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 It"ll have been nearly seven years in Astoria and NYC by the time that my departure from here comes in October. Life being what it is, items get accumulated. Please help me by receiving and taking away.

I"d prefer to give things to people, particularly if I know them, than to throw them away. 

Your choice...

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Tigan / skillet.

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Adult sleeping bag.

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Bodum coffee press.

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Women"s silver tights.

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have three of these chairs.

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Six of these bins / shelves in total. 
They have legs.

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If you have sore muscles.

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Ceramic pie plate / serving dish.

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Calaphone roasting pan.

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Somersize it ! Slowly... 

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Lodge cast iron grilling skillet (dark mark is drying water).



Whatever remains will be donated. Thanks.
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22.08.2018 23:13 - ewr
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05.01.2009 07:09 - Pomegranate wine Armenia
So we bought, at Sprouts in Tustin on January 1 2009, a bottle (about $11) of semi-dry pomegranate wine from Armenia, just for kicks. Opening it tonight brought surprises:

1) It"s unfiltred
2) The colour -- brick-y red -- makes me wonder about its age
3) It smells like capers, steak and red peppers, though there is also a bit of pomegranate juice aroma, which quickly dissipates
4) It seems drier than expected for a semi-dry wine.

Weird. Not bad, though.
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25.07.2008 15:49 - From "Swimming Pool"
Your lights are all lit -- then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome, -- lend me your light.


from Gitanjali, by Rabindranath Tagore
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11.07.2008 13:38 - Le passage des anges
Where Angels Walk


The streets and the empty glasses
The great coolness of hands
Nothing broken.
   Nothing dirtied.
      Nothing inhuman.

Kindly good day, good evening
I am lazy, you see
In good health

To the health of the landscape
The lover of wide-open streets
If you want me to love you
Open immaculate hands

I am not refreshed.

Odilon-Jean Pйrier (1926)
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25.04.2008 17:07 - What one really earns
I"ve been (shhh) looking at "expanding my options" here in Bulgaria, some of which includes looking at positions as a waitress/barmanka at a cafй. I hope that these people make good tips, because the pay is, at one place, 320 leva a month for day-long shifts (9h30 to 23h30! though I didn"t ask how many days a week/month); another place pays 400 leva for 20 days a month (shifts 9h00 to 17h00 or 17h00 to 02h00)...

But it"s not like there would be the need to work outside one"s shift, either.

And it"s possible to read or chat when on duty. Hmmm!
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07.02.2008 17:16 - The Queen of Boza
I stayed up till 1am last night (this morning? That always throws me) making boza. Thus, I crown myself Кралицата на бозата. It"s not too hard, just messy, particularly as I don"t really have a strainer or cheesecloth. Both the Bulgarian and the Turkish versions are currently under way, bubbling, in my kitchen. The Turkish version is a lot lighter in colour, milky beige; the Bulgarian is darker, like whole wheat flour -- but that is probably because I"m using whole wheat flour, not white flour, in the recipe.
Recently, I"ve been on a boza kick, but the stuff produced here has aspartame in it, which gives me headaches and stomach trouble if too much is consumed. (Also the downfall of diet sodas. How long will it take for sucralose/Splenda to come to Bulgaria? When I was in France in May, it had just arrived there...)
It"s fun.
They say that I"ll soon be more Bulgarian than една българка. Not bad.
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02.02.2008 17:46 - On necessities
It is time to buy a new purse. The one that I mainly use now was bought in Paris exactly three years ago: a boutique on rue de Grenelle, Furla, 100 euro (on aime les soldes, n’est-ce pas?), with my dad but by me. The other one that I sometimes use was bought in Santa Ana, California, at a mall, in January 2001: Harveys – a black bag made of seatbelts, long before they became trendy and were seen everywhere. It’s heavy, sturdy and still looks good. The Furla... is starting to show its age.

I have looked in every store on Levski Boulevard, on Vitosha, in the mall, on and around Solounska Street, in underpass stalls, on Sakuzov Boulevard, and have found nothing. I want a bag of real leather, with a shoulder strap, nothing dowdy, nothing trendy, and preferably not in a depressing shade.

Most bags are large enough to hold a piglet. I do not have a piglet; I have a notebook, two cell phones, a pen, chapstick, a business card holder and sometimes a camera and/or an iPod Mini.

Sometimes, when I’m walking, I go through and date everything that I am wearing. Dating (things) has always held a great significance for me. In second grade, I kept a journal as part of my mum’s schooling requirements for us. For a period of time, I observed a lacewing’s life in our front yard. Then it died, and I was distraught. My mum did not understand why I did not want to write in my journal. Forced, in a shaky hand I wrote: “The lacewing is dead.”

This was all dated.

Today I am wearing: Diesel shoes, Sofia, July 2006, bought with Mum; teal socks, Lands’ End, mail order, US, 1992 (the last remaining pair from a threepack; the red and the pink pairs have since disappeared); jeans, FCUK/Philadelphia, July 4 2002, with friends; underwear, Target store in Orange, California, 2002; Under Armour undershirt, Christmas 2007, from D; Oilily Jeans shirt, January 1 2002, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California, bought by me while in distress over a boy; Schott NYC jacket, Istanbul, December 26 2007, Christmas present from D; Marchon Airlock 2 glasses, Dr Kaye’s office, Orange County, May 2005, insurance; bobbypins, Hondos Center, Dafni, Athens, Greece, July 2007, bought by me.

Does any of this matter?

No.

