Brain dump

• 19:41 27 hour fast broken. I've attoned. #

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• 09:26 Finally turned around to see the sunrise this morning- multiple times. It was beautiful. #
• 13:40 @paul_henman Is your internet problem similar to mine? My connection was up all yesterday evening. #
• 14:28 Hot guy in an OPP (ontario provincial police) uniform. #
• 17:18 @EstherK Drink lots of water while you still can. Have an easy fast. #
• 17:59 Almost hit with a beer bottle thrown out of a window or off a roof onto the alley. #

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• 09:15 having trouble with verbal articulation today. Wondering if there's a neurological reason or if it's a sign that my brain is low on EFAs. #
• 09:15 @somecanuckchick Today it was 3 degrees when I left home. High of 14 today. Highs of 20 Th-Sat. #
• 13:34 @newfriend Do I know you? #
• 13:36 Back from yoga. Preferred today's hatha to yesterday's ashtanga, as expected. Lots of relaxing, twists and bends, little downward dog. #
• 18:02 wondering where the day went. 3x this morning I was surprised that it wasn't 9am yet, now I'm surprised that it's already 6pm. #
• 18:12 watching @ ambermacarthur live at live.twit.tv/. She's adorable. Why can't I be that adorable? #
• 22:51 Bed time, almost an hour after my body started yelling at me to go to sleep. #

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• 06:04 Internet still not working on the desktop. It was down when I went to bed. I need a proper diagnosis. The network is ok b/c laptop is ok. #
• 06:13 Oh, and my Nuit Blanche photos are on the desktop. #
• 07:02 Doing the news clips while watching Cheers. Shhh. #
• 09:02 @squideye 30 is easy. Like other things, the anticipation is worse than reality. #
• 09:41 @squideye You're allowed to waive it but you won't stop aging. You already were mature and responsible. #
• 11:32 wondering who made Beverley Hills Chihuahua #1 at the box office this weekend. Lots of parents suffering through? #
• 11:40 Heading out to lunch time yoga @ the Yoga Sanctuary across the street. Haven't done that in months. #
• 14:08 @somecanuckchick Cheap hookers hang out on Jarvis, not Yonge and Bloor. (And ahem, I live near Yonge and Bloor.) #
• 14:09 Yoga was good but the side of my neck hurts now. I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen. #
• 17:45 In line to exercise my democratic right. #
• 18:09 Home from the gym and voting in the advance polls. <Tyra voice>Who will go on to win Canada's Federal Election?</Tyra voice> #
• 18:20 *sigh* I had 20 minutes of connectivity on the desktop. Someone needs to come over and play under my desk. Wait, did that come out wrong? #
• 18:50 @paul_henman Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. #
• 18:53 Woah. Tweetdeck works from the desktop but Firefox doesn't? Can someone please explain? #
• 19:07 (Chrome doesn't work either. It appears that my internet connection, on the desktop, doesn't like internet browsers right now.) #
• 19:11 @paul_henman (1/2) I don't think so but that did occur to me as a cause. I was about to take a look when your msg came in. #
• 19:12 @paul_henman 2/2 The problems started around the time that I upgraded Spybot S&D. Maybe I should uninstall that and see what happens. #
• 19:14 Turning off the Windows firewall didn't work. #

