove up for a night and day to see another college friend in Richmond, Virginia. It was so great! It was so lush and green down there with trees and vines growing in every crevice. It was so nice to be lazy for a few days and to visit friends. And nice not to be working!
Yeah, I hate the job again. Sigh. I know there are always ups and downs, but things have been on a steady downward spiral for over a month now. And now they’re working on making everything more beaurocratic and stratified. We'll now be documenting and formalizing everything like a big company because we're trying to meet a certain kind of certification. They’ve made it clear it won't change out accrual of vacation days or our pay. Or health benefits. In the same meeting that he told us that we need to keep better track of our vacation days, because next Christmas we'll be expected to be there between Christmas and New Year’s even though Production gets it off. Also, now I do have levels of people ahead of me instead of feeling like part of a family. Not, perhaps, umpteen level, but they've made it clear that Denisse and I are ENTRY LEVEL, and then there is ASI, production, and management, and administration. And it's all cleared up now. The HR manager really went out of his way to make us understand that we were lowest on the totem pole. It just is feeling less like a small family there and more like a big unfriendly corporation. So I’ll be working at a big company without getting the actual benefits of it (I only have 5 vacation days a year, and I have used 3 of them already. One for NC, and the other for Dan’s grandmother’s funeral. That pissed me off. I shouldn’t have to take a freaking VACATION DAY for a FUNERAL. The worst part of it is really that I stopped looking for a new job about a month ago when I registered for the GRE’s (which I’ll be taking on June 26th) and I was able to feel ok about it because I knew that no matter what, I had Christmas through New Year’s off (like it always used to be), and I still felt like I was an important part of something. But that rug got swept up from under my feet and tossed out the window last week. Ah well. I’ll resume the job search when I finish the GRE’s. I don’t know if I’ll look for another office job or not. I just don’t think they’re for me.
Otherwise, things have been going well. I feel like I’ve been using a lot of my time wisely, and my overall mood has changed tremendously since the springtime has hit in full bloom here, the lilacs are out, grass is growing (in some places) and the trees have leaves on them. It’s beautiful! It’s wonderful to go walking around and see people smiling and things growing. And I repotted a lot of my houseplants, and that was really nice too.
I apologize for the length of time that has gone by, but as I am beginning to notice, time flies faster and faster as I get older. My friend Claudette from Hampshire College currently lives in Somerville, which is about a 15 minute drive away, and I probably see her every two or three months. I blame it partially on the 9-5, which I have realized really doesn’t suit me very well. If I work earlier in the day, like a 7-3, or even earlier, then I have the rest of the day to do something. If I work a 12-8, then I have my mornings to sleep in so I can do something when I get out of work. But if I work 9-5, as I do right now, I don’t get home early enough to do anything with my evening after eating dinner and still manage to get to bed in time. It doesn’t work out very well for me. I know I’d do more with my time off work if I had different hours. Not to mention the fact that I work during business hours and can never make it to the post office, and I work out in the middle of nowhere (for Boston), so I can’t do anything with my lunchbreak.
So I don’t know if you’ve been reading my blog regularly or not (I don’t blame you if you haven’t – I can barely keep up on my blog myself), but I took a much-needed mini-vacation down South myself last weekend. I went to visit my college friend Patty at Duke University in North Carolina, and we drove up for a night and day to see another college friend in Richmond, Virginia. It was so great! It was so lush and green down there with trees and vines growing in every crevice. It was so nice to be lazy for a few days and to visit friends. And nice not to be working!
Yeah, I hate the job again. Sigh. I know there are always ups and downs, but things have been on a steady downward spiral for over a month now. And now they’re working on making everything more beaurocratic and stratified. We'll now be documenting and formalizing everything like a big company because we're trying to meet a certain kind of certification. They’ve made it clear it won't change out accrual of vacation days or our pay. Or health benefits. In the same meeting that he told us that we need to keep better track of our vacation days, because next Christmas we'll be expected to be there between Christmas and New Year’s even though Production gets it off. Also, now I do have levels of people ahead of me instead of feeling like part of a family. Not, perhaps, umpteen level, but they've made it clear that Denisse and I are ENTRY LEVEL, and then there is ASI, production, and management, and administration. And it's all cleared up now. The HR manager really went out of his way to make us understand that we were lowest on the totem pole. It just is feeling less like a small family there and more like a big unfriendly corporation. So I’ll be working at a big company without getting the actual benefits of it (I only have 5 vacation days a year, and I have used 3 of them already. One for NC, and the other for Dan’s grandmother’s funeral. That pissed me off. I shouldn’t have to take a freaking VACATION DAY for a FUNERAL. The worst part of it is really that I stopped looking for a new job about a month ago when I registered for the GRE’s (which I’ll be taking on June 26th) and I was able to feel ok about it because I knew that no matter what, I had Christmas through New Year’s off (like it always used to be), and I still felt like I was an important part of something. But that rug got swept up from under my feet and tossed out the window last week. Ah well. I’ll resume the job search when I finish the GRE’s. I don’t know if I’ll look for another office job or not. I just don’t think they’re for me.
