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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
8:24 pm	Argonaut Is better than sticky rice Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Friday, February 5th, 2010
10:27 pm	Test Light pollution from 8 inches of snow is harsh. Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
7:44 pm	Fish and potatoes recipe Boil red potatoes until done. In the meantime, mince 3 garlic cloves and and grate about 12 baby carrots. Drain half a small jar of diced pimentoes. Heat a tablespoon of oil on high in a large skillet. Saute carrots and pimentoes for 2 minutes, then add garlic for one minute, then add half a bag of spinach. After spinach is sauteed, empty skillet into a bowl. Salt, pepper, and add 2 tablespoons of parm cheese. Wipe out skillet with paper towel. When potatoes are done, drain, lightly mash, and add olive oil, parm cheese, and pepper to taste. Heat another tablespoon of oil on medium heat and add fish fillets; cook for about 2 minutes on each side. Salt and pepper. Top fish with a generous amount of spinach saute and serve with potatoes. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
9:51 am	Year in review -- 2008 I hesitate to do this because there was some crappy shit going down this year. Oh well, onward for posterity. Was 2008 a good year for you? There were several really good things that helped leaven the horrible moments. What was your favorite moment of the year? Jumping into Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Slowly realizing that Obama would indeed be president. Crashing Irish-American gala with Jake. Ranking Roger telling me I should be Prom Queen. Seeing old friends at 10-year law school reunion. Prague at Christmastime. Seeing both sides of my family due to funeral and wedding in Little Rock. Radiohead concert in the pouring rain. Touring Sarah's family's beautiful farm at the height of lovely fall in SW Virginia -- and driving tractor. Finding very old friends on Facebook. Katie's wedding and bachelorette party (complete with pink wig) and seeing Courtenay, Natalie, Janine etc. What was your least favorite moment of the year? The 3 times I learned that, despite tons of exhausting medical procedures, I was not pregnant. Learning that my local Kaiser Pharmacy doesn't read its faxes. Kicked out of firm due to huge misunderstandings that I was not allowed to address/fix. Mother had scary attack that turned out to be gallbladder. Spraining ankle and roughing up elbow when dogs dragged me off my feet. Learning that cousin passed away (probably suicide). Losing xxx money in the stock market. Falling and hitting head while skiing and being evacuated off the mountain. Where were you when 2008 began? Lake Raponda, Vermont. Who were you with? David, Valery, Jen, Ben, their daughters. Where will you be when 2008 ends? At home. Who will you be with when 2008 ends? Jakub. Did you keep your new years resolution of 2008? Yes -- I did start volunteering at Humane Society, changed the strings on my guitar and learned a few chords, learned a little Spanish, traveled, and re-learned some Czech. Also skiied successfully. Do you have a new years resolution for 2009? Plan new career. Travel to French-speaking country. Resurrect French abilities. Keep paying off mortgage. Stay on Weight Watchers. Did you make any new friends in 2008? Not that many. I instead rediscovered lots of old friends, or worked on existing relationships. Who are your favorite new friends? Kelly and Brian are cool. What was your favorite month of 2008? Tie between April and October. Did you travel outside of the US in 2008? Yes. Very good year. Guatemala, Belize, Czech Rep, and Slovakia. How many different states did you travel to in 2008? AZ, AR, VT, NY, MD, VA .. I think that's it! Did you lose anybody close to you in 2008? I did lose a cousin who is no longer close. Did you miss anybody in the past year? I always miss my girlfriends and my mom. What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2008? In Bruges What was your favorite song from 2008? Every year this gets harder for me. I am old. Probably Cut Copy. What was your favorite record from 2008? Cut Copy How many concerts did you see in 2008? Just a couple.. Did you have a favorite concert in 2008? RAdiohead! and ABC/Human League/Naked Eyes was fun too. Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2008? Yes. It was feast or famine in that department. Did you do a lot of drugs in 2008? I sure did. How many people did you sleep with in 2008? One Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year? I could have handled a work situation a little better and been more attentive. What was the worst lie someone told you in 2008? ? Did you treat somebody badly in 2008? No, thank god. Did somebody treat you badly in 2008? Yep...and we're not friends anymore. which is fine. How much money did you spend in 2008? SO. MUCH. with nothing to show for it What was your proudest moment of 2008? Finally skiing worth a damn! and doing crazy fearless shit with Agie What was your most embarrassing moment? Being kicked out of firm. If you could go back in time to any moment of 2008 and change something, what would it be? NOT getting a