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One last political note until October or so (I almost promise): If superduper Tuesday had been a four-way general election, Obama would have won. He got more total votes than Clinton, and each of them got more votes than all of the combined votes cast for Republicans (according to what I heard on npr this afternoon). To me, that shows that the Independents came out of the woodwork to vote for him, while in Democratic strongholds (California, New York, Massachusetts) the Dems stuck to the orthodoxy.

Alexis, having read a good chunk of The Omnivore's Dilemma, is making food choices based on ethical issues. This is an interesting role change, as I'm basically eating anything I like, as long as I like it. That includes two exciting forms of cherry-flavored junk food: cherry cordial goo filled hershey's kisses and cherry jello with peach pieces in it. "Red" is my favorite flavor.

It doesn't appear that my screw-ups at work are going to get me fired, at least not any time soon. I'm slated to help teach the "Pest Control" zookeeper training class in April, and I had a meeting today about what's going to happen with pest control in the spring and summer. Good signs that I won't be out on my ass next week. On the other hand I have my 6 month review on Monday, and I'm pretty sure I'll be eating a lot of shit during that.

My "take out more than you bring in" form of self clutter-control seems to be working. It means I take out the trash and recycling more often, at least. I tried freecycle and so far I don't like it. I've gone through a lot of work to get rid of one pair of boots. If anyone in the Boston area wants size 9 docs and cons let me know. Also, candent, send me your mailing address if you want my old paperbacks!

In urban nature news, my new coworker took some pictures of a saw-whet owl outside her window in East Boston! I'll post them once she sends me copies.

I feel weirdly guilty about not posting every day. I'm blaming it on the weather, for now. I'll add it to complaints like my lips being so chapped they bleed, the skin of my face flaking off in chunks, and the dry heated buildings cooking my moisture away until I'm so dehydrated that I wake up with a Boone's Farm hangover every morning. But really, would you want to read complaints like that from me every day?

I racked up over 6 dollars in library fines, which I feel perversely good about. I can't just hand the librarians money (they are easily confuzzled) but I feel like supporting them. I gave them two giant hardcover books and a fullscreen version of king kong that I bought by accident, and that was fairly confuzzling to them. Just as well to earn a good honest library fine. Anyway, I got my excise tax bill, and I assume that must trickle down to the library eventually.

We watched "The Bridge," a documentary about the most popular place in the country for people to commit suicide: The Golden Gate Bridge. To make the film, a team of a dozen camera operators scanned the bridge for a year, looking for likely jumpers. They would call the Bridge Patrol if anyone looked like they were going over (and helped save a few people) but they would film the whole thing: rescues and successful attempts. The footage is interspersed with surviving friends and family members talking about the people who jumped, most of whom were profoundly disturbed, and announced their suicides long before traveling to the bridge. It was very well made, but I only rated it 3 stars so that I wouldn't have tons of depressing movies recommended to me by Netflix.

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I had that problem with Freecycle too. I just went back to leaving stuff on the curb and if no one wants it before the garbage truck come, it's gone.