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• 23:15 Gardner Museum. #
• 23:27 Must obey traffic lights. Almost got hit by a car. At Queen's Park. #
• 23:32 Sounds like Samba Elegua but isn't.@ Queen's Park circle. Very cool. #
• 00:07 At the zombies. College Park. #
• 00:38 Walking south on Uni from College. Suggestions? #
• 00:51 Wish I'd come prepared with alcohol. Breaking for Timbits & tea. #
• 01:18 At OCAD. Big crowd. #
• 01:35 Getting progressively sleepier. Must fight it. #
• 02:14 OCAD was great.need my second wind. Tired & beligerant.at Queen & John. #
• 02:48 Detoured backwards,grabbing a streetcar to Trinity Bell woods. #
• 02:52 @dchartier You're one block behind me. #
• 02:53 I mean 2. #
• 03:21 @photojunkie might run into you there. At Palmerston on streetcar. #
• 04:12 Leaving Gallery DK.home to bed. #
• 04:51 Home, exhausted and aware that in a little over 24 hrs my alarm will go off for work. Deleting most of my Nuit Blanche tweets. #
• 10:25 @photojunkie, @dchartier. I hear ya. Woke up around 5 min before I heard my phone notify me of darren's tweet. (Alerts now off.) #
• 11:22 @dchartier Re. thinking you saw me: I wondered if you remembered what I looked like/from OCCIO or could put the face to the name. #
• 11:34 @dchartier Didn't think you'd make the connection. My profile pic isn't a good indication of what I look like. OPS @ MHP- for 3 more wks. #
• 11:49 Just washed last night's schmutz off my face. Had to lather, rinse, repeat (w/o actual lather) b/c of Toronto grime + makeup. #
• 14:53 Almost caught up on Mad Men. Need a nap soon. #
• 16:14 Internet's been off and on all day again. Resetting the router and modem didn't work so now I point to Rogers. #
• 16:21 Um, yeah. Once again the problem is specifically w/ my desktop, to which the boxes making things go are connected, while Lappy is fine. #
• 19:57 Making fresh tomato sauce for pasta w tuna & white beans. Earlier I filtered my homemade vanilla b/c it was looking fuzzy. Lost seeds. #
• 20:31 Accidentally discovered that toasted pecans and white beans are a good flavour combination. #
• 22:15 Having a hard time getting her photos online when the internet keeps going boom. Bed time I guess. #

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I say a lot of bad things about Sarah Palin. The following is an exchange that I had with two workers at the office on Thursday (in parts paraphrased):
"She's... I don't want to say the word." [encouragement from co-workers] "It's four letters.... It's bad."
"Does it rhyme with a play in baseball?"
[sheepish] "Yes".

...Then my co-worker made jokes about how she likes to "hunt" and so forth.

Anyway, every so often I feel that she's criticized for the wrong reasons. I posted a video to Facebook after I saw that Yolande had posted it, and with the share I made the following comment. In part I'm posting this for myself, as a reminder to raise the discussion at work - even though I likely will forget that I posted this:

I saw this linked on Facebook. Now, politicians have their messaging written for them. My colleagues are part of that process on a provincial level. It's not the politician's job to research the issues, anticipate questions and decide how to respond. They have a staff in their office, Policy departments and Communications branches (that's mine). Is it bad that Palin didn't memorize her lines? I think that it gave the appearance that she lacks credibility and in a sense she has exposed the process (who needs to know how the sausage is made?).  She'll need to get better at memorizing the messaging, but how bad is it that she had had to read? I'm genuinely curious and it's a discussion that I want to have at work this week.

Also- I rather have a politician read from notes and give factual information than spew incorrect facts.

Brain dump

• 23:38 Full of shabbat sushi after shul and only tweeting it b/c it's kind of a tongue twister. Say "shabbat sushi after shul" 3x fast. #
• 23:40 @cfine You're tweeting in multiples. On purpose or by accident? #
• 14:12 Full from yummy brunch and Starbucks salted caramel hot chocolate, which didn't have enough salted caramel flavour. It was too subtle. #
• 14:13 @cfine Are you tweets showing up in multiples (since last night) on purpose? #
• 19:07 Uploaded a bunch of photos from my phone today: www.flickr.com/photos/andreat #
• 19:08 @the_nexus Wine and cheese? Yum. In terms of sparkling wine, I like a nice Prosecco. #
• 20:43 Nap attempt failed. Will have some food & head out around 10, either starting in Yorkville & heading to P'dale or the other way around. #
• 21:04 @seangalbraith re. "Blanching": Isn't that what Michael Jackson did to make his skin so pale? :) #
• 21:05 wondering what one wears to Nuit Blanche to stay warm but not get too warm. Layers, yes, but jacket weight? #
• 21:06 @seangalbraith So you don't need any more blanching. #
• 21:08 Also, device updates on for people I might see en route. Already annoyed with the phone vibration, but whatever. #
• 21:13 To those outside of Toronto who don't know what I'm tweeting about tonight: www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/home.shtml #
• 21:26 twitpic.com/enhx - A Picture/Video Message! #
• 21:42 twitpic.com/enhx - Test failed. #
• 21:47 Heading out. Layered long sleeve & blue "Boys are like lightbulbs" Ts, zip-up hoodie & fleece vest. Need correct jacket. Identifiable now. #
• 22:00 Green jacket #
• 22:14 In yorkville. Not much here. #
• 22:28 Can't view twit pics on my phone. Feel I'm missing out a bit. #
• 22:43 Trying to decide whether to check out the Japan Foundation. #
• 22:51 In line at Japan Foundation #
• 23:06 @dchartier I'm there now. Reminds me of a video game. #