total jackass to come to my firm and make me look like a devious little shit. What are your plans for 2009? Go to French-speaking country, try IVF one more time, immerse self in new firm, try to attend next Little Rock old friends reunion, half-marathon and Cherry Blossom race, host mother here in DC, stay on Weight Watchers What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Go to Slovakia and Guatemala. Speak Spanish to people. Be in Prague for Christmas. Really ski. Drive tractor. Volunteer at Humane Society. Throw shower and bachelorette on same day. Did anyone close to you give birth? yes -- Michelle Love What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? More serenity. More determination. A fetus. (this is the answer of the last 2 years) Did you suffer illness or injury? Ankle, shoulder, elbow What was the best thing you bought? green Marc by Marc Jacobs purse that strangers compliment Whose behavior merited celebration? Barack Obama, baby Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? a couple of librarians Where did most of your money go? Mortgage and IVFs What song will always remind you of 2008? Bodysnatchers Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? sadder b) thinner or fatter? slightly thinner c) richer or poorer? poorer, like most people What do you wish you'd done more of? Guitar-ing, skiing What do you wish you'd done less of? Fretting, hair-pulling, and crying How will you be spending Christmas? in Prague with Pithae What was your favorite TV program? 30 Rock, Kathy Griffin standup, Big Bang Theory, Project Runway, How I Met Your Mother What was the best book you read? Middlesex What was your greatest musical discovery? that a guitar low E must be TRUE low E ... it can't be another note What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 36 - skiing What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Pregnancy How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? necklaces galore What political issue stirred you the most? what to do about our crappy economy Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008: The past is the past. The future, who the hell knows. Live for now. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
8:56 pm	iPod poem YAY If they hold me here much longer Fortune presents gifts not according to the book. Oh I taught the weeping willow how to cry Celebrate good times, come on. I guess I met her at the party pit. Get your motor runnin, head out on the highway Now keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel. When you tried to kiss me Polly wants a cracker Give me time to realize my crime. I'm gonna take my time. Well I woke up this morning, gray dawn, with a prayer on my breath You won't believe in me, I've let you down. Love rescue me ( Read more... ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 21st, 2008
3:21 pm	So, anfie, your LiveJournal reveals... You are... 5% unique (blame, for example, your interest in tortilla's (sniff)) and 5% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy sushi). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual. Your overall weirdness is: 37 (The average level of weirdness is: 29. You are weirder than 76% of other LJers.) Find out what your weirdness level is! (Comment on this)
Monday, July 14th, 2008
11:13 am	Happy Birthday Christopher!! To the great SqueakyBuddha, Happy Birthday baby! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
8:24 am	I HATE KAISER PERMANENTE, IT SUCKS, PART II This story could be so very long, but I will condense, while retaining the relevant facts so that it can be googled. I am the patient of a clinic that is not Kaiser, although Kaiser is affiliated with them, gave me the referral, and covers some of the meds. (FYI, this is the second time, within a 2-wk span, that they are guilty of the below negligence. Remember that. I already stressed my balls off about this.) On Monday morning, the clinic faxed the pharmacy of Kaiser Permanente West End in Washington DC. The fax was a prescription for a required, time-sensitive medication. Yesterday, I went in to pick it up. The KP pharmacy had no record of the prescription. (Again) When I put my hands up to my face, the pharmacist, Mae Henson, told me "Now don't get upset." I said "THIS EXACT THING HAPPENED TWO WEEKS AGO." Eventually, a subordinate wanders over, with some papers in her hand. I see a cover sheet. I bark "is that the fax? That's the fax that the clinic sent on Monday, right?" She did some um and some er. The problem? Mae Henson admitted to me, straight up, that NO ONE IN THE PHARMACY IS TASKED WITH READING THE FAXES. When I barked back "You're telling me that the faxes just sit there and no one picks them up?" Silence. I look at her subordinate standing next to her, who says, I swear to God, like we're in court, "I'd rather not say." She pled the Fifth! I have been all over the KP web site looking for a way to complain, with no success (shocker, right). If anyone has any suggestions, let's hear 'em. I am going to take them down, I swear. What if my life was at stake? (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
