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13 July 2007

Friday 3-point status update →[More:]
1. I just got back from the miracle-worker hairdresser who always makes me look and feel amazing. I wish I could reproduce the same look when I style it myself. It's all smooth and full and flicky and bouncy.

2. A chicken is roasting in the oven. I slit the skin in several places, including the legs, and slid in sprigs of rosemary and lots and lots of garlic, probably around 8 or 10 cloves. The garlic will roast under the skin and melt into the meat. I will have some tonight with a stir-fry of bok choi, peppers, mushrooms, courgettes and carrots. It will be very good.

3. I have a feeling that next weekend's MeCha Chain Gang Meetup at Wilder's will be even better than Bunnystock II.

post by: essexjan at: 11:19 | 24 comments

1. I am leaving work early today to go get my first pair of glasses

2. Meetup tonight! Yay, mullacc!

3. Finally, two days of reasonable temperatures and lower humidity. woo!

posted by gaspode 13 July | 11:41

1. The dude who was supposed to call me from Latvia for a job interview this morning, for whom I cut my night out short last night and got up early and bought one of those Skype headset thingies? Never called. He better have a good excuse. I really want this job.

2. I'm making a pizza today!

3. We've got some construction work happening here later that involves using a high-pressure washer, which I'd love to try out if they'll let me.

posted by mdonley 13 July | 11:57

1) Rushed home at lunch to make cookies for the flight to Fredericton that some friends are taking.

2) Playing squash tonight for the first time in years. Should be interesting.

3) Still largely disinterested in work.

posted by richat 13 July | 12:22

1. Have accomplished absolutely nothing at work today (unless playing Tetris on my cell in the bathroom counts).

2. Am stuck here until the end of today because one of our director's scheduled a meeting right at the end of my workday.

3. Have decided that this site is about the only one on the intrawebs that doesn't bore me now.

posted by tr33hggr 13 July | 12:26

The dude who was supposed to call me from Latvia

Doctor Doom? I hear he has great benefits but can be a bit touchy to work with sometimes.

posted by doctor_negative 13 July | 12:40

1. I have done roughly ten minutes of actual work since I clocked in three hours ago. I'm on my paid lunch break now and I intend to milk it for all its worth.

2. My backpack has been blessed with holy water, but not by a priest. Is my backpack holy, blessed, or what? Please advise.

3. I love Fridays because every Friday I walk down to a great deli called The Butcher Shop and get a turkey club that is to die for, Cape Cod kettle-cooked russet potato chips, and two IBC rootbeers. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

posted by CitrusFreak12 13 July | 12:53

1. Despite giving up liquor, beer, and wine for two weeks, I've lost no weight. WTF, that was like 50% of my caloric intake!
2. 4.5 mour hours of work before I leave for 1 weeks vacation.
3. See #2. I ain't getting much done today.

posted by muddgirl 13 July | 13:06

Doctor Doom

If only! It's an English teaching job in Riga, which is, you will note, not adjacent to any of Latveria's borders.

posted by mdonley 13 July | 13:23

1. I get to play poker tonight.
2. I get to dogsit a cutie next week.
3. I want my mommy.

posted by auntbunny 13 July | 13:25

I have a confirmed date for the kitchen work beginning on 9-24, which most likely means no bunnystock. :-(
Meetup tonight.
Shopsin's reopened in the Essex street market, but I couldn't find it yesterday.

posted by brujita 13 July | 14:00

Shopsin's reopened in the Essex street market,

When you do find it, I dare you to get four friends to go there with you.

posted by dersins 13 July | 14:06

1. Had a whole two hours sunbathing on my balcony. Finally! The summer- Yeah!

2. Scored majorly today from a professional perspective. Even better!

3. Am going on a boozecruise to France Sunday to properly prepare for the Meta weekend in my house on 21st July (if you haven't booked in yet, do so now!). But really any excuse to pop over to France for lunch! £24 for car plus any number of passengers, Yeah!!

posted by Wilder 13 July | 14:07

Jan, didn't preview and just saw your comment. I'm so exited to have you guys come down here for the weekend!!!
The chain gang principle is that each person offers something they are good at so I'm scheduling you for the mediterranean chicken on Saturday early evening before we go out??

Then I'll do the Persian Lamb for lunch on Sunday or we can go get oysters at the seafront (and whelks, and jellied eels and prawns..... ye know. seafront stuff)

I also want us to go go-karting, crazy-golfing and trampolining (OH an Karaokeing in a real dive in the Old town!)

I have so many plans we'll have to pick and choose

posted by Wilder 13 July | 14:12

1. I should have checked my online bank balance last week. Thank God I checked it today. BEFORE the shopping I THOUGHT I was going to do.

2. I found some blue plates at Goodwill to replace the ones that somehow got chipped in the dishwasher. They were cheap. Good thing. (See #1.)

3. I need a milkshake.

posted by bunnyfire 13 July | 14:15

1) Escape from the zoo.
2) Maybe smash open some oysters with a chunk of concrete.
3) Watch amateur production of hamlet in a park where the ground is 30-45% dogshit.

posted by Divine_Wino 13 July | 14:34

1. still have not recovered from last night
2. in pain in various ways
3. tired

posted by safetyfork 13 July | 14:38

1) poop
2) POOP!
3) shiss

posted by Hugh Janus 13 July | 14:39

The chain gang principle is that each person offers something they are good at so I'm scheduling you for the mediterranean chicken on Saturday early evening before we go out??

That's excellent. And I don't want anybody complaining they don't like olives or spinach. Just eat it, okay? Or you don't get any pudding.

posted by essexjan 13 July | 14:42

Wilder, I've emailed you on your MeCha gmail address.

posted by essexjan 13 July | 14:59

1. Went to the beach this afternoon, but had to leave 15 minutes after arriving since a storm was looming.

2. My kids just dumped a bucket of water on the bathroom floor.

3. I don't feel like cooking tonight.

posted by LoriFLA 13 July | 15:05

1. BUNNY!
2. Got new shower curtain liner to replace old grubby one.
3. BUNNY!

posted by youngergirl44 13 July | 18:32

1. My morning was full with a meeting and a conference call, and I just realized that I forgot to submit my mid-term review to my manager before I left today. Oh well.
2. I made a last-minute lunch date with a friend downtown since I had a 1/2 day thanks to summer hours and he did a great job playing career counsellor.
3. Spent the rest of the afternoon on my own and saw a couple of back-to-back shows at the Fringe Festival.

posted by phoenixc 13 July | 19:01

Dersins, have you been subjected to the wrath of Kenny? ;-)

posted by brujita 14 July | 02:27

Not personally, but I've witnessed it. It is a sight to behold....

posted by dersins 14 July | 17:09

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