Otherwise, things have been going well. I feel like I’ve been using a lot of my time wisely, and my overall mood has changed tremendously since the springtime has hit in full bloom here, the lilacs are out, grass is growing (in some places) and the trees have leaves on them. It’s beautiful! It’s wonderful to go walking around and see people smiling and things growing. And I repotted a lot of my houseplants, and that was really nice too.
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Why Must it be So Bloody Humid?
or
The Fucking South
Business First I would first like to point out that i have changed a link or two -- Junglemate, having gone under, no longer offers not-half-bad free email. They offer what i am sure is great email through norada at a price, which i am not willing to go for. There are plenty other email places out there though. This all came as a great surprise to my poor mother, who is, she admits, a technophobe and computer illiterate. I have therefore removed the Junglemate link from the page, gods rest its soul. And for those of you who still have not heard enough from me about how crazy Hampshire (my alma mater) is, please check out its site, which is now linked here on my very own blog.
Pleasure second It's quite disgusting in North Carolina right now, and i know because i'm there. it's hot and terribly humid, and that's just unacceptable. I'm currently down here visiting my dear college friend Patty Oskar Miller (my prefered nickname for her), and it's so good to see her! I flew down on Friday -- i managed to take a couple days off from work, much to the chagrine of the corporately-inclined HR manager. Despite the heat, i'm having a blast, and one thing that is really nice is the opportunity to solidy relax. What else do you do when it's hot? I'm not looking forward to boston in the summertime, though Dan and i succumbed to reality and bought an air conditioner for our bedroom so we don't kill each other because of heat. It's for the relationship. i felt conflicted (we both did) because of the obvious environmental detriment it causes... but we don't use much heating feul, and so we rationalize it that way. it's for the relationship. neither of us does well in heat.
so yesterday patty, kat and i wandered around in downtown richmond, virginia, which is lovely! yes, kat is yet another college friend. richmond is but a couple hour drive from durham, so it was totally conceivable to do so. it was really great to be with kat yesterday and the night before. it was just like old times. if it weren't for it being in the south and therefore unbearable due to the heat, i would consider living there for a year. it's very nice, and one thing i love about it down here is that there is greenery EVERYWHERE. even the suburbs are pretty, and that's saying A LOT. (you all know what i think of suburbs.)
we drove back to durham last night and left kat, which was sad, but then patty and i went to an "end of the semester" party at one of her friend's houses. it was fun. there was some controversy going on about someone's drunk girlfriend hitting on everyone, but hey - people do silly things when they're drunk. we danced as much as we could, but it was SO FUCKING HOT. oh my god. it's so fucking hot down here.
otherwise, today we're going to hang out in chapel hill so she can show me the area, get some food, get some coffee, chill out. it will be great. it's really cool to see her again, and i am fortunate to have made such great friends at college. it's too bad we're so far apart.
On a final and unrelated note, i am considering also looking for jobs further on the outskirts of the boston area, possibly because they might be more worth it and slightly less competitive. what i really want to do is work at a coffee shop, but hey. i might put together a coffee guru resume and leave it at all the coffee shops i like in boston. what could it hurt?
or
The Fucking South
Business First I would first like to point out that i have changed a link or two -- Junglemate, having gone under, no longer offers not-half-bad free email. They offer what i am sure is great email through norada at a price, which i am not willing to go for. There are plenty other email places out there though. This all came as a great surprise to my poor mother, who is, she admits, a technophobe and computer illiterate. I have therefore removed the Junglemate link from the page, gods rest its soul. And for those of you who still have not heard enough from me about how crazy Hampshire (my alma mater) is, please check out its site, which is now linked here on my very own blog.
