Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

That was the week that was

I think every night this week I have had a blog entry in mind, but never found the time or energy to type it up. It was one of those weeks.

We closed the audit at work. I have a few real pain in the ass things to fix, but overall it was less painful that I expected. The auditor said some very nice things about my program in front of my boss, too.

A bunch of people at work are about to have babies, and now that the basement is finished, I had room to do some tie dyes. Usually Victor does the real work and I just help, but this week he was busy so I did them solo. I was amazed at how well they turned out, and after I handed out the finished products, people were doing crazy things like offering to pay me to dye clothes for them.

I've felt horrible all week because of the pollen. I'm afraid to go outside, which seems like a waste of spring.

The baby rat died. I thought he was doing better, but he relapsed and died at the vet's on Wednesday.

A young woman I know just had her first experience with death. She was a wreck. I suspected that part of her grief was the realization of mortality in general and her own in particular. I gave her my Thich Nhat Hanh book and we talked, and yesterday she said she was doing better and that I had helped. Those who can't, teach, I guess.

Getting the vegetable garden at my mom's ready for planting, we discovered that our fall spinach actually wintered over. Fresh organic spinach already! Most of it has gone to the pets, though.

Regarding pet food, not quite as many of my friends are laughing at me for feeding organic dandelions to the guinea pig. The theory that the melamine in the pet food ingredients was added to fake a higher protein content actually makes sense. There was a front page article about China's lack of quality control in the Post on Wednesday...if the baby formula isn't safe (whether because of avarice or incompetence), how can you trust anything?

I guess if there is a silver lining (and if my dog had died, I doubt I'd be willing to look for a silver lining), it's that people are thinking about the links in the food chain.

In between, I listened to baseball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.

Posted by Nic at April 28, 2007 09:22 AM | TrackBack