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- Wrote about 500 words of a new Fly Girl short story.

- Watched assloads of DVDs - Scrubs Season 1, Dreamgirls, The Eiger Sanction, Casino Royale.

- Finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

- Bought fresh tomatoes (yum!) off the back of a farmer's truck.

- Started reading Annihilation Book 3.

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I made it in to work on time yesterday. This is getting to be more and more difficult as my last day draws nearer. I would really just like to not show up for the next two weeks, but I'm pretty sure I'd miss the paychecks. Work, predictably, let me down with its continued insistence on being frightfully dull.

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A co-worker brought in a bunch of giant mutant zucchini from his garden yesterday, attempting to foist the hydrocephalic flora off on those of us not living on top of a nuclear missile silo.

Of course, my thoughts were not of radiation sickness and cancerous tongue lesions, but of FREE FOOD. And so I took one.

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I just bought a soy milk maker online - when I say "just" I mean "only moments ago". I'm hoping it wasn't a mistake. The only soy milk I've had is Silk, and that's got a whole bunch of crap in it to sweeten it and make it taste like something other than... well, soybeans and water. Which is what the soy milk maker is going to be pumping out.

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I made this for dinner last night:


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The 17-year cicadas are emerging in the American Midwest. Don't miss out on this opportunity! Go round up as many as you can and eat 'em!

Here's a link to a bunch of cicada recipes. The German Chocolate Cicada Cake seems the most promising.

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Tried out a new recipe tonight.

Spinach and Black Bean Pasta

I used fettucine rather than rotini, chicken broth instead of vegetable broth, frozen spinach instead of fresh ... and my measurements were more like rough guesses. Turned out really good, though.


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• Found and reestablished contact with an old friend I haven't seen in probably 7 years.  Note to self: MySpace is good for more than sucking hours of my life away.
• Finished the script for chapter 4 of The Riverside Mysteries.  I'll let it incubate for a couple days, then go back and clean it up before forwarding it on to Steve.
• Watched the classic " ( Read more... )