Blupdate [09 Jun 2008|01:53pm] [ mood | busy ] Okay, so when I joined a local CSA a couple weeks ago I was envisioning a big cardboard box of veggies to take home every week, something actually worth the $23.30/wk I was shelling out for the experience. Instead the first "box" I got was a small Rubbermaid tub with about $8 worth of produce. Delicious produce, sure, but all the "supporting local agriculture" and "99% organic" in the world can't change the realities of a skimpy grocery budget, so last week I called the farm, canceled my membership, and got a refund (less the first delivery). I know production picks up later in the summer, but all I was ever going to get was stuff that fit into that little container, so I decided to get my produce from the grocery store like everyone else. That said, I got home from Alumni Weekend yesterday, crashed for two hours, and then made roasted kale with my farm-fresh 99%-organic kale and cheapo olive oil, and it is CRACK, I tell you, CRACK. I only used about half the kale, so I might make it again tonight. The rest of dinner was mostly chili-from-a-can (NEEED grocery shopping), but you can't say I didn't try to be healthy. Then there was more crashing and I was half an hour late to work today. Sleep deficit is still painfully apparent, but I foresee no more crazy weekends for a long while, so maybe I'll finally have some time to recover. It was great to see people and hang out, even if I did have to be bitchy and drag arctangent and appending_doom back to DC before hanging out was complete. I feel like I cut it too close anyway, but those beds were so awful, I couldn't have gotten up any earlier...Blergh. Anyway, I survived and probably won't die of exhaustion before Friday, which is the important bit. In not entirely surprising news, McCain = kind of a toolbox. He would have earned an awful lot of Eliza Respect Points had he stuck with her, and I'm not just speaking as a woman suddenly disabled in the flower of her youth. The real question is, why the hell did I learn this from a British news outlet instead of our own supposedly "liberal" media? *grumble* ( Edit with more bloviating ) 2 comments|post comment

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