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you have previously added powdered milk to some pudding mix and dumped it into a Ziploc.

Ha I guess I've never bothered to make pudding before.

xpost, I am glad your cat is okay, Kelsey

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

jordan, it's a rat.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

which is kind of silly in a way & i felt slightly embarassed at work yesterday when i said i was leaving to pick up my rat from the vet. but hubcap is great. even the vet assistant said that after meeting hubcap he kinda wants a rat. hubcap is very very sweet. he'll cuddle anyone.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm glad your rat is ok kelsey.

i have to go to a wake for a cat tonight. i just saw him friday night! he'd lost a lot of weight but he still looked ok. anyway, his former owner is having people over for cocktails and chex mix.

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

not silly at all! one of my college roommates had a pet rat that was a total sweetheart.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, that's just instant pudding, which is pretty crappy compared to the home-made stuff. But you take what you can get.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

for those who love pudding and aren't out camping: it's really easy to make from scratch, and so much better than pudding mix chemically stuff. the betty crocker version of vanilla pudding, straight from the microwave, was my comfort food for a long time. xp--yes!

yay for badass healthy kitty cat.

― mmm pudding (JuliaA), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

jordan, it's a rat.

Oh. I take it back then.

(j/k!)

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm actually in the process of contacting a rescue to get a new cage friend for hubcap. i feel like as a human i'm just not enough for a rat.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Willard-photo_09_hires.jpg/300px-Willard-photo_09_hires.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

is it, could it be, cage friend tiem pls?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay Hubcap! I'm so glad, Kelsey!

Julia, how do I shot pudding from scratch?

Okay, John, get one:

http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/images/2079-0016L.jpg

They supposedly don't have the toxic chemicals supposedly in clear plastic Nalgene bottles. Laurel, surprisingly, I'm sure, I don't make a lot of pudding in streams so... yeah.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I still gotta vote against the narrow mouth, srsly.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Although when it rains a lot, there's a pretty fast-moving river of water that runs down Addison, so I could probably make pudding there if the mood struck me.

I probably have a defective lip or something but about the third time I poured water down my chin during class I realized I had to do something different. Although there is always this:

http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/images/2575-3063L.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, perusing the Nalgene website, if their #7 plastic bottles really do leach carcinogenic chemicals into the water and should be avoided by babies and pregnant women, the fact that they make a bottle especially for toddlers is more than a little evil:

http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/images/2182-1012L.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: the link between hard plastic Nalgene bottles and cancer is pretty tenuous and much debated. It's one of those "you're getting more cancer from breathing in the city" type situations: "There is no doubt that polycarbonate bottles contain BPA, but there's little evidence that it leaches out into liquids under normal conditions. Even if small doses do seep, the chemical's effect on humans may prove harmless."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

chicago, why is damn near every site i want to go to today blocked? i have some record shopping i want to do dammit.

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

the government site police are on to you, dude

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, well then in that case... hi fellas!

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

BACK TO WORK, COG!

― VA INTERNET WATCHER #163609A (danno martinez), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Our stupid internet keeps going down.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

pudding: big pyrex bowl, whisk, microwave, milk (skim is fine), corn starch, vanilla extract (always more than the recipe calls for), eggs, sugar. i think that's it...i'll look up a recipe for you.

awesome awesome comfort food and oh look you're getting so much calcium!

and yay for healthy rat, i was too distracted by pudding thoughts to understand.

― mmm pudding (JuliaA), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

This is probably a stupid question, but I need to send someone an email and I don't want to start it off with "I hope you had a lovely New Year" if it would be inappropriate, and so: Do non-Orthodox Jews celebrate Jan. 1 New Year's or do they stick to Rosh Hashanah? Is it okay to start an email to someone whom I assume, but do not know for sure, is Jewish with the aforementioned New Year's greeting?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Healthy pets are far preferable.

I watched the premier of "Dirt" last night on F/X, and while the show didn't blow me away despite a hefty helping of sex, violence, and mental illness, the subplot involving a sick (and finally dead) cat proved almost too much to take. I had to give the kitties treats after that and make them promise never to die.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

huh, i just realized i haven't had a cigarette today. and probably haven't had one in 13 hours. i wonder why i'm not nic-fitting?

