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| Friday, May 11th, 2012 | | 9:23 pm |
Fruits of the Harvest
Our CSA has started up again! Yay! First week's harvest: asparagus, a giant bok choy, green garlic, strawberries, and two heads of leaf lettuce. And three sweet potatoes - they had a bumper crop last fall and these have obviously been stored the right way. (Unlike the ones that sprouted in my kitchen.) We've also signed up for a meat share this year. First week it's beef: ground round, ground chuck, and soup bones! Next week will be chicken of some sort. I've already used the asparagus, bok choy, and green garlic. Must nom strawberries soon. And there will obviously be salads next week.... | | Saturday, May 5th, 2012 | | 2:12 pm |
Checked Off
Three classes this semester. Three A's. Yay and stuff. What's a little ironic is that as a "nontraditional student" (i.e. old) I know that no one outside of the ivory tower actually cares anything about your GPA. I think it's just that I look at it as a game of sorts, and getting an A equals a win. | | Saturday, April 28th, 2012 | | 4:39 pm |
Accomplished
Studied chapter 11 for accounting (Performance Measurement in Decentralized Organizations) and chapters 7, 10, and 15 for the law class. Still need to go through a couple more chapters for law, and two more for accounting as well. I also have to take a final (computer-based) quiz for accounting. That's due Sunday but I'll try to finish it tonight. I should also study Economics. That class, however, is something of a joke. I'll put it this way, 25% of our grade in the class is based on attendance. The other 75% is based on four tests, and the lowest score of the first three tests will be dropped. It helps that (I kid you not) we are allowed to reference our notes during the tests. It's not an easy class per se, as the material is technical, dry, and boring...but with this many advantages, I think to fail this class, you'd have to be not even trying. I will probably review my notes as well as the "sample test" the professor helpfully sent out (with answers provided) but I may wait until the night before the exam. :P | | Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 | | 9:23 pm |
Legal Education
I am studying for finals. I have three exams next week. Luckily, none of them are cumulative. One of my required classes was Business Law and Ethics. I expected a boring slog of a class; instead I got a whole semester of interesting and useful information. It helps that the professor is animated and intelligent, is skilled at stimulating class discussion, and treats us like adults. Which brings me to my favorite Real Legal Term that I learned this semester. I'm currently studying the chapter on agency relationships, which includes the employee-employer relationship. Generally an employer is liable for torts committed by an employee...unless the employee was off on a frolic. Yep, that's an official term. "Frolic" is the legal shorthand to indicate that the employee might have been technically on the clock, but he was totally outside the scope of his employment. So, say you're riding your bike and you get hit by a pizza delivery guy. Generally you can sue his employer for your damages. However, if he just delivered a pizza and he was zipping over to his mom's house to say Hi before heading back to work...he's off on a frolic and you can only sue him personally. Current Mood:  nerdy | | Friday, April 20th, 2012 | | 1:31 pm |
Dreaming of the dead
Last night, Elizabeth stopped by. Elizabeth was one of my best friends in college. For about three years we were as close as sisters, though afterwards we drifted apart as our lives took us to different areas of the country. It was a shock when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, I think in 2008 or 2009. She fought it, but it was a pretty serious aggressive case, and she passed away in January 2011. In last night's dream, I was at a festival or faire of some sort - at night, alone. I was looking for something interesting to watch, when I noticed Elizabeth walking toward me. I knew that she was dead; I felt surprised rather than frightened. She looked like I remember her in her healthy days, with long black hair and a mischievious grin. She came directly to me, and without saying anything, we just hugged each other. It was one of those good long hugs that you share with someone special to you. And then she turned and walked away. I remember I shouted after her, "You're leaving already?" She half-turned, gave me that Elizabeth grin, and kept walking, and I understood that she had other people to visit. I have occasionally dabbled in dream analysis; this one escapes me. I am generally a skeptic when it comes to belief in spirits, souls, or ghosts; this makes me thoughtful. Maybe it was just random neurons firing...but that was a damn good hug, and a welcome and needed one. | | Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 | | 10:45 pm |
