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At work. Do not have internet at new apartment til next Friday. Thats right, the one that ISN'T tomorrow. If you would like to contact me call me, cause I sure as hell won't be on AIM. I feel Amish. I am spending all my time not at work outside, reading, cooking, organizing my room, etc. It's relaxing and kind of lovely. I keep picking flowers and taking long walks home from work. Job is still fun, getting busier. I worked a 10 hour day on Tuesday, so I'm gonna come in late tomorrow. The schedule is super flexible, and once I start doing 2 night classes a week on Wed and Thurs, I won't even go to work on Fridays anymore. I only have to work 35 hours a week but I've been doing 40 hours anyway, because I like the people, and there is a lot of work that can be done, like once I finish doing things that my supervisor tells me to do, we have a whole safe full of recipes to be analyzed and then printed with a nutrition facts label, so it's not like I sit there bored waiting for tasks. I just finished writing a guide on how to cook a list of vegetables, greens, and spices that people may receive in their farm share baskets. It took a few days, and I did it in my down time. I learned lots myself just writing this guide, like what amaranth, celeriac, kohlrabi, escarole, and mizuna are and how to make them delicious. I should go prepare food for a board meeting at work now. Food prep is also such a great perk of this job... If anyone loves me, call me or email me cause I can check email at work. Bye! |
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| 06:07pm 18/05/2009 |
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So, today I started my summer job at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, working as a nutrition intern. My day goes like this: Come in at 8:30, set up my office with table and chairs, and the ladies in the office donated plants so now I have 2 plants in my area. Next, since the person who's supervising me (6 interns, 6 permanent workers in the nutrition program, we each shadow a permanent worker) happens to be the cook for most meetings and events and classes, I got money from her to go to P&C to pick up vegetables for a salad. I come back, help her prepare lunch, store it for later, and then go to a long staff meeting. We break from the meeting at 12 for lunch that I helped make (broccoli soup, salad with romaine, radishes, parsley, and homemade vinaigrette, sliced apples, assorted cheese and bread plate, and bread pudding with yogurt for dessert) and we ate while finishing the meeting. The meeting finished about 1:30, and then I helped clean up all the dishes. I helped cut up 30 cups of rhubarb for the food we're cooking tomorrow, and then talked to some of my coworkers for a while. My supervisor gave me a lot of packets of information about the 2 programs she runs and I read them so I would know what I'm doing for the summer, and then she discussed them with me, and I went home at 4:30. Tomorrow I'm coming in at 8 and making ratatouille over whole wheat pasta, and strawberry rhubarb crisp for 60 people. This food is for the event the cooperative extension is having on Wednesday, called "container gardening" where we teach kids and their parents how to grow herbs and stuff, and give a lesson on how to use herbs in your cooking to make things tasty without adding mass amounts of sodium, and doing demonstrations by making different salad dressings and veggie dips with different herbs.
Basically, this job is awesome. Its kinda disorganized, so after Wednesday I don't know what I'm doing, and my supervisor says this is pretty normal. Once June starts, I'll help with cooking and nutrition classes on Tuesday mornings 10-12 for poor adults where we teach how to cook healthy on a budget, and we give each participant a bag of groceries to make the dishes we made in class. The nutrition portion of the classes is coordinated by my supervisor and I, while a professional chef teaches the cooking part. And we get to keep all the recipes. I already have some of the recipes that may or may not be used this summer, and for homework, I may have to try out these recipes on my own time. What terrible homework, right? The second program my supervisor works with is community supported agriculture, where customers buy shares of a farmers crops, and they get fresh produce weekly, which helps farmers and poor people. This also comes with free cooking classes where we teach how to prepare the kinds of produce they received. I also get to go to a New York State nutrition conference on June 10th-11th, which is conveniently held at Cornell, where I go to workshops and get free food all day instead of working. This job has so much free food, I pretty much don't really need to bring lunch to work.
