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I think I _greatly dislike_ the temp at work. The one I told my boss to not hire, because a friend was applying for the same job. My friend would've been much better. I'll get into it some other time.

For now, though, I joined this community supported agriculture thing where you pay a certain amount each season (or each month) and they give you a "share" of vegetables, locally grown. I also signed up for the goat cheese thing every other week. This week, my share was: 3 large tomatoes, 3 large green chiles, 5 red potatoes, one almost-ridiculously large zucchini, 2 onions (one red, one white), a medium-sized watermelon, and 7 tomatillos.

I have no idea what the fuck to do with tomatillos; so I go to the "New Vegetarian Epicure" cookbook that someone gave me (maybe as a hint to eat less dead stuff?) and looked up "tomatillos". Lo and behold, there's a recipe for a tomatillo squash soup. I had to make a few mods to the recipe, naturally (what the fuck is a Kabocha squash?-plus, being of Sicilian descent, I'm more inclined to go for zucchini anyways), but it turned out GREAT. I'm kind of amazed. So, my conclusion: the farm is slightly more expensive than the grocery store, and you don't get to choose what you get each week, but it forces you to start cooking things you wouldn't otherwise, and using new ingredients.

Now, what to do with the oat "groats" and wheat germ? Wheat germ was given by demand, they used to give out flour. Who'd have thought that I'd sign up for a community farm with a bunch of hippies? (cue rimshot)