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"Frat Pig / It's called / Gang rape! Let's plaaa-aay... GANG CASTRATE!"
Don't you miss them? It makes me all nostalgic and weepy inside.
Seriously! Because I'm leaving this place, where I learned so much stuff about setting boundaries and claiming my power and also getting to know people and also counseling and whatnot. And I've been working for the agency as a whole for like two and a half years, because before this I was relief staff at Mandana. Which might be screwed, if Arnie approves a budget that takes money away from social services. And by screwed, I mean CLOSED.
And I left that time in my life where it's all punk rock screaming and extreme, unworkable, very attractive positions on simple matters. And soon I will be leaving singlehood! And I need to keep committing and following through on expanding my business, and I have another interview today, and it is all uncertainty and growth. Both of which, just at this moment, I hate! Okay, not really. But what am I, Schroedinger's cat?
Also, just for the record: Been working here for a year and a half. Work in an office with only 7 other people. Still don't know hardly anyone's extensions.
Wow, Pandora just made a really strong argument for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs being punk music. Kudos, Pandora.
- 20:12 @uncola You DO make a bad-ass salad. Maybe I should get you to guest post about it! #
- 20:12 @uncola (Guest blog?) #
- 20:15 Going to make another batch of Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies by subbing random gluten-free flour mix into tinyurl.com/dxv7o6 #
- 20:16 Those cookies are oddly compelling. Or odd-tasting. The browned butter and brown sugar make them taste like toffee! Grows on me like crazy. #
- 20:18 @cookingupastory It really is amazing how fresh herbs can make a meal! I love chopping them up and tossing into salads. Especially cilantro. #
- 20:18 will put cilantro in ANYTHING, ANYWHERE. #
- 20:23 will also add a caveat that those cookies need way more chocolate chips - 3/4-1 bag per batch ought to do it, as with ALL choc. chip cookies #
- 15:43 got a call about an interview for a job I applied for a month or two ago! Oh, government work. Looking forward to setting it up! #
- 12:24 is having a loverly spiritual day w meditation, crystals, bath, visioning for business, dyke "march". Wearing annie's hippie skirt. What? #
- 12:29 About to change the free menu planner available @ weeklycookbooks.com! It's not as pretty as the new one, but feel free to grab - quickly :) #
- 12:30 @clarebear How can anyone own seeds? This boggles my mind. #
- 12:31 My cat Marty owns the seeds I left on the counter... at least he claims to. There are marigold seeds EVERYWHERE now. #
- 13:49 Updated the free cookbook on the site! Now it features the root chakra one... pretty pictures and all. tinyurl.com/n56h3w #
- 13:49 @twitterbo If drinking skim milk increases satiety, I swear it is because people are too grossed-out to continue eating. #
- 13:51 Bay Area folks - anyone been to the movie nights @charleschoco puts on? Sounds fun; wondering whether any snacks are free, how late it goes! #
- 10:57 @TheDelicious Do you think that you're not beautiful the way you look now?? #
- 11:36 I recently moved from "page of visually uninteresting recipes" to "gorgeous, color-filled, story-studded weekly cookbooks" -- #
- 11:38 -- now I'm finally putting em up on Etsy! tinyurl.com/l6flu9 & tinyurl.com/lfe32f for starters - look at that rainbow of eggs! #
- 11:39 (Rainbow of eggs is the first one; the second one starts out with a rainbow of root vegetables. For pride weekend? 'cept not a real rainbow) #
- 12:14 @chefben My favorite website for recipes is probably Tastespotting. I know they just link to the recipes, but: soooo pretty. #
- 12:15 @chefben Barring that, along the same "not really a site of recipes" line: Google. Toss in a main ingredient, get a trillion suggestions... #
- 12:16 @chefben ....specifying that it's a blog search is even better. Gets me all the foodbloggers w/o the crappy-looking generic recipe sites. #
- 12:49 @nandita I bet you can find big gorgeous glass jars with seals on etsy.com... lots of folks selling vintage kitchen doo-dads on there! #
- 14:40 has an interview at the HAYWARD employment development department next Wednesday!!! #
- 13:57 Want to see some glowing, gorgeous pictures from the Torrance, CA farmer's market? preview.tinyurl.com/mct4q9 #
- 14:21 About to finish a series of weekly cookbooks based around each chakra - working to get them up on the website for ordering! #
- 14:38 @TheDelicious Huh? What does eating a salad every meal have to do with photoshop or presentations? #
