Good stuff:

• I finished a blouse in time to wear it on Sunday to my book club (it's a summer blouse, made of crinkle gauze, so probably not work-appropriate and there won't be many if any more chances to wear it this calendar year)
• I wrote a couple of teenyfics (links at the end of this post)
• One of the other library staff turns out to LOVE arugula, ( Read more... )

I didn't cook all that much the past two weeks, given that we were away for nearly four days over last weekend, but I seem to have made up for it this weekend.

( I'm not kidding when I say I've cooked a lot in the past 48 hours )

Got back from our brief trip to St. Louis tonight. It was a very nice visit; we went to the zoo and saw puffins (SO's favorite), the art museum for a preview tour (with the curator!) of an exhibition on Federico Barocci (a late Renaissance/early Baroque artist), and the symphony (a concert with mostly Vivaldi, and lots of bassoons). So all ( Read more... )

( CSA and menus )

Hey, I'm posting the CSA almost on time this week! We got: salad greens, ~3 lb. peaches, 1 head garlic, 5 small onions, 2 small purple kohlrabi, 1 small broccoflower (I think that's what it must be, anyhow), 2 small cukes, 2 bunches radishes (which I gave to our neighbors), and 8 baby carrots.

I made cabbage latkes for breakfast this morning, am ( Read more... )

Today was again a busy (if short) day, and so is tomorrow likely to be, as all not-otherwise-occupied moments are being spent training my replacement. Sigh.

( Annoying things )

For some reason I am having a hard time concentrating today. Sigh. I did manage to get a recommendation written for a former history student of mine who is finishing an MA in public history right now and has decided to apply to library school (planning to concentrate on archives). Also sent off a few emails to get various bits of information ( Read more... )

The lovely
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CSA: spinach, tatsoi, mustard greens, broccoli, garlic scapes, radishes, baby beets w/ greens, garlic chives, carrots, large bulb green onions (aka small onions w/ their greens ( Read more... )

My usual personal email provider is down right now, so no LJ/IJ/DW notices coming through. On the other hand, I haven't posted since, uh, Sunday, and nothing very interesting then, so I don't think I'm missing any replies ( Read more... )