Sunday, September 26, 2004

2 weeks have gone by.
the first week was busy busy applying for jobs and doing stuff. then i hit a lull and stayed in bed reading most of week 2, getting only a few things done.
i have a list here of 34 to do items i want to key in. but for now i will go back to reading - sorenson on kennedy.

do memo
look for bar card or get bar card - visit jail
print off presentation, practice it.
buy carrots
dallas stoner
letter to brooke
check on car
39 eastern deeds
letter to clients
jailblog
clean papers in room
go thru desk, put stuff in folders?
eat
food stamps?
draft letter about rescission
letter to wishard requesting medical records
lily medical records
look for medical records at 227
write to zorry - done?
make4 copy of water bill for joell
get letter from joell re rent
texas tax bill
letter re duress
note to caudill re chuck
wash dishes take outtrash
geta job
call the works, are they hiring?
law school libraryjobs
law school placementofficejoblists
barristerpersonnel
look up disabilityinfofinishlettertomom
transcribeletterto lindy
write autobiography.

Sunday, September 12, 2004

goals for monday: addition

6:45 - ups application and interview.
maybe go to kaplan for an lsat test. call first.
get some sleep, be clean? wear a tie?other stuff.
there was some third thing.get lindy's phone number to put with application.
ymca app? maybe put that off til tuesday.
did:mailed letter to mom.mailed electric bill.
didn't write down how much electric bill was. check checkbook.
didn't: start lbj blog.
did: called landlord.he is supposed to fax something if the weather is ok.
made a bit of a to do list, need better list could work on it on bus?
suddenly tired.
did: took computer.to do - ease up on cable. let joell know. get online over there.
make list of more places to apply.
look at iupui.
look at monster.
blue line staffing?
goals for september/octoberpay taxes.document incident.
talk to prosecutor about lonnie.talk to dectective about lonnie.
write the damn memo.
1) read what i have so far.
2) outline what i want. big flow chart.
3) write it.
4) westlaw back it up further.
get matt out.
just a draft.
Matt:
let's review.
You are trespassing in my house.
You've been asked to leave.
I've paid the rent. You haven't.
I have a lease, you don't.
Your rent was due in full august 1st; this is september.
the problem was never the money, it was the refusal to clean up after the dogs.
I gave you written notice that that's what you needed to do to stay, you chose not to.
You wouldn't talk to me - I'm probably hard to talk to but I would have listened.
You're being here is an immediate threat to my health and I need you gone right away.
You don't have to go home but you can't stay here.
Lee has asked you to leave. I've asked you to leave. I'd rather not have the cops have to ask you to leave. Please leave now, calmly and quietly.
I'll pay for a taxi to take you and the dogs wherever you need to go.
I'll pay for the gas for (_) or joell to move your stuff.
Otherwise i'll put in storage or out on the sidewalk.
I don't dislike you - I just need you out of my house.
I need to have this place to myself for awhile so I can have my nervous breakdown in peace.
Needs tuning up...






prioritize.
work on audition.
How to prepare tsel dey.
or, How to prepare Tibetan stir fried vegetables.

What I'm going to teach you tonight is a simple dish eaten by the people of tibet.
I was taught this dish by the nephew of the dalai lama.
He runs a restaurant in bloomington called the snow lion.
So if you ever go to bloomington, make sure to stop in at the snow lion.
Good food, and a chance to learn about another culture.