It reminds me of the baba with whom I sat and talked for two hours on Saturday January 26 at the koukeri festival in Pernik. She introduced herself to me: “I’m Ivan X’s mother Maria (I think that was her name). I have three lunch coupons.” I told her that I did not work at the cafe, and we sat and talked instead. She told me many things that I knew, but always pretend to not know, because the teller gets such pleasure out of national pride. She told me that she never buys clothes, making instead out of two old skirts a new blouse, out of two old blouses a new chemise, out of an old jacket a skirt. She told me some verbs for “to milk”: doya, mouzeya and again another one, but there I cannot make out what she wrote.

This leads me to think: what does one really need? My first six months in Bulgaria, I lived in a hostel with no kitchen, with only two small suitcases of stuff – clothing and toiletries. I ate kiselo zele, yoghurt, banitsa. It worked. Someone recently mentioned some social experiment that some families in the United States undertook: to not buy anything save the necessities for a year. They survived.

It’s easier to not buy: you will never be disappointed with the purchase.

Or, is it that one does not deserve to buy if it is not necessary?

Today I bought: apples from downstairs; pyjamas from women’secret; izvara, buffalo yoghurt, canned tomatoes, bulgur, oatmeal, lotion from Picadilly; broccoli and leeks from downstairs; bleach; rakiya x 2, choubritsa, fig preserves from the market on Sakuzov; natural toothpaste from Lechitel. This is more than I normally buy, maybe. I have this thing about the street markets that the babas and dyadovsti do: they have my 100 per cent support. Rakiya from two different babi, because I fear European Union regulations coming in and killing their lifesource and my enjoyment. The one baba said that I should heat it and mull it with indrishe, which turns out to be pelargonium. The other said that this would not be necessary with hers, as she already distilled it with oleander. The latter’s was finer, cleaner. But I wanted a comparison. Because one day this will be gone.

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28.01.2008 11:47 - Not much of a surprise
Bush Mostly Down in Polls

By The Associated Press – 10.54am, Monday 28 January 2008

In February 2001, President Bush delivered an economic address to a joint session of Congress; in subsequent years he presented his annual State of the Union address. A look at his approval rating in the Gallup Poll around the time of each speech.

_February 2001: 62 percent approval.

_January 2002: 84 percent.

_January 2003: 60 percent.

_January 2004: 53 percent.

_February 2005: 51 percent.

_January 2006: 43 percent.

_January 2007: 36 percent.

_January 2008: 32 percent.

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Last Wednesday (January 16) were the Bacchus Restaurant of the Year Awards 2007. You can see my spiffy dress here
It was fun, talking with people and seeing people and dreaming about... a future career as... who knows what. A life even more in that world. It"s possible! май да.

Let"s see. Out of the nominated restaurants, I"ve only been to about four of them: Opera, Chef"s Restaurant Elea, La Capannina and Beyond the Alley, Behind the Cupboard. Hm.

In the six categories, the nominations were (winners have an *):

Restaurant of the Year Bacchus-Chivas Regal 2007
Chef’s (Pasarel /on the Sofia-Borovets road/)
Classic Gourmet Club (Sofia)*
Musala Palace (Varna)

Original Cuisine
Dimo Dimov – Gourmet Club Classic
Joon Yoshida – Brasserie (Sofia)
Plamen Petrov – La Famiglia (Varna)
Plamen Stamov – Silver Gourmet (Zlatni Pyasutsi/Golden Sands)*
Toni Ivanov – Uniqato (Stara Zagora)

Best Selection of Drinks
Gourmet Club Classic
Musala Palace*
Stara Sofia (Sofia)

Bar & Dinner
Brasserie*
Opera (Sofia)
Up Stairs (Sofia)

Debut
Chef’s Restaurant Elea
La Maison du Gourmet (Sofia)*
Nicola’s Streetfood Bar (Sofia)

Readers’ Choice Award
Bourgas: La Perle Noire
Haskovo: Alafrangite
Plovdiv: Hebros, Hemingway
Sofia: Checkpoint Charlie, Chef’s*, Chef’s Restaurant Elea, Gourmet Club Classic, La Capannina, La Maison du Gourmet, Nicola’s Streetfood Bar, Enoteka Uno, Vishnite, The House with the Clock, Beyond the Alley Behind the Cupboard
Varna: La Famiglia, Silver Gourmet, Kapitol, Musala Palace
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04.01.2008 18:49 - For the Big G
An article

So you can see how I look -- healthy! Happy! : )
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04.01.2008 10:15 - 30 ans du Centre Pompidou
"La rйalitй d"aujourd"hui est dans le mouvement et les mutations perpetuelles."  -- Christine Macel, а propos de 30 ans du Centre Pompidou, "Airs de Paris", dans Beaux Arts, mai 2007
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Today, finally, I bought мушмули (moushmouli, aka, medlars) from a baba on the street, all that she had: 5 kilo for 4 leva. It had been a year since tasting one, which is too long, but that"s the result of seasonal fruits -- and a nice thing to anticipate.
I also bough Jerusalem artichoke from an old man, which, this year, I was permitted to buy -- trying to buy them last year, the baba selling them told me that "they are for people with kidney stones (I think that"s what she said?); you"re young and don"t need them". I just like the taste!
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12.11.2007 14:21 - Mushrooms!
Yesterday, I bought кладница (Pleurotus ostreatus) from a man on the street (бул "Янко Сакъзов"), about 3/4 kg for 4 leva. These are the most beautiful little grey-brown mushrooms, and tasty, too, sauteed in olive oil with thyme, two whole cloves of garlic, chopped parsley, salt and lots of black pepper.
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23.10.2007 12:17 - First snow
It snowed on Saturday night. And it lasted till Sunday afternoon. Then the rain came again and washed it all away.
This is too early for winter!
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