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teaching
I started a part-time teaching position at Lone Star-Cyfair last Monday to teach one section of intro biology and one of nutrition. So technically I'm now underemployed rather than unemployed. The way that the university teaching career track works is rather odd so I'll enlighten you about it. Typically teaching without experience means needing to ( Read more... ) -
Unicorn wrongness
I'm inflicting this game on you ( Read more... ) -
Holiday Tetrafecta
We're in the tetrafecta of holidays - Mardi Gras, Valentine's Day, President's Day, and Chinese New Year - and the Olympics has started. So far, I had an Canadian dinner for the opening ceremonies Friday. I cooked some shrimp burgers, king crab legs, squid salad, broccoli, Unibroue beer, and maple creme cookies. The squid salad was pretty good, ( Read more... ) -
Thanksgiving 2009 recap
Zen_oven's father and stepmom were to visit for Thanksgiving, but he was ill and couldn't travel. Wednesday night we saw the Fantastic Mr. Fox. I enjoyed the stop action animation. There was a similar aesthetic to the director's other movie "The Royal Tanenbaums". Worth seeing though ( Read more... ) -
Lebowski Bash
There is a festival at Discovery Green dedicated to fans of the Big Lebowski tonight with human bowling, costume contests, and a showing of the movie at 10pm.
http://lebowskihouston.wordpress.com/
Tomorrow I going on a coffee crawl with Houston Chowhounds. -
Crossposting from halloween_fan and food_porn
Surinam Toad pumpkin and the heap of bugs costume: http://community.livejournal.com/halloween_fan/576222.html
Spider cupcakes: http://community.livejournal.com/halloween_fan/575586.html
Brain cupcakes for zombies: http://community.livejournal.com/food_porn/5598764.html
The tribal woman looks like a gray-haired alter ego of Zen_oven: ( Read more... ) -
Politics and Energy policy
I watched "Power Paths" on Independent Lens last night.
Full-length episode available here:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1317137222/
This documentary shows how the southwest U.S. has been exploiting the natural resources of Native Americans to power southern California, Utah, and Las Vegas. They have been depleting Native American aquifers to send ( Read more... ) -
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Well, for Halloween I'm going to be a pig with a chef hat like in so many BBQ restaurants. The twist is that I'm serving "long pig" chopped with my bloody ax. I call the costume ... OMGWTFBBQ!
The pic "creeped Zen_oven right the f*ck out" as she says. I told her that next time that a troll posts an email to her profile that she should offer them a ( Read more... ) -
Halloween is drawing near...
Check out these pumpkins. http://community.livejournal.com/halloween_fan/553767.html
I'm still deciding what to be for Halloween. Zen_oven thinks I should be one of those BBQ pigs consuming itself with a chef's coat and a bloody cleaver. She is going as a droog and suggested we could go as a couple. I'm thinking it might be too warm in Austin for ( Read more... ) -
Sunday Oct 25
I've been reading the autumn_and_fall list on LJ. Here's a post that amused me.
http://community.livejournal.com/autumn_and_fall/240747.html
I told Zen_oven that the correct pronuciation of Pho is (Fuh). Therefore a good name for a Vietnamese restaurant might be What The Pho?
Saturday was pretty good. I'm taking pics of all my favorite interesting ( Read more... )