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May. 27th, 2009 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI had a great rest of last weekend. On Monday, I helped ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
farm_cat with some planting in her field. She has four varieties of potato, including one from India that I can't remember the name of. There is a local grower who is recruiting people to grow each variety of potato that a seed-saver organization has examples of, which comes to over five-hundred of them. That includes some that only a handful of people world-wide are growing. That appeals to my sense of conservationism.
Sunday was food and socializing with my grandparents and other extended family at the house that an aunt and uncle share with my grandparents (they built an addition for them when grandma and grandpa sold their old house). That was a good time too. I love my extended family. At one point in the evening, one of my two aunts said, in response to something about healthcare policy (and I paraphrase), "Ok, can we all complain about the Republicans now?" And everyone did. *grins* There was also much criticizing of that awful No Child Left Behind act, by my dad (the current teacher) and my grandmother (the retired teacher).
Today, I emailed the four or five people who I was going to be interviewing with tomorrow to let them know that I'm not interested in the position. It was supposedly going to not quite double my current salary, but I spent most of the past weekend carefully considering and angsting over it. I thought about how much I drive now, how I want to spend my time, what it was like for my mom to commute to Skokie and back from Kenosha for years (hellish), and where I want to be geographically. In the end, it's just too far a drive. It's an extra half hour to an hour one way over my current commute, I'm sure, and that's just not sustainable. I'm not willing to sell that much of myself for more money.
It was the right decision, and I feel good about it.
I made it to the gym yesterday and did a bit more intense workout than I'm used to by upping the level on the elliptical by one for most of the half hour I was on it. I still find myself looking forward to going up there and making motions that have no analog in the natural world for half an hour an evening. I feel good when I'm done.
I was going to write about my friend in the garage too, but the ether ate some of that post, and it may deserve its own anyway.
And finally, I'm starting to get tired of turkey and cheese open-face sandwiches for lunch. Can any of you think of anything that's high in protein and preparable without a stove that I might have for lunches here, and in Chicago once I start working there a couple days a week?
farm_cat with some planting in her field. She has four varieties of potato, including one from India that I can't remember the name of. There is a local grower who is recruiting people to grow each variety of potato that a seed-saver organization has examples of, which comes to over five-hundred of them. That includes some that only a handful of people world-wide are growing. That appeals to my sense of conservationism.Sunday was food and socializing with my grandparents and other extended family at the house that an aunt and uncle share with my grandparents (they built an addition for them when grandma and grandpa sold their old house). That was a good time too. I love my extended family. At one point in the evening, one of my two aunts said, in response to something about healthcare policy (and I paraphrase), "Ok, can we all complain about the Republicans now?" And everyone did. *grins* There was also much criticizing of that awful No Child Left Behind act, by my dad (the current teacher) and my grandmother (the retired teacher).
Today, I emailed the four or five people who I was going to be interviewing with tomorrow to let them know that I'm not interested in the position. It was supposedly going to not quite double my current salary, but I spent most of the past weekend carefully considering and angsting over it. I thought about how much I drive now, how I want to spend my time, what it was like for my mom to commute to Skokie and back from Kenosha for years (hellish), and where I want to be geographically. In the end, it's just too far a drive. It's an extra half hour to an hour one way over my current commute, I'm sure, and that's just not sustainable. I'm not willing to sell that much of myself for more money.
It was the right decision, and I feel good about it.
I made it to the gym yesterday and did a bit more intense workout than I'm used to by upping the level on the elliptical by one for most of the half hour I was on it. I still find myself looking forward to going up there and making motions that have no analog in the natural world for half an hour an evening. I feel good when I'm done.
I was going to write about my friend in the garage too, but the ether ate some of that post, and it may deserve its own anyway.
And finally, I'm starting to get tired of turkey and cheese open-face sandwiches for lunch. Can any of you think of anything that's high in protein and preparable without a stove that I might have for lunches here, and in Chicago once I start working there a couple days a week?