Anyway, I have a barbeque/birthday party at bonehouse to go to soon. Just thought people might want to know about my life. Coming home Friday for Lizzy's graduation on Saturday, which should also be fun. Bye for now everybody! |
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| 04:23pm 21/12/2008 |
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Day 8 was yesterday and I didn't have much to say. I've shoveled the driveway 2 days in a row now. I actually kinda like shoveling cause it's the only physical activity really possible other than crunches and jumproping in weather like this. I also sat on my ass and read and watched tv and knitted and things all day. Pretty much as mundane as a handicapped 80 year olds day. |
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| 10:10pm 19/12/2008 |
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Day 7: I did basically nothing today, after waking up at noon. Left the living room only to eat and pass urine. What a terrible term for pissing. I didn't even shower. Because I didn't have to. |
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| 07:01pm 18/12/2008 |
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This is actually day 6. I came home today and have no responsibilities for the next month, and the ride was nice and scenic. I saw a sign that was a yellow diamond sign with a stop sign in the middle, warning drivers there was a stop sign in 100 yards. I lost a little respect for society thanks to that sign. |
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| 07:08pm 17/12/2008 |
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Day 4? I think? Had an on campus responsibility free adventure with Sarah: sold back books and got free candy bar and money for it, went to dairy bar to waste money, and stole a baritone from the band room on the way back. I love Cornell when I don't have to do homework. |
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| 10:23pm 16/12/2008 |
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Day 4: I finished my debate final early and then hung out with Tom on the way home. Now I'm back at my apartment celebrating with Sarah and Rose cause we're done with finals! |
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| 11:16pm 15/12/2008 |
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Good thing day three: I am done with biochem and never have to think about it again. One test left! |
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| Thing from my sister |
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| 08:29pm 14/12/2008 |
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Lizzy posted this in her livejournal and told people to do it. She did this on Friday so I'll update for Saturday and Sunday.
The rules are that for eight days you have to post something that made you happy that day.
Saturday: Took break from studying and talked to brother on phone. Made fun of him and his new girlfriend and talked about his promising future.
Sunday: Didn't get out of bed until almost 2 pm. Finished box of cereal. Spent all day studying with breaks for long shower and phone with cousin. |
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| 01:04pm 12/09/2008 |
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In my biochem textbook it said college kids had the highest rates of scurvy in the world in developed countries. About 10% of college kids are dangerously low on vitamin C. That makes me sad. I'm a mean nutrition major, I feel as if anyone who gets scurvy at college deserves it for being stupid. |
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| Erin will enjoy this... |
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| 08:38pm 04/04/2008 |
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My roomate showed me this video (link at bottom of entry). Its kinda like stuff I learned in "Fast Food Nation" and "Dont Eat This Book," but in a cute cartoon way, and the bad environment stuff about all the methane and dumping thats done by commercial farms is partly why I'm not eating meat. Also slaughterhouses are ridiculously dirty and gross, and use untrained workers so one in every hundred or so cows isn't killed correctly and gets meat chopped off of it when its still got nerve function. Slaughterhouses are also terrible for the environment because they often dump animal waste and scraps into rivers. Also I feel bad for all the chickens and pigs and cows that eat dead animals, often chickens are accidentally cannibalistic, because they are overfed protein and fat to gain weight. After the video, click on the links, they're fun, find the "eat well guide" on the upper right hand corner of Sustainable Table after clicking on "info" at the end of the video, you can search for farms, restaurants, supermarkets, etc. with organic, free range, grass fed, hormone free meat products, dairy products, and eggs, along with organic vegetable farms. Moosewood in Ithaca was one of the restaurants using only this organic food and dairy products from free range hormone free cows. I don't know if I'll start eating meat again, but if I do I'll probably only use hippie hormone free meat from small farms with happy animals. I would like to only buy local dairy and egg products too, which wouldn't be that hard with like milk or eggs, but cheese would be really difficult. Now I'm gonna look at coupons for organic dairy products. Enjoy!
http://www.freerangestudios.com/index.php?option=com_portfolio&view=project&id=33&Itemid=58 |
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| 02:04pm 04/04/2008 |
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Ew, I have an orgo test next week.
My hands smell like feta because i made myself a hummus/veggie pita.
My favorite site ever is mypyramid menu planner. It helps me do my homework, and make sure I get protein sources and get enough dairy. Once you go vegan, its hard to go back. http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/planner/index.aspx
I am a polar bear.
I don't like the rain.
I like sentences.
I'm makin quesadillas tonight. Thank you mexican cheese, black beans, corn, and tomatoes for making my life wonderful.
Its really hard to consume enough orange vegetables if you don't eat carrots. Everything else is like... sweet potatoes, orange peppers and pumpkin, which are very seasonal. Go beta-carotene!
Since babies can tell who is more attractive if you put two random people in front of them and they'll look at the attractive one more, what if their mother was really ugly and the babysitter was really attractive? Would the baby look at the babysitter more?
Deep question of the day: If your moms face is ugly, does that mean your faces mom is ugly?
Today in anatomy they told us that rather than pigs hearts we're dissecting sheeps hearts next week. Thats okay because sheep are smellier and dumber than pigs.
Because of the water cycle, I'm breathing in water droplets that dinosaurs breathed, which is awesome. Because of the water cycle, I'm also breathing in water droplets that Dick Cheney breathed, which isn't so cool.
New picture: Me eating a disembodied foot. Also on facebook. I should only have lj pictures involving me eating things.
Since animals aren't exploited or inhumanely killed when people die, I've decided cannibalism is still possible if you're vegan. As long as you don't kill the person first just for the purpose of eating them. But next time I see a dead dirty hippie hobo, they're my dinner.
Stream of consciousness livejournaling is fun. The end. |
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| 02:33pm 01/02/2008 |
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For lent I think I'm going vegan. I havent been eating meat since I got back to Cornell and realized its really easy for me to not eat meat, cause I hardly do anyway at school. So for lent, I think I'll try being a vegan. It won't be too bad I don't think, considering I have a newfound love for chocolate soy milk. I'm positive I'll cave at some point, but its just fun to see how long I can go. This happened because last night the apartment was talking about lent, and I suggested giving up drinking for lent, and everyone said "NOOOO!!!" because apparently I'm not allowed. Dairy products is obviously a better choice.
Tristan is a really good name. One of my anatomy ta's is named tristan, and hes really really attractive. I don't think anyone named tristan could be ugly.
Hail is SOO cool. I think I like ice storms. |
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| 04:58pm 30/01/2008 |
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Okay, so I didn't actually almost die. But I did pass out and have people freak out around me. Passing out is really odd, its like you fell asleep without remembering you did and you wake up confused because you don't realize you weren't awake. It's like that time i fell asleep in the middle of the day at home and woke up and mom had made a pie, and I was really confused because I didn't remember her making said pie. But this didn't end in pie. Damn. So, I was giving blood for the 6th time in my life, and all seemed fine, and I filled up the bag. I did so in like 5 minutes, because I'm always fast when I give blood. I remember the guy clamping the tube from my arm to the bag and putting the bag away, so luckily I still saved lives. But when they were about to take the needle out of my arm I went unconscious. I woke up feeling really sweaty and people were holding my legs up and staring at me and I had acquired a bandage. Apparently I was only out for less than a minute, so it wasn't a huge deal. They put ice packs under me and kept my legs elevated and got me juice and such, and then when they finally let me go to the table with the snacks they wheeled me over even though I really wanted to walk because I didn't want people to stare at me. I ate lots of free cookies and I'm okay now. I got home, and walked the half hour walk from north campus to dewitt fine. I think I'm going to be afraid of giving blood for a while now though. I don't know why this happened now, I ate breakfast and lunch and I drank a liter of water beforehand. My blood pressure was lower than usual, so the lady even said I must've been healthier than last time. Maybe I should watch out, it was like 96/54, and if the diastolic is under 50 you're not allowed... I must be the opposite of the average American, I think I need to clog my arteries more or something. Okay, naptime, this time by choice. Bye! |
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| 05:35pm 08/01/2008 |
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I went running today, it was really nice. I got sick of being in the house, it's like 50 degrees outside and thought that i shouldn't waste the unseasonable warmth. I ran from my house to Tuscarora road and up the hill past the lake until the road turned. I thought I did pretty well for running on my own without Erin to push me.... It's somewhere between 2.5 and 3 miles that I went I think. I have soooo much unused energy because of the fact that i sleep like 10 to 12 hours a night because i love sleeping and i have little else to do, and then i sit on my ass all day. I'm surprised I'm not gaining weight, but I probably lost all of the muscle mass I've ever had. I like that running fills you with endorphins and happy chemicals. Even though i stress out when i'm busy, I'm definitely happier when i am, because i feel like my life actually means something. I want to see tons of people and have lots of fun before the semester starts, because i feel like I deserve to have the fun that I avoid during the semester at busy times. I miss you all at school! And those at home that I don't see a lot! |
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| 12:41am 08/01/2008 |
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I feel bad for late night television, the writers strike makes Conan and Jay waste time like crazy and do random things to fill up time. At the same time, it makes me respect writers more, because i realized that a lot of the reason those shows were funny was because of them. Not that I respect writers. They suck.
