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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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If you're mailing them a few at a time to avoid overloading me, don't. It's just as easy for me to take a bunch and stack them off in your room than do it one at a time.
Oh, and I doubt you saw but I'm planting a garden on the balcony. Primroses now, other flowers later, and lots of herbs starting - rosemary and corriander, chives,oregano, thyme, marjoram. We'll see what takes. I thought about catnip and then decided I don't know if I want wild kitties around... I'll let you be the judge of that.
You'll get lots of driving experience, but it sounds like you've planned the trip to be not TOO strenuous as far as the amount of driving you'll do in a day. Also, when you get to CO, there will not be the stress to have to find a suitable car for being able to go on interviews, etc.
Just my opinion; put it with the others in the circular file, if you wish. ;o)
I doubt catnip would attract wild kitties - or do you mean mine? ;-)
Catnip doesn't make 'em all that wild. It makes 'em more like...happy drunk...heh. Halvah, especially.
I had mint here, too. Lovely for tea. And...let's see...parsley and basil and oregano and thyme. I probably used the thyme and oregano the most. But fresh herbs are wonderful things!
I wanted to try chamomile, too, but I'd think you'd have to grow a LOT to have it in decent amounts for tea.
I had the weirdest thing happen to me last night and am contemplating going to the doctor.
For the last several days, I've had a mild headache, which I attributed to lack of caffeine, since I'm off it completely now. But I kept having this pressure sensation on the left side of my head on my temple region and this little headache.
Then, last night, after my bath, I was combing out my hair and I saw the vein on my forehead, right at my temple just really swollen! I mean, I had this huge vein popped out on the side of my head! It was dark blue and very hard! Same mild headache in the same place, also pressure.
So I went to bed. It's much diminished now, although I still have the headache and pressure.
I prob'ly oughta go to the doctor, huh? I sure don't wanna.
Yes, you know the answer to that! I wouldn't mess around with lingering headaches that don't go away, or bulging veins in your head. I don't think you ever drank enough coffee to have THAT kind of lingering withdrawal. I drink many times more caffeine than you, and I can go a day without with no headache.
I'm dreading the drive, but I kind of want to prove that I can do it, silly as that sounds. I know MOST people do that sort of trip anytime...but I don't!
Still, it is worrying me a bit how expensive this will be. I have enough to cover costs and a few months of joblessness, so there's no real reason to worry, but I don't like spending money on boring stuff like fuel! ;-)
OK, applied for two jobs over the last few days. That brings my total up to three, one of which was the one I got turned down on. One of them is for the college, the other is for what appears to be an architectural design type of company...and it's almost next door to the parish I want to attend. Just down the street, literally. Hm...
I have done that before with my beard trimmer, the guard was not on the thing at all, lucky I was way over on the side of my face. I usually keep the thing set on 2, anyway. The climate is a little warmer in Miami, so a shorter beard makes sense - just enough to keep from getting sunburned.
However, Ecurbh probably looks fine with a 5 o'clock shadow.
The architectural one, you ought to be able to take the bus to, though not the bus line that stops outside our apartment. One of the bus hubs is a seven-minute walk.
The one at the college you'd ride the convenient line for, just like me.
Bring any herbs you like! I'm excited to try this though I might be doing things horribly wrong and I may need to buy more planters.
I note, being married to one, that nurses hate going to the doctor. But I think it would be well to see one, 2J. At least you have the education to understand whether or not what the doc tells you sounds rational.
Saw a Laumer paperback at Borders, the first 7 or 8 pages are great. Forgot the title, though.
The one at the college, though, I now notice is two positions HIGHER than the other position I applied for and was turned down for. It's for an entirely different part of the college, but they use similar descriptions and language.
In any case, I'm thinkin' I likely don't have a chance there. Still worth a shot, of course!
The other one, I could probably even drive to if I had to. It's not that bad of a drive, no? And I'm guessing they have decent parking. But being able to use the bus if need be would be wonderful, epecially for mornings when I just don't wanna deal with traffic.
I can't really bring any herbs, by the way. The ground is frozen, so I wasn't able to transplant any of mine. *sniff*
Did you just get seeds, or did you find a place with seedlings? I had limited luck getting sage and oregano to grow from seeds, but many of the other plants did fine. Parsley did GREAT, for example.
Corin, did you get the spyware cleaned up?
He's very good at dragging you into the story at once! Was it the "Retief" collection? Those are my favorites of his work. Even better than the dystopias.
Seeds. I'll try, and if they don't work I'll look for seedlings.
What department is the college job with? It might be that the engineering department has stricter requirements than, say, the English department.
I used the link Hair gave me. I haven't tried Hijack yet. It was a busy weekend and when I got to the computer I didn't want to take a chance on using it when I was too tired to be thinking clearly.
(Corin is stealth freeping from a bored meeting - you are not really reading this message)
I don't even have the protagonist's name yet! Strangely, the fellow who wrote the preface refers to Laumer as a "journeyman" writer. It's too early to really say, but, so far, if Laumer is a journeyman, them most writers are just hacks. 'Course most writers probably are just hacks, but still.
Heh, you should see the interdepartmental meetings they have now and then about the latest security or whatever. It's a big place!
Oh, was it by chance the "A Plague of Demons" collection? That one's fun.
I think by "journeyman" they mean he's not quite up there with Heinlein and Clarke, et al. Nothing he wrote was awe-inspiring or changed the way SF looked at things. Everything he wrote was entertaining and solidly written, worth reading more than once. I like that more than some ponderous volume about the Meaning of the Universe.
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