We're drinking the last bottle of wine we bought at the winery we went to in Texas. It tasted much better when I was drunk from the wine tasting.

I don't have beer. I have to go help the class ahead of Annabel's with their caps and gowns in 20 minutes.

However, I had a Strongbow cider at lunch yesterday, so maybe I shouldn't complain.

We're drinking the last bottle of wine we bought at the winery we went to in Texas. It tasted much better when I was drunk from the wine tasting.

I believe you've just identified the key principle that allows Mast-Jägermeister AG to remain in business.

I hauled my ass out to the store so you can stop worrying.

If I had had no beer I would have been fine. But I had two beers, so once I drank those I really wanted more. Four blocks each way. City life is tough, I tell you.

I have beer but I don't want any right now. I'm feeling icky.

I finally finished reading the Freegan article. Thing I don't get is...well, everything. These people are eating out of publically exposed dumpsters. Dear lord! I can't not see that as an act born out of base desperation. I just can't. I know there's too much wastage going on, but that's not a safe way to put a dent into it.

It weirds me out a lot.

I'm going climbing later, so no beer for me until afterwards. It's a good day for beer, though: sunny and warm.

I hit a clearance sale of this shop near the REI in Berkeley, and the clothes were mostly nice, lots of cotton and linen, but the sizing! I am a totally average-sized adult woman: I wear 8-10 in damn near everything. The shirt I bought from these people? Extra-small. WTF? The whole vanity sizing thing has gotten completely out of hand, because you can't tell from one manufacturer to another what size you're going to be. SO annoying.

The Freetarians freak me out, too. *shudder*

I think that most people who actually dumpster-dive will have some sort of safety rules, like they'll only take packaged things. That article mentioned several people who were taking produce or pre-made sandwiches or things like that, which weirded me out.

I can see the benefits of that sort of thing for things other than food. Freecycle things, pick up furniture from the curb at the end of the semester, Baltimore Book Thing, all great. But food is different.

(Baltimore Book Thing is seriously one of my favorite places ever. Free books! The summer I was working at Johns Hopkins, I was there every weekend. I'm so annoyed that the public transportation doesn't really work for getting there from DC.)

I knew two women who were sorta' freegan. One bragged about hitchhiking across the country and only spending about $2.30 for everything on the entire trip. Apparently shrubs on church grounds are good places to crash at night.