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Monthly check-in
Jan. 31st, 2008 09:49 pmCripes, it's the end of January and I still hadn't even started on the Janovel. Ugh. Not even sure if I can get it restarted with life being what it is.
As for the bad news, work is still waffling whether to rehire me. True, they made an offer, but it's actually not set in stone. It really stings to know you're practically disposable. As if all that talk about training and learning employees for a lifetime was just another business gimmick. Meanwhile, a friend's been trying to find me another company in California that'll be interested, so I'm trying my hardest not to be too bitter. *sigh* If things don't look up, I'll probably head out and do what all in-crisis-twenty-somethings do: backpack around Southeast Asia. Then come Autumn, I'll see what my choices are.
When life hands you lemons, make lemonades right?
Speaking of lemons,![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vegancooking has a recipe for lemon bars here. Haven't tried it yet, but I think it's perfect for my recent vegan diet. It's not a full time thing, two meals out of a week's worth will usually be seafood or meat. But I kinda like it, this eating fresh veggies and avoiding things that'll set off my allergies. I have noticed a lot of vegans tie their food choice to ethical living. That's cool, but I'm uneasy some people denigrate others who do consume meat products. Name-calling and cyber-bullying isn't going to help your case.
Aside from being confronted occasionally with the omni-haters postings, it's been great learning about legumes and gluten and textured vegetable protein. I've bought a bunch of new things to experiment with :D The creativity of vegan food is astounding - burgers made out tofu or chickpeas, mock meat that kinda looks like duck, a million ways to prepare legumes.
Also: a vegan diet makes you fart a lot. Seriously.
As for the bad news, work is still waffling whether to rehire me. True, they made an offer, but it's actually not set in stone. It really stings to know you're practically disposable. As if all that talk about training and learning employees for a lifetime was just another business gimmick. Meanwhile, a friend's been trying to find me another company in California that'll be interested, so I'm trying my hardest not to be too bitter. *sigh* If things don't look up, I'll probably head out and do what all in-crisis-twenty-somethings do: backpack around Southeast Asia. Then come Autumn, I'll see what my choices are.
When life hands you lemons, make lemonades right?
Speaking of lemons,
vegancooking has a recipe for lemon bars here. Haven't tried it yet, but I think it's perfect for my recent vegan diet. It's not a full time thing, two meals out of a week's worth will usually be seafood or meat. But I kinda like it, this eating fresh veggies and avoiding things that'll set off my allergies. I have noticed a lot of vegans tie their food choice to ethical living. That's cool, but I'm uneasy some people denigrate others who do consume meat products. Name-calling and cyber-bullying isn't going to help your case.Aside from being confronted occasionally with the omni-haters postings, it's been great learning about legumes and gluten and textured vegetable protein. I've bought a bunch of new things to experiment with :D The creativity of vegan food is astounding - burgers made out tofu or chickpeas, mock meat that kinda looks like duck, a million ways to prepare legumes.
Also: a vegan diet makes you fart a lot. Seriously.
