If a cow ever got the chance...

Here are some things I learned this afternoon:

When a carnival squash goes bad, it shrinks to about half its normal size and gets completely encrusted with pretty cream-colored mold that looks just like slightly damp powdered sugar. Carnival squash go bad much faster than kabocha (which don't really mold, but do get weird slightly-tumescent-looking tubers growing out of their underside), butternut (which just have spots here and there, and only if they were damaged somehow), and pumpkin (you could gestate an entire child, from scratch, before a pumpkin would go bad, but I kind of knew that before this afternoon).

The potatoes (shockingly) are OK. Just a little green, and that's nothing that peeling won't fix. The daikon radish was done for, and I won't even get into the contents of the refrigerator.

Poor veggies. I should have just left the stupid organic delivery boxes at the pickup site after like September, and let everything in them go to the homeless shelter. Or given more away to friends. The problem is you think you really will use them this week--how could you not when they're so beautiful and organic and dirt-covered and expensive--and by the time you realize it's really not going to happen, they look like the time in high school when C left a glass of orange juice on his windowsill for a year.*

On the plus side, the freelance thing is going along swimmingly--it's actually well-written and lightly edited--although I haven't gotten to the appendices, which are sixty pages of box scores for half a season's worth of baseball games... So perhaps tomorrow I will feel differently, but 98 pages are done forever and it barely seemed like work.

*He didn't discover it for the first three months, and after that he became interested in what would happen.

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