Lots of ~ma, sj.

Ohio people! I'm looking at the menu of an all-vegan restaurant in Columbus, and one of the menu items is "Chili (so good we can't name it). Call it what you want, it's just freaking good. Chili, you know what it is. Order it and you'll get it." Is this Ohio-talk for saying that it's like Skyline chili?

I would assume so.

I must be in the minority. I found skyline chili to look like baby #2, and taste nasty.

Yum. Skyline.

This place looks like it's in a somewhat sketchier neighborhood than I want to go to alone at night, so I'm not sure if I'm going to try it.

ma to you and yours, sj.

I'm feeling like a coward.

I tweeted about the debt vote to O's address, but then deleted it. Honestly, what I said wasn't particularly inflammatory, just sad, but I had this image of UNIT crashing through the windows and taking me out.

That's the sad thing I guess.

bonny, no one's burst through my window to disappear me (yet) for scolding teh Prez on Twitter, so you're probably safe.

You are good to reassure me, Zen.

I think I'm twitchy over being an ex-activist who, at one time had to be very careful. My phones were tapped for years during RR's regime.

A friend, driving into Salvador saw my photo on a 'to be stopped' list. "If you had been here," he said, "it would have been really bad."

At first I thought it was funny, then it just seemed creepy.

It's been so long since I've done anything worthy of scrutiny...and just saying that makes me feel a bit of a failure...that I shouldn't be worried anymore.

~ma to your step family

I've been spinning my wheels lately and needing to do something while I'm job searching. I had turned in an application to the Humane Society to volunteer and never heard back so I finally emailed the person I was in contact with, who told me to email someone else, and she said she never got my application.

But I'm volunteering starting tomorrow Tuesdays-Thursdays for a couple of hours, mostly cleaning cages and walking dogs. I don't have a ton of experience with dogs but there's a training session they'll do . And I just have to fill out the application tomorrow when I get there.

And I got a letter from my old car insurance company about a $200 check they sent and I never got so now they are going to send me another one. Found money. Kinda.

Plus I'm filling out an application to volunteer at the library. I'm there often enough that when I went to pick up my interlibrary loans I didn't even have to ask. I also donated books from this giant stash I got from Freecycle. It's an interesting mix of histories, mysteries, women's history, stuff about raising daughters, literary fiction. Plus I found The Secret AND The Idiot's Guide to The Secret. Those I'm tossing. I don't normally believe in throwing out books but I don't want to inflict The Secret on anyone.