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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

For those new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.

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– Finally, the posting rules for a new diary: “Be excellent to each other… or else”

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)

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  2. DeniseVelez

    to 46.

    Doing my pre-class prep. On today’s agenda students in my morning anthro class are watching “Jesus Camp”, where they will learn that “normal looking Amurricans” think they should burn in hell for watching or reading Harry Potter.

    In the afternoon in women’s studies we start introducing 2nd wave feminism. My job is to discuss women of color activists who were pretty much ignored by the women’s movement at the time.

    Not that these kids know any of the names of 2nd wave white feminists either.  So today is an introduction, from me to women like Fannie Lou Hamer, and Ella Baker, and women from the Panthers, and Young Lords and the American Indian Movement, as well as my favorite adopted grandmother Yuri Kochiyama who is still militant at age 92.

    Have a good day Meese!

  3. anotherdemocrat

    I kinda wished I had worn long sleeves this morning, but by the time that thought worked it’s way through my head, I was inside. This weekend, it’s supposed to get actually cold – they’re predicting a low of 40 Saturday morning (when I have my ungodly hour workout, sigh)

    Eating breakfast & drinking tea. Holiday luncheon is today, I made the sweet potato & black bean thing I’ve been having for lunch. Hope it goes over well.

    Very few thoughts in my head. Earworm is just the cd I have in my car right now, about 60% Snow Patrol, with some U2 thrown in.

  4. emeraldmaiden

    It’s almost 50 degrees already, but we’re headed for a hard freeze tonight. Rich is excited, because he gets to make a fire in the woodstove, lol.

    I had a restless night; pain and discomfort kept waking me. Ah, well. Once the new insurance kicks in, I can get to a new doctor and get back under real treatment. Aleve ain’t cutting it.

    Finished several skeins of yarn yesterday, so when they dry, I’ll have to take some photos.  

  5. Diana in NoVa

    I’m at my son’s house waiting for the Lowe’s guy to deliver the new dishwasher. Grandpa stopped by with a thermos of life-giving hazelnut-flavored coffee–yum, drank it all–so now I’m catching up with blogs and Facebook on daughter-in-law’s laptop.

    Here’s a nice recipe a colleague at my office gave me many years ago.

    You steam a couple of cut-up small cabbages or one large one with a little butter, salt, and sugar. You spread the tender cabbage in a lightly greased 13″ x 9″ dish. On top of this you sprinkle a layer of grated fresh cheddar cheese. On top of this you spread a layer of cornbread batter, made with one and a half packages of Jiffy cornbread mix. You bake this at the temp. stated on the cornbread package until the cornbread is done, then serve to the vegetarians present at your Thanksgiving dinner.

    She brought this dish, carefully kept hot, to the office Thanksgiving potluck and it was delicious.

  6. princesspat

    November seems to be moving along at a fast clip this year. I think Thanksgiving plans are finally all negotiated through multiple family work/life schedules. I had hoped to have dinner here, but the group keeps getting bigger so I don’t think I can……pesky arthritis! I hope this flare up eventually settles down and doesn’t become a permanent way of life.

  7. bfitzinAR

    about the time I head over to the Courthouse for Budget Committee.  Good news – we’ve added funding for 1 (count ’em – 1) fixed bus route connecting 7 small towns with the Fayetteville stop that connects to the University, the Mall, the “medical district”, the HHS & SS offices, and the community college in the county just north of us.  Not so good news – tonight we eviscerate the IT budget, removing the staff the director has asked for 3 years running (programmer, systems analyst, and a help desk dispatcher), half the new security projects, and 1/3 of the software license renewals.  I doubt that I will be able to get ANY of that put back in.  Hello train wreck, here we come!  More less good news – if we can agree on tonight’s level of IT evisceration, we may actually approve the whole 2014 Budget tonight and send it out of committee to Thursday’s Full Quorum Court with a “do pass” recommendation.  Hold the good thought and have a good day.  {{{HUGS}}}

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