In order to make this dish, we're going to take 4 vegetables, put them in a wok with some spices, and serve over rice.
How many of you know how to cook rice?
Here's the secret.
Buy some rice.
Follow the directions on the package.
RTFM. FTD. follow the directions.
Can we skip that step, or should I got over how to cook the rice?
How many of you know how to boil water?
Good!
Boil some water add some rice turn the heat down to simmer 20 minutes, turn heat off wait 5 minutes fluff with chop sticks.
I'm going to go over the basic dish,
then we'll add some basic variations.
Tsel day is stir fried vegetables over rice.
This recipe makes a quart.
A quart is 4 cups, we have 4 vegetables, so we'll take one cup each of
peas,
carrots,
onions,
and cabbage.
Fresh peas are ok, but plan on using frozen peas. Do -not- use canned peas, that'll ruin it.
Take a couple large carrots and shred them with a cheese grater. For reasons I don't understand, you do this by hand, instead of with your food processor.
Everybody visualizing shredding the carrots?
Then chop your cabbage. About a pound of cabbage, maybe a 1/3 of a cabbage, should give you a cup. One or two good sized onions, yellow or white onions.
If you keep a chop stick in your mouth, bite down on it, that's supposed to help you not cry when chopping the onions. Cut off the part at the bottom that has the roots, throw that away, peel off the outermost layer, ok, cut those up, dice the onions, pieces about the size of a nickel or penny is fine. So at this point you have peas, carrots, cabbage, onions, chopped and ready, you have your rice cooking or cooked.
Take a wok, that's a kind of round pot, and for this dish it's better to have the kind with a handle, so you can pick it up and shake it while it cooks. But if you have the kind with no handle, just stir more.
Now lets get your spices ready.
Black pepper, garlic powder, sugar, salt, and a mix of red pepers.
The exact kind of the 5 red asian peppers that a ground up is the key secret that I never did learn. So this is not going to be the exact recipe. This is going to be your adaptation of an old tibetan recipe handed down to you by a lawyer you met, who learned it from the family of the dalai lama. This part is going to take the most finesse and judgment. Take 5 kinds of red peppers, crush them into a powder.
You'll probably want to use cayenne pepper as one, that's your basic red pepper used in tbasco sauce or hot sauce. The others, use youir own judgement. If you can't find red peppers in the asian section of your store, try the mexican section.
Dont get this on your fingers or in your eyes, because it's going to be hot.
The amount of red pepper you use is going to determine how hot the dish come out -
we use 4 levels, mild, medium, hot, and chef's challenge.
Now that you have your spices ready, and your beggies ready, lets get cooking.
Your wok should be clean and empty. No oil. Put it on the highest heat for several miutes until the wok is really hot. You can't start with a cold dish and add heat as you go.. you want to get it as hot as you can before you add the ingredients. It it is melting into liquid iron, that's probably too hot. It it's starting to glow red and smoke, that's fine. Ok, the ingredients are ready, the spices are ready, the wok is hot, no distractions, ok let's cook. toss the onions in first. hey can cook 30 seconds before you add the other veggies. because there's no oil, you want to stirring fairly often, using a spatula or a big chop stick, or take the pan by the handle and shake it a little .
Go ahead and throw in your peas, carrots and cabbage, give it a stir.
Add a pinch of pepper, a little salt, a little sugar- not much. a couple shakes or garlic salt.
and the red pepper mix. go easy at first. how how are you shooting for? a little goes a long way, so add less than you need, and more in a minute. keep stirring. if it seems like it's starting to stick to the sizes of the wok, splash i little water in there, just a teaspoon. that'll turn into steam so it won't stick too badly, but keep stiurring. go ahead and taste it now.. is it too spicy? too bland? it its balnd ad you weanted spicy, add a little more now. keep stirring. ok, by now it's been going 2, 3 minutes? does the food look cooked? does it sound cooked? are the cabbage and carrots looking a little wilted and limp? it's probably ready. keep stirring! ok you can turn off the heat or move it away from the stove.
let it sit a moment while you put some rice on a nice serving plate, and then pour the veggies over the rice. voila, as we say in tibet.
that's the basic dish.
here, we used vegetables as the base, and you're always going to use those peas cabbage carrots and onions. but if you insist on meat, you could add precooked cubes of yak or mountain goat or mutton or yeti. you don't need to complicate this dish with bamboo or chestnuts or broccoli, but you might want to add snow peas, or peanuts.
cajun spice is another variation, or for a sesame flavor add 1 teaspoon of toasted sesame oil right at the very end, and sprinkle sesame sedds over the top before serving. i like mine cajun sesame hot plus. now we've served this over rice, another variation is with noodles instead of rice. Curry paste is one more option spice-wise.
use udon or fettuchini or any pasta. cook the noodles according tot he directions, then cover with cold water. when the veggies are done, toss in a handful of the noodles and stir, 10 or 20 seconds is fine, pour onto the plate and serve.
So you've learned the basic dish, tsel day, which can be served mild medium hot or chef's chalenge. The hotness level is controlled by the amount of the blend of the 5 peppers, that you have developed as your own trademark way of fixing this dish. The way I fix is different than the way my boss jigme fixes it, and yours will be different than mine. You can add authenticty
by growing the hot peppers in your garden, or gathering them on the slopes of mount everest.
Or you can get them at marsh. You've learned that the base is the cabbage carrot peas and onions in the spice mixture, served with noodles or over rice. There are many kinds of rice, or you could use barley or some other grain. You can add snow peas or peanuts, cajun or sesame or curry flavor. With this dish and its variations, you are now ready to open your own tibetan restaurant. Thank you and "tashi dalek." Were there any questions? I think my time is up, but you can seeme after class. I'm goingto give the podium back to mr so he can intoridce the next presenter.








goals for monday:
6:45 - ups application and interview.
maybe go to kaplan for an lsat test. call first. get some sleep, be clean? wear a tie?
other stuff. there was some third thing.
get lindy's phone number to put with application.
ymca app? maybe put that off til tuesday.

did:
mailed letter to mom.
mailed electric bill.
didn't write down how much electric bill was. check checkbook.
didn't: start lbj blog.
did: called landlord.
he is supposed to fax something if the weather is ok.
made a bit of a to do list, need better list could work on it on bus?
suddenly tired.
did: took computer.
to do - ease up on cable. let joell know. get online over there.
make list of more places to apply.
look at iupui. look at monster. blue line staffing?
goals for september/october
pay taxes.
document incident.
talk to prosecutor about lonnie.
talk to dectective about lonnie.
write the damn memo.
1) read what i have so far.
2) outline what i want. big flow chart.
3) write it.
4) westlaw back it up further.
get matt out.

prioritize.
work on audition.




