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| i've got new digs.
find me at http://meebobebo.tumblr.com.
i'm still feeling it out, and i don't think i've fully moved out of xanga yet. xanga's my home, but i'm keepin' an overnight bag at my tumblr for now... join me for the stay?
(the photo's a snapshot of the hotel room i stayed in while i was on a reporting trip in miami this summer. i got the handicapped room, so everything was extra roomy. i slept diagonally on that bed for 3 nights.)
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| hello, autumn.
 
 
just as i was finally settling into summer weather in san francisco, news came that it's supposed to start raining this weekend. i've noticed the sun going down earlier than usual and the afternoon light waning in our office windows in a gloomy sort of way. i really despise the cold. the air hasn't started to nip at my neck yet, but it's time to start getting ready for socks weather. in any case, one must still be dressed for fall. i like yokoo's options for cool weather. i like accessories with a sense of humor, pieces that play with scale and texture. i've begun (as in, chose a pattern and material) a sewing project with my mama. time to get in some practice, and hopefully make something wearable (!) before sewing season starts in earnest in december.
i'd like to become a competent sewer. no need to design my own wardrobe, but just enough so i know how to deal with clothes, make a dress or two, and be a decent mender. i want to learn some other basic life skills so i'm not such a useless human being who's only good for reading and commenting on the news. skills i'd like to learn: basic plumbing, car maintenance, maybe a tiny little bit of carpentry and furniture-building (how to upholster and paint and shellac things), computer care. i asked my dad if he thinks learning electrical wiring and such would be helpful and he said, "no. too dangerous." he also suggested i look up classes at the learning annex.
link: yokoo's shop
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| cooking with weiners
 
I live with my sister and our folks. Everyone works full-time and commutes, and at the end of the day, who
really has the time to stand at the counter chopping things for half an
hour and stirring it for another 20? I remember, once, the summer I'd just returned from China, I told my parents I'd cook dinner and for whatever reason, ended up not, and when my dad came home to find no dinner waiting for him, it was, and remains, the worst chewing out from him I'd received in my adult life. These days, nobody has any time anymore to take on the mantle of Cook, and my mother, who was the primary dinner-arranger when we were growing up, seems to be completely done with weeknight cooking. (Also, she sent out an email saying so.) Good for her, I say. In any case, I'm trying to pitch in more by cooking big pots of food late at night for the coming days. I've been experimenting with weeeiners, because it has tons of flavor that makes seasoning the rest of the dish very simple, I find that both fresh and pre-cooked kinds are easy to handle and cook, and because I like sausage! Last week I made a pot of soup with a pound of hot and mild italian sausage, onions, garlic, potatoes and mushrooms. A handful of fresh spinach in a bowl with the hot soup ladled over it wilted the spinach into a delicate heap.
Tonight I wanted to try a sausage + veg pasta, and ended up with a decidedly less successful mix. It ended up being the usual onions and garlic, but with asparagus, mushrooms (love!), carrots and andouille. Well! What can I say. Andouille + carrots = not best pals. The andouille is too smokey and the carrots are too sweet, and asparagus, cooked this way, ended up lending a faintly putrid smell to the pot. Nothing to do but slide in a pad of butter to try to calm all the flavors down.
also pictured: the basil plant is going on 6 weeks, give or take. what to do with the flowers?
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DNC DAY ONE
a) ESPN requires lots of SWAT security b) Minutemen rally and talking with kindhearted but serious wacko nutjobs c) swag d) the best CNN could come up with to preview the night? | | |
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