There is still a Jack Russell terrier in the costume shop. It is unpleasant, and I love animals. My student spent her whole lab time today throwing a ball with the dog.

That's really unprofessional, and disruptive of the work environment. Are you in any position to ask this person not to ever do that again?

I would totes share with you if you were! Man, if I sign up for this, I'll need to figure out what to do with beets.

It could be a documentary. Give single women enough vegetables for a family of four. What will they do!?!?

shrift, it's always time for green polish.

I have a HEADACHE and I AM DONE.

If I ever move somewhere, I feel it would be to Chicago. It feels more like home to me than other big cities.

Zenkitty- I could ask her nicely to put the dog in the green room, and did ask her nicely to please leave the dog in the hotel, but in the larger picture it is not worth disturbing our working relationship (it is the costume designer's dog). I have this problem where I have no middle ground between asking nicely and losing my shit, and I don't want to lose my shit.

I love beets! Hot or cold. They are really good added to an Italian OLive Salad. Or with cottage cheese. Or just with vinegar. I loved them so much as a little kid that my pee kept turning pink, and they wouldn't let my mother keep me in day care, even when she explained the beets!

Only beets I've ever encountered are red pickled beets and I don't like 'em. I'm very tempted by the CSA where I can pick out my own stuff. We'll see (for next year.) I'm going through 1/2lb of spinach a week (and this week might be more,) and once tomatoes come into season, I can easily go through a couple pints of cherry and grape varieties...I live off greens, tomatoes and chicken salads in the summer. Hell, I live off them even in the winter. My diet may be rather repetitive, but tasty. Tonight's dinner was the beef empanada and a spinach, strawberry, tomato and gorgonzola salad in that nummy asian dressing.

...I've got to figure out how to make springroll filling to stuff in croissant pastry. It's nearly been a year since Kath, and still...I want.

megan - never heard of the book.

yay PC for being the helpiest!

Send me the details, since I'm about to reup with my current.

Insent!

Give single women enough vegetables for a family of four. What will they do!?!?

Seriously. I could start a blog. Or just chronicle it here.

The tree outside my kitchen window (on the other side of the alley) was just pink bulbs when I left this morning. It's exploding with pinkish white blossoms now. Love. I don't know what it is. Not pear, not cherry. Apple?

A little over a year ago (year and a couple days) msbelle descended and helped pack me up and saved my sanity.

I like vegetables, but there's no way I could handle a CSA. Although I suppose I could take some of them to my folks' house on the weekend, and cook for them.

I needed to eat vegetables last night and it was pouring so I didn't want to shop. Happily there was most of a head of savoy cabbage in the fridge, and a couple of sweet potatoes. So I cut up the sweet potatoes and roasted them in the oven, and Mark Bittman told me to saute the cabbage with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and it turned out excellent.

Would that all vegetable dishes were so easy!