Day 7: 1277

Day 8: 1641

Day 9: 1038

Day 10: 1989

Day 11: 1109. Part 1, Part 2

Day 12: 818

Thanks a bunch, myriad_rainbows.

Ten things that make me happy?

1. Crossing 10k in NaNo.
2. FAke chicken noodle soup
3. Cajun salmon and eggplant sandwiches
4. Wireless in Linux working a lot better
5. baileyjordan
6. serishema
7. shawnaree
8. elliotpp‘s “Oh hai, I fixed ur voting systems” T-shirt
9. yayforqueers.net
10. Cheese

Dyslexic student expelled over toy gnu.

Thanks to my friend Kyle for pointing this one out – Wyoming Elementary School Eliminates Homework.

Potato-dill soup

sauté one shallot in butter, add ½ cup chopped parsely. Cook for a few minutes. Add water, 1½ cups of cubed potato and a tablespoon or two of dried dill. Boil until the potatoes are soft.

Add a teaspoon or a bit more of salt, a quarter cup of nutritional yeast.

I think it’d go great with steamed salmon. I’ll have to try that next time.

Day 4: Part 1, part 2, part 3. 2185 words.

Day 5: zilch

Day 6: 740 words.

Time to go home and work on day 7 soon.

Polis is down for a somewhat extended count, as it’s doing an intensive check on a huge disk.

It’s going to take about ten hours.

Breakfast was scrambled eggs on toast. Nothing fancy there, though the cumin I put in the eggs was fresh ground.

Lunch was spinach, chickpeas, feta, mozzarella and onions.

Dinner was fragrant lentils and rice, fragranced with pepper, coriander, cumin and cardamon. Topped with browned onions and yoghurt.

Yes, I am nuts. But then, if I can avoid a tax audit, maybe I can do NaNo! So, based on previous storyline, here goes:

Day 1: 1063 words.

Day 2: Zilch. Work sucks sometimes.

Day 3: 2286.

So I’ve got a crush on a cute and geeky girl from New Zealand. Maybe if she ends up in the US for a couple years, we’ll hang out.

I have no costume for the party tonight. I’m probably going to feel lame. Again. Oh, well. It didn’t matter terribly long last time. And this time, baileyjordan will be there! And his costume rocks.

Now, if I could just get the hotel phone server that’s been crashing off my bench.

He’s coming!

Oh man that was a blast. I was finally around for one of the Doghouse waterfights.

My sister rocks.

It snowed for the first time this season today. It’s a bit early. Usually we get a light snow around halloween, and it’s dry for a spell after, but today we have four inches and the snow’s still falling. Town is quiet, I think everyone is surprised by the early snow. Nobody was quite ready for it.

I’m snuggled in, having done the dishes and warmed myself that way again. Made soup of herbs d’ province, sundried tomatos and cous-cous. It’s a good day to write and play the cello.

Today, baileyjordan made peirogies (just the frozen kind), but he topped them with sautéed apples, onions, spinach and feta. It was made of win.

Later on, I went to the tea shop, and got to try a rather pricey green tea for free that they’d just received. It was grown in the Americas, which is unusual for tea. Kind of a fun experience.

My life is win.

I just saw Monday Night in Westerbork, at the student theatre at CSU in Fort Collins. Bear was amazing. He’s put together a really excellent show. Tired now, headed back home tomorrow.