having a 12 hr a day job has cut into energy for late night excursions, but i am starting to get adjusted and last night with vince and natalie went dumpstering for produce. we've sort of been slacking on this front; a few months ago for some reason the tj's dumpster got really good and that slowly began distracting us from the more workaday prospects of the produce dumpsters. also, the bike dumpster next to tj's has started yeilding sweet things (tonight we got many good tires, chainrings and cranks, and allen wrenches, and a bell). but fruit and vegs are essential, and until i can organize my house to shop for produce at the farmers markets the dumpsters are where we'll be shopping. standard run that served us so well during winter (tj's -> qfc -> prod. stand -> wf) yielded some good stuff, but not in the quantities i've become accustomed to. i think the summer sun might be pretty brutal on the produce.

no time to cook fancy things, but housemate annie turned all the random vegs (cauliflower, bean sprouts, tomatoes, peppers, etc) into a delicious pseudocurry, a sherwood standard. g's r d. that and the fancy ginger ale we got was a nice dinner, made pleasenter by the company of my housemates in high summer spirits. heirloom toms on ebc bread with garlic basil cheese spread made a nice late night snack. yum. gonna pack some of that for lunch tomorrow i think.

have yet to explain to the kids i work with that most of the food i eat comes out of the trash. wonder how that'll go over. they eat such shit though... i have to restrain myself from railing on six year olds for all the wasteful packaging their gross food necessitates. arg.