7:54 pm	"Loser Porn" is my shorthand term for some Judd Apatow movies. Finally saw "Knocked Up" last night. Didn't like this movie for the same reason I didn't like "Sideways": somehow, fucked-up, rude, unattractive shlubby loserman lands beautiful, tolerant, accomplished woman. This is a fantasy for male losers ... thus I call it Loser Porn. "Superbad", while funny, definitely qualifies. I know that I've unknowingly enjoyed his previous work by watching Ben Stiller Show, Larry Sanders, and the Critic, but I think I'm gonna decline to see his movies for a while. Not if they continue in this vein. They're ridiculous... (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
8:58 am	The feel-good moment of the month ...perhaps longer. Agie and I went to a big "80s Prom" on Saturday. We dressed up -- I must say, Agie looked beautiful and sharp with her black/pink makeup, white sunglasses, green tights... and jelly shoes! I wore just a stupid frilly light blue dress. The dress came with a wrap, which I twisted up every which way and then put in my hair. Huge floppy bow. Kept coming undone (you know how I dance). We voted for a prom king and queen -- the king looked exactly like Adam Ant, and the queen wore a horrendously awesome bright teal dress with ugly jacket and hot pink cummerbund/bow. The jacket alone won my vote. This was a big professional party, not a friend's shindig. The featured band was THE ENGLISH BEAT. The same one, with Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, who were also in General Public. I really dug on these guys in junior high. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNpaaPHENE So they were tremendous -- great sound, great spirits. Everyone dancing up a storm. During songs, Ranking Roger asked the crowd, "did you vote for a prom queen and king?" We called "yes." He looked right at me and said "Are you the prom queen?" (Lindsay, how funny is this??) Truly shocked, I pointed to myself as if to say "Who me?" He said "Yeah, you look great!" OH WOW! "Is that dress from the 80s"--I shook my head--"or did you buy it at a fancy dress shop?" I nodded yes, even though I got it thrifting. Then I and others called to him, "the prom queen is over there". He looked over at ugly-jacket lady and said to her "great outfit. But I think I'm liking what I see over there" -- flirtatiously -- and he looked back over at me!! OMG! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 12th, 2008
9:39 pm	Saw Radiohead last night I saw them for the first time in 1998 at the Tibetan Freedom concert at RFK stadium in Washington DC. The first day, torrential rain. Lightning hit some spectators, ending the show for that day! http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1434841/19980613/hancock_herbie.jhtml Radiohead did play their set the next day--they were wonderful. In 2001, Jake and I tried to see them at a local field called Bull Run, but again, torrential rain. We decided not to go, and later learned of the show's cancellation. In fact, TWO days of shows were cancelled due to extreme flooding and craziness. So, yesterday, Radiohead finally came back to the area. Which venue do they pick? Nissan Pavilion, which is 35 miles from DC and, literally, served by one-lane roads in the middle of nowhere. Oh and did I mention the cold, torrential rain? Roads were flooded and closed; some fans never made it to the show. We were lucky and were able to arrive 10 minutes before they went on ... and our seats were just awesome ... and so was the show ... but it was TRYING. Are otherworldly forces trying to keep Radiohead away from me? If so, FUCK THEM!!! she said gleefully. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
9:06 pm	Book quiz. Hope I don't suck! "Here are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish." Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion Life of Pi : a novel The Name of the Rose Don Quixote Moby Dick Ulysses Madame Bovary The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre The Tale of Two Cities The Brothers Karamazov Guns, Germs, and Steel War and Peace Vanity Fair The Iliad The Time Traveler's Wife Emma The Blind Assassin The Kite Runner Mrs. Dalloway Great Expectations American Gods A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Atlas Shrugged Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books Memoirs of a Geisha Middlesex Quicksilver Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West The Canterbury Tales The Historian : a novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Love in the Time of Cholera Brave New World The Fountainhead Foucault’s Pendulum Middlemarch Frankenstein The Count of Monte Cristo Dracula A Clockwork Orange Anansi Boys The Once and Future King The Grapes of Wrath The Poisonwood Bible : a novel 1984 Angels & Demons The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise) The Satanic Verses Sense and Sensibility The Picture of Dorian Gray Mansfield Park One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest To the Lighthouse Tess of the D’Urbervilles Oliver Twist Gulliver’s Travels Les Misérables The Corrections The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Dune The Prince The Sound and the Fury Angela’s Ashes : a memoir The God of Small Things A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present Cryptonomicon Neverwhere A Confederacy of Dunces A Short History of Nearly Everything Dubliners The Unbearable Lightness of Being Beloved Slaughterhouse-five The Scarlet Letter Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Mists of Avalon Oryx and Crake : a novel Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed Cloud Atlas The Confusion Lolita Persuasion Northanger Abbey The Catcher in the Rye On the Road The Hunchback of Notre Dame Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values The Aeneid Watership Down Gravity’s Rainbow The Hobbit In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences White Teeth Treasure Island David Copperfield The Three Musketeers (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
