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  • Alternative Experiences

    One thing I love about not being in school and not having kids is I can spend like 2 hours straight asking the internet different questions. During times I’ve been in school, I had found it so hard to allow myself to deeply explore any topics unrelated to a class I was taking or to even just read a book for fun. It’s kind of incredible how I wouldn’t do that despite procrastinating so much and I may as well have just done what I wanted for a little while. I guess I did do something I wanted. I scrolled on my phone! I did at least learn how to get myself to actually read a decent amount of the assigned material… I stopped taking notes and I didn’t feel guilty about it. I did highlight a lot, didn’t go back to it much! But yeah, I accepted that talking notes and reading was just a lot for me and I felt like a lot of stuff was important. I wouldn’t be able to just not down a few key points. So when you’re rewriting the paper, like yeah you’re gonna procrastinate. And you’re gonna get burned out and not finish. And then feel like you can’t do the next reading without finishing the last one, but it feels pointless. So then you’re just stuck and frozen. I decided it’s actually really pretty beneficial even if I just read it. Did I kinda forget some stuff because I’d zone out? I’m sure, but I really found that change in mindset beneficial. 

    Bro, can you believe these strikes? I mean, I’m sure you can, me too. I need a nap. There’s just a lot of puzzle pieces on the ground right now and my mind is looking at them and subconsciously putting some together. There’s really no benefit to seeing the full picture in the puzzle. Sad thought, but feels really true. Maybe I’ll make chicken wings and things will turn around! I’m just like, idk, ugh. And btw, when I say puzzle pieces are on the ground, I failed to clarify that there’s also random pieces from different puzzles mixed in there. So like good luck me and everyone else! This stuff is all just so much. I feel as though I have no agency. I get hippies… What language should I learn??? Life is such a precarious journey. It’s hard to know what to do and when. Timing is just so important. Some may say timing is … everything. Sorry the title is really pretty misleading. Waste of a good title! Oh well!

  • A Realization

    I just had a realization. I’m getting pretty close to 6 months of daily (basically) posts. I believe this will be 163. Have to get to 180 at least, I’m not exactly sure the exact day I started, but perhaps I will look into it and make sure it is exactly 6 months. We’ll see! I feel like I still have a lot to learn… I feel like life is teaching me other things though. I’m learning, just not exactly what I want to learn. Maybe it’s what I need to learn. I’m not sure what will come next. Maybe I’ll just keep it going. Maybe I’ll try to but not be perfectly consistent. Maybe I need to meditate more. Maybe I need a nice little nap. I just don’t know. All I do know is stuff is bananas right now. Each day just keeps revealing new horrors. I’m still not convinced of anything. I hate not having the truth. I guess that’s literally what history is all about. And I like history. But am I a historian? I could be. I feel like life is so weird man. I’m so blah! The world is totally ruled by an evil group… not a big group. Most of us are just schmucks.

  • OMG!

    I’m so sorry guys, I forgot to make a post! The day just went right past me. It didn’t fly by though. Annoying! I had to catch up on a lot of stuff today and part of what I had to do involved using a system that is unnecessarily “clicky” and was going so slow with every “next”, “ok”, “submit”, “select”, etc. Stuff took me triple the amount of time it should’ve, at least! I have work that must be done still! I’m happy that I get to help this person who needs extra help and never should’ve gotten this far but they did and I want to shield them from the other mean people. I know they try so very hard. And I really appreciate it and feel they deserve extra effort back. Some people are just such scoundrels. So shameless. I cave to these people that don’t deserve it a lot. I can’t stand persistence, it wears me down quickly. I accidentally left my soup out. I tried so hard to remember to put it away and yet somehow I still didn’t. I’m wondering if it’s actually a conspiracy against me. I think some network is releasing a new Chernobyl documentary soon. I don’t know how much can be said that hasn’t been already, but I’m kinda still interested. lol. Nuclear accidents are so fascinating to me. Like, it’s so rare, but people get so alarmed, and perhaps in some cases, they should be! But it’s interesting, like, comparing Chernobyl with Fukushima. One was just waiting to happen, not necessarily as bad, but something, and one was the result of a lot of shit going down at the same time. It’s unsurprising that the cleanups reflect the lack of preparedness and having some stuff in place. However, Japan wasn’t perfect as the locals had issues evacuating. It’s so crazy how no one thinks of that until a tragedy happens. It’s such an afterthought and not just that, the human mind cannot conceive of every possible scenario and the timing of different events. I will say, something like this is a good use case for AI. anyway, I feel like it’s so hard to think about what to do in an emergency when plans A, B, C..are just not viable. Sometimes there are literally no options. When I say this, I mean disabled people if they’re alone and done know who to call/if power is out. Vulnerable people in general, they really need to be a central focus point of an evacuation plan because otherwise they’re probably getting left behind. In Japan, a bunch of old people died during the evacuation. Like with 9/11, you don’t realize how hard it is for parties to communicate with each other. But yeah, in Japan during the Fukushima disaster… the government didn’t know what was going on and as a result, neither did anyone else, at least not definitively. That’s life. What the heck is going on. I just don’t know. I feel like I’m in the midst of an event.

