Good morning, kids!

I think I'll paint the bedroom today. How you like that?

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

Answers

Herro?

T, when you make red beans & rice, do you cover them? I can't remember.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

I cover them, but I leave a little crack in the cover, if that makes sense. That way, the steam can vent, but the beand don't lose too much water before they can absorb it.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

Okay, that's what I'm doing. I haven't ever made them before, but I think I remember my mom's recipe.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

I use my mom's recipe which is actually the recipe printed on the bag of Camellia Brand red beans. A add some Tony's, and I use a hamhock that's cut so you can't tell it's a pig's foot, but that's the recipe I use. I let it cook all day.

But yeah. Camellia beans always turn out the right way.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

Yeah, I wasn't about buying a ham hock. I'm using sausage. Yesterday when I bought the beans the bag split in the grocery store and spilled all over the floor. Nice.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

Oh, that's awful. Did you pretend that they weren't your beans? That would be funny.

Y'all, I am really down today about this whole job thing. A girl at Agnes Scott (in the alumnae office) just sent me a notice about a Nine West outlet needing sales managers. Rub salt in the wound, already.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

I'm sure she doesn't know you applied for a job there.

What happened to consulting for Insider?

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

I don't think that will go anywhere. As long as they keep up my health insurance and don't ask me to return this computer, I'm okay with that. I found out that last week, they hired this former state rep Randy Sauder to help them set up political newsletters across the Southeast because "he can fly for free." Y'all, if I had worked there still, that would have caused me to quit. The company has no credibility anymore - Sauder is a laughingstock. He switched parties at the last minute in a very shady way, he lost the election - as a formerly popular incumbent - by a landslide, and he is constantly mocked TO HIS FACE any time he shows up at a public or private political event. That company is digging its hole even depper, all becauce the CEO, who orchestrated Sauder's party-switching, is a paranoid schizophrenic, I am convinced.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

So.

I just cut the fuck out of my finger and smashed the TV into a million pieces.

Hmmm. What should I do?

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

AB!

What happened??

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

Are you okay? Do you need stitches? Holy cow!

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

Well, what had happened was, I was moving the armoire and the TV fell out of it. I lamely tried to break its fall and it sliced my finger. I put a butterfly on it, and cried a little, and called Master V. Everything's cool. But the TV is very sad and a lot broken.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

Yikes. No more t.v.!

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001