And back to New York it is! I'm still on an epic road trip though, having trekked through the Canadian Rockies and paddled through the Minnesota Boundary Waters. Canada was refreshing; not only do they have their health care down, but they have progressive sales tax rebates; if you don't earn much, you get a check each month giving back for the sales tax you...
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Summer! Bike rides and river swims, U-pick farms, and the restaurant courtyard where I work constantly full of foamy beer pitchers and the drinkers of them.
In other news, nothing has settled down. I'm applying to grad schools across the country and beyond, and unsure of where to live in the meantime. Perhaps back to New York, like a yo-yo. The boy may follow or...
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In other news, nothing has settled down. I'm applying to grad schools across the country and beyond, and unsure of where to live in the meantime. Perhaps back to New York, like a yo-yo. The boy may follow or...
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pyro530:
Well good luck with school and the living situation.
crispy:
BIRTHDAY!!
Allright, new drinks made up, new drink pictures uploaded, summer is here!
null8th Avenue Rose
1 shot rose petal infused gin
3 lime slices
2 dashes angustura bitters
1 tsp powdered sugar
club soda
Muddle limes and sugar in a mixing glass. Add gin and bitters, shake with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Top with a splash of club soda, and garnish with...
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null8th Avenue Rose
1 shot rose petal infused gin
3 lime slices
2 dashes angustura bitters
1 tsp powdered sugar
club soda
Muddle limes and sugar in a mixing glass. Add gin and bitters, shake with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Top with a splash of club soda, and garnish with...
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heymcfly:
I can honestly say I have never looked at a rose and thought, "You know what would go good with this rose? Some gin." Inventive.
hedy:
sounds yummy. i love rose flavored baked goods, so it would be yummy in a drink.
Summer has blasted through and the roses were going gangbusters before I picked them for a rose-infused gin. Roses work perfectly with gin's floral, herbal notes... and with some muddled limes, shaken with ice and sugar, and topped off with club soda and a single rose petal... it's the taste of summer in Oregon. Or the taste of My summer in Oregon, I hope. I've...
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kowtow:
I am glad to hear that things worked out for you. It is refreshing to hear.
takfuji:
The good news is welcome.
No Tolstoy quotes or philosophies on life for now. It is 3:18 AM, a drizzly damp Oregon night, with Animal Collective's ethereal and strangely soothing Merriweather Post Pavilion on in an attempt to find sleep.
But sleep won't be here for a while yet.
Sometimes I wonder if it's just me... does anyone else know that feeling of being led on, no-merely tolerated, and then...
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But sleep won't be here for a while yet.
Sometimes I wonder if it's just me... does anyone else know that feeling of being led on, no-merely tolerated, and then...
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abracadabra4:
OK, I asked too soon, it has updated now. Very cute and awesomely seductive eyes.
expo:
Thanks for adding me pretty lady
And I'm off! Or nearly. Just as I have fully reconciled myself with New York, I find that I am not too cynical after all to follow love to, well, bleaker parts of this earth. I'm sorry Oregon; you are not bleak, just boring. Beautiful though, easy, quiet, clean, and temporary.
What I am desperately trying to figure out is how temporary this love is....
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What I am desperately trying to figure out is how temporary this love is....
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niobe:
Happy Earth Day!
tita:
How are you doing? I hope it's all working out for you...
I just moved across the country>and while it wasn't solely for love, I'm hoping it'll end up that way
I just moved across the country>and while it wasn't solely for love, I'm hoping it'll end up that way
I'm surprised they haven't turned me into one of those "Tallisker is no longer active on the site" pages. It will happen someday, but apparently that day has not yet come.
I've been sticking with the political involvement, and picking up babysitting hours on the side. Fall has crumpled into winter, which brought fluffy snow by 2 AM last night that has turned into the...
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I've been sticking with the political involvement, and picking up babysitting hours on the side. Fall has crumpled into winter, which brought fluffy snow by 2 AM last night that has turned into the...
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furiaa:
i am probably going to ny in september...
hunter:
Telepathe is totally rad. You should come hang with me and Calamity sometime, I think we'd have fun exploring the city together. PS, nice bottom.
It's been a long time, but a busy time, full of illicit exclusive government affairs. Not the romantic kind of course, but the work-kind, the office 9-5 (which never means 9-5), the press conferences, the hearings at City Hall and interviews with local politicians. My own role in all this is mild and translucent; the girl scribbling in the corner whose words will be printed...
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crispy:
*poke*
chachachie1:
alive?
New York is worthy of my love after all. I wander it's streets from Fort Washington to Morningside Heights, from Fort Green to Redhook, in long, unemployed rambles, mentally mapping the smells and sounds that assail me. Shaved ice stands line Broadway for at least 100 blocks, featuring syrupy tamarind that pools in the bottom of the paper cup. The Sycamores are bigger in Boerum...
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chachachie1:
welcome to our marvelous city
crispy:
Oh, don't get me wrong ... I definitely am grateful for both the job and the pay, but it's not at all what I want to be doing.
I'm not sure if you've been reading my newsletter, but basically I'm doing construction work in lieu of the I.T. crap that I'm "supposed" to be doing (but the market is crap because the economy is crap). I enjoy the work, but I never really know what (if anything) I'll be doing from day-to-day, and I'm not sure what the upcoming change of season is going to mean in terms of available work.
So, yeah ... definitely glad to be working (and getting paid!), but I'd rather it was something more regular in terms of hours and more in line with where my "expertise" lies. Know what I mean?
Anyhoo ... back to you.
What are you doing ... working in an internship or apprenticeship or something?
I'm not sure if you've been reading my newsletter, but basically I'm doing construction work in lieu of the I.T. crap that I'm "supposed" to be doing (but the market is crap because the economy is crap). I enjoy the work, but I never really know what (if anything) I'll be doing from day-to-day, and I'm not sure what the upcoming change of season is going to mean in terms of available work.
So, yeah ... definitely glad to be working (and getting paid!), but I'd rather it was something more regular in terms of hours and more in line with where my "expertise" lies. Know what I mean?
Anyhoo ... back to you.
What are you doing ... working in an internship or apprenticeship or something?
Thanks to all of you who've stuck around despite my disappearances! I've just returned from the long awaited Danube adventure with my mother, and amazingly, both of us are still alive. I suppose we understand each other better than ever, though that's not always the key to getting along. A large component is knowing when you don't need to understand, and just dropping things. By...
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hk85:
welcome back!
saraj:
Wow, that sounds like an awesome experience!! Cool pic.
Ahh, it's been months now, hasn't it? I'm home, in The City, at last. But I miss Oregon terribly, and find things greatly changed here. It's not MY city anymore. I'm not sure what to make of it, or me, or my place in it. I need a a job, but am reluctant to return to the old waitressing gigs. More meaningful work is harder...
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crispy:
*tackle*
crispy:
Welcome back!
Hah! DONE! Well one final left, but I did turn in my 108 page thesis for binding yesterday, only 25.5 hours late. I defended a week ago, in front of my panel and a room full of friends, and it was an amazingly enjoyable experience. It was FUN! Weird. But I know the stuff so goddamn well, and my slides were lovely and I just...
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crispy:
I knew you'd kick its ass!
Nothing wrong with bragging when you can back it up.
Nothing wrong with bragging when you can back it up.
crispy:
*poke*
But, the only book I cannot read without finishing in one sitting is the Bell Jar.
I have an unhealthy obsession with Plath.
I'm moving to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn