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| 01:35pm 29/04/2008 |
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Applied last night, am being asked to come in tomorrow at 4pm, to interview with the president of the company. I will be the final interview. Assuming he has not already made up his mind on who to hire, that is an advantageous position-- the last item on a list is the most memorable.
Job Function Human Resources
Job Location Michigan-Troy
Job Level Internship/Career Related
Start Date 05/12/2008
Job Title Human Resources paid Internship (20-40 hours)
Job Description Are you a college student looking for a summer internship in the human resources sector? Diversified Industrial Staffing is the place for you! Founded by 2007 INC 5000 Award Winner Todd Palmer, Diversified Industrial Staffing is a small and friendly entrepreneurial staffing firm in Troy, MI that's growing fast.
At other companies, your internship would getting the boss coffee, cleaning out the supply closet, making copies etc., for most of the summer, with a scintillating July 4th fireworks to break the monotony. With a Diversified Industrial Staffing internship, you are going to be part of a thriving, double-digit growth business where your work will matter.
What do our interns do?
We always give our interns a big project working on real human resource issues. In 2008, our interns will be focusing on developing ways to locate blue collar talent in SE Michigan, with the objective of reaching candidates who are not internet savvy.
At Diversified Industrial Staffing, we'll give you a lot to do, and we'll expect you to deliver something great. Our internship program includes a competitive salary, direct access to upper management, the ability to present and share your thoughts and ideas, and the satisfaction of seeing your work impact an organization immediately.
Diversified Industrial Staffing started in October 1997 based on the simple idea that if we built a company that was unique in the staffing niche we service, we would be able to attract great talent. Our summer internship program allows talented college students to learn about the staffing industry from the ground up.
As a Diversified Industrial Staffing Intern in Recruiting, you will be given a real project to work on that will impact the bottom line of a fast growing organization. You will receive mentoring from the team at Diversified Industrial Staffing, and learn about the staffing industry from our in-house experts.
We're a small company, so you'll see everything that goes into staffing and recruiting—not just resume reviews, but skill marketing of candidates, sales, documentation, customer support, and face to face interviews—stuff you would never learn at a bigger company.
Requirements
· Excellent command of written and spoken English
· Currently enrolled in a 4 year academic institution. Preference will be given to students between their Junior and Senior years. We will also consider students that graduate this semester.
· Top grades or a track record of success
· Superior telephone skills
· Permanent legal right to work in the United States. Because student visas (J1, F1, etc) are time-limited, we regret that we can't consider interns on student visas.
· Significant ability to use the Internet and extremely computer literate with Microsoft products including Word, Excel and the ability to learn our in-house software
· Top notch computer and people skills. We will give you some recruiting problems during the interview, and you will then blow us away with your creative solutions.
Diversified Industrial Staffing, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected by Federal or State Law or local ordinance.
To apply, please send your resume to tpalmer@diversifiedindustrialstaffing.com and put the position in which you are applying for in the subject line as well as where you saw this posting. Please visit our Web site at www.diversifiedindustrialstaffing.com.
Location: Troy
Compensation: $10.00 per hour
This is an internship job
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Phone calls about this job are ok.
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Job Duration Until the beginning the Fall Semester
Positions Available 2
Salary Information $10.00 per hour
Salary Information(Paid/Unpaid) Paid
Period of Employment Summer
Status Part-time
Application Qualification Candidates who have a/an GPA of at least 2.50, have U.S. Citizen or U.S. National or Permanent U.S. Resident work authorization
It sounds really fun. |
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| 02:45am 26/04/2008 |
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Sometimes I feel like I'm on the verge of losing my mind. Like I'm spinning my wheels, and even if they finally bit in, I'd just be moving in the wrong direction anyway. I think everyone feels like that from time to time. I'll make it there. What you can, where you can, when you can, as you can. |
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| I had a good day. |
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| 11:16pm 15/04/2008 |
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The weather is absolutely beautiful today. It was about 65 degrees with a blazing sun and a cool-but-not-cold breeze-- we took the children outside to play in the afternoon, and while they did I helped Sandra dig up the garden and I rescued all but one of the ever-blooming strawberry plants. She let me use the old ceramic planters she's had sitting by the wall there, and I took two home and gave the third to Mary. Sunshine does me so much good-- I get so unhappy in those long winter months and when it's gray, though until recent years I hadn't really noticed the difference in my affect. I think I have a little bit of sunburn, too-- first of the season!
