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The Dill Pickle Food Coop is finally open! This is a startup coop - I've been keeping a loose eye on their pre-startup site for...well. A long while now. But they finally opened in December! And get this - they are in walking distance from my house ( Read more... )

Today was a lovely lazy Sunday. Slept in till 9:30, lazed around reading - finally decided to do something productive around 11. What productive things did I do? I cooked ( Read more... )

Lovely day today. ltcolombo and cosmichic ended up crashing here last night, so I had company in the morning. No breakfast this time, though - had to clean for a showing. Finished cleaning just in time, and then headed over to Cafe con Leche and the library while that was happening. Cafe con Leche is both good and cheap - I'm happy. Spent the rest of the ( Read more... )

Good morning! With a whole day of singing and fellowship under my belt, I am feeling much more like myself. Happy belated Halloween to all - I hope that you had a good time, and that you've recovered from any partying you did ( Read more... )

Today didn't go quite as I expected--but it was a good, productive day nonetheless ( Read more... )

Whew--the new schedule is not doing good things for my posting on LJ. But life is good. Everything is going well, and hopefully I'll have the new routine figured out soon. My thoughts for this week? Classes on insects. I have a new stack of books on my desk, and am reading about bees. The verdict: bees are still fucking cool ( Read more... )

Well, my brother is on a plane back to Boston to start his new job. The clever bastard planned well, and got to spend a month road tripping across the country and backpacking in the North Cascades after finishing his masters. Me, my ability to plan ahead is not so good. (Although, to be fair? My situation requires more advanced planning than his ( Read more... )

I have a new chair! One of the neighbors upstairs was redecorating, and was getting rid of a perfectly good armchair that didn't match their "concept". (Yeah, I don't know. They have big, fancy places further up the building.) So I have a lovely like-new armchair!! Within 5 minutes of getting it in the door, the cats were already fighting over ( Read more... )

The last couple weeks have been very low key. The big excitement has been having barbeques with friends, and getting some belated spring cleaning done around the house. Which is lovely--after the last couple months at school, I had despaired of getting the condo presentable again. But little by little, it is becoming pretty again. I have to ( Read more... )