Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

Unpleasant Things:
* attempting to transport a large rubbermaid storage tub on an express bus at rush hour
* being asked how many hours I can work this weekend
* a news report on a recent rash of robberies--in a neighborhood only a couple of blocks away
* thinking about the shambles of a story (not Vicesteed) that I'll have to hack, slash, and stitch back together
* fifty boxes of scanning coming into the office
* the high cost of prescription medication that isn't covered by my health insurance
* Christmas decorations going up before Thanksgiving
* America becoming a second- or third-rate economy
* It being too cold to do pseudo-chin-ups on bus shelters (metal + bare fingers = bad)

Pleasant Things:
* sugar cookie-scented candle
* happiness about new ghostly short story
* audiobooks
* bacon
* being wished a creative good morning by the female bus driver who has a voice made for radio
* orange-gold nail polish
* not having to plan Thanksgiving
* shopping lists
* parmesan cheese
* practicing Tae Soo Do forms and shoulder rolls on the lawn outside of work during my breaks--and seeing my breath hang in the air
* Faith and the Muse (music group)

Amusing Things:
* Busses with "Kneeling Bus" stickers on them
* The degree to which a co-worker sings out-of-tune--bad enough that I can notice it. Note: only amusing for short intervals
* Esquire temp service
* misreading "Gentle Transitions" as "Gentle Transvestites"
* an Arby's employee who appeared to be chugging special sauce straight from the bottle
* seeing TSD people and not having them recognize me (this time)
* seeing only the top half of people in a second-story gym. Of particular note was the flailing arm that kept reaching up to window height as if it belonged to a drowning person trying to signal for help.
* high-caste female brewers in ancient Peru