I repotted the plants when I got home, since I had packed the planters full of the two parents plants and all dozen or so of their babies (some of them are just three leaves and a root-- it's cute.) They're all sitting pretty in rows on my back porch now, and while I was doing it both cats sat primly just inside the screen door trying to figure out what the hell I was doing. (After about ten minutes Mei couldn't take it anymore, and unleashed a MROWR? Just one. When I looked at her she didn't ask again.) I don't really have much experience with plants-- the strawberries are pretty hardy, so I hope they'll be okay with all of that repotting. I love strawberries. The soil I brought home is the same stuff they were growing in at school, and it's solid inky black compost, full of rotted sticks and old roots! I am excited about my mini-garden.
Kirk helped me make dinner and generally put up with my endless stream of demands when I got home-- he's good about that. (I can't waste a second of time when I am Getting Things Done. If he gets within aggro or, heaven help him, says 'Can I do anything?' I find him a job. GO PUT SOME WATER ON BOILING. I NEED MY OTHER PLANTER. WASH THAT SKILLET WON'T YOU. START CUTTING UP THE STEAK. Honestly, I'm a terror! Sometimes I even -call ahead- to make him do things. And he does.) The dinner was awesome and delicious and simple to make, while coming out pretty to look at.
( HAVE THE RECIPE HERE: Goat Cheese Pasta with Baby Arugula, Cherry tomatos, and Steak Strips. )
I have been working hard on my research proposal and I feel it will be awesome.
I got a new table and chairs off of Craigslist, solid beechwood with upholstered seats. The whole set was $60 and I'm thrilled with it. It matches the cabinets and really brightens up the kitchen.
I'm tired, but i'm in good spirits. |
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| 01:55am 10/04/2008 |
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One paper down, one much bigger one to go. |
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| 12:55pm 06/04/2008 |
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French roast coffee, bacon burnt almost black, whole wheat pancakes and last night's strawberries for topping with Staci, Brad, Kirk, Seth and Blaine. The housewarming was a success and a good time was had by all, and now we're struggling to become human again the morning after.
Have a paper due tomorrow which is actually due -tuesday-, and will begin working on that today and this week. Next weekend, I have -another- paper due, and after that we begin the great study festivel before finals week. But for right now, I'll just sit and enjoy my coffee. |
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| 07:36am 05/04/2008 |
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mood:  cheerful music: Meowww. Meowwwww!
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Preparing for my housewarming party because I'm up anyhow. The food is cooking away in the slow cooker (presumably I could go back to sleep while it does this!) and the mixers are chilling. I bought Jonah and Mei new collars to replace their tattered and shredded old ones, and when I called them over and pulled theirold ones off, they sat in wide-eyed fascination watching me transfer their tags to the new ones, then accepted the new collars without a struggle and pranced around, tails high, for a good ten minutes afterwards. Silly, proud things. You could tell that Mei felt so pretty, preening and purring. She's the kind of girl that if her clasp comes undone somehow, she'll come and get me to let me know, then take me to wherever it is and look so -expectant-. 'I can't do it. I mean, I haven't got any thumbs.'
I love my kitties. I'm glad they've taken well to the move.
Finished up the guest bedroom-- this house is armed and operational! Decor on the walls, all shelves and rods hung, curtains on the windows and clean dishes in the cupboard. I love my new kitchen and my situation.
