Feh. Just had what turned out to be an awkward exchange with a very good friend on FB. We've been trying and failing to get together for several months, and after yet another missed connection I posted something to the effect of "I'm starting to think you're avoiding me" but with an emoticon and all to show I was kidding. Except as as soon as I posted it I realized I'm really not, and I am actually kind of hurt and pissed off and I'm sitting here feeling kind of upset.
He's now texting me and jumping to set plans for next week and swearing he'll make it work (so apparently my clever emoticon ruse wasn't as foolproof as I thought). And I believe him. But I was in a really good mood and now I'm really, really not.
Ooh! Juicer. I wish we had a juicer. As if I didn't have enough kitchen gadgets. But I think we would really use a juicer.
Also, mmm, burgers. Our board member fed us awesome burgers grilled outside on his Big Green Egg. But it was so cold that day, and then the next day it was beautiful and we should have waited to grill out.
Okay, I gotta get some stuff done. Oh, and I need to call my mom.
Ooh! Juicer. I wish we had a juicer. As if I didn't have enough kitchen gadgets. But I think we would really use a juicer.
Right?! The dietitian I was talking about it with was saying he could just drink commercial fruit/veg juices to get the vitamins he's missing from having to avoid high fiber stuff but why do that when you can get a new gadget!
Aw Brenda, I hate that sort of thing.
You'll get to see your buddy soon and the icky churning yuck feeling will smooth over as soon as you do.
I'm sorry it ruined today though.
Glad you liked it! I couldn't remember if it was one of my better batches or not.
Tell B & B I said hi!!!
They say hi back!
Okay, it's after 2 here, I really should shower and get dressed.
Dana, insent to your profile email address.
Now, I really want a burger. Darn Lent.
A senior Vatican priest has compared the recent attacks on the church over the sexual abuse allegations to antisemitism. And he has a Jew who supports him in email. (Or, regular mail. Or something.) [link]
ROME — A senior Vatican priest speaking at a Good Friday service compared the uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church — which have included reports about Pope Benedict XVI’s oversight role in two cases — to the persecution of the Jews, sharply raising the volume in the Vatican’s counterattack.
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Wearing the brown cassock of a Franciscan, Father Cantalamessa took note that Easter and Passover were falling during the same week this year, saying he was led to think of the Jews. “They know from experience what it means to be victims of collective violence and also because of this they are quick to recognize the recurring symptoms,” he said.
Father Cantalamessa quoted from what he said was a letter from an unnamed Jewish friend. “I am following the violent and concentric attacks against the church, the pope and all the faithful by the whole word,” he said the friend wrote. “The use of stereotypes, the passing from personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt, remind me of the more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.”
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“With a minimum of irony, I will say that today is Good Friday, when they pray that the Lord illuminate our hearts so we recognize Jesus,” Rabbi Di Segni said, referring to a prayer in a traditional Catholic liturgy calling for the conversion of the Jews. “We also pray that the Lord illuminate theirs.”
liese! I still think you should come and visit us. I almost bought Stanley Cup tickets as an enticement.
We are being furloughed for 5 days in June. The upside to this is we get out a week early. The downside to this is we'll be missing 5 days of pay over 3 paychecks (better than 5 days over one paycheck I guess).
I'm so excited to get out early!
