i am thankful i am out of here in less than an hour

Slllllloooooooowwwww night here. Deathly slow.


I'm obsessively and unnecessarily refreshing my gmail. I've been checking MySpace every 10 minutes. Thankfully there's someone else on Facebook which is breaking up the evening nicely, but he's making me terribly thirsty for a Grey Goose martini with gorgonzola stuffed olives and I have sworn off the bars tonight given it is the most popular bar night of the year and we're supposed to get some snow. That'd be some snow that's gonna stick, people. So when I'm finally released from my desk I will be going home to Stoli and supermarket olives. Sigh.


Today has been a most excellent day. It started bright and early with a trip to the market: butternut and delicata squash, romanesco broccoli, 2 leeks, a ton o'beets, brussels sprouts, and german butterball potatoes. It was a small but enthusiastic bunch of farmers who were helpful as usual. I then hit up my Nature's Market for the rest of my groceries and one last stop at the supermarket where I only had to buy frozen blueberries, spinach, and bread. Take that supermarket!


Though slow and boring, work has really not been so bad. I've only been blessed twice--during the holidays it tends to happen more--and I finally got the Go-Go's "Vacation" outta my head. I had my evaluation today was pleasantly surprised to hear my supervisor thinks I'm doing a swell job. I went to the Curraugh for supper where there was some sort of unusual melding of worlds--sitting at an "Irish" pub with a bunch of people from Holland who were all enthusiastically watching England and Croatia play soccer. Yeah. Weird. And since then I've been trolling the internets for entertainments.


I also just found out despite the enormous amounts of time I spend reading, I am woefully ignorant of most of this list.


Slooooooowwwww.

Tonight I drink a martini and roast a bunch of vegetables for the Thanksgiving feast tomorrow. Originally I was going to go all old school and make Green Bean Casserole, but when I saw the haul I had from the market I changed my mind. What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than preparing a dish that was grown within 20 miles of your home?