Paper to write this weekend, and taxes to return. I'll have my lovely party and take lots of pictures, then buckle down to do real work on Sunday. |
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| 07:13am 05/04/2008 |
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-I can't sleep-. |
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| 01:29pm 01/04/2008 |
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We're mostly moved in-- still playing house tetris with the odds and ends, still a half dozen boxes waiting for unpacking. It's mostly books, because we haven't cemented the bookshelves in place upstairs, and I am loathe to load them up without knowing they're in their permanent place.
House is wonderful. Bigger, more comfortable. Kitchen is just beautiful, and the cats have adjusted well. Jonah was fine in about an hour, Mei took a day or so to start exploring in earnest, and now can be readily found sleeping on the couch or in our bed. There is a foot and a half deep window ledge in the master bedroom that Jonah has claimed for his own, so I stuck their basket there. His primary activities are now Sleeping and Looking, bumping down Bothering and Interfering by five or six points.
I am looking forward to our party, and to finishing putting up the household decorations. It's tiring, the whole process-- I've come down with a slight head cold, which I am trying to kill with rest and vitamins before it gets going. But it's worth it, and I've slept like a log in our nice house. Mom is making drapes for the windows and glass doors, which is good-- it'll add some class, some coziness. Most of the windows are draped already, since we had the old ones from the last house and just brought them all with us.
Things are going well. |
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| more art. |
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| 01:43am 01/04/2008 |
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Recolored the old Elsie image that I accidentally borked back in the day, after tracing over the damaged sketch with an inking layer, then setting to coloring it almost fresh. I used the pencil, acrylic, and airbrush tools, and fewer than twenty colors-- I like the resulting crispness.
( Elsymir, the return! Cut to spare you. ) |
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| Housewarming party, this saturday! |
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| 02:40pm 31/03/2008 |
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Reposted from Facebook, for y'all.
Event Info Name: Amanda and Kirk's housewarming party!
Tagline: It's not a home until you're drunk in it.
Host: Amanda and Kirk
Type: Party - House Party
Time and Place Start Time: Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 5:00pm
End Time: Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 8:00am
Location: Amanda and Kirk's townhouse
Street: 65 Grantour Ct
City/Town: Pontiac, MI
Contact Info Phone: 8108130568
Email: akharrett AT gmail DOT com
Description
We've been moved in a week and are ready to show off the new household! I'll supply some pulled pork and liquors, but I would be thrilled if people could chip in a bag of chips or a bottle of something to make sure we won't run out. We can sleepover any guests who would like to stay!
Our house is 65, the townhouse with the white door. Park anywhere except right up against the leasing office, where the big garage is.
Bring whoever you like-- we'd like to see everyone, even if it's only for a few minutes. |
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| Got my paper back. |
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| 01:49pm 25/03/2008 |
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The story here is that we've been corresponding back and forth, after she spent the weekend not responding to my e-mails regarding whether or not I would get any credit, or could do anything to make up for the mistake. That means that my free and open weekend was spent not correcting the mistake, lacking any instruction how to.
I spoke to her Monday night at the break and she laughed and apologized, saying she would grade the paper after all, and that we could correspond on the matter of how to best go about it.
I got it back this morning with comments left up to the beginning of the third page, of a nine page paper, and then a jump to the end to receive this grade:
GRADE: 50. I stopped grading because it’s hard to grade a paper that is not on any of the assignemd topics. Please review the syllabus very thoroughly. Also, you did not summarize the empirical articles comprising the topics. (I did, but apparently not well enough-- even so, not worth -50 points off-.)
REDO: 0-20. A revision would be the same as redoing a paper entirely, so I’m not sure what you want to do. You did not do anyof the essay assignments, so you would have togo back and do one of the assignemnts. Since you started with depression – stick with that – and write a paper that summarizes (1) Depletion syndrome; or (2) Gender differences.
