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inanimate and abstract things

lately, it's much easier just to love things that can't love back. i love pizza. i love the music of the avetts . i love clear nights like tonight. i love clementines in season. i love my new flask, especially filled with some high-octane warmth for the approaching cross-country ski season. i love cross-country ski season. and i love the concept of love. it's just that the application of it in situations where it might be returned (or denied) that's confusing and frustrating. ah, well. maybe 2010 will be my year.

tea / avetts / planning

I like tea and have been out of black tea for a while but finally got a box of Bigelow Earl Grey at the store tonight. Avetts in Boulder April 20 and 21, 2010. That's a Tuesday and Wednesday night; I'm trying to decide which makes more sense with my spring schedule. I'm really gonna have to push myself to get up in the spring. I'm set to teach at noon and 3. Without some self-control, I'll be sleeping til 10 every day. Lately I've been sleeping til 10 on my off days. Of course, I fully endorse my decision to stay up til 3 am to finish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo over the long turkeyday weekend. The long turkeyday weekend was, all in all, a pretty good one. I had a nice, long-way-around trip through Casper and Upton, got in a short visit with my dad and Susan and my grandma, ate punkin pie, dropped flowers off at grandma's on the way out of town Friday, did some bathroom-remodel reconnaissance at Home Depot, and caught up on grading yesterday and toda

victory, updated

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Below, a picture of the City of Laramie 2nd Annual Turkey Curling Championships winning team, Tastes Like Chicken. Oh, yeah. In related news, I just got the callback from the clinic. Turns out, there is a fracture. They say: if I can get in to Gem City tomorrow, I should do that; otherwise I should get an appointment for next Monday. Gosh, that seems like a pretty long wait time, but alright. As long as I don't fall on the ice between now and then I think I'll feel alright. In unrelated news, I want to play Super Mario. On the walk home tonight I got the music to World 1.2 in my head and was struck by overwhelming desire to jump on some mushrooms and throw fireballs. This rarely happens to me.

victory, sort of

Today I competed on my friend Katie's turkey curling team. Our team name: Tastes Like Chickens. Our team name if it hadn't been a "family" event: Tastes Like Chicken, Bitches!. After seven loooooooong hours of pushing turkeys-on-a-platter from one end of the ice to the other, Tastes Like Chicken took home the pro-wrestlingesque championship belt home. (It has an image of a turkey getting its head cut off on it, oh yeah!) I also brought home with me a sprained elbow, sustained during a fall during the last match. At least, I hope it's only a sprain. If it's broken, I'll have to make up a story about how I broke it. No way am I gonna say, "I broke my arm when I was brooming for a turkey curling tournament." As if I wasn't a big enough dork already.

hazmat

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I started in on the bathroom remodel project today. I'm not sure how it's gonna turn out, but I'm optimistic. Today I scraped paint and pulled up a couple different layers of old flooring. Then learned from the tile store that I coulda just left the flooring down. All that work on the floor basically gets me about a quarter inch closer to flush with the hardwood floors--not worth the effort, really. But I'm interested to see if any problems emerge now that I'm back down to the basics in a couple of areas. Here's about where things stand after six hours of work today:

eyes wide open

i'm happy that the eye doctor manages to provide such good correction for my bad eyes. the process of getting my eyes dilated lets me experience what it would be like to see but not well enough to read. i don't like the feeling. i envy those people who can see the very bottom line of the chart. in my next life, i'd like to be far-sighted. that's definitely not a trait that describes the life i currently lead.

odds and ends

this weekend: fatty patty. instead of a patty, onions, and cheese between two pieces of toast, it's a patty, onions, and cheese between two grilled cheese sandwiches. so delicious. even more delicious when eaten with good friends. 0-3, 3-on-3. paul, chris, joe, and i didn't bring home the 3-on-3 tournament trophy on saturday, but we had good fun. as with soccer, it's great to play competitive games with people who love playing but not so much that they become aggressive a-holes. twenty bucks. my winning silent-auction bid for four courtside cowgirls tickets. yesssss. stanley. i've been wanting a flask, and the sight of a stanley brand flask, with their recognizable green finish, was reason enough for me to now look forward to all kinds of 8 oz. opportunities in the chilly weather. down. i've said it before, but a down vest is an amazing piece of technology, quite warm enough for my walk down to coal creek this morning to finish my grading and for my walk th

more kale success

Kale with raisins and caraway One bunch of kale A teaspoon of caraway seeds A dash of cardamom One snack box of raisins Garlic Salt A quarter cup of water Put in a pot and cook it down. Then eat it up.

Ole!

The fall indoor soccer league starts at 9:25. Well, that's the start time for our team's game--we drew the late slot tonight. Having not played soccer since the outdoor league ended in July, I'm not sure how ready I am to kick it for a solid forty minutes. I predict some soreness tomorrow. I think I'll skip out on Thursday's game and focus on trying to be recovered enough by Saturday to be mobile for the city 3-on-3 basketball tournament. In other news, the flight deals were too good to pass up. Looks like a trip to Phoenix is now part of my Christmas break plan.

projects, events, etc.

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For such a relatively low-key weekend, it's been great. Friday night, the Cowgirls were victorious in their second home exhibition game. They're showing some promise. CSU-Pueblo Thunderwolves' defense was a bit quicker than Adams State's girls were on Monday, so the Cowgirls got some good practic in. They still have to figure out a workable offense against the zone, but it looks like they've got the potential for some good team chemistry. Saturday night the Cowgirls volleyball team also won, against Air Force. But before that, I spent the day on a new storage solution, for hats and gloves and bike helmet and such, to go in the entry. I had been just sort of stacking all of this stuff on top of the coat hooks. But now I've got these not-quite-Sundance-catalog-worthy cubbies: (Total price, about 16 bucks, including that ultra fancy boot tub underneath, which came from Kmart at the low-low price of $4.99.) Also on Saturday afternoon I spent some time in the ya
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I'm looking forward to the end of my 'gluten-free' test period. I'll be happy to binge on wheat-filled donuts and barley-rich PBRs and rye-liciousness. Cinnamon rolls and pancakes and chicken-cherry sandwiches. Kit-Kat bars. Spaghetti. In the meantime, though, I've appreciated the creativity that going gluten-free has required for these past few months. I won't claim that my green-chili pizza tonight was as good as the Beartree's version is, but I did alright. Here's my ultra fancy recipe. Gluten-free green-chili chicken pizza 1 Uncle Bob's Redmill GF pizza crust mix (plus: 2 eggs, 2 Tbsp olive oil, water, and the included yeast packet) 1 chicken breast 1-2 Tbsp olive oil 1 can corn 1 can green chilis 1 can navy beans spices (cumin, chili powder, garlic salt, or whatever) 1 can tomato sauce 1 can sliced black olives cheese, and lots of it (say 2-3 cups, ish) -------------------------- Prepare the crust according to Uncle Bob's instructions