no news is no news

No word from the temp agency yet, although the woman who deals with me is on vacation until Monday, so maybe I won't hear until then. (Sort of makes me wish I were going to Baitcon, just so I wouldn't be here twitching about it all weekend. On the other hand, if I were going to Baitcon, I wouldn't get the futon pad this weekend.) In any case, I'm taking my cell phone everywhere with me, mostly because it's the only phone I've got.

It was very nice to wake up in my bed, instead of on top of it, this morning. Half the time I end up getting under the covers in the middle of the night anyway, but I started out that way last night for the first time in a while. The weather is tame enough today that I think I'll walk to the Brookline farmers' market and take the bus back, instead of taking the bus in both directions. I missed out on the thunderstorms, but at least the humidity broke and the temperature is back to being sane. Yesterday's weather map was interesting; it looked like somebody had tried to divide the country diagonally in half, southwest to northeast. Most fronts aren't that straight.

I find it fairly something-or-other that I had to download the PDF of the user's manual for my new phone in order to find out what it does when somebody leaves me voice mail. It doesn't say anything about that in the guide that actually came with the phone. Would it not make sense to include that information in the "guide to activating and using your phone"? (Then again, what do I know?)

Oh, by the way, if anybody reading this sent me e-mail at about 3:30 on Monday and didn't get an answer to it, it's because the only thing that came through was the date. No headers, no content, just the date. Weirdness.

Anybody know somebody who needs a French language tutor?

general observations about food

I'm discovering that now that I can get good (and varied) food reliably, I'm going slightly insane with it. I went to the Brookline farmers' market and Trader Joe's (and the walk up to Brookline was quite nice, actually) and came home with more food than I intended to, but it's all good stuff. I didn't buy anything chocolate, which is a major departure from the usual. I admit that's mostly due to the price of almonds lately; I think the almond crop somewhere must have been a disaster. I'm not buying a pound of chocolate-covered almonds for almost $7, thank you. A lot of what I bought at Trader Joe's was indulgences, but at least it's not the kind of indulgences I have to walk five miles to balance out. I think tonight calls for pasta salad with chicken sausage and tomatoes and basil in it.

It's interesting what some people consider staple food, and other people don't. I have no flour and no rice in the house, and I'd buy rice before I bought flour. I also have no honey and no peanut butter. I don't miss them because I don't like peanut butter very much (unless it's got chocolate around it) and the only thing I use honey for is in yogurt milkshakes, which I haven't made lately. Living by myself in Ohio definitely changed the way I eat; I wonder how living by myself in Boston will change it?