Fucking -what-? It's like we never even spoke. It's like the conversation never happened. Were these comments from -before- we even talked? 'I stopped grading the paper' THAT I SAID I WOULD GRADE 'because it wasn't on topic' YOU KNEW IT WAS OFF TOPIC AND SAID THAT WAS FINE. This is bullshit. I'm angry and sick over it.
I e-mailed her a WTF. I don't expect it to do any good. |
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| I did new artwork. |
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| 04:57am 23/03/2008 |
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( Which I have cut to spare you. )
Did it over the course of two days, and put long and very enjoyable hours into it. It taught me a lot about coloring and inking on the WACOM (upon which it was done completely-- no sketchbook or scanning phase), and it genuinely the best work I have done to date. The character belongs to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scionmattly, and the poses were lifted from a moment in FLCL with Naota and Canti. I am hugely proud of the armor, and I submitted the piece to Blizzard's fan art page. |
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| 12:18am 21/03/2008 |
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I had a pretty awful day. A really pretty awful day.
Spent last weekend and much of this week studying for a test that ws today, and most of last week stressing out about another test, and the week before that working on a paper. Between that and being sick, I haven't had much time to do other things-- like have fun, or sleep. Missed a lot of Kung Fu. Finally got well again, oh, yesterday. Studied hard.
The paper I turned in was a very good paper, though it gave me nervous breakdown while writing it. I turned it in and felt relief and started studying for the first of my two exams, did a mediocre job on that one, then worked -very- hard on this one. The paper I turned in two weeks ago should have been graded and returned to me by now, so I went to inquire about it, and after a series of confused e-mails got this:
Amanda,
There was a problem with your essay. You prepared an essay on the wrong topic. You fell to the bottom of the pile. So, I'll get back to you when I have time to deal with that.
Thanks,
Dr McGinnis
Oh fuck. For one thing, I cannot begin to suggest how I could possibly have prepared an essay -on the wrong topic- when I followed the syllabus to the letter, the syllabus which included a list of sources to reference while writing your paper, and a damn topic to write it on. Now, this is a teacher that I have had in the past, who likes to set rules and follow them, rules like 'if you fail to do ___, you receive zero credit.' I am not completely certain this news does not mean I have FAILED THE PAPER. If I have, that is 20% of my grade, gone. If that is true, I may well have failed the class-- i may be able to scrape by on the skin of my teeth. Or I may fall just short and waste my time. Or she may invite me to 'revise' the paper-- in this case, to completely fucking rewrite it. In the next week.
That means, in the next month, I can look forward to:
School.
Work.
Kung Fu (when I am healthy enough and unbusy enough to -go-, and to just feel guilt and apprehension when I can't)
3 papers, two worth 20%, one worth 25%.
3 exams
Moving house and fully cleaning the old one.
Which is to say, I can just fucking shoot myself now, this moment.
When I got out of class I found I had a parking ticket. I got to my test twenty-five minutes early and circled the whole of Lot 1 until I had to park on the end-lines just to get to class late. Which I did.
Taxes are coming up and I don't have a lot of mobile income to pay them.
When I got to work Mary told me she'd been invited to take the second degree white belt test, adding to my 'will I have time to take that' stress versus my 'will I be denied the opportunity because I've been too busy to go' stress.
And then when I went to Kung fu, I busted the blade of my left hand. It isn't broken, but it's a little blue and it hurts.
So I came home and cried.
Then I went out for steak and chocolate cake because I needed a damn pick-me-up. I also needed chocolate and red meat to combat PMS-induced anemia. It helped, though it cost too much money.
Now I am home and feeling hollow. I e-mailed my prof back this morning asking if I would receive zero credit for the paper, or if there was anything I could do, and have not yet received word back.
Kirk and I wrote up a schedule of the coming weeks and figured out a plan of what I can do and when I must do it by, and that will definitely help. But jesus, what a day. I feel terrible.
release me of this need I have of me |
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| 05:05pm 16/03/2008 |
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I am still sick but today I am grumpy about it. I can't sleep after the nyquil wears off, so I'm really tired, but when I lay down I feel worse because my head gets all filled up with grossness. But I don't want to take -more- nyquil, because then I can just say g'bye to my sunday.
