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I haven't posted my birthday/winter solstice/New Year's/Yule/Newtonmas/Joe Got a Haircut Day list here because it's not anything I can realistically expect my friends to get me. I want good jobs (defined as interesting work, decent pay, and non-maddening hours+commute) for me and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude. I want an honest recount in Florida and Ohio, and the inauguration of John Kerry as president of the United States two months from now. I want cures/prevention for, among other things, AIDS and a stack of autoimmune and neurological problems. I want really fast, comfortable transport so I can see my loved ones and good friends who live hundres or thousands of miles away as frequently as I can see the ones who live in Brooklyn.
Telling you all this isn't actually going to increase the chances that I'll get any of it. Ifmicheinnz ever comes up with a reliable implementation of MTP [1], I'm sure she'll share it so we can work on the general case.
In the meantime, chocolate and good tea are some comfort in adversity, but you already knew that, too.
[1] Miche Transfer Protocol, of course.
cattitude. I want an honest recount in Florida and Ohio, and the inauguration of John Kerry as president of the United States two months from now. I want cures/prevention for, among other things, AIDS and a stack of autoimmune and neurological problems. I want really fast, comfortable transport so I can see my loved ones and good friends who live hundres or thousands of miles away as frequently as I can see the ones who live in Brooklyn.Telling you all this isn't actually going to increase the chances that I'll get any of it. If
micheinnz ever comes up with a reliable implementation of MTP [1], I'm sure she'll share it so we can work on the general case.In the meantime, chocolate and good tea are some comfort in adversity, but you already knew that, too.
[1] Miche Transfer Protocol, of course.
I haven't posted my birthday/winter solstice/New Year's/Yule/Newtonmas/Joe Got a Haircut Day list here because it's not anything I can realistically expect my friends to get me. I want good jobs (defined as interesting work, decent pay, and non-maddening hours+commute) for me and cattitude. I want an honest recount in Florida and Ohio, and the inauguration of John Kerry as president of the United States two months from now. I want cures/prevention for, among other things, AIDS and a stack of autoimmune and neurological problems. I want really fast, comfortable transport so I can see my loved ones and good friends who live hundres or thousands of miles away as frequently as I can see the ones who live in Brooklyn.
Telling you all this isn't actually going to increase the chances that I'll get any of it. Ifmicheinnz ever comes up with a reliable implementation of MTP [1], I'm sure she'll share it so we can work on the general case.
In the meantime, chocolate and good tea are some comfort in adversity, but you already knew that, too.
[1] Miche Transfer Protocol, of course.
cattitude. I want an honest recount in Florida and Ohio, and the inauguration of John Kerry as president of the United States two months from now. I want cures/prevention for, among other things, AIDS and a stack of autoimmune and neurological problems. I want really fast, comfortable transport so I can see my loved ones and good friends who live hundres or thousands of miles away as frequently as I can see the ones who live in Brooklyn.Telling you all this isn't actually going to increase the chances that I'll get any of it. If
micheinnz ever comes up with a reliable implementation of MTP [1], I'm sure she'll share it so we can work on the general case.In the meantime, chocolate and good tea are some comfort in adversity, but you already knew that, too.
[1] Miche Transfer Protocol, of course.
I just cooked us a nice simple dinner: lamb patties, basmati rice, and cucumber. (Just peeled and sliced, no salad dressing or anything.) The lamb patty recipe is ground lamb, cumin, ginger, and scallion or plausible substitute (tonight that was a shallot). A while ago, in researching something else, cattitude discovered that onions may be bad for cats--not at a chocolate or aspirin level of bad, but not good. So we try not to feed julian_tiger onions.
The boy is eager, persuasive, and omnivorous. So of course he got some cucumber. But I also set aside a little bit of the meat before I mixed the shallot in, and cooked Julian his own miniature lamb patty. It wasn't much extra trouble, but it's not something I'd done for any other cat. (For humans, of course: I seldom buy mushrooms, and don't cook with them when Cattitude his home.)
And while the meal was cooking, I got out the milk (for Cattitude), and Julian looked interested, so I poured a bit into his bowl. (It started the day as our yogurt bowl.) He often gets a bit of milk when I put some in tea.
I've taken to choosing ice cream flavors in part based on cat-suitability. Hence, less chocolate or something-and-chocolate than I otherwise would.
I didn't do this for Artemis. Julian is persuasive, and eager. Artemis probably could have had yogurt, had she asked: though I didn't get into the yogurt-every-morning routine when she was a young cat. It was already in place when Julian moved in. He'll even remind me, if the morning gets along and he hasn't had any yogurt yet, that I should get it out, and we should have yogurt. (This is a good thing.) Somehow, it was easier to just tell Artemis "No, you don't get any of this" when it was chocolate ice cream than it is with Julian: it's possible with him, but he needs to be told over and over until the bowl is empty, and then I have to rinse it out or he'll either jump up or pull it off whatever surface it's on.
cattitude discovered that onions may be bad for cats--not at a chocolate or aspirin level of bad, but not good. So we try not to feed julian_tiger onions.The boy is eager, persuasive, and omnivorous. So of course he got some cucumber. But I also set aside a little bit of the meat before I mixed the shallot in, and cooked Julian his own miniature lamb patty. It wasn't much extra trouble, but it's not something I'd done for any other cat. (For humans, of course: I seldom buy mushrooms, and don't cook with them when Cattitude his home.)
And while the meal was cooking, I got out the milk (for Cattitude), and Julian looked interested, so I poured a bit into his bowl. (It started the day as our yogurt bowl.) He often gets a bit of milk when I put some in tea.
I've taken to choosing ice cream flavors in part based on cat-suitability. Hence, less chocolate or something-and-chocolate than I otherwise would.
I didn't do this for Artemis. Julian is persuasive, and eager. Artemis probably could have had yogurt, had she asked: though I didn't get into the yogurt-every-morning routine when she was a young cat. It was already in place when Julian moved in. He'll even remind me, if the morning gets along and he hasn't had any yogurt yet, that I should get it out, and we should have yogurt. (This is a good thing.) Somehow, it was easier to just tell Artemis "No, you don't get any of this" when it was chocolate ice cream than it is with Julian: it's possible with him, but he needs to be told over and over until the bowl is empty, and then I have to rinse it out or he'll either jump up or pull it off whatever surface it's on.
I just cooked us a nice simple dinner: lamb patties, basmati rice, and cucumber. (Just peeled and sliced, no salad dressing or anything.) The lamb patty recipe is ground lamb, cumin, ginger, and scallion or plausible substitute (tonight that was a shallot). A while ago, in researching something else, cattitude discovered that onions may be bad for cats--not at a chocolate or aspirin level of bad, but not good. So we try not to feed julian_tiger onions.
The boy is eager, persuasive, and omnivorous. So of course he got some cucumber. But I also set aside a little bit of the meat before I mixed the shallot in, and cooked Julian his own miniature lamb patty. It wasn't much extra trouble, but it's not something I'd done for any other cat. (For humans, of course: I seldom buy mushrooms, and don't cook with them when Cattitude his home.)
And while the meal was cooking, I got out the milk (for Cattitude), and Julian looked interested, so I poured a bit into his bowl. (It started the day as our yogurt bowl.) He often gets a bit of milk when I put some in tea.
I've taken to choosing ice cream flavors in part based on cat-suitability. Hence, less chocolate or something-and-chocolate than I otherwise would.
I didn't do this for Artemis. Julian is persuasive, and eager. Artemis probably could have had yogurt, had she asked: though I didn't get into the yogurt-every-morning routine when she was a young cat. It was already in place when Julian moved in. He'll even remind me, if the morning gets along and he hasn't had any yogurt yet, that I should get it out, and we should have yogurt. (This is a good thing.) Somehow, it was easier to just tell Artemis "No, you don't get any of this" when it was chocolate ice cream than it is with Julian: it's possible with him, but he needs to be told over and over until the bowl is empty, and then I have to rinse it out or he'll either jump up or pull it off whatever surface it's on.
cattitude discovered that onions may be bad for cats--not at a chocolate or aspirin level of bad, but not good. So we try not to feed julian_tiger onions.The boy is eager, persuasive, and omnivorous. So of course he got some cucumber. But I also set aside a little bit of the meat before I mixed the shallot in, and cooked Julian his own miniature lamb patty. It wasn't much extra trouble, but it's not something I'd done for any other cat. (For humans, of course: I seldom buy mushrooms, and don't cook with them when Cattitude his home.)
And while the meal was cooking, I got out the milk (for Cattitude), and Julian looked interested, so I poured a bit into his bowl. (It started the day as our yogurt bowl.) He often gets a bit of milk when I put some in tea.
I've taken to choosing ice cream flavors in part based on cat-suitability. Hence, less chocolate or something-and-chocolate than I otherwise would.
I didn't do this for Artemis. Julian is persuasive, and eager. Artemis probably could have had yogurt, had she asked: though I didn't get into the yogurt-every-morning routine when she was a young cat. It was already in place when Julian moved in. He'll even remind me, if the morning gets along and he hasn't had any yogurt yet, that I should get it out, and we should have yogurt. (This is a good thing.) Somehow, it was easier to just tell Artemis "No, you don't get any of this" when it was chocolate ice cream than it is with Julian: it's possible with him, but he needs to be told over and over until the bowl is empty, and then I have to rinse it out or he'll either jump up or pull it off whatever surface it's on.
I have cooked dinner two nights in a row.
This may not seem like much, but it had been a while. Both were what I think of as easy meals, meaning that I don't need to think about them. But both involved protein, vegetables, and rice, and both were tasty.
Tomorrow I may leave Inwood.
This may not seem like much, but it had been a while. Both were what I think of as easy meals, meaning that I don't need to think about them. But both involved protein, vegetables, and rice, and both were tasty.
Tomorrow I may leave Inwood.
I have cooked dinner two nights in a row.
This may not seem like much, but it had been a while. Both were what I think of as easy meals, meaning that I don't need to think about them. But both involved protein, vegetables, and rice, and both were tasty.
Tomorrow I may leave Inwood.
This may not seem like much, but it had been a while. Both were what I think of as easy meals, meaning that I don't need to think about them. But both involved protein, vegetables, and rice, and both were tasty.
Tomorrow I may leave Inwood.
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