- 15:21 is increasingly convinced that Nati's boyfriend is Marcus Rene Van, WHO IS FREAKING FAMOUS (you know, in a bay area queer kind of way) #
- 16:59 has laboriously updated my job app for EDD and the resume I sent them, and is preparing to reapply at two of the offices. Boring or what? #
- 16:59 is totally wrong about who Nati's boyfriend is. He is less famous! #
- 22:00 @celesteh Now you can get your gender changed on your ID by saying that you're "in transition". #
- 22:05 has finished cleaning out the spice cabinet, throwing out bad-smellers/unusables, and jarring all the crappy little plastic bags of spices #
- 22:06 also made freaking gluten-free chocolate chip cookies, w/"Perfect" recipe from Cook's Illustrated, + installed tension bars in the armoire! #
- 22:07 couldn't find my copy of Cook's Illustrated, but found the recipe re-posted hyar: tinyurl.com/dxv7o6 #
- 22:08 (the recipe isn't gluten-free, I just replaced the flour with random gluten-free baking mixes) #
- 14:13 Frigging satanist homos. Got paid and now my bank account reads $666.60. Grandma was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #
- 17:26 needs themes for weekly cookbooks! About to finish series on chakras; also like countries/eras... Suggestions I use get you a free cookbook! #
- 12:19 making to-do list: fold brochures, find ring lady's address, mail e-ring to be resized, check folders for missing files.... #
- 12:21 ...finish this week's cookbook, sketch out next week's recipes, send assessment letter, finish cover letter for 1 job, start 1 for other job #
- 12:21 ...and leave boss stern message about getting paid REG not OVERtime for working Gay Prom. Hello?!?! #
- 12:29 just assisted a parent who couldn't get our website to work... because what they pointed their browser at was our email address. #
- 12:31 has sent the assessment letter #
- 12:39 has inquired after the ring lady's snail address #
- 12:45 left my boss a message about my paycheck and how I would like this one to be larger #
- 12:45 is imagining a little bit that she will be like "Oops, I found out we couldn't pay you overtime because you work part-time" #
- 12:45 is contentedly imagining the nut-punching that would follow #
- 12:47 has done three tasks and has six to go #
- 13:05 finished folding the brochures - largely by giving them to saintly coworker Korina to fold while I ate lunch! #
- 13:05 @celesteh Ha! that is actually our exact plan for getting the marriage license. #
- 15:50 has finished cover letter and resume for one job and submitted that application; may do the folder-examining and second cover letter later. #
- 15:51 thinks it's funny how much the job app process teaches me about what I've done and what I know #
- 15:58 found the new strongest argument for me getting a higher-paying job: tinyurl.com/mrjj4v #
- 16:21 has sketched out the recipes for next week #
- 16:21 is happy to have found some recipes for the crown chakra as the source I was using said to just FAST - doesn't make a very long cookbook! #
- 16:47 finished the weekly cookbook! Next week it's the crown chakra. Until then, wanna listen to a healing chant for it? tinyurl.com/mm5ede #
- 16:58 You know I'm busy when it's 5pm and my phone's battery is still fully charged. #
- 10:40 @omarg My favorite part is where his profile starts out, "Arriving @ patience". #
- 10:41 @uncola Wow, we were BOTH right! #
- 10:42 at least, I was right in that there are classes teaching you how to be a pot dispensary. Or something. #
- 10:43 was fascinated to learn from an extremely dubious no-on-drugs brochure we had at Gay Prom that pot is also called "White Lightning". #
- 11:00 @celesteh Regardless of what people think of the language in that brief, seems to me like it's exactly right in calling for dismissal. #
- 11:01 @celesteh Like, of course they can't strike DOMA down from federal court. DOMA & CA are fucked; doesn't make this a valid legal challenge. #
- 12:01 heard the people downstairs hit their kids and yell at them, again, and called the cops #
- 13:01 is buying tickets to see the whole season at CalShakes for the cheap 30 and Under price - for the first and last time! #
- 13:02 If you're 30 or under you can get tickets to each play for $20, or to all four for $70; anyone else want to see Romeo&Juliet this Friday? #
- 13:02 still wants it to be "30 or fewer" #
- 13:03 (Update: the cops waited to talk to the mom, who left, for ages, and finally got her phone number instead, after checking on the kids) #
- 13:13 is now getting married on Sunday, October 18th, at 1pm. #
- 13:36 (Update again: Raul and Sofia came upstairs to ask if we had called the police, and Raul of all people told her she can't yell at the kids!) #
- 13:38 is trying to imagine what job wants you to have a degree from Oaksterdam University #
