[prinnay]

Grasp

Inspired by the Pillars of Creation star cluster

[kp11studios]

Alright, today's the day ya'll are gonna learn how to make proper Chai! (no not Chai tea latte bullshit. Ya'll are literally asking for tea tea latte, doesn't make sense!)

Listen up!

1. Fill your cooking pot 1.5 parts (measured by the cup you're serving in) of water.

2. Add a healthy pinch of grated ginger.

3. Take 3-4 cardamom cloves, break em open to get the seeds, crush them using a blunt object, like mortar and pestle (you can also grind in food processor) and add to pot. You can also just grind me up in a food processor, shell and all, and add it like that.

4. Add a tablespoon of black tea powder. Any Indian brand will work.

5. Bring the mix to a roaring boil.

6. Add milk until you get a slight clay pot color, or a darkish brown. Bring to a boil again.

7. Add sugar to taste.

8. Filter tea into a cup.

9. Aaaand voila, done! Serve with your favorite butter cookies/biscuit to dip in tea!

Enjoy!

[catinelle]

one last time

[abduction]

[kingkilling-and-stormlight]

SKY WHALE SKY WHALE SKY WHALE

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

No. Look at the position of the tail fins. They’re perpendicular rather than parallel to the ground. That’s a sky shark.

[gnomebud]

SKY SHARK SKY SHARK SKY SHARK

[a-heist-of-words]

I would've been ok with it. The Nein learning to deal with the unfairness of it all, but getting some respite in giving their friend a proper goodbye.

And then Caduceus, sweet cow man, looked at death, the one thing he holds sacred, and said: not now. My friends deserve better.

And the Wild Mother agreed.

[elliesgaymachete]

Matt had already gone through the five stages of grief and accepted that sometimes you can save the world but you can’t save everyone, the mighty nein’s story would be a bittersweet one, then Taliesin Fucking Jaffe comes in with divine intervention like

[goawfma]

this is an insult

[blame-my-muses]

I once applied and interviewed at a bookstore cafe for a barista position. It was way closer to my home, and I had almost a decade of experience working in a coffee shop at that point. 

Got to the interview, and it turned out they didn’t want a barista, they wanted someone to spearhead their new cafe, as the cafe that had been in the store before didn’t want to resign their lease with the bookshop. They wanted to put their own cafe in its place, all new menus etc. They needed someone experienced to train their new staff, to handle window displays, to communicate with the bookstore owners about changes and needs of the cafe, to be able to handle inventory and ordering.

Okay, I had basically done most of that stuff at my previous job. I asked if cafe positions would also be required/trained to work the bookstore. They would. They would be required to run the book sale counter, stock and reshelf books, and help bookshop customers find things. They would also–despite having an outside cleaning company–have to help maintain bathroom cleanliness. They’d have to take out trash, and clean spills, and vacuum.  Wow, that’s a lot, I said. Is this a manager’s position, then?

No, I was told, it wasn’t, but there was a chance that after a training period it might become one. And that made me pause, because I’d been working as the front-of-house manager at my cafe, and I knew how much work that entailed, and what kind of money I was making, and it was only the commute that had me looking for a new job. So I asked what the job paid. $8. E I G H T  D O L L A R S. Per hour. Barely above minimum. For all of that work. For someone they expected to get an entirely new cafe up and running, and then also do the work of the bookstore and the cleaning company as well.  I thanked the woman for the interview, said I’d have to talk to my significant other about the impact a four dollar pay cut would have on our finances, and that I wasn’t sure it was the job for me. She asked me to sleep on it, and she’d call me the next day.  This is a job I was way more than qualified for. I had years of experience doing exactly the things they wanted. It was a convenient location, close to my home–I could walk there if I absolutely had to. I did not go home and talk about that four dollar pay cut and what it would do to our finances. I knew as soon as she told me that not only was it not feasible for us, it was downright insulting. That little money? For a frankly ridiculous list of responsibilities and expectations? She called back the next day. I thanked her again, and told her in no uncertain terms that my time was worth way more than what they were offering. And whenever people bitch about Millennials being lazy, not spending money, not buying houses…whatever the complaint of the month is…I think about the very nice lady who conducted this interview, and how confused she was that I didn’t want the job. 