Bloggable
Your faithful correspondent reports that it may be possible to make a man drop his pants by speaking two words at just the right moment: Bacon Jam Current Mood:  silly | | Thursday, March 29th, 2012 | | 6:51 pm |
| | Sunday, March 25th, 2012 | | 6:57 pm |
Hard Work
I had a weekend project. It is not quite finished, but I am worn out. I think I'll finish it gradually over the next few evenings, assuming the weather cooperates. On Saturday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) tegyrius and I went to Home Depot and lugged home a substantial amount of lumber and dirt. We spent the afternoon building two 3' by 5' boxes, about 15 inches deep. These will become raised garden beds. I had to work this morning (yay tax season) and then I spent all afternoon breaking down the old rotting raised bed framework and doing a helluva lot of shoveling dirt. I had to remove a fair amount of dirt from the old bed (also dug out a huge rock that had been annoying me) and remove some grass because the new beds are larger than the old one. After a solid four hours of work, I have one of the beds installed and filled with soil. I'm going to let it settle for a week or two before planting anything in it. I am going to hurt tomorrow. On the other hand, I'm sure that burned a substantial number of calories, so yay. I will post before and after pictures once the other bed is in. | | Monday, March 5th, 2012 | | 7:55 am |
Coincidence
First day of EKU's Spring Break, and also, first day this year we've had significant snow accumulation. A good 3+ inches. Something is wrong with this picture. Although, if I recall, I was home on spring break from Sewanee when we had the Great Blizzard that brought Atlanta to a standstill for several days, about 15 years ago or so. The nice thing about Lexington is that when I woke up this morning, I looked out the window and noted that the city has already plowed & salted the street outside my house. (In fact I hear them making a second pass now.) This would not have been the case in Atlanta. :) | | Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | | 8:29 pm |
Political debate
"Vote for me!" Why? "Because jobs!" Say what? "Voting for me equals jobs! Him, no jobs!" Um, OK. So how exactly do you propose...? "Doesn't matter! JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS!" *sigh* | | Saturday, January 7th, 2012 | | 9:02 pm |
| | Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 | | 8:38 pm |
Standing on the side of the road
Not sure why, but there have been a bunch of wrecks around here lately. I can only assume that people are preparing for winter by practicing running into each other while the roads are clear and dry. Current Mood:  confused | | Thursday, November 24th, 2011 | | 8:42 pm |
My house smells amazing
This year, tegyrius and I spent Thanksgiving with, well, just ourselves. I was looking at an entire day with no work, school, or social commitments. So...I took that as an opportunity and a challenge to go crazy in the kitchen. ( So many leftovers... ) | | Monday, October 31st, 2011 | | 9:20 pm |
Halloween Report
Many adorable munchkins were ensugared by us tonight. Best costume of the night: a knee-high little one dressed as a bumblebee, accompanied by his dad, dressed as a beekeeper. Three sets of Mario/Luigi, including one set played by girls. Princesses abounded, as did ninjas and superheroes. Plenty of zombies. One kid in a rather good NASA uniform. Traditional costumes were also well represented by a contingent of skeletons, goblins, and witches. Award for best behaved little one goes to a neighbor from down the street. I am guessing he's about six years old. Once I gave him his candy, he focused on our round orange cat and said hopefully, "Can I pet the kitty?" "Probably," I said, crouching down and encouraging Komatsu to come over. Of all our cats, he's the most social. The kid tugged off one costume glove. "Here, kitty, you can smell me," he said, holding out his hand. Komatsu warily came closer and sniffed, and permitted himself to be petted. All parties were, I think, delighted. The kid's mom called him, probably afraid he was wearing out his welcome, and he obediently stood up. "Thank you for letting me pet the kitty," he said, "and thank you for the treats!" And he dashed off. Suddenly, I have renewed hope for humanity. | | Friday, October 21st, 2011 | | 8:11 pm |
Writer's Block: Paranormal activity