- 13:38 is now imagining people pretending it's a regular small liberal arts college. "Oh yeah, I studied... horticulture." #
- 14:34 ordered our wedding rings! Now we can really get married! #
- 15:49 has a new song that came out of nowhere: "I am an angel that chews on other angels. I am an aaaangel-voooooooore." #
- 15:51 is pleased that we seem to have decided to forego reply cards in the (as yet still unfinished) wedding invitations. #
- 23:14 @celesteh Interestingly, the "president" of "Oaksterdam University" is pro the increased tax. #
- 23:14 @celesteh My suspicion: "if cities make bank off pot, they'll legalize it! #
- 23:15 @celesteh I know med. mj has its benefits, but recent studies show that it also blocks the immune system + body's ability to fight cancer :( #
- 23:16 @celesteh I just want to know: srsly what the FUCK is "oaksterdam university"?!??!??!? THAT IS NOT A THING #
- 23:18 @celesteh pot pisses me off to no end now that I know that. pretty sure the word "oaksterdam" would have pissed me off anyway though. #
- 10:36 Ok Mills folks, finish the song cuz it is stuck in my head and I am learning nothing this way!: Dumbarton oaks, dumbarton oaks, 1944.... #
- 10:41 @celesteh I feel bad for Amsterdam. "We will erase your culture and history and make you just a synonym for pot! Suck it, Dutchies!" #
- 10:47 @celesteh THANK YOU. Man, that half-remembered mnemonic scanned a lot better in my head. #
- 10:50 Retweeting for LJ/facebook ppl: DBO, DBO/In 1944 / Left some questions unanswered / so that's what Yelta's for. DBO DBO / creating the UN... #
- 10:51 ... Oh what fun it is to create an international organization! #
- 10:52 (Yelta? Yalta? This song needs another verse!) #
- 10:53 imagines that at least 100 people unfollowed me on Twitter as a result of the last four or five posts.... #
- 10:57 @uncola ! Annie suggests maybe OU is the pot equiv. of a viticulture program. I assumed it was a pro-legalization organization or dispensary #
- 10:58 @uncola Now I am imagining someone going on Top Chef all "I completed pot sommelier training at Oaksterdam..."!! #
- 20:53 Watching Top Chef Masters. Trying to figure out whether the host is that huge-eyed alien from the beginning of Star Trek. Just bad surgery? #
- 20:58 @anniemal I need to do the same thing... one person talking about social media is interesting, but 100 is overkill. #
- 15:02 finished designing the front of the invitation, pending Annie's approval, then remembered we still need to design a reply card! #
- 15:03 tried to find recycled paper in the appropriate size for 234 years & is making a motion that we pay extra for Etsy designer to do it instead #
- 15:04 @uncola Why are we voting on stuff AGAIN? WE JUST VOTED. I remember it distinctly. No on everything. Are we not done yet?! #
- 21:02 is sitting at the table where children will vote for king/king and queen/queen, waiting for the deluge #
- 21:08 is making a mental list of stuff I'd like us to have for Gay Prom 2010: bullhorns, noisemakers, water, rainbow flags on 2 sticks, a hovercar #
- 21:41 The Macarena?? Seriously?? #
- 21:52 Actually, the Macarena went over extremely well. #
- 21:58 Damn! Watching our 13 y.o. group member DESTROY 6 other kids in the best-dressed trans contest - but not the eighth. Too classy and new :( #
- 22:08 Srsly, humping the stage in lingerie yelling the f word may get you votes, but it is no way to live. You know what is? Being fully dressed! #
- 22:09 Finally get to eat free dinner. Ribs and sesame tiny chicken! For 10 minutes before I go take pics of the royal nominees and help w/votes. #
- 00:31 had fun with the queer youth and made $168.75 pre-tax! #
- 15:05 Damn. @ruthreichl is on Twitter now - with over twelve thousand followers. Damn. #
- 13:35 has worked two hours so far setting up for gay prom with the childrens, and looks forward to another 3-4 tonight. $! #
- 18:16 feels exasperated: oakland is doing concerts in the park right above our wedding site so now we have to find a new reception spot! #
- 18:16 is debating how much I really care that we have to find a new reception spot #
- 18:20 @grownuptown I like to combat sneakily growing to-do lists by adding items I've already done, to cross off immediately. Take that, list! #
- 18:26 knew we should have gone up to the park to scope out all the other reception spots they have #
- 14:30 is annoyed because the city should have said weeks ago that the Cascades would be too noisy for Sunday weddings bc of their concerts. #
- 14:31 The third is reserved, the fourth is too noisy, THOSE ARE THE ONLY DAYS IN THE YEAR. WHEN ARE WE SPOSED TO GET MARRIED?! #
- 14:50 is giggling because I told Annie that I believe 8 is a prettier number than 7 and now she is losing her shit #
