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National Coming Out Day: I suppose i should have posted something. I remember back to my experience at the gathering of LGBTQ friends in February. Discussions of identity there stirred back up my identity as physicist, an old "hidden" identity, whereas my sexual identity remains fuzzy and undefined. I'm not a lesbian, and i'm not straight. I try on "bi" and "queer" periodically, but i remain feeling unconnected to those terms. So much of my identity feels like polished and familiar territory but this label feels sketched in. What i know is that i am in love and delighted to have spent over twenty years of my life with Christine and hope that we grow old together.
I suppose that puts me in this space where i feel passionately, personally about the T in LGBTQI and I want transgendered and intersex folk to have protections along with LGB folk.
Maybe next year i'll be in a space where i can join in on facebook or twitter in this labeling of self. I currently feel "quiet" on there....
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Yesterday i wasn't close to the computer much, anyhow. I was off for coffee with friends at 9, then off to the Meetinghouse for Worship and then Meeting for Business. We ran until three, which was past my blood sugar limit given the very light meals i'd had for breakfast and lunch.
In the afternoon i managed to cook chickpeas, which was faster than i expected. I'd soaked them since morning, and they were done in an hour. I'm so used to slow-cooker times for kideny and black that i hadn't thought they could be that fast. This meant i was able to move half of the chickpeas into a stew with potatoes and celery, lots of olive oil and the juice of a lemon, and lemon peel too (i should have used just half a lemon peel, i think). It was seasoned with some liquid smoke, Jamacian curry powder, black pepper, celery salt, poultry seasoning, and a generous tablespoon of miso as the stock. After tasting i added molasses. Molasses seems to be a magic secret ingredient, adding a depth and richness. I suppose that it substitutes for a browned meat, along with the liquid smoke.
The other half of the chickpeas are in the freezer, frozen loose, so i can toss them into dishes in small quantities. I do like chickpeas. I'm overdue in roasting some with olive oil and seasoning.
I also led the way in getting many loads of laundry done. Almost all the work i wanted to do on Sunday was addressed, with the exception of belated correspondence. I was able to relax and i even checked my work email, removing a certain sort of Monday morning worry.
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This week looks a little intense, with evening events M, T, & H and a 5 am start on Wednesday. The 5 am start is a little dramatic, but involves a consultant who is helping us test something before he goes in for his work day.
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In other news, i don't think i notice anything going on with my dairy consumption. I'm probably not going to return to daily afternoon yogurt but continue to have applesauce or something similar. Other than that, while i enjoyed cheese and such, i hadn't had it as a daily food item.
I suppose that puts me in this space where i feel passionately, personally about the T in LGBTQI and I want transgendered and intersex folk to have protections along with LGB folk.
Maybe next year i'll be in a space where i can join in on facebook or twitter in this labeling of self. I currently feel "quiet" on there....
***
Yesterday i wasn't close to the computer much, anyhow. I was off for coffee with friends at 9, then off to the Meetinghouse for Worship and then Meeting for Business. We ran until three, which was past my blood sugar limit given the very light meals i'd had for breakfast and lunch.
In the afternoon i managed to cook chickpeas, which was faster than i expected. I'd soaked them since morning, and they were done in an hour. I'm so used to slow-cooker times for kideny and black that i hadn't thought they could be that fast. This meant i was able to move half of the chickpeas into a stew with potatoes and celery, lots of olive oil and the juice of a lemon, and lemon peel too (i should have used just half a lemon peel, i think). It was seasoned with some liquid smoke, Jamacian curry powder, black pepper, celery salt, poultry seasoning, and a generous tablespoon of miso as the stock. After tasting i added molasses. Molasses seems to be a magic secret ingredient, adding a depth and richness. I suppose that it substitutes for a browned meat, along with the liquid smoke.
The other half of the chickpeas are in the freezer, frozen loose, so i can toss them into dishes in small quantities. I do like chickpeas. I'm overdue in roasting some with olive oil and seasoning.
I also led the way in getting many loads of laundry done. Almost all the work i wanted to do on Sunday was addressed, with the exception of belated correspondence. I was able to relax and i even checked my work email, removing a certain sort of Monday morning worry.
***
This week looks a little intense, with evening events M, T, & H and a 5 am start on Wednesday. The 5 am start is a little dramatic, but involves a consultant who is helping us test something before he goes in for his work day.
***
In other news, i don't think i notice anything going on with my dairy consumption. I'm probably not going to return to daily afternoon yogurt but continue to have applesauce or something similar. Other than that, while i enjoyed cheese and such, i hadn't had it as a daily food item.