What I will be doing this weekend (Friday evening until Sunday mid-afternoon, that is):

HEALING THE EARTH, NOURISHING OURSELVES: Growing, Eating & Preparing Food Locally

Come join Andrew Faust, one of the premier Permaculture teachers in North America, from The Center For Bioregional Living in New York City and Ellenville, NY.
This course will cover how to design abundant and productive local food systems using Permaculture and offer a series of fun, hands-on, food-oriented activities.
Topics include: Local and seasonal foods and their preparation; Extending and over-wintering your backyard or container garden; Growing indoors and fermented foods; Eating right for your region, season and vitality.
Demonstration and hands-on activities will include:
-Lacto-fermention -- kim chee, sauerkraut, etc.
-Water-bath canning of seasonal local tomatoes *
-Root cellaring
-Solar drying
-Culturing raw dairy*
-Sprouting
-Inoculating and baking sour dough bread!*
-Designs and techniques of mushroom cultivation: return home with an inoculated log!

Come and learn how to live well and in harmony with the earth while boosting immunity and increasing longevity!

*Bring a wide mouth pint jar if you would like to take home some sourdough starter. Please also bring a few 1 qt. glass mason jars if you would like bring home some fermented foods.

(It's happening here.) I am not sure I am brave enough for homemade yogurt, but I am totally up for canning tomatoes and making pickles and sourdough. If I liked mushrooms, I'd be psyched about growing them, too. Does anyone want my inoculated log?

AIM convo with a friend just now:
9:55 PM
F: Wait, WHO is president?
D: Obama?
F: OH SHIT YEAH
D: Bush who, amirite?
F: BUSH FUCKING RAN OUT AS FAST AS HE COULD
F: FUCK THAT GUY OUR GUY IS IN NOW

F: OH SHIT OBAMA IS DANCING WITH ANOTHER WOMAN
D: It's not like "hey that guy would make a great president. Too bad we're stuck with this really, really shitty one" anymore!
D: WHAT
F: he just danced with some Army bitch whose about to get Michelle's arm down her whore mouth.
D: She is smokin' hot and has nothing to worry about.
F: Michele smiled, then fucking kicked her in the face
F: CONDI RICE ISN"T SHIT ANYMORE
D: She smiled, then leaned in to hug her, and whispered in clenched teeth, "I will cut you, bitch."
F: FUCKIN NO MORE DICK FUCKING CHENEY
F: She leaned in and said "Send me a postcard from Falluljah, bitch."
D: Can you believe him in that wheelchair he was all "And a happy new year to you -- IN JAIL!" and then he laughed like The Penguin while stroking a white cat.
D: She shook her hand a little too tightly, and hissed "Gitmo's about to get a new visitor"
10:00 PM
F: She looked at her chief of staff and nodded, who knew what that meant and started making calls.
D: When she hugged her, she placed a tiny tracing tag on her back.

F: I can't believe that scumbag roberts fucked up the oath. It's like 32 fucking words. Can't his fucking clerks have written it on the back of his hand?
10:05 PM
D: There's speculation he did it on purpose to be a dick.
F: I can't actually imagine that.
D: Also that Dick Cheney was in a wheelchair just so he wouldn't have to "please rise" when the president got sworn in.
F: Nah, I think beelzebub is starting to take his fee.