with a basil infusion

[bees4breakfast]

my fridge always, always smells like rotting basil. i'm really not sure why this is. yes, i go through a lot of basil, but it could be a week or more since i've had any in the fridge, and the fridge will still reek of it. i just took out a block of expensive cheese i'd splurged on and had really been looking forward to enjoying, and even though it

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[hoboscratch]

Grow your own goddamned basil already. It's easier than making pie (maybe even easier than eating pie!), and nothing beats pesto made with freshly-picked basil leaves. Best of all, you'll never need to put it in the fridge. Ever.

PROBLEM RESOLVED, CRISIS AVERTED

[eggstorm]

agreed! you live in the perfect place for fresh herbs.

[bees4breakfast]

i agree with both of you that growing my own would be the best solution. however, the only growing space i have is a tiny, tiny balcony, and i just feel like that's so fucking sad... to grow herbs on a tiny balcony. an admission to myself that i'm confined in an urban prison. up until this point, i've been waiting until i can make a proper herb garden in the ground. that day will come, not too far in the future, but maybe you're right. perhaps in the meantime i should be growing my own.

it's mainly that i feel like i'll be abusing the plants by confining them to my tiny, awful balcony. i've got this holdover belief from childhood that every living thing has a soul.

[hoboscratch]

i always used to get upset and cry a little when adrian would stick knives into trees, because science class told me they were alive and they bled and all. then he would stick it in further and laugh to torment me some more.
i'd go back later and climb the tree and secretly hug it where he had cut it when he wasn't looking.

[bees4breakfast]

it's a good thing he doesn't do that anymore, because i'd fuck him up!