In 11th grade, I spent a semester in Maine. It was a unique program that included normal academic work as well as environmental studies and a bit of farm work. We lived in cabins - honest-to-gosh wood cabins with stoves in the middle to keep them warm. Our cabin had a screen door that moved on its own. I don't mean the wind blew it open, I mean I could be sitting in the cabin, reading a book, and outside it would be dead calm. *creeeaaaak* The screen door would slowly, almost apologetically swing open. It would stay there for a few seconds or minutes. Then *creeaaak* just as slowly it would close again. I was not the only witness; several girls in my cabin noticed the phenomenon. I believe we decided it was a ghost named Mary. We also named the mice in the walls Jeremiah and Jemima. Fun times. | | Monday, October 10th, 2011 | | 10:06 pm |
Saturday
The morning was perfect - blue sky, cool enough to be jacket weather in the morning and warming up by midday. We'd gotten up early to snag fresh crepes for breakfast and browse the farmer's market. I already knew about the apples, the tomatoes, the fresh local pasta. Wandering alongside a stall, letting my gaze wander over leafy greens and squash, I saw a small basket tucked to one side, with a hand-written sign: Sassafras. Sassafras grows wild up around here; I saw some while walking in a Louisville park just a few weeks ago. You can recognize it by the leaves - some ovate, some with a little side lobe making a mitten shaped leaf, and some with three distinct lobes - all on the same plant. I like to pick a leaf and inhale the green scent of it - there's a hint of root beer, which makes sense as sassafras was indeed used to make a kind of root beer, in earlier times. The basket held small bundles of roots. Dried roots, actually, with an elusive touch of that root beer scent. The farmer saw our interest and shaved off a couple of chips, intensifying the smell. I asked him if one could steep it like tea, and he said yes, sort of, if you whittle shavings off. However, the traditional method is to boil the root for several minutes. Or, alternatively, to boil roots for a while, until you get a concentrated liquid, and then you simply save that, and mix with hot or cold water for a drink. The roots, he explains, are foraged. He can harvest a root or two from a sassafras plant every few years - not the main root of course, but one that branches off. So of course I had to come home with a bundle of sassafras roots. :) If I manage a successful tea, I'll let you know. ( Click here for PSA ) | | Friday, September 30th, 2011 | | 10:26 pm |
So there.
There are times when you have to do something, just because someone said it wasn't possible. ;) | | Sunday, September 25th, 2011 | | 8:48 am |
Bounty of Fruit
One of the things that I absolutely love about Kentucky is the fresh apples in the fall. Experiencing fresh apples for the first time was a transformative experience for me. Soooo flavorful and juicy! Yum. So we've been buying loads at the local farmer's market, as well as other fruits. Our particular farmer's market doesn't require that ALL the produce be local, although they do require that it be labeled as to origin. Yesterday I noticed that we might have overdone it a bit, and there was some fruit that was about to be past its prime, hiding out in the bottom of the fridge. Solution: multi-fruit-butter! If I recall, I used one peach, two plums, two apples, and two or three pears. Chop up, sprinkle just a spoonful of sugar over, toss well and put on the stove on low. Cook for a couple of hours. Run immersion blender through, cook for another couple of hours until the consistency looks like fruit butter. Run immersion blender again, if desired add a splash of vanilla, a squeeze of lemon, and/or a sprinkle of cinnamon. Can it if you want to, or decant into freezer containers. Yummm. | | Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 | | 5:07 pm |
| | Monday, September 19th, 2011 | | 2:22 pm |
For the love of...
To any of my readers who ever plan to send a resume anywhere anytime in the future: I beg you, please do not include an Objective section. It's simply not necessary. Obviously your objective is to get the job that we are advertising, and anything else you write is fluff. It takes up valuable real estate on the page. More importantly, I have seen more resumes lately where the objective is so terrible that I either reject the resume outright, or else read it with a highly jaundiced eye. How am I supposed to take this resume at all seriously when it begins: "Objective: To obtain a fulltime position in the accounting or fiance field." (Word has helpfully autocorrected to put an accent on the e in fiance.) Although the best one is still the resume that began with the section title, "OBJECTION". |
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