Hey y'all, I'm unable to sleep and worried sick about how I'm going to keep my children fed and clothed and housed thanks to the GOP voting down the unemployment extension AGAIN, so I just made my first LJ poll ( Read more... )

As part of our welcome package from the Sunday school at temple, all of us teachers got a $10 Starbucks gift card. Since I recently fell off the caffeine wagon rather spectacularly and only ever drank grocery store grounds or whatever was in the pot at work before, I thought I'd dust off the old single-cup French press that one of my ex's friends ( Read more... )

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronome Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives ( Read more... )