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Monday November 16, 2009 "All this would have been enough to recognize the craft as a pirate-—but it displayed the universal device of pirates as well, that parody of the Yin-Yang: all Yang, declaring allegiance to imbalance. In a yellow circle, two round black dots stared like unblinking demonic eyes; beneath, a black semicircle leered with empty, ravenous bonhomie."
"Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum" Benjamin Rosenbaum, _The Ant King and Other Stories_ Published: 2008 http://www.feedbooks.com
***To Pillsbury House for their Harvest Festival. (Basically, an early Thanksgiving dinner.)
In the lobby was a Health Fair; a conventional medicine/alternate healing hybrid. I learned that I was at high risk for heart problems unless I lost about 20 pounds.
Ate the dinner. Pillsbury House staff and volunteers gave better service than many restaurant workers provide.
After which I got a back and shoulders massage.
There was also an arts fair in the lobby, with live music.
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Saturday October 31, 2009 Star Tribune article appropriate for Halloween: A psychologist had been encouraging a patient's delusions.
She was barred from accepting new patients, and given various other restrictions. Seems to me she should have been barred from having ANY patients, until she'd successfully undergone treatment herself.
***Mnstf Halloween Party at Sharon Kahn's and Richard Tatge's. Good party.
One attendee thought I might be a distant relative of hers. Same ethnicity, ancestors from Belarus (though her family migrated to Samarkand, and mine to near Kiev before coming to the US), I looked like some of her relatives....
***After leaving the meeting/party, I noticed a nearby storefront. One tattoo parlor was being replaced by another, with the modest name of Tattoo Genius.
Besides adding tattoos, Tattoo Genius will remove them. Reminds me of the John Collier story "The Chaser." (That's the one in which a love potion is extraodinarily cheap.)
In the window was a bottle of tattoo aftercare lotion. I hadn't known there were such products, but it makes sense.
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- I just finished reading My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme, and I loved it. Who doesn't love Julia? I grew up watching her on PBS, and to this day my mother does a terrific imitation of her dropping the turkey, picking it up, and continuing to cook it. She was a fascinating woman and oh my, what a life she led.
I also fell in love with her husband, Paul -- he reminded me a lot of my husband Webster, though Paul was in better health. The book is full of pictures that Paul took, and a few of them both; here is my favorite:
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- Word count: 286. Plus I printed out what I have (17 pages) and am proofreading, and trying to figure out what's a story and what isn't. Poor Teyla.
- Stop being a wuss: How to make pie crusts the easy way. HAHAHAHA! Read the comments, too. I actually make a very good pie crust, and my recipe is not much different from this, though I don't use as much butter. Now I'm hungry for pie.
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Wednesday October 28, 2009 Mail: Guide to health insurance plans for next year. My current plan will go up by -- urk! A bit over forty percent.
Time to switch to a lower-cost HealthPartners Plan.
***Wedge Coop annual meeting, at Co-Op Partners Warehouse in St. Paul (owned by the Wedge.)
[Twin Cities food coops were started in the 1970s by hippie anarchists, taken over for a while by Marxists, and ended up dominated by organic-food enthusiasts. This probably makes them different from older food coops in the US, and definitely makes them different from British food coops.]
Two school buses transported people from the Wedge store to the warehouse.
First, food. Main course: choice of beef lasagna (organic beef, of course), three cheese lasagna for vegetarians, polenta for vegans and those who needed gluten-free food. Gluten-free has been getting more emphasis in organically correct circles lately. (Low salt has not, to my annoyance.)
As usual, there wasn't a quorum. Required: five percent of members, which would be about 700 people. There were 299 attendees; up from 94 last year and probably the largest turnout ever, but not enough. So the minutes of last year's meeting couldn't be approved, and the only business which could be conducted was announcing the voting results.
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Doctor Who: made me cry.
Status: soooo sleepy
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