Pleasure second It's quite disgusting in North Carolina right now, and i know because i'm there. it's hot and terribly humid, and that's just unacceptable. I'm currently down here visiting my dear college friend Patty Oskar Miller (my prefered nickname for her), and it's so good to see her! I flew down on Friday -- i managed to take a couple days off from work, much to the chagrine of the corporately-inclined HR manager. Despite the heat, i'm having a blast, and one thing that is really nice is the opportunity to solidy relax. What else do you do when it's hot? I'm not looking forward to boston in the summertime, though Dan and i succumbed to reality and bought an air conditioner for our bedroom so we don't kill each other because of heat. It's for the relationship. i felt conflicted (we both did) because of the obvious environmental detriment it causes... but we don't use much heating feul, and so we rationalize it that way. it's for the relationship. neither of us does well in heat.
so yesterday patty, kat and i wandered around in downtown richmond, virginia, which is lovely! yes, kat is yet another college friend. richmond is but a couple hour drive from durham, so it was totally conceivable to do so. it was really great to be with kat yesterday and the night before. it was just like old times. if it weren't for it being in the south and therefore unbearable due to the heat, i would consider living there for a year. it's very nice, and one thing i love about it down here is that there is greenery EVERYWHERE. even the suburbs are pretty, and that's saying A LOT. (you all know what i think of suburbs.)
we drove back to durham last night and left kat, which was sad, but then patty and i went to an "end of the semester" party at one of her friend's houses. it was fun. there was some controversy going on about someone's drunk girlfriend hitting on everyone, but hey - people do silly things when they're drunk. we danced as much as we could, but it was SO FUCKING HOT. oh my god. it's so fucking hot down here.
otherwise, today we're going to hang out in chapel hill so she can show me the area, get some food, get some coffee, chill out. it will be great. it's really cool to see her again, and i am fortunate to have made such great friends at college. it's too bad we're so far apart.
On a final and unrelated note, i am considering also looking for jobs further on the outskirts of the boston area, possibly because they might be more worth it and slightly less competitive. what i really want to do is work at a coffee shop, but hey. i might put together a coffee guru resume and leave it at all the coffee shops i like in boston. what could it hurt?
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
a fleeting moment... or not
life is a funny thing. dan and matt's mutual grandmother died recently, and i managed to get the days off from work for the funeral even though i'm going down to north carolina to visit my dear friend patty this weekend. it's said that i never really knew dorris, but after eating a bunch of the recipes that her decendants made, looking at all sorts of old pictures that carol laid out, pouring over the geneology charts that maurice put together, and listening to the passing stories, i felt like i knew her.
and that sacred moment was then succeeded by coming back to work, from an emotionally and spiritually warm weekend in maine where family was, where home was, where earth was. and now i'm back here in boston. boston isn't bad. in fact, i had an absolutely lovely early evening when i got home and went for a job in the blossoming spring. i didn't realize how many trees there are around here. it turns out there are quite a few -- they're just not evergreens. and it's lovely! i went for a nice long jog, and then i walked back through ringer park up the street on my way back home, only to meet some friendly doggies and their owners (a couple of gay thirty-somethings) running around and sniffing each others' bums and playing catch and digging holes. it was wonderful! and apparently one of them is never that friendly with new people, but she was with me. i think that's why the owner decided that i was worthy of a lengthy, familiar conversation. then, i got back home, made dinner of mushrooms sauteed in white wine, toasted orzo, and steamed broccoli. it was magnificent if i don't mind saying so myself.
and JUST when i was settling into studying for the GRE's, ALAN PENNINGTON showed up on my doorstep! i had only a slight hint he was coming when this afternoon he gave me a buzz on my cell and said he was pondering coming down. but i didn't hear back from him, so i assumed it was a no-go. but there he was! he made it, and he and i sat down and had a great conversation.
one of the things i love the best about old friends is how you just pick up where you left off. well, not exactly. it's that the time in between doesn't matter as much, and you can talk about the things that are important to you once you have covered the basics of the past several months. before we knew it, we were talking about the theory of relativity. he's heading home tonite, and i'm more than delighted that he popped in totally unexpectedly. right now he and dan are playing a game of "magic." it's nice to have friends around. kathy is reading, i expect, and matt is getting ready for bed. how homey.
so the only thing batting against me right now is my job. and i'm not going to sully this otherwise positive entry with the "joys" of my job. it was worse than usual today, and i had a better than usual day otherwise.
goodnight!
life is a funny thing. dan and matt's mutual grandmother died recently, and i managed to get the days off from work for the funeral even though i'm going down to north carolina to visit my dear friend patty this weekend. it's said that i never really knew dorris, but after eating a bunch of the recipes that her decendants made, looking at all sorts of old pictures that carol laid out, pouring over the geneology charts that maurice put together, and listening to the passing stories, i felt like i knew her.