[jazzchica33]

#ivoted🇺🇸 obligatory I voted post. I can’t say the Democratic nominee is my preferred choice. But this election is important. Important enough for me to officially change my residency from OH to NJ and take the absolute worst driver’s license picture I’ve ever taken. Seriously, no one is seeing this one unless they have to. All kidding aside, if can vote please do. If you can still register, get on that and get it done. Bad pictures of ballot box, because I couldn’t take a picture inside when I dropped it to a person. Happy Friday. (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGsra2XjSZG/?igshid=ue3u7fdde2n9

[jazzchica33]

I think the cats are confused. They’re like hey. We had like six months of you laying in bed and cuddling, two weeks of you having a weird schedule, and now you’re always sitting in front of the thing with the screens and we can’t lay on you. What gives? (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGY4YD2jH2u/?igshid=t9y93qnm998e

[jazzchica33]

While I was on the phone with Mom, I kept hearing these shuffling noises and didn’t see Shadow. Started checking closets and behind furniture before I thought to look in his favorite hiding place. (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGV-SYcjRDd/?igshid=130mvu4dmielv

[jazzchica33]

I was talking to Mom the other day, and we were talking about how Dad would be watching the Lakers game with her, complaining that she was too loud (and probably waking him up) and should be quiet. I’d pointed out that he’d be cheering for LeBron, and not (as he called them) “those sorry old Lakers”. Ed Massey was definitely not a Lakers fan. We had a good laugh and talked about how we think about him all of the time. Woke up today and really wanted a proper breakfast. Almost every time I make breakfast food, I think of him, and how he always said I didn’t use enough grease in my eggs and that’s why they stuck to the pan ( he probably wasn’t wrong) and even though I didn’t make my eggs like he would’ve today, I was sort of in my feels And then I realized the last time I saw him alive in 2017 years was in the beginning of October, around the week of the 10th or so. Sort of just stream of conscious typing at the moment, it’s funny how food can hold so many memories. (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQHkgojI5c/?igshid=begaik7fz646

[jazzchica33]

Was getting a little worried that my ballot hadn’t arrived yet. Now to figure out where the closest post office is (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF-VOnUDZ9h/?igshid=168ruc4wt2kn3

[jazzchica33]

First (partial) week down at the new job, here’s my improvised desk setup, I’ll have a larger desk setup one day. lol (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF3FxEIjhcI/?igshid=lf947zyvrbon

[jazzchica33]

Realized while I was out that one of my favorite seasonal coffee from @starbucks was out. Since it’s #NationalCoffeeDay, it seemed appropriate to get some cold brew going. (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFvzxy8j50X/?igshid=1fvw4i3dhhyp8

[jazzchica33]

He’s a weirdo, but he’s my weirdo. Even when he’s trying to get into the ham I’m making sandwiches with. lol (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFsNppQjAC-/?igshid=krbejpcvnbrh

[jazzchica33]

Moved some things around yesterday and the bookshelf is closer to the corner. Which was fine. When I came home today, clipped the corner and knocked almost everything off of the top of said bookshelf. The Baldwin prayer candle took the most damage. At least I can order a new one from @schomburgshop Sigh. (at Newark, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkfMwwDElv/?igshid=1pmmbpw8tjurl

[jazzchica33]

#Repost @tvo_this with @get_repost ・・・ Why are NYC theaters producing white writers almost 4 times more than their BIPOC counterparts? @aapac_nyc drops the Visibility Report at aapacnyc.org on Sept. 30th. @aapac_nyc #aapacnyc #visibilityreport https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkEfsLDu24/?igshid=14dwzsgxbki1b