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• 06:04 missed the debates last night (Can. and U.S.) because I have no cable. Sort of feel good about it. CBC gave some highlights this morning. #
• 06:05 Also, who needs to actually WATCH debates when you're hooked into the blogosphere and YouTube? #
• 07:58 #foodblogger Put up 3 posts yesterday: canadianfoodiegirl.com/ #
• 08:35 Breakfast Television keeps showing a clip of the VP debate. I want to smack Sarah Palin every time I hear "doggone it". Or drink a shot. #
• 12:16 Oy, even a coffee that's 2/3 decaf to 1/3 caf increases my heart rate - and contributes to indigestion when I eat. #
• 12:17 @feliciaday There's nothing wrong with cupcakes for breakfast. Unlike doughnuts they're baked, not fried. #
• 16:25 Home from work, showered, and have a job lead (though temporary). Knee's been hurting all day. Sign of age? #
• 16:58 Thinks it's sad that the Toronto Star gave Beverly Hills Chihuahua a half star more than Nick & Norah but MC does only play one character. #
• 18:28 Knee pain intense when I walk. Taking the bus to shul for the 2nd time in 4 years. #

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• 06:20 could have become 2 degrees from Jeremy Piven yesterday if I'd gone to synagogue w/ my parents. *swoon* #
• 08:44 Had over 90 emails in my work inbox today, glad I suspended the news wire emails for two days. #
• 12:45 Didn't look at news reader today until now and has approx. 130 new items since bedtime last night. "mark as read". #
• 13:08 Eating lunch, working & found the Trivial Pursuit game show on TV. Why is Christopher Knight hosting? Ran out of reality shows, did he? #
• 15:02 Home. Watching Fringe, eating (my second lunch- the first is a snack, really). Might go to @seangalbraith's gallery opening this evening. #
• 15:49 Internet at home is down again. #
• 15:57 Tweetdeck showed me my last tweet but websites inaccessible. #
• 16:12 Back online. I was getting the shakes. #
• 16:24 @paul_henman I was fine for two days when the internet was there & I didn't want to use it. Symptoms set in when the narcotic is withheld. #
• 18:38 My laptop seems unaffected by the connectivity of my desktop. Any theories? The modem & wireless router are connected to the desktop. #
• 18:46 @paul_henman Just tried moving the cable over to another port. No change. Maybe the wires need jiggling. #
• 19:10 After fiddling with cables and wrestling the dust bunnies beneath my desk I'm rebooting to see if that helps. #
• 19:26 I rebooted and uninstalled the last piece of software I downloaded. So far so good. The connection probs started pre-download. #
• 19:59 Headed to @seangalbraith's gallery. #

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• 08:54 @edent 1. Chess? That was the musical of your year @ Carleton U, yes? Liked it. Great memories. Next should be Xanadu. It's not Disney. #
• 08:59 @vasta You're coming out of prayers, I'm soon going in. Yesterday I cast away my sins. Can soon commence sinning for another year. muahaha. #
• 20:59 @squideye But Zachary Quinto is so pretty. I'm watching right now. #

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• 09:04 on the subway last night I stared @ a puppy who looked like my old one before noticing the swastikas drawn on its owner's shoes. I moved. #
• 20:50 On the streetcarsomeone's ipod is audibly playing Cindy Lauper. Liking it. #