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes Jenny, NY greeting is perfectly fine.

I was just making fun of a Jew on NYE for already having had their shot, but I don't seriously know any Jews who ignore western-calendar New Year's.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Jordan. I will send the email. My Jewdar tells me that this particular fellow is Reform to nonpracticing so I figured it would be okay but one can never be too careful.

Everybody come back and entertain me. Work blows and I'm all alone in my little law hole. Also I worked out my schedule over the next two weeks to conform with my coworkers and she keeps freaking changing things and messing me the hell up. Grrr.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have much to say. I wish I did.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I could share with you that I'm excited about an all-new NBC Thursday lineup tomorrow.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

lol lawhole

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"Fuck you, lawhole!"

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it sad to get excited about TV? It's been so long since I've done it. But with Earl and The Office and 30 Rock on the same night... come on. This is good shit.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I just wish they would move Scrubs t0 7 and mash the rest of the shows together, thus giving me a clearer option if I'm in a non-Braffy mood.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, they call it "the library" but that makes it sound warm and inviting instead of windowless and harshly lit by fluorescents and furnished with cast off office furniture remnants. There are a lot books in here, however.

I like The Office. Sometimes I get excited about TV. I'll be glad when BSG and Lost come back.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes I call it the "clerk hole."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a weird relationship with Scrubs. I kind of hate it and yet I watch it at the gym a lot, because it is on Comedy Central ALWAYS and it's better than a lot of other tv.

I should have Harvey Birdman dvds in my mailbox tonight.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I went out to a kosher steakhouse for lunch and I am FULL of "fillet". Because the fillet mignon is a NON-KOSHER CUT, so they serve something else and the menu reads "fillet". It was all right, not terribly special. Also, the non-dairy garlic mashed pot. were almost tasteless, I'm taking them home and slathering 'em in butter, thank you very much. I've had non-dairy ice cream at another steak place around here that's indistinguishable from the real thing, but today's dessert was a little...thin. Icy. No depth of flavor.

Overall, adequate but nothing I'd tell my friends about. Of course my friends aren't obsessed with THREE THOUSAND YEAR-OLD DIETARY LAWS INTENDED TO MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually I never get annoyed by kashrut until someone starts putting soymilk in my coffee. Then I go from zero to cranky.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Why did you go to a kosher steakhouse? I asked the OJ about kosher restaurants this summer and he said there were a lot of him in his 'hood but that he didn't like to eat out because he didn't like eating in public. That led to a rousing mental game of "Jewish law or OJ neurosis?" which was always fun to play.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

lol jews

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

For example: the OJ brushed his teeth after he arrived at work and again in the afternoon. Jewish law or OJ neurosis?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ lol jews

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Because it was a business lunch and my boss is Ortho.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

orthopedic jews

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't like earl or that scrubs show but will gladly sit through both to get to the office and/or 30 rock. i know it is exceptionally warm out for january in chicago but i still wish it were summer. i want to walk to thirsty thursday in my shirtsleeves and think how nice the breeze feels coming off the lake.

then go into that dank little bar and get liquored up.

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah! Speaking of, the OJ came to the office yesterday for a printout of his time sheets so he could talk about everything he'd done over the summer during an upcoming interview (which is kind of INSANE given that once people figured out he was impossible to work with, they stopped giving him assignments, and most of his work consisted of pulling cases off Westlaw BUT ANYWAY) and I stopped in the lobby to chat because I'm fucking nice and three males came by and they all shook his hand and I wanted to be like "Are you doing that just to fuck with me???" because the whole not shaking hands with women thing was a well known affront to the females in the office.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, so they were three non-OJs who happened to shake his hand and not yours?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, yes, but it would have been bizarre for them to shake my hand under those circumstances since I had seen them all five minutes before. Just the fact that they shook his hand at all instead of saying, "Oh, hello former clerk whom we asked not to come back because really you were a terrible employee" seemed weird. I mean, it's not like they are peers or anything.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always wondered if the handshaking thing causes a problem for OJ men & women in secular, professional jobs.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

If by problem you mean fostering resentment among the women in the office then yes, absolutely.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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