darxus

I went to the library to swap out read books for unread ones, and found that there was a table by the entrance for trick-or-treaters. The librarians staffing the table were enthusiastic to get things to people, especially since it was less than an hour until closing. I resisted the candy and the sidewalk chalk, but succumbed to a branded microfiber glasses cleaner, and enameled I[heart]CPL pin, and one of the many bookmarks available, this one by Christopher Denise, with the message “Read Every Knight” with this owlet in armor engrossed in reading The Good Knight, which was too adorable to pass up.

magid

reduced a batch of mixed vegetable* stock (and started another gallon bag of veggie offcuts for the next batch of stock)
a tray of roasted carrots*
sauted red onion*, garlic*, carrot*, purple-top turnip*, and massaged kale* with much of the rest of last week’s batch of seitan
cabbage* and carrot* slaw with soy sauce and shiso* salt dressing
leeks* and red onions* baked, then topped with the rest of last week’s challah and sage* salt and baked until brown, then topped with a not-fully-defrosted spatchcocked chicken, which, once more cooked, was topped with the end of a jar of peach chutney (canned this August using Georgia peaches)

* locally sourced

magid

The plan for the winter share is that it will be boxed if temps are below freezing, and the pickup window is only two hours, not three, but at the same location as the summer, and the same day of the week (yay!).

2.5 pounds of carrots
2.5 pounds of beets
2.5 pounds of purple-top turnips
4 slender leeks
4 tiny heads of cauliflower
1 bunch of medium-large Hakurei turnips with greens
1 bunch of enormous red radishes with greens
a medium-small head of green cabbage
6 small heads of garlic
1 bag of spinach (over 1 pound)
1 bag of mixed salad greens (also over 1 pound)
take-what-you-want jalapenos and herbs (I chose none, already having much bounty to deal with)

First thoughts: Mashed neeps (maybe get potatoes at the farmers market tomorrow to be able to make mashed tatties and neeps?). Fridge-pickled radishes. Sauteed turnip greens, radish greens, and spinach, with garlic, can be frozen for later. Roasted cauliflower. Various slaws (cabbage and carrot, radish and carrot, Hakurei turnip and carrot, etc.). Green salad.

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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

sorcyress

Some things I managed to do this afternoon and evening:

Small breakdown after school. Missed a bunch of the all-district department meeting. I am _assured_ by my work bestie that I missed absolutely nothing, which is at least a little reassuring.

(It's been a hard couple weeks at work. I would like it if I felt that my bosses were on my team and trying to support me and mine. I would settle if they were at least able to proactively say "I recognize how hard this latest bullshit is to deal with, and appreciate that you're doing so")

Talked to work bestie for an hour. That was nice. Good discussion of art, of dreams, of movie-making of the value of the act of doing things as different from the value of those things existing later. Clayton is really fucking smart and I'm very happy to be friends with him and get to consume his perspective on things.

When he went off to make copies, I managed to persuade my brain that things would be better if I just did a bare-minimum todo list and fucked off home. Managed to leave the building by like 5:45, which is pretty damn good for "didn't start prep until after 5". Meant I biked home before the sun went down which was good.

Got home and had a Power Hour. Ate dinner. Had a more different second power hour. Forest successfully gamified me by being all "~ooo~ look at the special tree that you can only earn if you do 300 minutes of focused time between now and like five days from now" and having it actually be a very pretty tree. So I'm gonna try for that, which means lots of Power Hours in the next few days. That is...that is not a bad thing.

Some stuff I managed during POWER HOURS:

*Desk is cleaned off, like fully, which I think has not been true since like...well? before my surgery? I could actually _use the computer at my desk_ which is astonishing. We'll see how long it lasts.

*Unpacked from MD trip, got all the laundry downstairs, third load is in the washer now, first load is put away *and* it was the one that had the most hangy-laundry, jegus fuck, I'm proud of myself for that.

*Dishfairy. Nothing special there.

*Went out to the garage and learned I don't seem to own a protractor, which, uh, is throwing a wrench into at least one project I should be working on right now. That's fine, I'll swipe one from work, but also what the fuck.

*Also found a thing in the garage and did a thing in my room and am feeling quite a lot of feelings about it, so we're not gonna talk about that one more until I actually decide what to do with them. Practice being bad at things, probably. Engage with the act of doing things for the sake of the act rather than the sake of the things. All of that is fine, but I wish it didn't come with a side of a very particular insecurity/inadequacy that I fully recognize and I *think* is the same thing that made me write the shittiest LJ post I ever wrote on purpose (like sixteen years ago, apparently. It's less bad than it could be but also jegus _fuck_ Sor, you were goin' through it weren't you?)

It is very funny how "not gonna talk about that one" actually manifests, isn't it? ANYways, I think this might be the first time I've ever specifically tagged _exactly that feeling_ as _oh it goes with those moments_.

*Also I apparently have three separate versions of Vienna Teng's "The Tower", one of which I'd never listened to before (to be fair, it's from her live concert album Moment Always Vanishing, and I only quite recently obtained that one). The 2001 version showed up in shuffle and I said "yeah, that seems good to listen to" and _really_ liked some of the differences in musicality. And then I did the live Vienna/Alex Wong version and _holy shit_.

I got not quite halfway through before Gabriel _grabbed_ me and pushed me onto the dance floor. There are advantages to actually cleaning my room, having space to dance is one of the biggest. He and I danced to that one, and then I wrapped with the regular version and let Alis take her turn with me. It was really fucking good for me. Dancing is _really_ fucking good for me.

It's a good reminder that sometimes we can be our own love with intuition.

Hopefully tomorrow will also be good? That would be nice.

~Sor
MOOP!

magid

From this week’s email from the farmer: ( Read more... )
I’ve signed up for the winter share, which is 11 distributions that are mostly every two weeks, except the first two are back to back, and there’s a gap at the end of December for the obvious reason.

4 pounds of sweet potatoes
4 pounds of starburst purple daikon
1.5 pounds of spinach
2 medium-small heads of cabbage
2 bunches of kale
3 pounds of carrots carrots
4 medium-small yellow onions
6 heads of garlic
4 tiny heads of cauliflower
1 pound of mixed salad greens
take-what-you-want herbs and hot peppers (I took some parsley)

First thoughts: this is not nearly enough onions for a couple of dishes, much less a week; maybe I’ll get more from tomorrow’s farmers’ market near work. Lemon-tahini kale salad with sunflower seeds. Cabbage-carrot slaw, or roasted cabbage. Carrot-daikon slaw (or maybe a ferment, though there’s really not enough room for more jars in the fridge unless I finish some other things off). Sweet potatoes and spinach with something spicy (hot sauce, sausage, berbere seasoning, etc). Roasted garlic. Roasted cauliflower. Sauted spinach and garlic (possibly to freeze for later).

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