If I'd gone to finishing school...

...I'd probably have known that it is not socially acceptable to whip out a knife and cut a piece of galangal in half in the middle of Whole Foods. In my defense, I was left with the sad choice between huge nice roots, and small shrivelled and moldy roots. I didn't want to buy more than I would possibly use. What would you have done? A few rather concerned looking employees headed over to ask if I needed any help, but I gave them a bright smile and told them I was just fine, as I clutched my prize.

(K's roommate V was similarly disturbed by my keeping an Opinel in my purse. K only had the one knife, so I pulled out the Opinel to chop some vegetables when we were both cooking. However, as they have been roommates for more than a year, I couldn't feel that bad. K, afterall, thinks that hydrochloric acid is a useful household cleaner.)

Yes, I was shopping in Whole Foods. The local PCCs seem to have stopped carrying rye berries, and I like using them in bread. They also carried rice bran, which I wasn't able to find at PCC (though it was late and so I would call this lack of findings inconclusive).

PCC, on the other hand, has started carrying diva cups. Since I have not yet managed to get off my ass and order one, this was a welcome surprise.

DSL is down at the boat, so while I'll be connecting periodically through my cell, I won't be on all the much. poetry_lady -- I am trying to get that article done. Things have been busy, but I keep telling myself it's a refreshing break from writing about multidimensional databases... (the academic style seems to be bleeding over, though. Trying to fix it. Maybe I'll have a glass of wine before editing...)

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A question...

I have a fabulously productive summer garden -- at least fabulously productive for a garden in some 14 (large) pots.

I want to have an autumnal garden as well. I should be planting things / have already planted things by now. But all my pots are full, and I suspect any autumn plants I start now will be pretty big by the time the pots have room for them.

Thoughts? I used to handle this by having spring/autumn sections, and a separate summer section, and generally eing disorganized but having a lot of space. And, um, that's just not my life right now.

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Imagine my surprise, having gone swimming off the barge, to discover that the low sitting piece of dock by means of which I usually make my exit is gone. Eep!

Contacts still make my eyes itch.

(Yes, I'm spending this part of the day writing, which often turns me into Posty McPostsalot.)