Spring/summer class registration opens up tomorrow. I looked online for classes and my capstone is not offered. Looks like I'll spend the summer working! There's worse fates. Depressing, though, to be one class away and yet... There is the hope taht more courses will crop up between here and there, but I'm not hanging hard on to it.
I made potato soup and I can basically keep it down. I have a test coming up this week and I dread it, a little. I'm ready for it all to be over. |
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| omg an update? it's huge! I cut it into parts! |
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| 08:28am 15/03/2008 |
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It is 7:40am on a saturday and I am sick again, but those things don't cause me distress because I am well-rested and I have a nummy breakfast of english toasting bread (english muffins in bread loaf form), butter, hummous, and a clementine to go with my hot tea. aum naum. The sun is rising in my eastern window and it is very pretty. It's usually another five hours before I am up, because I am able to be among the more nocturnal of people, but I got up early yesterday morning and that has thrown my schedule off.
Still, I'll take a sunrise.
Went to court yesterday morning for the car accident-- ( more... )
Planning to go on a camping trip this summer, up at Sleeper State Park, July 16-18. I've rented an eleven-person cabin for some ghastly cheap fee, $183 for three days (costs split between occupents, but I have to pay that out of pocket within the next ten days!). Myself, Kirk, Staci, Blaine, Seth, Ilana, Nick (canada nick!), and an uncertain number of others are going-- it'll be like a guild outing to the lake. We'll have bunk beds, a campfire, a lake, sand dunes, fishing, swimming, hiking, and hardcore nerd gaming for three nights, and then drive back home saturday morning. Lilliah and Khadiz are flying out to visit for the whole week of July 14th, and I am -very- excited to host them.
I have been on a fresh fruits and veggies kick for the last month. I think I have eaten about two bags of clementines all by myself, and I've been getting a lot of mileage out of the microwave chocolate fondue cups that Blaine bought me for my birthday, to eat bananas and strawberries with. (I don't just use chocolate chips-- I put in milk and a little bit of peanut butter, so it stays pretty soft.) I also made bruschetta last night and ate about half a loaf of toast, because I am a huge pig, and because I had bruschetta at Mary's house last week and needed to just scarf tomato-basil-green-olive spread on toast until I died of it. And so I did. Scarf, anyhow-- the dying will come later.
( make your own bruschetta the way Amanda did which I accept may not be exactly how Mary did. Shut -up-, Mary. )
I have been playing lots of World of Warcraft and enjoying it. I have also been playing tabletop on the weekends, with the Penn crew + Brad, and enjoying that.
I am sick, but I have a whole weekend to sleep and spoil myself, and the sun is shining, and the snow is melting, and the breezes are turning warm again, and I have spring fever so bad that I just want to run screeching down the street because the frozen frigging north is turning habitable again and OH JOYOUS OCCASION.
I move into my new house on the 28th! We are moving from 72 Grantour Court to 65 Grantour Court. it's like thirty feet down the sidewalk from my front door. (Change your christmas card lists accordingly! I am going to be at -65-!) I will be having a housewarming party, as is the spring tradition (going along with the four-year-running spring tradition of MOVING) and announce it here and on Facebook for interested parties. The new house is a two-bedroom, so we will have the myriad benefits of basement, dishwasher, large front room, and guest bedroom to baffle people with and enable smoother party-having.
Still looking for an internship, but having trouble. No one seems to want me before I've graduated and can say I'm working on my master's degree. I have -one- class to go. Still working at White Rose and have talked frankly with her about my job search from day one, and she says I'm welcome to work there as long as I want to, and she'd love to keep me well into next year if that's what happens. She knows that the preschool has never been part of my career plans, and is a for-now job. The kids are adorable, but the pay sucks-- I haven't had a raise since I started working, and I don't have any guarantees of getting 40 hours this summer.