I've done less than nothing. It's really sad when you have no reason to change your clothing. How is it that I spend so much more money here and feel more bored?
Conan looks weird with a beard. Rhyming sucks when you don't mean it to happen.
I think I'm done now. I never write in my livejournal, i never did one of those new year posts. Last year was like the best and worst year ever. If you know me then you know why, I needn't tell everyone things they know. |
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| 02:09am 15/12/2007 |
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I wish my siblings would come home. Or just... someone. It's not even who I spend time with, I just feel so weird at home without anyone else around. I know I'll miss my friends from school too, because instant messenger is in no way similar to normal conversation. I never know what to say on aim, I feel so boring, it's not like in real life where you relate stories and talk about your emotions, and say random things. I don't im people if I don't have something specific to say. I watched scrubs today and it was an episode from the second season that was really good, it ended with a monologue by JD:
I don't think people are meant to by by themselves... That's why if you actually find someone you care about, it's important to let go of the little things. Even if you can't let go all the way. Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around...
The last sentence reminded me about how I feel around large groups of friends, for some reason I think I ended up the detached one. Even though they were talking about all their relationship drama, it makes sense with friends too. It's late, I have to sleep, maybe there'll be some reason to wake up. |
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| 11:13pm 08/12/2007 |
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More than anything I just want to be done with finals. I don't want to do anything anymore. I wanna read and learn things for fun and watch the discovery channel and sit on my ass and eat ice cream at home all alone. I think I'm a little neurotic. Everything feels like a responsibility, even people. It'll all be okay Wednesday. Monday, after orgo i'll start studying for my NS 115 test on Tuesday. Tuesday night after the test, I'm gonna party my mind out, and hopefully also go ot bed early. Wednesday: wake up, pay rent, sell books, buy dairy products, pack, go home, become nonexistant till january. Hope is what keeps me going. Hope, sleep, and food. Only things I need. |
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| 10:10pm 24/11/2007 |
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I hate people. It's an issue, because I really like people most of the time but people don't like each other. I just want everyone to get along all the time, but thats not possible and I can't do anything about it. All everyone does everywhere is talk about others, and not in good ways, and I feel uncomfortable all the time when people talk about each other. I know I'm not perfect, and if people are making fun of people I'll join in, but I feel bad about that stuff, and nothing makes me feel worse than mentioning someone and then people making fun of said person. I get made fun of for talking a lot about things like nutrition, and random facts, and food, and myself, and inane things constantly, but I attempt to not talk about people behind their backs. I have a lot of flaws, no less flaws than anyone else, but i would much much rather you tell me "I think you try too hard to get attention" or "I think you should shut up sometimes" or "don't act like you're better than anyone else" to my face rather than talking about it to others not to my knowledge. If it hurts everyones feelings to be talked about, why can't we all stop doing it? Why can't we talk about interesting subjects like politics, or science, or news, or good books and songs and movies? From now on, to my friends: if you start a conversation with me and berate people I'm friends with, I'll either defend that person or not talk, or leave the room to avoid conversations. If I'm being really quiet during a conversation, that might mean I really don't want to talk about that subject. Also, if anybody has some sort of problem with me that they would tell a friend but not me to my face, tell me, and then problems are more likely to be fixed. I'm sorry for everyone that had to read this and their day was less beautiful because of this. Now I'm going to eat an apple and read for classes. Goodnight! |
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