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• 06:14 Trying to tear myself away to get to work at 6:30/6:30 before D gets in so that I retrain her to cover for me this week. #
• 06:30 Just watched a raccoon family - 4-6 cross yonge street. No photo. #
• 08:58 eating honey cake because a nice Jewish lady who works down the hall baked some for her branch. Shana tova. #
• 10:16 Being a grammar snob, I like this story: Bad 'grammer' left on schools' agenda. www.thestar.com/printArticle/507992 #
• 10:27 Being a grammar/spelling snob, I like this story: Bad 'grammer' left on schools' agenda. www.thestar.com/article/507992 #
• 11:59 Off to lunch with @squideye. #
• 15:55 @seangalbraith You can celebrate too with that jar of birthday gefilte fish- unless it's been eaten. #

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• 11:55 internet still cutting out sporadically. #
• 14:16 haven't made it out yet, heading down to The Clothing Show to help my sister. Word on the Street can be skipped. It used to be better. #
• 20:06 Back from the Clothing Show. It sucked. #
• 20:08 @edent Thanks! Do you get a lot of spam? And what's with recent common use of "nom nom"? I always thought it was "num". Onomatopoeia. #
• 20:51 #foodblogger Made eggplant w/ miso sauce by recipe but didn't properly measure. Too much miso=too salty. Also have too much sauce. #
• 21:50 #foodblogger New food photos up on Flickr: poprl.com/1RY (I still owe a blog entry on the photographed event.) #

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• 09:11 @vasta Is it going to be a Big Fat Sikh Wedding? (Had to say it.) #
• 17:49 just read that Paul Newman died yesterday. #

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• 06:54 liking that my iPod shuffles from Animaniacs to Fatboy Slim. Got lots of sleep. Went to bed early, inebriated. FRIDAY! #
• 07:41 #foodblogger Another post going up this afternoon (though I make no promises), about last night's food event. #
• 11:43 @feliciaday I started watching season 1 of The Guild yesterday and enjoy it. I resemble it a little. Good work. #
• 11:50 Need more Jews in my Twitter network so that this joke will be understood: "Accepted: Lunch - Party like it's 5768!" #
• 17:42 @somecanuckchick it was nap time for me. I went down at 4, got myself up at around 5:30 b/c I had to. Bed was so comfy. #
• 17:51 Dr Horrible seeks new evil, apply within: www.evilleagueofevil.com/ #
• 18:03 @photojunkie Always resist the hot dog vendor. It smells better than it tastes. #
• 18:21 Traffic on younge st is bumper to bumper. glad i'm on foot. #

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New posts at the food blog.

Yesterday had its highs and lows. Mostly highs.

High: Lunch with a colleague who has never been a co-worker but knows a lot of people I do. We've worked in some of the same places but not at the same time (unless you include the day I was a temp in my current ministry over two years ago, the first time I met her).

Low: My meeting with my financial advisor was a waste of time. He violated Rule #1 of effective meetings. Nothing was covered that we couldn't have covered on the phone. There were a few awkward silences, one which I ended with, "So is there anything else?" and my inner voice continued, "Or do you just want to look at me?" I did learn that I was correct about his age. He told me that today (well, yesterday but it was "today" yesterday) was his birthday. I asked how old, he answered "Too young." I replied, "I figured that out. How old? 24?" Bingo. Yeah, so my investments dropped a couple percent. A few more months and it'll be on the upswing. A few more years and it will be on a bigger upswing. At least, according to market trends.

Low: Because of that time wasting meeting, I got into the subway - after paying - and learned that it was shut down because of signal failure. I decided to walk to my evening destination, which meant that I couldn't go home first. It took an hour. I would have been home in 10-15 minutes by subway, with time to shower and change. I later learned that three unrelated incidents happened on the subway (a shooting or something?) I'll read about it later and updated. I was irritated that I had to walk and that I wasted subway fare, but then I got inebriated and had good food for $20 (free, kind of - Kerri bought my ticket). Which leads me to the next high...

High: The Gremolita Good Food Hall (will blog about it later). Had lots of food, lots and lots of wine. It was cool to see some people - industry people but also food enthusiasts like me - that I'd seen at the Brickworks Picnic.

