Bread

Finally doing the things I've dreamed of doing on my "vacation."

I'm baking a quick beer bread right now. Yum. And all the better since it is a recipe adapted on the fly to the ingredients I have on hand, and it is going to be sooo delicious!

I'm tempted to try to get my own sour dough starter going, though I won't have a ton of time to work on it and use it before I have to go. Maybe I can pass it on to a friend along with my tomato plants and other projects I can't finish?

Obama

...shook my hand last night!!!

It was very exciting. I am so impressed by him, and seeing him talk in person only confirmed all the good vibes I have from him.

I hope he makes it.

Less aimless

So after head shrinking, I got a little less aimless and went to the gym and to dinner with friends. The dinner with friends part was particularly nice. I have great friends! Also nice (and this sounds horrible) to go out without NM. I like being a part of a couple, and we actually had a surprisingly nice dinner with HR last night, but it is somehow more comfortable to be without him.

I think I might bake some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I bought organic chocolate chips the other day in a fit of crazy inspiration.

Aimless

I think that today is the first day that the full force of my unemployment is hitting me. Delicious but also aimless. What to do?

There are plenty of things to do, but none quite pressing enough to actually do. It is a gorgeous day out--I should go do something random and fun, but....

Aussie movie #7

Lantana--loneliness and isolation. The thin veneer of civilization with the Bush ever present danger. Hopelessly unsophisticated (the sophisticated couple was half American and ultimately the most broken of the four). Was surprised to learn that Anthony LaPaglia is an Aussie.