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

[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.