and that sacred moment was then succeeded by coming back to work, from an emotionally and spiritually warm weekend in maine where family was, where home was, where earth was. and now i'm back here in boston. boston isn't bad. in fact, i had an absolutely lovely early evening when i got home and went for a job in the blossoming spring. i didn't realize how many trees there are around here. it turns out there are quite a few -- they're just not evergreens. and it's lovely! i went for a nice long jog, and then i walked back through ringer park up the street on my way back home, only to meet some friendly doggies and their owners (a couple of gay thirty-somethings) running around and sniffing each others' bums and playing catch and digging holes. it was wonderful! and apparently one of them is never that friendly with new people, but she was with me. i think that's why the owner decided that i was worthy of a lengthy, familiar conversation. then, i got back home, made dinner of mushrooms sauteed in white wine, toasted orzo, and steamed broccoli. it was magnificent if i don't mind saying so myself.
and JUST when i was settling into studying for the GRE's, ALAN PENNINGTON showed up on my doorstep! i had only a slight hint he was coming when this afternoon he gave me a buzz on my cell and said he was pondering coming down. but i didn't hear back from him, so i assumed it was a no-go. but there he was! he made it, and he and i sat down and had a great conversation.
one of the things i love the best about old friends is how you just pick up where you left off. well, not exactly. it's that the time in between doesn't matter as much, and you can talk about the things that are important to you once you have covered the basics of the past several months. before we knew it, we were talking about the theory of relativity. he's heading home tonite, and i'm more than delighted that he popped in totally unexpectedly. right now he and dan are playing a game of "magic." it's nice to have friends around. kathy is reading, i expect, and matt is getting ready for bed. how homey.
so the only thing batting against me right now is my job. and i'm not going to sully this otherwise positive entry with the "joys" of my job. it was worse than usual today, and i had a better than usual day otherwise.
goodnight!
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
what i have done for the past three hours...
Bookworm - it's an EXTREMELY addictive game. This and others at AddictingGames.com
Bookworm - it's an EXTREMELY addictive game. This and others at AddictingGames.com
Sunday, April 11, 2004
THE LONGEST WEEK EVER
Was this week long for anyone else? Initially characterized by the onset of Mercury Retrograde, which took a while for me to remember about, i was in a pissy mood all last Sunday until i remembered what the hell was going on. Simply being around people was irritating. So i went for a long, lovely walk, and read for a while.
That having been said, this week was long. Work was actually pretty good -- i even moved back to my "old" desk space at work, and it is lighter there and feels more like "home." Things that became obvious to me over the course of the week:
1. It looks like i really need glasses. I don't know what it is, but a couple weeks ago, i noticed while i was at the museum that i couldn't read the little words on the plaques next to paintings as well as i could while i was at the Louvre last April. Then this week, shit hit the fan. I can't focus on my computer screen! The muscles around my eyes hurt from moving back and forth and squinting! Looks like i'll have to get a check-up.
2. Someday i'll have to open up a vegetarian restaurant in France. A year ago on April Fools' day, i flew out of Boston for Paris, and MAN was it lovely. Website still to come. While i was there, i noticed a severe lack of vegetarian options on menues. And while i was reading A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle on the train this week, i realized why: at France, you mostly pay one fee for the one meal that's being done that day. It's easier, since they have so many danged courses. Since at least half of the courses involved meat, i never ate at any of the restaurants there other than creperies. Not that there is anything wrong with those, but i missed sitting down at a restaurant and having a whole danged meal. I met plenty of vegetarians while i was there, though, so it occured to me that a vegetarian restaurant in France is just going to have to happen, and it might be by me.
3. I have once again been reminded of why chocolate is so wonderful. Does this really need any explaining? It's a stress reliever. In a similar vein, I LOVE COFFEE.
4. I won't be able to look for a job while i'm trying to enjoy life outside of work and while i'm studying for the GRE's. It's just not feasible. So that has gone on the back burner. Thank god work has been getting better.
