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in an attempt to be socially aware and satisfy my vegan boyfriend's veggie cravings, i bought into landisdale farm's co-op. the co-op started this week and runs through october.the fruits and veggies each week are a surprise, which terrifies me, but thrills my boyfriend. i like the idea of eating fresh produce that's actually in season, but if i get a week of squash and kale, i might as well give it to the food bank.

there is one teeny problem. my super awesome culinary boyfriend will be attending a grad school summer program at cornell until the first week of august. this means i am left to fend for myself with a whole lot of leafy things.

i should mention that when he is not around to cook me things, i tend to live on string cheese, yogurt, cereal, and bar food.

so, this is the first week. and dear lord, did i get a ton of produce. how am i possibly going to use this all before i travel again for work on tuesday?

the first thing i made was a 4 points strawberry & rhubarb cobbler. i didn't have any fat free sour cream, so i subbed it with fat free greek yogurt that i paid entirely too much money for at the corner market. i didn't understand why they suggested using frozen fruit either, because i thought the fresh would be much better. anyway, i've decided i'm not a fan of rhubarb, but i am a fan of eating cobbler for dinner. the biscuits had a great consistency (i used a food processor as recommended), and i only wish i didn't eat so many of the strawberries before baking.

feeling extra motivated, i decided to use up my archer farms simply balanced butternut squash fusilli. there are two servings in a box, which is perfect if you're cooking for a small group. i've had target's pastas before, and know they can be really unsatisfying if you don't beef them up. so i pulled out a bag of frozen diced butternut squash, threw some onion & garlic in the food processor, and sauteed all 3 ingredients with some spinach. as recommended on the box, i added some italian seasoning to the veggies. the pasta alone is 6 points, and probably not worth it. however, the veggies really give the sauce flavor, and even though the butternut squash bumps it up to 8 points, it's worth it.

tonight is game 4 of the stanley cup play offs (go flyers!). i will try to be good and get the hummus & roasted corn salad, to make up for the beer i'll be having. tomorrow i will be trying two new recipe - a ww modified version of my boyfriend's zucchini bread, and spicy sugar snap peas. enjoy your friday everyone!

 my 8 year old stepnephew has brain cancer.  advanced.  what the fuck is that shit?!

Setlist:


Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Viva La Vida
Yes
42
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
Chinese Sleep Chant (side stage)
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (side stage/techno version)
Speed Of Sound
Yellow
Lost!
The Scientist (Acoustic)
Death Will Never Conquer (Will - Acoustic)

Encore:

Talk
Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends
The Escapist

Encore 2:

Green Eyes
The Dubliners (*new)

"The impertinent question is the glory and engine of human inquiry. Copernicus asked it and shook the foundations of Renaissance Europe. Darwin asked it and redefined humankind's very sense of itself. Thomas Jefferson asked it and was so invigorated by the asking that he declared it one of our inalienable rights.

Two hundred years years later, Martin Luther King asked it, and forced the country to honor those rights. Daniel Defoe asked the impertinent question and invented the novel. James Joyce asked it and reinvented the novel, which was promptly banned. Jean-Paul Sartre asked it and inspired Simone de Beauvoir, who asked it and inspired a whole generation of women to question what they were doing with men like Jean-Paul Sartre. The Wright brothers asked it and were ignored for five years. Bill Gates asked it and was ignored for five minutes, which was long enough for him to dominate the industry.

Whether reviled or revered in their lifetimes, history's movers framed their questions in ways that were entirely disrespectful of conventional wisdom. Civilization has always advanced in the shimmering wake of its discontents."

Wriiten by Gary Trudeau
Retold Every Year to Honors Program Freshmen by John Grady

It’s hard to believe that Mr. Grady is gone. At La Salle, we would joke that the man was a legend of sorts. You had a problem getting into one of your classes? Mr. Grady would get you in. Had a problem with a professor? Talk to Mr. Grady, and the problem would be resolved before you had a chance to follow up. And in the classroom, his passion for teaching had clearly not subsided, despite the fact his primary role was with the administration. Not only am I grateful for his persistence, enthusiasm, and motivation - but I am grateful for the Honors Program that he spent so many years crafting and perfecting. The Honors Program was more of a community for us, where some of my deepest friendships were formed over those four years. It was a respected program with a resounding leader; one I am going to miss deeply. I am sad that the future members of the Honors Program will not get to work with him directly, but his legacy will continue to live on. God speed, Mr. Grady. I’ll never forget to keep asking the impertinent question.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/20080716_La_Salle_s_John_Grady_Sr___70__professor_and_honors_director.html

“Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean you got zapped, kiddo. But that love you felt, that’s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That’s just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait til you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck Groceries – you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. It’s your destiny. Don’t laugh.”
“I’m not laughing.” I was actually crying. “And please don’t laugh at me now, but I think the reason its so hard for me to get over this guy is because I seriously believed David was my soul mate.”
“He probably was. Your problem is you don’t understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you and then they leave. And thank God for it. Your problem is, you just can’t let this one go. It’s over, Groceries. David’s purpose was to shake you up, drive you out of that marriage that you needed to leave, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light could get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you had to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master and beat it. That was his job and he did great but now it’s over…”

So I'm doing a research study on relationships and online social networking sites (myspace and facebook) so if you could please fill out this survey really quickly i'd be forever grateful!

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=w721rzsw8nvmbws238497

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt