I Made some Free Time

[zesty_pinto]

I've been away from typing about my life for so long that I felt I should go to the office and make time.

Well to be fair, I also was working on the laundry, which was 8-10 loads at least. My laundry bag, which has been with me since my college days, was filled to the brim and basically built to handle anything god intended which is the most amazing thing about it. At this rate, I might give it to my college bound progeny in testament to its immortality. This may sound silly if it wasn't for the fact that I've also used it to store a rice cooker and several books in someone's garage for a time.

But enough about my awesome laundry bag, how about that real life stuff that I kept saying I would write about? How about:

Wedding
We met the photographer the other weekend. I mostly wanted to meet the guy to see if he was real and what his interests were. Surprisingly, I got someone with a very stiff personality like myself. Good god, I'm not alone. I think seeing someone like that made me feel comfortable with him as a choice as a result, though.

I just emailed a list of food to add to the list and some beers as well as some questions on clarifying how many centerpieces we might need.

Work
Has been kicking my butt since one of the people I am covering for is still not back. They should be tomorrow. Please come back faster!

Gaming
The D&D people were complaining about SJWs and whatnot between their anime talk. I feel a little slimy, but at least they had fun with the game despite me not catering to this awfulness. Sigh, I don't miss being young and edgelordy.

Otherwise
I cooked for the first time in awhile this weekend. Most of the sugar is gone, but so are my weight losses. I even forgot to buy dandelion greens with me, electing for arugula. I'm going backwards!

All that and I was patting my own back over getting some more clearance gelato. I'm a lost cause. You're welcome to save me from my deal hunting by coming here and eating my ice cream and some breaded pork chops in the coming weeks.

Despite that, I think the salads I'm eating are still fairly healthy, so there's that.

Did I mention that we looked for fiddleheads this week? Nothing so far, but the melting allowed us to see some awesome waterfalls in otherwise freezing weather. One of my coworkers (whom I will refer to as the Mooch for obvious reasons as you will find out) overheard Michelle talk about our desire for fiddleheads and got all tiffy about us harvesting because of signs warning about it. She told her that it was around Burlington and it was because people have been overharvesting them. Then she talked about the dangers of eating foraged food. I thought it was a bit funny because she tends to forage our office by eating whatever candy we offer to other coworkers as a common courtesy without a single sign of appreciation. Not even a thank you! She sits right by me, so that may be why you don't normally see me mention her. She also has this tendency to try to control the conversation to be about whatever is important to her. Yes, she's one of those people. Sociopathy, I'm telling you...

Anyway, so tired. The person I've been backing up is coming back soon. Then I will find some peace. It's already midnight. Peace shall come soon for six hours. Lovely, lovely, peace...

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[notasupervillain]

Yay! Enough free time to write a post is an achievement these days.

Did you want a copy of my accepted paper as a pdf? The high school girl who drew images of a bear and a rhinoceros does, because this is her first time being a published artist (I even put her in the acknowledgements because that's a big deal when you're 16). But like, formatting graphs as an adult who does this regularly is less exciting. (I didn't acknowledge you though I'll contact the Journal and fix that if you care? I assumed you wouldn't but I really should have checked.) But if you want a pdf I'll send one along when I get it. :)

Oooo I miss fiddleheads! I never foraged myself because that's not a thing to do unless you're pretty damn sure what you're looking for, and I am bad at plants. But when I lived in Ontario they'd show up at the farmers market for maybe a week, and if I got lucky enough to be there during that time I'd feast.

I personally cannot lose weight if I'm sleep-deprived. My body craves sugar to get through the exhaustion. (Side note - it makes me really annoyed when my sister-in-law gets called out about her weight while she's also working two jobs and the bulk of the childcare seems to fall on her. Like, of course she craves carbs all the time, she's EXHAUSTED! Not that my brother-in-law doesn't work really hard too, he does - but his metabolism seems to be different to hers and mine.)

I was on the other side, veering towards the kind of sjw that deserves to be complained about. I guess all young people go through a stupid phase?

[zesty_pinto]

Ha ha, I appreciate the offer; I'm all right, though I might ask you as a reference in the indeterminate future if that's all right?

I can understand the stigma behind these things, though the more I read about North America's history, the more I realized how many of our weeds have usually had a past either being cultivated for use by native Americans or utterly forgotten when brought in from the Old World like dumped goldfish (another problem all to itself saved for another day). I think once you look for particular trademarks and don't go crazy hunting for the things, you can find enough identifiers to make it all right, but I don't blame you if you don't want to tag along in this thing.

I was honestly at both ends of the debate: the self-loathing guy and the person who just wanted a fair shake. I think it worked both ways and it's easy to fall into the skew when you get desperate enough. Just glad I'm out of it altogether, I wouldn't be surprised if I would still be some virulent edgelord if I didn't find some way out of my past.

[notasupervillain]

Happy to be a reference if it helps! :)

I would eat wild things - I have! And I'll happily forage if someone who knows what they're doing comes along with me. I'm just not great at identifying plants on my own. I still have problems in the garden and we plant everything in rows ;)

Yeah. I worry about the message these kids get. Like, when I was a sad kid people told me that it was just a phase, and I'd grow out of it, and I did. I hated adults who said it, but they were right. But if I had somehow gotten locked into the idea that it was forever, I might not have grown out of it as easily. If they makes sense.

[ssterchaos]

Haha, I know what you mean about being relieved when it comes to finding a personality similar to yours in the photographer. A lot of people didn't understand me (I don't think) in Cub Scouts because of my leader traits but another parent in Nathan's group admitted to me that she approaches things similarly with other stuff in her life and it made me feel a bit better. :)

Sounds like you're making progress on the wedding stuff!

[zesty_pinto]

Yeah, we're at a point where there's not as much rush anymore, thank god. Just cost watching. I've still got my eyes set on getting back to zero in two months, just hoping we can keep that trajectory...