5. I am now the proud owner of the cutest ducky stuffed animal that has ever graced the earth.
So, this is Easter Weekend, and i didn't go out hunting for kegs on the Easter Keg Hunt at Hampshire, nor did i hang out in the Luxemburg Gardens like i did last year. But Dan and i made this a wonderful Easter Weekend nevertheless. Yesterday, we did SHIT. It was so nice. We woke up late, sat around, might have made lunch or something, and then we made our way to a pep rally for the Maine Black Bears (who unfortunately lost the NCAA hockey championship to the Denver turkeys, or whatever the hell they're called, but that's what their mascot looks like) because our friend Stef was playing in it! Actually the previous night we were blessed with her presence, and we went out to dinner at the Common Ground Bar and Grill. Good place. It was so great to see her, and she liked our apartment. Anyhow, i have been out of the sports crowd for far too long to seriously get into the pep rally, which was terminally lame, but the band was GREAT. Seriously. And Stef? The pep of the crowd -- the life of the pep, if you will. So cute, she's featured on TV for it. Last night? Matt, his girlfriend Laura, Dan and I finally watched Citizen Kane. What a great film! I can totally see why it became such a seminal text.
Yesterday's laziness was offset by the productivity and movement of today. Today, being Easter and the day of fertility, Dan and i celebrated by going to the Arsenal Mall on Memorial Drive -- all of which was closed (DUH) except for the Home Depot, which we were planning on going to to get potting soil and some new plant pots. I am going to repot my plants! Next, we went grocery shopping, and THEN, we went on a long beautiful walk. I wanted to bring him to the park at the top of Summit Hill that i discovered last week in my travels. It's really easy to miss since all the roads in that area entirely skirt around the base of the hill. I found it through one of the many enjoyable paths in Brookline. Then tonite, i baked! I threw together some dough for some basic white bread, and i kneaded the hell out of it enjoying every violent bit. I tell ya, no bread machine for me. I like to beat up dough. While that was rising i threw together some banana bread, which, other than being oily, came out VERY well. Bread, banana bread, hot in the oven while i sauteed some onions, garlic, and summer squash to go on spaghetti. Mmmm. I felt very happy throwing all this stuff together. Did the bread come out well? MMMMMMMM. One out of one Dan's agree, Lindsay's bread came out well.
Hurray for a wonderful weekend! Let's hope this week goes by quickly, because we'll be going to Maine next weekend!
And let me not forget to mention that Dan, the sweetest ever, got up at 4:30 this morning to make an Easter Egg hunt for me. It was so sweet and i was so excited, i actually did the hunt before i ate my breakfast. He sures knows how to make me smile.
Was this week long for anyone else? Initially characterized by the onset of Mercury Retrograde, which took a while for me to remember about, i was in a pissy mood all last Sunday until i remembered what the hell was going on. Simply being around people was irritating. So i went for a long, lovely walk, and read for a while.
That having been said, this week was long. Work was actually pretty good -- i even moved back to my "old" desk space at work, and it is lighter there and feels more like "home." Things that became obvious to me over the course of the week:
1. It looks like i really need glasses. I don't know what it is, but a couple weeks ago, i noticed while i was at the museum that i couldn't read the little words on the plaques next to paintings as well as i could while i was at the Louvre last April. Then this week, shit hit the fan. I can't focus on my computer screen! The muscles around my eyes hurt from moving back and forth and squinting! Looks like i'll have to get a check-up.
2. Someday i'll have to open up a vegetarian restaurant in France. A year ago on April Fools' day, i flew out of Boston for Paris, and MAN was it lovely. Website still to come. While i was there, i noticed a severe lack of vegetarian options on menues. And while i was reading A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle on the train this week, i realized why: at France, you mostly pay one fee for the one meal that's being done that day. It's easier, since they have so many danged courses. Since at least half of the courses involved meat, i never ate at any of the restaurants there other than creperies. Not that there is anything wrong with those, but i missed sitting down at a restaurant and having a whole danged meal. I met plenty of vegetarians while i was there, though, so it occured to me that a vegetarian restaurant in France is just going to have to happen, and it might be by me.
3. I have once again been reminded of why chocolate is so wonderful. Does this really need any explaining? It's a stress reliever. In a similar vein, I LOVE COFFEE.
4. I won't be able to look for a job while i'm trying to enjoy life outside of work and while i'm studying for the GRE's. It's just not feasible. So that has gone on the back burner. Thank god work has been getting better.