Friday, September 03, 2004

more did didn't
did: mailed 3 items. mom, oil company, dentist.didn't: mail the billsdid: call walmart, make ID,didn't: call lee, get lee's ., print out ID.did: email mike and z.to do: go to job history place, bank, kinkos, library?to do: make to do list.wishlist: try to talk to roommate.do the memo on properties.update, later that evening.did: call landlord, print out ID, deliver ID, got wage history sheet, went to bank, am at library.still to do: go thru bills when i get home, try to talk to roommate.do the memo on properties.next week: deliver wage history sheet, make new appointment for counseling.begin working through items on better to do list.prioritize items, do some important ones and some easy ones, and make notes about which ones aren't getting done and why. be better prepared for next week's session.at least outline memo. write another letter to landlord. try to formalize agreement with landlord.make list of possible jobs.break it down into steps to get the job.make list of possible projects. make list of objections why project not doable.i can do anything i want - i can't do everything i want.need to decide what's important.update blog re nevada case.
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Thursday, September 02, 2004
did, didn't.
The main source of stress right now is i have a roommate who won't leave after i've asked him to go. he has no where to go, is depressed, doesn't drive, wasn't paying the rent or more importantly cleaning up after himself or his dogs.Since that's pretty much my life except for the dogs part, it hurts me to see him going thru this, but i can't live in dog shit whle i'm having a nervous breakdown, so he has to go.I was able to get online last night and get my files off his computer uploaded to the net, so that's good. I'll probably have to get my own net connection, most likely cable.Without him and the dogs here, my worries will be a) loneliness b) crime. It's a rough neighborhood and i felt safer with him and the dogs here, except from him. I don't know if he's going to go calmly, so it's stressful. Whine whine whine.Ah, that's the next thing I can do, email one of those files to the person it's for.What i got done yesterday: bath, laundry, wrote a memo, packed up his stuff from the kitchen, mostly hid in my room reading a book. It's kind of tense. "Just tough it out." I can get thru this.So that was 3 of the 5 items on my list.I'm feeling a little anxiety. Oh, i wrote to one of my best friends who i've been hiding from, asked him to email me. I'd been hiding because he has depression and anxiety too, and i didn't want to burden him with my troubles, but that was may and this is september. edit: he just called, we had a nice chat, he gave me a -ton- of emotional support that should get me thru the day, and is a big help overall.What i didn't get done yesterday, of the stuff on my daily task list, was to mail something- I set a small achievable goal of mailing out one bill, and didn't get it done, and,- make to do list. i started to but left off.Plan for today: bike downtown. sort out desk, mail something, write to mom, have a good dinner.bike downtown: bring the bike lock. go to the bank. go to the place to apply as dishwasher.could have coffee. call walmart, maybe take bus to walmart, that would be a full day. stay up, or sleep till noon?So ok ok this isn't great literature. I use this space to try to get my head together.limited success.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

dtl:
bath
laundry
some work on memos
pay at least one bill
make to do list

possible:
open threat envelopes
maintain sense of humor
try to talk to roommate
Posted by Kerry on July 23, 2004 at 15:49:18:
In Reply to: Fogged 3x this week... posted by Flustered on July 22, 2004 at 16:31:07:
Being you live in an apartment complex, trying to be your own exterminator is a waste of both of your vaulable money and time. Do they have a pest control service at your complex? If not, try this. Purchase a roach gel bait with active ingredients of Hyrdamethynlon or Fipronil. Wal Mart sells theses type of baits. Place a small amount of gel on each leg of the furniture and if your seeing them in your cabinets in the kitchen or bathroom you can place a small amount behind the facing of the cabinet inside the cabinet. Also place a small amount of gel around all water lines coming out of floors and walls.
Your neighbor could be expierencing this problem and done nothing to avail the situation. Just treating one side and not the other will not solve the problem. Moving? they [german roaches] can pack thier luggage and move where you move to. Needless to say the problem will still be there.
Setting off foggers will kill only 'exposed' roaches not ones hidden throughout the apartment. A fogger, or "total release", is activated by being under pressure. Once activated it releases itself and goes up and then settles on where it is set off. Thulsy killing what exposed roaches come in contact while being released or what little residual effect it has thereafter.

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