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shadowkatAt least it was a pretty day today. Clear and sunny, until clouds moved in at the end of it threatening rain. So I took a walk along the pier at lunchtime - and on the way back picked up two gluten-free chocolate chip cookies from Insominac Cookies (they are freshly baked cookies), and an iced matcha latte from Grumpy Coffee, which is conveniently around the corner from Gregory's and Crazy Workplace. It's not perfect, but it is a workable substitute to Gregory's and cheaper. Also it has decafe coffee.
And there's also Cafe Rumi, which has gluten free muffins and lemon loaf.
I'm slowly developing a list of places that provide gluten-free items around my work place and home.
Everything is confusing me at the moment. I've decided the world (inclusive of my work place) has gone bat-shit crazy, and I want to take a sabbatical from all of it to parts unknown. But I guess I could just attempt an internet and news sabbatical over the weekend - and veg on scripted and fictional television shows, books, and writing. Plus doing watercolors, taking long walks, and maybe going to church on Sunday - along with the High Line (depending on the weather). I'm also considering taking a page from colls book and trying the 30 day yoga/meditation challenge - to help center myself. I meditate for about ten to fifteen minutes every morning before work, and thirty minutes in bed - with various sleep stories. Utilizing mostly the Calm app, I think I've burned through everything of use on the Headspace app and will unsubscribe from it soon.
I'm confused and overloaded at work. They keep changing the process and procedures on me, and I'm no longer certain if the people running the organization know what they are doing? Example? It's been five years since the merger and creation of new departmental agency and we still don't have an org chart. Also, the real estate department keeps playing a shell game with people. The folks seated behind me where moved from Brooklyn to the City, and now are being moved back, except they can't be moved back yet, because the real estate department doesn't know what to do with the people currently occupying that space, and the people they want to move into their current space - don't want to move. Everyone is confused. I was taught that government is basically organized chaos, but lately it's becoming increasing more chaos and less organized.
My brain is taking the weekend off. It's tired of keeping track of everything. It needs a break.
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Question a Day Meme
3. Do you like trying new things? What’s the last new thing you tried (a craft, a new food, a new activity or something else)?
Yes, although within reason. I'm a curious person but also an extreemly cautious one. Lately I've been trying gluten free chocolate chip cookies, and baked items. Last week it was bread from a new gluten free bakery I discovered. I also like checking out new music, new books, new television shows, new shoes, new foods...I'm considering tofu chocolate mousse (if I can find tofu, thinking health food store or Asian market). My brain is a bit of a blank at the moment as to new things I recently tried though?
4. Peter Mark Roget was born in 1779 and wrote the ‘Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition”. Roget’s Thesaurus has never been out of print – have you ever used a thesaurus?
Yes. At one point I had an online version. Also owned them. I'm a professional wordsmith - my job involves hunting the right or precise words to use in financial and legal documents, well it's a portion of the job.
5. It’s International Day of Charity – do you regularly (or occasionally) donate to any local or National charities?
Yes. Both. This year it was the ACLU, Food Bank of NYC, and National Parks Conservation Fund. Last year, Food Bank of NYC, Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club, and my UU Church. I haven't finished donating.
But I am tired of everyone and their grandmother asking me for money. I have more calendars, greeting cards, mailing labels, stickers, tote bags, note pads, and book marks than I know what to do with. One gave me trading cards of WWI and WWII air planes (I kid you not), another socks and a dream catcher.
Stop already. I can't give to everyone. I'm not rich.
I do not donate to political campaigns any longer. Or for that matter political parties. That I've given up on. I'll vote, but I won't give them any more money. (I feel like it is akin to throwing it down a drain. Also, I am against it - we should provide every candidate with a set advertising budget and campaign fund, same amount for everyone who chooses to run. No billionaires are allowed to run for office, but they do need to donate at least five million each to the election campaign fund bank - which each candidate can withdrawl no more than one million from. How they use it is up to them. And every advertising agency must donate up to 100 hours of community service ads for elections. No smear campaign ads, no dirty ads, and no negative advertising. Promote the candidate's views and platform only.
I basically want campaign and election reform - to the point in which elections can no longer be bought and paid for, and no one can control them.
And there's also Cafe Rumi, which has gluten free muffins and lemon loaf.
I'm slowly developing a list of places that provide gluten-free items around my work place and home.
