Kevin's Watch

Jaz- Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is one of my favourites! And I can imagine it'll sound amazing with a female vocalist!

I'm so happy for you Jaz, that rocks. To all us commuters, yeah it sucks ass. I give eleven hours of my life to take home pay for seven. I have been sort of skimming looking for a new job but I think I just need to go put my resume in every retail store manager's hands for every corporate outlet in a five mile radius. Surely someone will pick me up.

Cambo, I can only assume from the emoticon that you were being sarcastic so maybe I can try to clarify. Sometimes when things are a little rough in my life or I am stressed out or trying to figure through major decisions I just need to be left alone so that I can process things. Mostly I am a very gregarious person with high levels of social interaction. When I go into my introspective mode it's usually so different that people overreact. They know something is wrong and so they start browbeating me to talk about it etc. etc. However, at that time when I go introspective, it's because that is the best way for me to deal with any issues at hand so I am NOT READY or willing to talk about it so barraging me with, are you ok's and I want to help, just talk to me only serves to make me want to become alienated from that person so I can have the peace and quiet I need to work through whatever it is I am working through. When I go introspective it's because I am working out something INSIDE me which usually has nothing to do with my external people. If I have conflict with my external people I usually address it in the moment or when appropriate. Does that help you understand any better?

Some tax benefits for those who use public transportation, if they can get their company to recognize them:
www.nctr.usf.edu/programs/clearinghouse ... ebenefits/

I told my sister about that, as she has just started a public transit commute to work.

works sucks i know - shorthanded today and tomorrow. but then again i am scheduled short. the other half of the week gets two sgt's, i am on my own.

worked 9 months at last unit with female c/o an dno one else. ended up doing all strip searches and showers myself. did not get any extra time off that entire set of months.

have story for you guys mapped out - so that is good. had salmon for dinner - that is even better.

Salmon for dinner is good. I had a bologna sandwich.

Damelon wrote:Salmon for dinner is good. I had a bologna sandwich.

well had i known, i would have cooked some for you too.

Well, if we're going to discuss WFD here instead of in the WFD thread... *glare*

Today I talked Beorn through making Jewish Penicillin from roasted carcass. He did a fine job. Knowing how to make a good base soup from scraps is a skill I foresee lasting him a lifetime.

menolly - i am sorry and will find something to post in the galley.

Silly man. I'm joking.
...but posts in The Galley are good.

What the heck...

Dinner tonight was pan-fried creole catfish, accompanied by spanish rice (olive oil, garlic, shallot, cumin and chili powder, with petite peas added in the last few minutes of cooking). Margarita on the rocks alongside.

Bloody freezing.

--A

it is bloody hot here. work is unbearable. and the rain we did get has driven th ehumidity through th eroof.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Cambo, I can only assume from the emoticon that you were being sarcastic so maybe I can try to clarify. Sometimes when things are a little rough in my life or I am stressed out or trying to figure through major decisions I just need to be left alone so that I can process things. Mostly I am a very gregarious person with high levels of social interaction. When I go into my introspective mode it's usually so different that people overreact. They know something is wrong and so they start browbeating me to talk about it etc. etc. However, at that time when I go introspective, it's because that is the best way for me to deal with any issues at hand so I am NOT READY or willing to talk about it so barraging me with, are you ok's and I want to help, just talk to me only serves to make me want to become alienated from that person so I can have the peace and quiet I need to work through whatever it is I am working through. When I go introspective it's because I am working out something INSIDE me which usually has nothing to do with my external people. If I have conflict with my external people I usually address it in the moment or when appropriate. Does that help you understand any better?

I wasn't being sarcastic at all. I genuinely meant that I understand this part of you very well. The rolling eyes were directed towards the "silly guys." (and we can be very silly indeed.) I truly did idenitfy with what you described, and was truly feeling exasperated at the guys who couldn't understand it, and who wanted to make it all about them. If you would like to see how I would identify with what you wrote, check out my posts in the Depression thread, or my What Has Gone Before thread.

For future reference, if I am ever sarcastic towards you I will make it much clearer and much more lighthearted. I respect you far too much to be saracstic towards you in regards to a topic in which you have been so honest and vulnerable. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I've had One Love, by Bob Marley, stuck in my head since hearing the warm up band play it the other night at the Jimmy Buffett concert. What I should be listening to some Peter Gabriel in order to get in the swing of things for Wednesday.

Getting close to finishing Memories of Ice too. Reading that, I think, is my plan for the evening.

Odd day today, in some ways. Gorgeous day, fun things. (read and acted out scenes from a crazy Roald Dahl book w/ my kid)

Then finding myself stuck, slightly depressed, falling back into passivity, shrinking back in little ways repeatedly. Meh. And yet still lots of good stuff. So I guess I'm kinda confused..

Meh. Tired. Woke up with a headache. Have to get a new computer. Looking forward to the upgrade. Not so much to the price.

--A

short one c/o at work today. had toasted cheese sandwiches, cake and roasted fresh squash.

the idiot i/m's did not like the squash. no idea why. used butter, brown sugar and a touch of chili powder. my cooks thought it was great. my last unit? they loved it. kind of bummed about it. even though they are i/m's i still try to do the best food with the limited supplies we get. (it is a strange thing, as you all know how i feel about criminals.)

found out, that as of right now i will be a c/o short on the 4th of july.

That squash sounds good, Sarge. Have you ever considered starting a Big House Cuisine thread in the Galley to showcase some of your creations? It would be a hoot...and I for one would probably pinch an idea here and there for my own cooking

Criminals or not, the inmates are lucky to get food that someone thought out, rather than whatever slop might carelessly be provided by someone else. Don't be too bummed. Never let the critics overly influence your art...

As for the toasted cheese sandwiches (marginally NSFW link), of course the inmates went for those; what did you expect from them?

sd : i think i will start a big house thread - excellent idea. and the i/m's do have the love of grilled cheese. it consumes their waking moments trying to find the right on ewhil ebeing locked up.

thanks for the encouragement.

Batty and Shara_Lunison are visiting, so we have a full house this week in my one-bedroom apartment.

Spent last night knitting. I didn't mean to do it...I was gonna do just a few rows...but I'm making a jacket (it should look like a blazer when it's done, the gods willing) and I wanted to see how much I would get out of a single ball of this yarn. I would like to make the jacket slightly longer than the directions call for but I'm starting with a little less yarn than the pattern supposedly requires. The ball of yarn kept going and going, so I kept knitting and knitting.... The good news is that I should definitely have enough to make the jacket longer. (They always seem to tell you to buy way more yarn than you need. I think it's a conspiracy between the pattern makers and the yarn shops...)