Kung fu is going okay-- I never seem to be able to go more than two or three times a week, because I get sick or have homework or something, or just get run down. I'd feel better about it if I went more.
Kitties are doing well, Kirk and I are doing well, I'm doing well. He'll be doing full-time school this summer, and I'll try and take a class too, if the one I need is available in the warm months.
Phew, and that's all the major things. You're a doll if you bulled through it. |
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| Got her! |
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| 02:19pm 07/03/2008 |
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Anya is alive and well. |
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| I went blonde. |
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| 01:14am 06/03/2008 |
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( picture! )
Came out super blonde on top, caramel around the sides, where my red hair dye still clung. I left the underside brown, for a burnt look. I like it. |
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| 02:41am 05/03/2008 |
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I went to the grocery store and they were selling the fruits I love and haven't seen all winter-- blueberries, strawberries and bananas. I bought all three kinds and another bag of clementines and scampered home happy. I missed fresh fruit. I don't like the overpriced moldy organic greenhouse versions, and that's all I can find in the cold months.
AND SO. Today I made a glorious blueberry pie. I ate two slices and barely kept myself from eating more. It was so easy! Look how easy it is!
Buy: 2cups of blueberries (or 3-4 of those little boxes.)
Lemon juice
Sugar.
Flour.
Butter.
2x pie crusts. (frozen is better! I like Pet Ritz 9" deep dish. And they -come- in packs of two, so don't accidentally buy four!)
Wash blueberries. Combine with a 1/2c sugar, 2 tbsps flour, 1 tbsp lemon juice. Mix thoroughly.
Put in the pie crust. Take the stick of COLD butter, and slice off little squares from it. You'll only use about two inches of the stick to do this-- dot the blueberries with it.
Take the other pie crust and wad it up, then roll out some of the dough into little snakes. Smash those flat and make a latticed crust on your blueberry filled pie crust.
Brush milk over the top of your latticework once it's on the pie, then sprinkle a teaspoon of sugar to it. The milk makes the sugar stick.
Bake at 375 degrees for 40-60 minutes!
Take out and LET THE DAMN THING COOL. STOP EATING IT. IF YOU EAT IT WHEN IT IS STILL WARM IT WILL BE A PILE OF CRUSTY BITS AND BLUEBERRY AUM NAUM NAUM YUM FRUITS.
If there's any left by the time it cools, eat it as God intended. This is a mil fruit pie, not overly sugary, and it sits really well on the stomach. it is also yummy with vanilla ice cream. |
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| 07:48am 23/02/2008 |
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So i woke up Friday morning feeling a little bit sick. sticky throat, sticky palate, slight soreness, little dehydrated-- you know, 'the countdown has begun. make the necessary arrangements by nightfall, and then, your sinuses are ours'
by Kung Fu I was feeling pretty gross-- skull too small, eyes burning, a need to clear my throat every few moments -- but made it on through. (I threw -terrible- technigue.)
By dinner, I was home and took a full dose of Sudafed PE to initiate combat.
and by three in the morning I was -out of my fucking mind-. I couldn't get warm enough, so we kept piling blankets on. At about 6:30 I woke up, burning hot (but not at all sweating!) and began to hallucinate profoundly.
So I reached and smacked Kirk on the arm. 'Kirk, kirk. jonah has a crab. get him away from it.'
Kirk, being a reasonable human being, managed a '....huh?'
So I hastened to explain. 'he brought it it from outside. s'gonna pinch him.'
Jonah, hearing his name, peered at me upside down from the chair he was sleeping in.
Kirk repeated, after a long moment (processing...) '...wha?'
So I said to him, 'it's -winter-. they're attracted.'
good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm happy to be here today.
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toasted bagel and cream cheese and lady grey tea with lots of milk, and I'm ready to go back to bed. |
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| 12:27pm 12/02/2008 |
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I really miss Anya. Does anyone know how to get in touch with her? |
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