Everything is confusing me at the moment. I've decided the world (inclusive of my work place) has gone bat-shit crazy, and I want to take a sabbatical from all of it to parts unknown. But I guess I could just attempt an internet and news sabbatical over the weekend - and veg on scripted and fictional television shows, books, and writing. Plus doing watercolors, taking long walks, and maybe going to church on Sunday - along with the High Line (depending on the weather). I'm also considering taking a page from colls book and trying the 30 day yoga/meditation challenge - to help center myself. I meditate for about ten to fifteen minutes every morning before work, and thirty minutes in bed - with various sleep stories. Utilizing mostly the Calm app, I think I've burned through everything of use on the Headspace app and will unsubscribe from it soon.
I'm confused and overloaded at work. They keep changing the process and procedures on me, and I'm no longer certain if the people running the organization know what they are doing? Example? It's been five years since the merger and creation of new departmental agency and we still don't have an org chart. Also, the real estate department keeps playing a shell game with people. The folks seated behind me where moved from Brooklyn to the City, and now are being moved back, except they can't be moved back yet, because the real estate department doesn't know what to do with the people currently occupying that space, and the people they want to move into their current space - don't want to move. Everyone is confused. I was taught that government is basically organized chaos, but lately it's becoming increasing more chaos and less organized.
My brain is taking the weekend off. It's tired of keeping track of everything. It needs a break.
***
Question a Day Meme
3. Do you like trying new things? What’s the last new thing you tried (a craft, a new food, a new activity or something else)?
Yes, although within reason. I'm a curious person but also an extreemly cautious one. Lately I've been trying gluten free chocolate chip cookies, and baked items. Last week it was bread from a new gluten free bakery I discovered. I also like checking out new music, new books, new television shows, new shoes, new foods...I'm considering tofu chocolate mousse (if I can find tofu, thinking health food store or Asian market). My brain is a bit of a blank at the moment as to new things I recently tried though?
4. Peter Mark Roget was born in 1779 and wrote the ‘Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition”. Roget’s Thesaurus has never been out of print – have you ever used a thesaurus?
Yes. At one point I had an online version. Also owned them. I'm a professional wordsmith - my job involves hunting the right or precise words to use in financial and legal documents, well it's a portion of the job.
5. It’s International Day of Charity – do you regularly (or occasionally) donate to any local or National charities?
Yes. Both. This year it was the ACLU, Food Bank of NYC, and National Parks Conservation Fund. Last year, Food Bank of NYC, Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club, and my UU Church. I haven't finished donating.
But I am tired of everyone and their grandmother asking me for money. I have more calendars, greeting cards, mailing labels, stickers, tote bags, note pads, and book marks than I know what to do with. One gave me trading cards of WWI and WWII air planes (I kid you not), another socks and a dream catcher.
Stop already. I can't give to everyone. I'm not rich.
I do not donate to political campaigns any longer. Or for that matter political parties. That I've given up on. I'll vote, but I won't give them any more money. (I feel like it is akin to throwing it down a drain. Also, I am against it - we should provide every candidate with a set advertising budget and campaign fund, same amount for everyone who chooses to run. No billionaires are allowed to run for office, but they do need to donate at least five million each to the election campaign fund bank - which each candidate can withdrawl no more than one million from. How they use it is up to them. And every advertising agency must donate up to 100 hours of community service ads for elections. No smear campaign ads, no dirty ads, and no negative advertising. Promote the candidate's views and platform only.
I basically want campaign and election reform - to the point in which elections can no longer be bought and paid for, and no one can control them.
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Date: 2025-09-06 08:22 am (UTC)I hope the stressful work situation sorts itself out soon. It does sound chaotic...
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Date: 2025-09-06 02:22 pm (UTC)Agree - they'll never fund elections the way I want them to. I want a more British system on elections, with the emphasis on the platforms. The US tends to vote based on personality of the candidate, and rarely on the candidate's platform. That's a recipe for disaster - as was proven in the 2024 and 2016 elections, not to mention the 2020 election.
Thesaurus
Date: 2025-09-06 01:27 pm (UTC)I've owned an original format Roget's Thesaurus for many years. Teacher's suggested using it in my grade school days. But, I've always found it an inefficient pain to use, having to look up numbers, and then entries, and often finding I needed a different number, which in the end might or might not help me. As a kid I never had access to the version "in dictionary form" which is what I suspect I always wanted. Instead in grad school, I found Rodale's Synonym Finder, bought a copy and have used it eagerly over all these years.
Re: Thesaurus
Date: 2025-09-06 02:23 pm (UTC)I liked the electronic one that I had for a while and newer versions. Now I just look up the word on the internet, or word has it embedded into it.
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Date: 2025-09-06 07:23 pm (UTC)From your mouth to God's ear.....
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Date: 2025-09-07 09:49 pm (UTC)(I've been watching Alien Earth - in it, the corporations are monsters, so there's that.)
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Date: 2025-09-08 01:47 pm (UTC)