spring

somehow time seems to keep slipping into the future... and suddenly it's really spring.

yesterday it was too hot for more than 1 layer. crocuses are still bursting out all over, also daffodils. other flowers intermittently spotted (though the snowdrops seem to be gone), too. and i saw 2 flowering trees! i just love seeing trees in bloom. one was a pink flowering one, probably not an interesting kind at all, alongside a municipal parking lot. the other is a white flowering one, a tree that's either peach or apricot (can't remember), near harvard sq. and the magnolias aren't more than buds yet.

and forsythia is out! they're one of my favorite shrubs (perhaps b/c i used to hide under them?). the centerpiece at the 2nd seder was forsythia and daffodils, a happy yellow combination.

this morning driving in in the rain, it looked wintry again, stark tree skeletons outlined against the grey sky. but the individual raindrops hanging off the branches, only visible up close, looked like sequins. and once in the office, i can see a flowering tree, and one sending out its early leaves, in that lighter green color not seen later in the summer.

the 2 ducks that had neen in the small pond on the way to work have gone. i wonder where they'll end up?
2 canadian geese flew incredibly close to my window, honking as the headed north.

this is the 4th day of the omer.

further adventure in one-handed cooking

i'd been feeling low about the lack of cooking veggies in my life (note to self: remember this the next time i bitch about veggie prep.), esp onions, for some reason.

so tonight, i managed, using the left elbow and some large onions, to chop onions! large dice, but still exciting to me (lord, my life is so small sometimes...). not only that, i sauteed them, and have a weird passover permutation of lasagna (no soft cheese, none of the right spices, no veggies but onion & crushed tomatoes...) in the oven.

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boggle words of the day: OVOIDS and CRESSET

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[insert total goofiness here. then pretend you don't notice it. oops! there it goes now! nope, it's behind you again! ok. i knew there'd be a good use for that decorated tin sometime. just remember NOT TO OPEN IT!]

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read an ebook (novel?) last night, which felt more like a bunch of interconnected vignettes about bizarre characters in the not-so-distant future, all around the playing of icehouse, the author had fun intertwining the different pieces in different ways; in the end, it felt like he just ended his playtime with that universe of characters, rather than coming to any sort of resolution. but the odd characters were fun, anyway.

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tonight is the 5th night of the omer.

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i was talking with a cow orker about suicide bombers, and he pointed out that there are now women (well, at least one woman) who do this. we talked about how some brainwashing of the rank and file must go on to get people to do this, and i mentioned the 7 virgin brides muslim martyrs get in heaven (he said it's 70). so, what about women? neither of us knew, but we both wondered if this meant there was an added incentive for lesbian muslims...
(i know, this is totally in poor taste, in tons of ways. i just can't seem to face the news straight (sic) on, anymore.)