LVQ.

Jan 20

“The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation. During this time the individual will have several windows open, generally several browser ‘tabs,’ a Microsoft Word document in some state of incompletion, the individual’s own Facebook page as well as that of another randomly-selected individual who may or may not be on the ‘friends’ list, 2-5 Gchat conversations that are no longer immediately active, possibly iTunes and a ‘client’ for Twitter.”

yup

5 Emotions Invented by the Internet, by Leigh Alexander (via faketv)

Nov 4

The 2010 farm season has come to a close. Our last CSA pick up was Sunday, and we spent this week getting garlic in the ground and the last of the food out of the ground as quickly as possible. Overall, it was a wonderful spring, summer and fall, and despite record heat and nofuckingrain we did a pretty good job of growing some delicious things to eat. Some stats:

We managed to feed 500 CSA members all sorts of veggies every week for 22 weeks, plus sell produce at the farmstand and farmer’s market. We raised 38 pigs, 23 sheep, 300ish laying hens, and just under 1,000 meat birds. Only 13 of the pigs are left (6 are piglets that won’t be slaughtered til December or January) and I personally killed the final broiler last week. We lost 3 lambs to coyotes and sent a few wethers to slaughter, whittling down the flock to 17. This week our stud, Ramby, will get some long-awaited sexy time with 11 of the ewes in hopes for some spring lambs. The chicks and ducklings that arrived a month or so ago have fully feathered out in time for the cold weather, and will go on to be the next flock of laying birds.

It was a learning season for me, to say the least. I am both sad and relieved it’s over. One thing I know is that I can’t imagine having any other job. Especially because it allows me to do things like take off the next four months and ride my bicycle to New Orleans, which is what I’ll be up to until sometime in January (maybe? maybe longer?).

I have a feeling this blog won’t get a lot of face time in the near future—a great loss I know—but I will be keeping in touch the old fashioned way a bit more. And now, I have a shitload of laundry that awaits and some packing to do.

xo

Lindsay

Nov 3