And fall and fall and fall and fall apart
Aug. 16th, 2006 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cincinnatus_c
High today, here: 25. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 16.
High today in TO: 25. Dewpoint then: 15. High dewpoint: 15.
Low today on the balcony: 15.3. High: 26.8. Currently: 20.2.
The kind of week it's been: Monday, my best hope for fall employment vanished; yesterday, found out there's a good chance my winter job is going to be taken away; today, got a rejection letter for the Foucault-Habermas paper. (Well, it was actually a revise-and-resubmit letter, which, though a slight improvement, I'd have considered a considerably more considerable improvement if I hadn't seen the data from Ethics (which isn't where it's been this time, but still) showing that they reject a large majority of their re-submitted revise-and-resubmits. Which is actually something I've gone through elsewhere on another paper ... but I guess I'll be better off re-submitting than starting cold. The Foucault-Habermas project will be well over ten years old by the time I hear back on it again.) Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
And: the milk was sour in my tea today, for the second time (and at the second place) in the last week. Actually, this is three weeks in a row that I have tasted a sour dairy product, including L.'s sour mudslide a couple of weeks ago, which was being passed around to confirm its sourness.
And: I banged the hell out of the top of my head today, and jarred my front teeth in a really surprising way, on the edge of a door. This is the second time in almost two years that L. and I have been a considerable distance from each other, and both times, I have banged the hell out of my head. At least, this time, I wasn't in Amereeka, wondering how many thousands of dollars it'll run me if I have to stagger into an emergency room with a concussion.
But: I now have many avocados! It turns out that if you wrap avocados in newspaper, they reproduce! Well ... on the way home, I stopped off for apples (which have suddenly jumped about 20% in price in the last few weeks, for some reason), and discovered figs and avocados, five for three bucks. So, in the last four days, I have seen avocados for $0.99 each, $1.49 each, and five for $2.99, and I now have seven avocados, for which I have paid a total of $5.97. The new five are ripe, so the two that were wrapped in newspaper, being, of course, in a state of no more discernable ripeness than before they were wrapped in newspaper, have now been unwrapped and left to their own devices, perhaps to be rendered into a guacamole-type substance at a later date, to be consumed with the corn chips that expired ... yesterday.
The consensus of the innernet is that the best way to ripen avocados is to put them in a paper bag with a banana. (Mysteriously, zapping them in the microwave, which had crossed my mind, is said to soften them, but not ripen them.) Bananas, which release ethylene, will also ripen hard pears, peaches, and who knows what else. Moreover: the word "avocado" is a bastardisation of some kind of word for "testicle". However: a word something like "avocado" for avocados disappeared from Spanish because it was too much like "abogado", meaning "lawyer".
High today in TO: 25. Dewpoint then: 15. High dewpoint: 15.
Low today on the balcony: 15.3. High: 26.8. Currently: 20.2.
The kind of week it's been: Monday, my best hope for fall employment vanished; yesterday, found out there's a good chance my winter job is going to be taken away; today, got a rejection letter for the Foucault-Habermas paper. (Well, it was actually a revise-and-resubmit letter, which, though a slight improvement, I'd have considered a considerably more considerable improvement if I hadn't seen the data from Ethics (which isn't where it's been this time, but still) showing that they reject a large majority of their re-submitted revise-and-resubmits. Which is actually something I've gone through elsewhere on another paper ... but I guess I'll be better off re-submitting than starting cold. The Foucault-Habermas project will be well over ten years old by the time I hear back on it again.) Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
And: the milk was sour in my tea today, for the second time (and at the second place) in the last week. Actually, this is three weeks in a row that I have tasted a sour dairy product, including L.'s sour mudslide a couple of weeks ago, which was being passed around to confirm its sourness.
And: I banged the hell out of the top of my head today, and jarred my front teeth in a really surprising way, on the edge of a door. This is the second time in almost two years that L. and I have been a considerable distance from each other, and both times, I have banged the hell out of my head. At least, this time, I wasn't in Amereeka, wondering how many thousands of dollars it'll run me if I have to stagger into an emergency room with a concussion.
But: I now have many avocados! It turns out that if you wrap avocados in newspaper, they reproduce! Well ... on the way home, I stopped off for apples (which have suddenly jumped about 20% in price in the last few weeks, for some reason), and discovered figs and avocados, five for three bucks. So, in the last four days, I have seen avocados for $0.99 each, $1.49 each, and five for $2.99, and I now have seven avocados, for which I have paid a total of $5.97. The new five are ripe, so the two that were wrapped in newspaper, being, of course, in a state of no more discernable ripeness than before they were wrapped in newspaper, have now been unwrapped and left to their own devices, perhaps to be rendered into a guacamole-type substance at a later date, to be consumed with the corn chips that expired ... yesterday.
The consensus of the innernet is that the best way to ripen avocados is to put them in a paper bag with a banana. (Mysteriously, zapping them in the microwave, which had crossed my mind, is said to soften them, but not ripen them.) Bananas, which release ethylene, will also ripen hard pears, peaches, and who knows what else. Moreover: the word "avocado" is a bastardisation of some kind of word for "testicle". However: a word something like "avocado" for avocados disappeared from Spanish because it was too much like "abogado", meaning "lawyer".
