Food, the most important topic.

[leahbobet]

1) My steamer is whistling creepily and tunelessly at me, like a serial killer. I seriously could have sworn Eugene Tooms was hanging out in my kitchen vent, it sounded so lifelike. If I don't show up tomorrow, you'll all know why.

2) As you may or may not know, Toronto is currently in the second day of a garbage strike. I am relatively sanguine about this -- after all, Windsor's ten weeks into one, so really, two days doesn't hurt me, and the last time they did this, in 2002, I coped just fine, thank you -- but I have discovered that people tearing their hair out over this wakes up my inner smug asshole just a little. People! I say to them, in the privacy of my own head. If you were practising proper waste diversion then what to do with your garbage wouldn't be an issue for like, two weeks or more! There would be no reason to panic like idiots two days in. In fact, right now is a very good time to learn proper waste diversion practices and discover the mad joy of throwing out nothing but the plasticky stuff they wrap things in for no good reason!

See? My inner smug asshole, she is wide awake. I figure even if I have to store some stuff on the balcony -- and granting that I'm a single-writer household -- I'm good for like a month. I am feeling so inappropriately self-righteous about this you'd think I'd just read Atlas Shrugged with one eye and Fast Food Nation with the other.

(Compost on, my friends. Compost on.)

3) On a much nicer note, rejoice with me, for I have found a local organic delivery/farm share thing! No longer will I have to be sadly, mewlingly jealous of rushthatspeaks's farm share box posts, and this will probably keep me off the street out of the work cafeteria too, which can only be good. And there's blueberries.

Going to sign up tomorrow. Yay!

Comments

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

I am feeling so inappropriately self-righteous about this you'd think I'd just read Atlas Shrugged with one eye and Fast Food Nation with the other.

*can't breathe for giggling*

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It's true! Those are canonically the two books that have a Smug Asshole half-life of at least three months!

We proved it with science and everything! :D

[kats-kradle.livejournal.com]

Once I get my worms and can start my compost bin I'm going to feel a lot better. But first I must find the worms.

...is it really, really bad that I didn't even realize there was a trash strike till I read your entry? I've been a tad distracted but it still seems like a pretty big thing to miss.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It's been splattered all over the news, but if one is not a news-reader, I expect it was pretty easy to miss.

I had a line on worms at one point. I can dig it out of the bookmarks if you'd like...

[kats-kradle.livejournal.com]

I try to read the news regularly, and watch it, but the past week has been kind of crazy and I've been enjoying tv-radio free time before the impending due date (Sweet jesus where is my time? I have no time!).

That would be great, I'm going to go to a few places that I know sell worms but they're pretty erratic with their supply. I even looked around pavement after the rains but the place where my apartment is is apparently built on the best drained soil ever.

[mekkavandexter.livejournal.com]

that's the 3rd x-file reference today.

weird.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*spooky whistling*

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

This post, it has given me joy. And reading out loud to Will.

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

On a much nicer note, rejoice with me, for I have found a local organic delivery/farm share thing!

*rejoices witchoo*

We just joined a CSA this year. We have to, like, go GET the stuff, but oh man is it fun. And our compost wormies ship on Monday. See, your inner smug asshole sounds like my Apocalypse Preparedness (tm). I'm getting all antsy wanting to tear up the front yard and put in fruit trees, and a proper veggie garden, and an apiary, and and and ..

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Apiary! *jealous*

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Oh, the 2002 garbage strike. That was happening when we moved there, along with a heat wave. It made our first week or so in Toronto quite memorable. *g*

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee -- yes. And of course it just got properly hot this week.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Ooh. We have a similar deposit program with liquor bottles, run through the LCBO, but not for regular drink bottles. I don't know why nobody's extended it.

And yes, it was when I 1) started seperating out the paper waste hardcore and 2) realized used tissues were compostable that everything came together so nicely. *g*

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

There is something deliciously smug about knowing you really only *need* garbage pickup once a month, isn't there? Our only problem, should such a thing occur, would be the cat litter, and TECHNICALLY that's compostable, so in an emergency.....

More importantly: congrats on finding a farm share!! How very exciting! Will you share piccies with us when your first box arrives? :)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I am superexcited, yes! And there will indeed be pictures. I have a set of garden pictures I really need to stick up here too...

[(Anonymous)]

I agree very much about the waste diversion and the feeling smug and all that... however, I heard that there is still garbage service for multi-unit dwellings (ie apartment buildings)... so I think we might be ok anyway? Not that I put out very much garbage, but yeah. Another thing to be kinda smug about >_>

[strayfish.livejournal.com]

Ack, that was me x_x Sorry, forgot I wasn't logged in.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on whether it's a private contractor -- but most of the multi-unit stuff is? My garbage day is Thursday, so I'm just waiting to see if anyone shows up for it.

[strayfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, on CBC they said that multi-unit places were not done by the city but by a private contractor. However, it was during an interview so I'm unsure how accurate the statement was (plus I can be groggy in the morning listeing to CBC...)

So... here's hoping. I'm happy to put my trash and recycling (mostly recycling) aside for now if it turns out to not be the case, and even though my apartment doesn't compost, I freeze my compostable stuff and bring it to my mom's when I can, so I will just store it in the freezer for now... It's really just kitty litter that gets thrown out often, so unless someone puts a sign on the chute, I'm probably still going to attempt to get rid of it ^^;

[kats-kradle.livejournal.com]

That would explain the maintnence guy in our place hanging around the back stairs near our dumpsters to beat off the hoards of cars coming trying to dump their trash in our dumpsters.

We're RIGHT over the dumpsters so the 2 a.m. visits from people are really damn annoying.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's just all class, people.

[kats-kradle.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow is trash pick up day for residences in our area and people normally have five or six bags next to their garbage bin. I'm guessing that tonight is going to be one long goddamn night.

I've only been here for two months and I wish they'd put a gate or something near the dumpsters. Or, you know, move them across the parking lot. But then people here would have to walk or something and that's just ridiculous.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Yay farm share! They are a really wonderful thing.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I am gleeing out over it, half because it'll be like Iron Chef.

"Here are your materials! Make this into a meal!"

[sarcasm-hime.livejournal.com]

I don't compost mostly because I don't know what I'd do with it. Our balcony gets ZERO sun.

My building still gets pickup (there was a list somewhere I found).

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I really do wish there were like...community composters? That'd be neat. I bet people would use them.

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

What really pisses me off -- and David Miller mentioned this and of course got lambasted -- is how immediately people have used it as an excuse for throwing their trash absolutely everywhere. Gods forbid they should take some responsiblity for their own refuse.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really. Tantrum, much?