Thud: Short Stories

[leahbobet]

June 20, 2006 Progress Notes:

The Shortest Distance Between Points

Words today: 175.
Words total: 450.
Reason for stopping: This is no longer saying what I thought it was. And it's flash, so I'm really figuring out the end bit. And I sooo donwanna tonight.
Tea: Iced oolong tea.
Munchies: Enough cherries that I started feeling sick. Mmm, cherries.
Exercise: 30 minutes elliptical, 25 reps arm weights, 15 reps leg weights, 12 reps pushy arm weights. Yes, that is a technical term.
Mail: Nomail.
Other Writing-Related Work: Three crits on the workshop, answered some e-mail, slushed.
Darling du Jour: Nothing particular today.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: N/A
Mean Things: Wasted work. I'm not actually quite sure right now, but I know whatever's doing here, it's mean.
Books in progress: Tobias S. Buckell, Crystal Rain; Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist
The glamour: Spent most of the day buying groceries, which were too heavy to lug back and required me to spend a token for the streetcar.

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An aloe vera plant followed me home last night after class. I wasn't going to let it in, but it made big green spiny eyes at me and sniffled. I'm a sucker.

Also, had the first step of growing avocado plants from avocado pits demonstrated to me at my parents' house on Sunday night. I bought four avocadoes today for this purpose, and also to make guacamole and/or avocado/tomato salad, and because they were four for five bucks.

I'm not actually hungry right now, but I really really want to start the avocado plants.

*...runs off to play with avocados*

Comments

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Avocado plants?! ooooooooooh… *curious*

I have a lonely avocado in my possession. It's going onto flatbread for breakfast one day very soon. *licks lips*

But guac! Yummy yummy guac. *drool*

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Apparently what you do is remove the pit as normal, wash it off, and then stick toothpicks at compass points in the top third of the pit. This is so you can suspend it at the top of a little plastic cup (toothpicks on the cup rim).

Then you fill the cup with water up to...about halfway up the nut. And you keep it wet and put it somewhere sunny, and I'm told roots and things show up after a little while if you do this.

We are currently running the experiment. :)

[linden-tree.livejournal.com]

We have an Aloe Vera plant :) I love it - and it has the added bonus of being convenient when you burn your head on a popcorn machine.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...

...ow.

[linden-tree.livejournal.com]

thank goodness i'm not still working at that movie theater :P i'm sure i would have killed myself by now!