December 2011
19 posts
dough
I’m loving this whole being off on and around the holidays thing. It’s been too long since I’ve been able to enjoy something like this. Getting rsvp emails from different members of the family for the open house we’ll be having over here Monday. All yes’s as far as I’ve heard. I keep thinking of the tones of different people’s voices and it makes me feel...
mllehazelwood asked: Hi, Caitlin. Amber (aamber) said I should ask you for some good vegetarian recipes. My mother is having some people over for Christmas, and I really need to make the food that I can eat (my whole family is full of omnivores, which is fine, but they do not really care for me not eating meat). For Thanksgiving, my mother made a lot of stuff for me, but it was all out of a can (canned green beans,...
Sometimes it’s hard to separate the concept of beauty from the concept of...
– Then Again, by Diane Keaton
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Anonymous asked: Hey Caitlin. Something special is on its way! I want you to know that I made you a card and I was trying to dry it with a hair dryer (GLITTER!) but then it blew in the toilet, so I decided not to give you that card, and I gave up on my homemade efforts. Just know that I tried. Wishing you a very happy holiday season. HO HO HO! love TB :)
this day
You’re talking to [reading from] the newest “Freshman Farmie”, a member of EarthDance Organic Farm’s apprenticeship class of 2012. Just got the email today. I feel bouncy.
I love food. I love it. I can’t wait to spend even more time with it. Foods straight from the soil have the most satisfying bites. Just wipe the dirt off the carrot and crunch into it. I...
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faces
Diane Keaton’s memoirs have me lusting after Al Pacino all over again. There’s nothing quite as delectable as the sight of his face circa the Godfather Parts I and II. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a face I want to outright lick as bad as his. It was made to be devoured. God, the sugar! I think I might enjoy it even more than Robert Redford’s Butch Cassidy mustache,...
splitting
Two weeks notice: submitted. Peacing out of there just in time to avoid working the holidays. “Have fun doing the same thing in a different context,” one of my coworkers said. Yeah, thanks, I will. Or maybe I won’t, that remains to be found out. I’ll be leaving behind a massive security net—rehire at the same rate I left off at. Thanks for making my decision a million...
current state of mind
I got a new job. I’m not sure if I’m happy about it or not. Because this new job means a 20 mile commute (also in rush hour, compared to the now luxuriant 6 with almost no traffic) and getting 65 cents less/hour. To essentially be doing the same thing I already do, just for a better company (keep in mind it doesn’t pertain to what I see myself doing in the future unless you count...
a dusting
I could try to pretend like I have something important to say right now, but I’d be lying to you and to myself. So I’ll write just for the sake of it, just for me. I’m feeling uninspired, but sometimes I just need to force myself. Whatever will come will come.
I woke up to the first frost of the year and instead of being turned off I felt cozy. I find snow to be charming between...
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Anybody gets to ask any question about any...
– From David Foster Wallace’s English 102-Literary Analysis: Prose Fiction syllabus (via brighteryellow)