Current location:	work
Current mood:	busy
Entry tags:	college, food, politics

Blupdate
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: This isn't in response to any comments, it's just my own internal dialogue re: the McCain thing and stuff like this article. I know what it's like to go through a traumatic experience and have a dramatic change of heart relationship-wise, so it's hard for me to confidently throw any stones here. It just...looks incredibly skeevy. Maybe she wasn't the same woman he envisioned coming home to while rotting in Hanoi, but by the time he left he wasn't the same guy anymore, either. They both got incredibly fucked by life, and you'd think this would if anything bring them together - but sometimes people change in ways they can't predict, and their relationships don't survive the transition. I accept that.

So don't trade up for some rich bimbo a month later. Have some propriety, man! Wait a year and see whether your new girlfriend is actually going to make you happy enough to risk a second marriage after the first one died so hard. Plunging in like a midlife-crisis creep makes you look like the world's biggest toolbox whose naked ambition and all-consuming yearning for sexier pastures have completely destroyed any sense of decency. I don't care if you tried to ease the guilt by throwing money at it, this sort of thing simply drives me nuts. Maybe people figure that once you've had one divorce it doesn't matter how many more you have, so they can get married at the drop of a hat. Blargh.