The highlight was actually the vegetables. I couldn't stop munching on grape tomatoes bursting with flavour. I really liked the mixed drink that I had. Rum, lime cordial, grenadine and ginger ale? Must confirm today. My co-worker was there (different than the colleague I lunched with) dubbed it "The Obamanator". He's strangely obsessed with U.S. politics. I collected a few glasses- some wine and a beer (though I wasn't feeling the Czeck Pilsner). Left behind the rocks glass.

The event was held a few blocks from home at the U of T campus from 6pm-10pm. I was there from 6:30-9:15ish, home and in bed around 9:30pm. It will be food blogged.

Time to head to work. This might be updated later.

Brain dump

• 07:24 Doing my thing at the office while many are still sleeping. #
• 09:03 2 colleagues in my quad of cubicles are sick. Hoping I'm not next. Might have to keep to tweeting @tara_candon until she's healthy. :) #
• 09:23 @seangalbraith Just read that BlogTO post before I noticed your tweet. (Retweet: tinyurl.com/4dkkc4) #
• 11:35 Google launches Power Readers in Politics: Canada. www.google.ca/googlereader/powerreaders/index.html #
• 13:53 Full from lunch. Had patio time in the sun with a friend. Unrelated: Two new blog posts up at canadianfoodiegirl.com/ #
• 15:04 misplaced my camera's micro SD card after pulling it from my computer today but not sure how. Thought I put it back in my phone. Fell out? #
• 15:29 misplaced my phone's micro SD card after pulling it from my computer today. Thought I'd put it back in my phone. Maybe it fell out. #
• 17:17 Mass hysteria @ eglinton stn b/c of subway shutdown bw lawr & bl. #
• 18:17 Even more hysteria @ bloor. I walked down. Many did. #
• 21:23 full of good food and wine. Ready for sleep (or passing out - whichever). #

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• 23:36 @michellevivar It's so very, very right. #
• 23:42 Liking Chapman's "Yogurt +" (FroYo) honey almond despite it being a junk food marketed as a health food. Its sugar content i ... #
• 06:29 The most recent tweet (which I swear had the correct character count at the time) should read, "...it's sugar content is obscene." #
• 08:30 eating leftover sushi from last night's dinner for breakfast. No chance of forgetting it in the fridge. #
• 08:37 wonders if we're supposed to be surprised that Clay Aiken came out. #
• 17:33 Missed an Anna Olsen demo downstairs @ work because I forgot about it. #
• 22:11 watching Entourage. #

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• 06:01 marking the spot and saying good morning. Time to get ready for work. Oh how I appreciate living near the office (10-15min walk). #
• 06:05 P.S. It's another day requiring a sweater & Jacket in the morning, short sleeves in the afternoon. -I should tweet morning weather reports. #
• 10:26 Going to another food event this Thursday. Will take photos and blog it (eventually). #
• 10:27 @seriouseats Flagels exist at Bagel World in Toronto. If it exists in NYC it likely exists here. #
• 10:28 @dchartier your tweet re admin access made me giggle out loud. #
• 11:47 Angry that Dollarama doesn't do returns. Don't tell a former MGS employee that returns/refunds are against policy (3 days after purchase). #
• 12:02 If I'm interpreting correctly, the Consumer Protection Act proved me wrong and I'm not legally entitled to a refund. :( #
• 17:32 Watching the season premiere of Heroes. Glued to my seat immediately. #
• 19:04 That was SO GOOD. Watching episodes 1 & 2 (current season) of Heroes was better than going to the gym. I can workout tomorrow. #

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• 05:41 Awake, wishing I was still in bed. Hard to get up this morning. It's cold in here! Thinking of nap time. #
• 11:02 Ontario Legislature resumed today. Am watching it on TV. I'm withholding the Statler and Waldorf-esque commentary to stay out of trouble. #
• 17:40 just woke up from a 2hr nap (constantly interupted by hammering on a wall). Deciding whether or not to go back to sleep. #
• 21:41 broke my "I don't do roux" rule for mac 'n' cheese tonight, using a Rachel Ray lasagne recipe for inspiration- though it was nothing alike. #
• 22:30 Blog update: canadianfoodiegirl.com/?p=212 #

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