I ended up making an enormous spinach and veggie salad and topping it with turkey kielbasa.
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Oct 17, 2009 5:45:38 pm PDT #14214 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Nora Deirdre - Oct 17, 2009 5:46:20 pm PDT #14215 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I made chicken & dumplings.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 17, 2009 5:49:01 pm PDT #14216 of 30001
What is even happening?
Scott made grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, and I made my way to the table.
DavidS - Oct 17, 2009 5:53:21 pm PDT #14217 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I made chicken & dumplings.
That's not exactly the French Laundry! (Though I'm sure it was tasty.)
Nora Deirdre - Oct 17, 2009 6:00:42 pm PDT #14218 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
If I kept eating like that, I'd get the gout!
DavidS - Oct 17, 2009 6:18:20 pm PDT #14219 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If I kept eating like that, I'd get the gout!
Bring me the quinine sorbet and nobody gets hurt!
sarameg - Oct 17, 2009 6:30:29 pm PDT #14220 of 30001
I ate a wrap from Trader Joes. Well, half.
I'm kinda weirded out by the funeral/memorial thing. I was definitely the most peon and removed from him there. The thing is, I really fucking respected the guy, even after only really having interacted directly for the last 18 mo. or so. So that's why I went, despite feeling like an intruder. I mean, I got to tell his father and sister that I liked the meetings in which I got called to the carpet because he so clearly cared and knew as much as me, and I'm supposed to be the expert. And while I'm really private, the whole community-recognizing a loss thing seemed important to me. He knew my name. He knew what my role was. He didn't know me beyond that. He's a huge part of the reason this thing called Hubble still hits front page.
I had to acknowledge that. Even as a peon.
Laura - Oct 17, 2009 6:41:35 pm PDT #14221 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
It's called paying your respects, and you did the right thing by doing that.
Health ~ma sent out to the sickos.
I should be asleep, but I am sitting listening to the wind. With my windows open for the first time this season. Ah, fresh air.
sarameg - Oct 17, 2009 6:49:19 pm PDT #14222 of 30001
Yeah, I get that. Still felt weird. I get that funerals are a community thing, and I'm sure that my one extra body did something for his family (god, his little sister about broke my heart) but...it's still hard for me to not feel like I'm intruding on something private. But hell, I'm still working on that when I'm freaking invited to happy events!
I got the brief chance to work with this amazing guy. I needed to be a part of saying goodbye.
Hil R. - Oct 17, 2009 7:20:14 pm PDT #14223 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This has got to be the least positive newspaper endorsement I've ever seen. The NY Times supports Jon Corzine for NJ governor. [link]
Mr. Corzine, a Democrat, has struggled through his first term, partly because of a legislature that will not make the tough decisions. He still has lessons to learn about communication and leadership, but he is a better choice for New Jersey voters than either of his challengers. He has earned another four years to deal with the state’s budget problems and culture of corruption.
...
Mr. Corzine is hardly the perfect politician. Most New Jersey voters find him astonishingly inarticulate, and his credentials as a former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs do not seem as impressive as they did before the financial meltdown in 2008. He has poured lots of his personal wealth into this race, far too much of it for biting — and sometimes juvenile — attacks on Mr. Christie. In his second term, we would like to see him back away from the state’s unions.
A New York Times poll completed last week captured the way New Jersey voters have been grumbling about all their choices for governor. But Jon Corzine, who is slightly ahead among likely voters, is a decent man with a laudable set of goals for his state. We endorse him for re-election in New Jersey on Nov. 3.