  • Small Carrots

    I found them. I found the perfectly trimmed carrots. Today, I added egg noodles to that soup I made. I shouldn’t complain about anything for a while after this week. Feeling lucky and blessed. I wish I could just cook all the time. I rolled a snowball down the stairs outside. It was huge.

  • The Way I Started Yesterday’s Post Will Actually Apply Tonight

    Okay I am fr tired af tn. I just be cookin’! Need to go to sleep! Wowza! Today, I made pretzel buns. I also made 2 pretzels. Very good. Milk-based. Hmmm. Mmm. I caramelized onions and made Brussels sprouts with bacon and maple syrup. I made potato chips, which was basically insane. I had 1 russet potato and a bit of schmaltz. So I decided to slice the potato into thin slices with a mandolin. I fried them in schmaltz, but used like the tiniest little thing bc I wanted the smallest amount of surface area for the melted fat to spread. I was only able to fry like 4 chips at a time it was insane. Trying to keep the temperature steady on a gas stove. Impossible. But it was pretty good! I made a burger with burger sauce, cheese, caramelized onion, and pickles. I didn’t really have anything fresh. There is a little bit of chopped onion and garlic in my sauce though, technically. I shoveled a lot of heavy snow/ice today bc I don’t want to be the asshole on the block. I will be sore soon. RIP

  • Still Quite Snowy!

    Okay, I really have no excuse for the short post, but actually, I kinda do. I cooked a lot today. I fulfilled my snow day fantasies. I made hot chocolate and also had orange juice and chocolate milk. I made some scrambled eggs with a little American cheese, pancakes, French toast, sausage, and bacon for breakfast. I used the carcass of the chicken I posted last night and some chicken feet to make some chicken stock. Last night, I cut up veggies for soup. I made latkes. I didn’t use the same recipe that I did last time. I actually didn’t use any recipe… that’s nice, I can make latkes now. Okay, so I guess you’re all wondering what I did. I peeled and grated russet potatoes. Well, I actually grated 1 1/4 onions first and let it sit in a mesh sieve for a while to see what kind of juice I could get out before the cheesecloth. Speaking of, someone remind me to buy more cheesecloth. It worked like okay. Grated onion is a very bizarre thing. So slimy and wet. Not in the good way, really! Okay, so I mixed the grated and squeezed potato and onion. I added some salt, pepper, onion powder, some fresh dill, and a little garlic powder. Also, matzo meal. And I mixed that up. In a separate bowl, I whisked 4 eggs and a little bit of my precious Duvel beer together and then poured it in with the rest of the stuff. I used 4 potatoes, by the way. I think I do agree with the 1 egg per potato general rule. I wonder if I forgot anything important!! I cooked the latkes in schmaltz, as usual. 

    The apple butter freezes well! It thawed nicely! I made chicken soup. I’m gonna have more tomorrow and add some egg noodles to it. I think I’m gonna make cheeseburgers for lunch or dinner tomorrow. I don’t usually have 3 meals a day, but I’ll often have 2. Definitely at least 1 a majority of the time. I’m planning on making… pretzel buns… I don’t have lettuce or tomato, but I have pickles and onion. And bacon. I’m wondering what sauce to make exactly. Someone suggested bourbon burger sauce to me on Friday, so I’ve been thinking about that ever since…. I wonder how the roads will be tomorrow. I’m the luckiest gal on the block early this week. Snow! Okay that’s not even like that short considering… I find myself most excited to write about cooking. I wonder if I should take anything from that. I need to be the cook and leader of a group… 

  • Snowy

    Snow is snowing. USA men’s hockey won. That’s nice. I made chicken today. Gonna make soup tomorrow. It will be nice. Banned from the streets. I was born for them though…

  • Snap

    No way it’s looking like we’re coming up to a snow day. I need to stock up on beer still! Not good! I have a love hate relationship with things not being in writing. Winter is here. It’s been here for a while. It’s not going anywhere for a little while longer at least. Most of the remaining snow basically melted today. Now there’s more imminent. I need to wake up early tomorrow for hockey. I woke up today, but I was mistaken lol. I looked up the game time and it said tomorrow 8:10… must’ve looked after midnight… happy USA women’s hockey won gold I guess? 

    It’s kinda hard being mentally ill because no one really likes mentally ill people… especially if they act mentally ill. Eating a ton of rice tonight. Yellow rice. Not much to say still. I am being drained of my soul a little lately. Trying to not be. We’ll see how that fares. I’m not funny. 

  • Call Me Britney

    Because… Oops! I did it again!

  • Poot

    It’s Thursday. Thinking about LiDAR and ground penetrating radar. Electromagnetism too. Magnetism in general feels like magic to me. Physics is crazy. Wondering what we’re on the cusp of discovering. I’m so bad at talking to people, I wish o understood math. Hate being micromanaged. Would rather do 5x the work on my own volition. I wish I wasn’t so tired. Is it really that I don’t drink coffee… I need aliens to rescue me. Like I’m a shelter dog.