5. I am now the proud owner of the cutest ducky stuffed animal that has ever graced the earth.
So, this is Easter Weekend, and i didn't go out hunting for kegs on the Easter Keg Hunt at Hampshire, nor did i hang out in the Luxemburg Gardens like i did last year. But Dan and i made this a wonderful Easter Weekend nevertheless. Yesterday, we did SHIT. It was so nice. We woke up late, sat around, might have made lunch or something, and then we made our way to a pep rally for the Maine Black Bears (who unfortunately lost the NCAA hockey championship to the Denver turkeys, or whatever the hell they're called, but that's what their mascot looks like) because our friend Stef was playing in it! Actually the previous night we were blessed with her presence, and we went out to dinner at the Common Ground Bar and Grill. Good place. It was so great to see her, and she liked our apartment. Anyhow, i have been out of the sports crowd for far too long to seriously get into the pep rally, which was terminally lame, but the band was GREAT. Seriously. And Stef? The pep of the crowd -- the life of the pep, if you will. So cute, she's featured on TV for it. Last night? Matt, his girlfriend Laura, Dan and I finally watched Citizen Kane. What a great film! I can totally see why it became such a seminal text.
Yesterday's laziness was offset by the productivity and movement of today. Today, being Easter and the day of fertility, Dan and i celebrated by going to the Arsenal Mall on Memorial Drive -- all of which was closed (DUH) except for the Home Depot, which we were planning on going to to get potting soil and some new plant pots. I am going to repot my plants! Next, we went grocery shopping, and THEN, we went on a long beautiful walk. I wanted to bring him to the park at the top of Summit Hill that i discovered last week in my travels. It's really easy to miss since all the roads in that area entirely skirt around the base of the hill. I found it through one of the many enjoyable paths in Brookline. Then tonite, i baked! I threw together some dough for some basic white bread, and i kneaded the hell out of it enjoying every violent bit. I tell ya, no bread machine for me. I like to beat up dough. While that was rising i threw together some banana bread, which, other than being oily, came out VERY well. Bread, banana bread, hot in the oven while i sauteed some onions, garlic, and summer squash to go on spaghetti. Mmmm. I felt very happy throwing all this stuff together. Did the bread come out well? MMMMMMMM. One out of one Dan's agree, Lindsay's bread came out well.
Hurray for a wonderful weekend! Let's hope this week goes by quickly, because we'll be going to Maine next weekend!
And let me not forget to mention that Dan, the sweetest ever, got up at 4:30 this morning to make an Easter Egg hunt for me. It was so sweet and i was so excited, i actually did the hunt before i ate my breakfast. He sures knows how to make me smile.
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Weekend Update
I finally registered for the GRE's. I did so on Tuesday night. So now i am out $115 bucks, and because of the monetary loss, which always speaks louder to common folk than most other kinds of loss, i am finally being a better stickler about studying for it. I finished reading through and practicing bits of the verbal section, so this afternoon, i'm going to one of the Boston Public Library branches and taking a verbal practice test.
So i should go, because they close at five.
ALSO, Dan and i went to the Reproductive Rights Conference at Hampshire College this weekend. It was a real eye-opener. I tell you, you can be a liberal and think you know what's going on, but until you actually listen to the panels and listen to what is still going on that you assumed stopped fifty years ago, you don't really realize how much more work there is to do, and how reproductive rights means something completely different if you're a 26 year old poor black mother who is in jail for 20 years because you stole baby food -- most women in that situation are sterilized. Um, it was a powerful conference. There was only one part of it that really took away for me, and it was an abysmally unfocused workshop on masculinity. It was written up as how men and other masculine-identified individuals can be reproductive choice allies in the face of all the negative attention "masculinity" gets today, but instead it was more boxing in of what masculinity really means. We left.
But it is time to shower and go.
I finally registered for the GRE's. I did so on Tuesday night. So now i am out $115 bucks, and because of the monetary loss, which always speaks louder to common folk than most other kinds of loss, i am finally being a better stickler about studying for it. I finished reading through and practicing bits of the verbal section, so this afternoon, i'm going to one of the Boston Public Library branches and taking a verbal practice test.
So i should go, because they close at five.
ALSO, Dan and i went to the Reproductive Rights Conference at Hampshire College this weekend. It was a real eye-opener. I tell you, you can be a liberal and think you know what's going on, but until you actually listen to the panels and listen to what is still going on that you assumed stopped fifty years ago, you don't really realize how much more work there is to do, and how reproductive rights means something completely different if you're a 26 year old poor black mother who is in jail for 20 years because you stole baby food -- most women in that situation are sterilized. Um, it was a powerful conference. There was only one part of it that really took away for me, and it was an abysmally unfocused workshop on masculinity. It was written up as how men and other masculine-identified individuals can be reproductive choice allies in the face of all the negative attention "masculinity" gets today, but instead it was more boxing in of what masculinity really means. We left.
But it is time to shower and go.
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