6:39 pm	Here is a funny story I've been meaning to tell for some time The date is March 12, 2008. Jake and I attend a Capitals-Flamers hockey game at Verizon Center. At about 9:30 pm, when it's over, we decide to walk home. We approach the National Building Museum, and we see a sign that says "DAVID MACAULAY: The Art of Drawing Architecture". There is a to-do going on inside, and we see some guys in tuxes on the steps, smoking. Jake stops dead and says "Holy shit! Macaulay might be in there!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Macaulay Very big deal to old Jake. I say "would you like me to find out"? I swish over to the tuxed dudes. "Gentlemen, good evening ... what is going on?" "Nothing much." "Might it be David Macaulay?" I persist. "No, that's gone...but we could probably get you in if you like." So, Jake and I follow these guys in, who then tell us that "they don't know us" and wander off. We look around. Open bar everywhere, scads of free whiskey, copious dessert, huge green balloons, dramatic lighting, senator speaking to crowd at one end, young energetic band with fiddle setting up at the other. It looks like this. http://www.irlfunds.org/ecard/customize.asp?vImage=/images/misc_images/washington/118.jpg We have just crashed the American-Ireland Fund Annual Gala. I looked it up later -- one ticket was a thousand clams. We aren't even close to properly dressed, so we tell people that we're with the band. They seem to buy this. The band is called Scythian, and they are tons of fun. I keep bringing them whiskey shots. Irish dancers perform, and I make up some sort of Riverdance routine. Do I even need to tell you how much fun we had and how drunk we got? I love living here in DC ... there's nothing like it. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
4:35 pm	for posterity if I ever actually do this, my RollerDerby name will be Mangy Pissah. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
8:19 pm	my friend David had a daughter... TODAY! yes we have the same birthday! Current Mood: happy (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
12:32 am	7 Quirks about Me or the Me that I used to be. As tagged by l_bee 1) Lately, when I feel anxiety about something -- anything -- my heart beats very hard. Not faster, but it pounds. It used to scare me to death but now I use it as an indicator that something is wrong and needs to be changed. 2) When I was young, I had massive, all-consuming crushes on all of Men at Work, and, later, Rik Mayall of the Young Ones. 3) I am terrified of snakes and used to dream about them all the time, but I haven't dreamed about a snake for years. Now I dream that Jake's leaving me because he's grown tired of me. 4) I used to not only tape American Top 40 in its entirety by holding a tape recorder up to the stereo, but write down all the hits and artists in a chart. 5) I have a really bad, years-old habit of pulling my hair out, and I can trace it directly back to Andrea Meth. Thanks for that. 6) It's hard to imagine loving a child more than I love my dogs. 7) I had a May-December relationship. I was the May. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 18th, 2008
4:29 pm	I HATE KAISER PERMANENTE end transmission (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
11:31 pm	ITunes meme -- somewhat amusing ( Read more... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
11:02 pm	I'm glad it's a close race ...it will force the two to refine their points. They cannot both just chant "change change change" for the next 2 months. My eyes welled up while listening to Obama. It occurs to me that no one has spoken to us this way in a long time. Asking for oratory from GW Bush is like asking a monkey to give you a makeover. Obama makes me think of the very best, highest, most glorious version of Jesse Jackson. I do not care for Jackson, not many people do, but the man can talk. When he spoke to us on the Mall last year, I was moved, and moved to action. They are different. One calls upon your heart, the other upon your hands and feet. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
10:10 pm	another test put me w/ Obama, Biden, McCain 84% Bill Richardson 83% Mike Gravel 82% Barack Obama 81% John Edwards 79% Chris Dodd 77% Hillary Clinton 77% Dennis Kucinich 76% Joe Biden 38% Rudy Giuliani 36% John McCain 31% Mike Huckabee 28% Ron Paul 28% Mitt Romney 27% Tom Tancredo 20% Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz (Comment on this)