A bulleted update

[yrmencyn]

Ye gods.  I am so out-of-date in the updating.  It's unforgivable, it really is.  So I guess you'll be getting random bullet points, because I know if I tried to do a full-fleshed narrative I'd be here 'til next week.  So in the order they first crop up in my brain:

• Did you know I tried to end up in a ditch en route to the farm in Kentucky?  I passed up the turn off the highway, so I was going to turn around in a road I spotted ahead.  Unfortunately, that road is only one car wide, and I had the bad fortune to try turning right as one of the 5 people who live there was coming out.  So I veered to the side, and I think I ended up with the right front tire dangling in mid-air, but I didn't get out to check, because there was a chance my body was the only thing keeping the Jetta out of the ditch.  Luckily it was able to pull itself up with a good hard gunning.


• Do you know how long it's been since I cooked, like really cooked.  I cooked some pasta in a butter-parmesan sauce tonight, and it was divine.  I miss being in the kitchen!  But I don't feel like I can cook madly on a whim right now, since I actually have *gasp* regular time constraints (i.e. a job).  So even this extremely simple dish was very exciting.  Also it leads me to my next bullet point, but I'll let you make the connection yourself.


• So, I had a birthday, right?  And for my birthday the parents gave me an Amazon gift certificate, as I suggested, the better to feed my books and music addiction.  And then the girls in Medical Records gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card, which was totally unexpected and really quite sweet.  So last night, I had an online shopping frenzy.  Let me break this down for you.

  Books of poetry
  Elizabeth Bishop - The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
  Paul Celan - Selected Poems and Prose (John Felstiner, translator)
  Jeffrey Harrison - An Undertaking (finally getting a real copy, lazyblues; thanks so much for the intro!)
  Jeffrey Harrison - Feeding the Fire
  Seamus Heaney - Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
  Czeslaw Milosz - New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
  
  Other books
  Lizzie Collingham - Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
  Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
  Marcella Hazan - Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
  Richard Matheson - I Am Legend (and other stories)
  
  Music
  Gabe Dixon Band - Live at World Cafe

  All this for a total out-of-pocket cost to me of a little under fourteen dollars.  Squee!


• I gave my notice at work.  Last day of work: August 23rd.


• The weather today?  Hateful.  It was pitch-black when I left work at 5:15pm.  Totally pitch.  Bad rain and ugly roads.  Still, the day was not a loss, because Antoinette bought the department pizza, and then there was Project Runway, and the aforementioned pasta.  So yes, not bad at all, in the long run.


• I think I've been a shitty tagger.  I can't find things for balls.  Although lit_girl did introduce me to LJSeek, which is most helpful if your entries are larger public and your settings allow search engine to index your journal.

And that about does it.

Comments

[alstaria.livejournal.com]

Everyone was very glad you did not end up in the ditch. Perhaps sending the night-blind man out to the farm after dark was a Bad Idea :)

Also, yay books!

[purple-phys.livejournal.com]

Glad you didn't end up in a ditch. I really enjoyed getting to see you!

[(Anonymous)]

Your last day of work is my first day of school (with kids). ... :P

- Christina :)