A bed like a wooden slab, she says

[dorchadas]

Not much else surrounding the food because I already posted about it! sashagee has left more and more of her things here, now bringing over her yoga mat because she figures that after sleeping on my shikibuton she'll need it more than after sleeping on her double-memory-foamed cloud-bed. I'm probably going to end up getting a memory foam pad myself to make her more comfortable, since while I'm used to it to the point that at ACEN last year I slept on the floor of RogueNire and zbrund's room with just a blanket and a pillow and I was okay, but for sashagee, basically the only thing worse than my shikibuton would be a bed of nails.

News came out today that Chicago is close to reversing progress and could return to Phase 3, which would honestly be fine with me. I've already ranted here about the beach-scolding when going to the beach is literally orders of magnitude safer than going to a bar or an indoor restaurant, and hoenstly we shouldn't have opened indoor activities at all if you can't wear masks during them. If bars and restaurants and groups greater than ten are banned, it'd change nothing about my life. Even a group of ten is too many, I think (the max I've gathered in was six and that was outside). And sashagee keeps telling me about people coming into her work in groups of ten or twenty, maybe half of them masked, and gathering around her and her co-workers. Shutting that down sounds great.

Hamburger from Green Fire Farm LLC with the meat I bought for the farmer's market dinner three weeks ago topped with an egg also from Green Fire Farm LLC, along with sautéed "Tendersweet" Dutch cabbage and sliced zucchini from Gray Farms, and potatoes from Wild Coyote Farm topped with fresh rosemary and thyme from Piscasaw Gardens. The smoked paprika on the potatoes is from the Middle Eastern Grocery Store, and the challah I had with dinner was handmade by britshlez. She was ready to murder me for having to turn the oven on to make it before last Shabbat, but gave me all the leftovers, so I laughed all the way to the dinner table.

I tried to make this entire dinner using ingredients that I got from the farmer's market, but it failed on the rock of not being able to buy most spices there. Still, everything I didn't buy at the market I bought local or a friend made for me. The best part was the paprika potatoes with fresh herbs, which I put on after they were taken out of the oven and spooned onto my plate, but the cabbage with shwarma spice was also delicious, though I didn't really taste any particular difference from store-bought cabbage here. The burger and egg was just as good as it was last time.

Not pictured is the peach from the bunch I impulse-bought from Hillside Orchards, because I ate it too fast.

Rosemary sea-salt caramels from Katherine Anne Confections. These chocolates are about the only non-pastry desserts available from the farmer's market, and they have a few varieties available: classic, peanut, rosemary, and sesame ginger. Sesame ginger would be the obvious choice normally, but they're milk chocolate, the objectively inferior chocolate. Rosemary is good and here in dark chocolate, it added a nice zing to the caramels.

I'd have gotten more but the pricing is weird. It's listed as $6.50 for a package of 4 or $30 for a box of 12, which seems...wrong. I'll have to ask at the booth next time.


I really needed this meal today because the internet is a mess. Today "Jews," "Hebrews," and "Semites" were trending--always a bad sign--and on looking into it, apparently Nick Cannon was fired for antisemitism, meaning Twitter was filled to the brim with "See! He said Jews control the media and (((they))) fired him! He was right!" comments, including a depressing amount of them from Black people. Most of those followed the familiar pattern--Jews are rich, Jews control the media and the banks, Jews can't be oppressed because we actually run the world, you've heard it all before. "Punching up" as a model of interaction fails utterly when dealing with antisemitism, because a lot of antisemitism is about how we're secretly on top, so therefore those comments aren't antisemitic, they're bravely speaking truth to power.

As the meme goes, "The Jews are tired."

I did really appreciate this article by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, though: Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood? A good question I wish we had a better answer to.

Comments

[corvi]

Agreed about milk chocolate as inferior chocolate!

[law]

i haven't been on twitter for more than five minutes lately so i missed this whole nick cannon thing. i really wish people would let go of these conspiracy theories. it's a subject that seems dicey though. i don't know much ab it but if a jewish person says something is antisemetic then i'm not going to question it.

i'd have to look up what griff said in the 80s to be kicked out of public enemy briefly too. this is such a mess.

strange how viacom said in their statement that nick didn't apologize when he very clearly did though. odd.

[dorchadas]

This comes after a week of Twitter discourse about antiblack racism in Jewish communities too. You'd think that being oppressed for so long would teach people something about how to treat other oppressed communities, but of course not.

And as always, Black Jews get the short end of both sticks.

[law]

ah yeah, that's definitely a thing. solidarity seems more like a concept then something that actually exists sometimes. it's so frustrating! being black is life on proud mode that you can never go into the menu to turn off. black jews are a community that i don't think about much but wow, i can only imagine how tough it must be. our blessing is something that some people in the world want to think is a curse.

[pshaw_raven]

Not sure if Sashagee is at all interested but I came across some articles from a furniture-free family, a couple of which are about transitioning to sleeping on the floor. I wasn't thinking about you, or myself, in particular, but was more looking at floor desk options, and her article on getting to floor sleeping caught my attention. She did what I've been working on the past couple of years, which is slowly removing layers of padding and cushions from my sleeping arrangement.

https://www.nutritiousmovement.com/your-pillow-is-an-orthotic/ ... if you're interested!

[dorchadas]

It makes a lot of sense when it's all laid out like that! I'm not quite at the sleeping on the floor with nothing stage (though I can do it), but [Bad username or site: @ instagram.com] has two memory foam mattresses and a ton of pillows on her bed, so she'll need a much larger adjustment period that I'm not sure she's interested in taking... But maybe!

(I hope so. I really like my sleeping arrangements)