Still alive! Man, the number of times I've had to write those words... Anyway, I have been writing, but only self-indulgent id-fic because all my energy is going into working out how to preserve ten metric tonnes of tomatoes and apples - yes, the self-evident answer to this is chutney, which uses both tomatoes and apples, but I NEVER WANT TO MAKE CHUTNEY AGAIN. It was traumatic, okay?
Possible next project: homemade tomato sauce, but that recipe looks suspiciously like pureed chutney, and I really ought to know better, right? On the other hand, it can't exactly go worse. /jinx
On a more successful note, I used the leftover apple pulp from apple tea jelly to make an apple crumble! How frugal, how economical, how domestic~! I amaze myself.
Possible next project: homemade tomato sauce, but that recipe looks suspiciously like pureed chutney, and I really ought to know better, right? On the other hand, it can't exactly go worse. /jinx
On a more successful note, I used the leftover apple pulp from apple tea jelly to make an apple crumble! How frugal, how economical, how domestic~! I amaze myself.
AHHHHHH Sam Stosur why must you break my heart so often.
I'm back! Safe and sound and happy, but my computer seems to have some sort of virus? My attempts to fix the problem consist of alternately poking and flailing, but until the computer gets sick of the poking and fixes itself, I can't really use the internet, alas. I have to steal my sister's computer whenever she goes out, which is a very unsatisfactory solution for both of us.
Ah, well... I will have to occupy myself by studying! and cooking! and playing sport! and doing other such uncomfortably productive tasks.
On the subject of cooking, I made lemon cordial yesterday that was ten thousand times better than the store-bought stuff, and we have blackberries and fresh honeycomb on the property at the moment. How exciting is that? And when I get my hands on some sweet tofu, I'm going to try my hand at Japanese cooking - especially kitsune udon and inarizushi and, oh, the sweet red bean soup! I nearly forgot, I liked that so much. And! I brought back tea canisters from Japan so now I can buy new tea! I'll have to conduct some intensive and arduous hands-on research to decide what I want to buy...
So. I am:
a) still sick
b) going to Finland in two weeks.
You would think those two things would be mutually exclusive - I wish those two things were mutually exclusive, with being sick the thing that was excluded. But there you have it. I'm going to Finland (and Sweden and Denmark and Russia and then Japan) where I am going to DIE, DIE like the wimpy cold-hating Australian that I am.
I dunno - I really am going to die of cold and exhaustion, but I'm pretty damn excited anyway. I'm going to see ballet in St Petersburg - I could not make this up. BALLET IN ST PETERSBURG. That's something straight off my list of things to do before I die. And not just that - Tivoli Gardens, Christmas in Stockholm, Nothern Lights (maybe! if we're really lucky), and then Japan. Kyoto, Hiroshima, Tokyo... as;lkfasdflk I cannot believe this. It's too good to be true. I wouldn't believe it at all if I didn't already have evidence of my rapidly decreasing bank account. as;dlkfjasdfk SO EXPENSIVE haha. It'll totally be worth it though. <3 <3 <3
Also, this morning my mum was hit in the face by a pine cone dropped by a cockatoo. Geez, speaking of things you couldn't make up...
a) still sick
b) going to Finland in two weeks.
You would think those two things would be mutually exclusive - I wish those two things were mutually exclusive, with being sick the thing that was excluded. But there you have it. I'm going to Finland (and Sweden and Denmark and Russia and then Japan) where I am going to DIE, DIE like the wimpy cold-hating Australian that I am.
I dunno - I really am going to die of cold and exhaustion, but I'm pretty damn excited anyway. I'm going to see ballet in St Petersburg - I could not make this up. BALLET IN ST PETERSBURG. That's something straight off my list of things to do before I die. And not just that - Tivoli Gardens, Christmas in Stockholm, Nothern Lights (maybe! if we're really lucky), and then Japan. Kyoto, Hiroshima, Tokyo... as;lkfasdflk I cannot believe this. It's too good to be true. I wouldn't believe it at all if I didn't already have evidence of my rapidly decreasing bank account. as;dlkfjasdfk SO EXPENSIVE haha. It'll totally be worth it though. <3 <3 <3
Also, this morning my mum was hit in the face by a pine cone dropped by a cockatoo. Geez, speaking of things you couldn't make up...
Eight Deep-Fried Turkey Disaster Videos
You know what really amazes me about this? There are people in this world who want to deep-fry a turkey. I'm pretty sure that breaks some cardinal culinary rule, like: thou shall not attempt to deep-fry any animal larger than a saucepan.
You know what really amazes me about this? There are people in this world who want to deep-fry a turkey. I'm pretty sure that breaks some cardinal culinary rule, like: thou shall not attempt to deep-fry any animal larger than a saucepan.
The time when you come home from a party to a dark, silent house and turn the kitchen light on, put on the kettle, kick off your heels and pad around the kitchen in stockinged feet.
So, I was thinking about Prince of Tennis while I was walking home from my cousin's house, which can be interpreted in two ways:
( tennis, space laser cannons, statistical proof of the existence of fairiesCollapse )
( tennis, space laser cannons, statistical proof of the existence of fairiesCollapse )
Aaaaaah I'm an idiot. I've been puzzled for ages by the fact that the rich text editor seemed to have disappeared, but I just realised that NoScript was blocking part of the update page. Iiiiiidiot.
Not that I have anything important to post. I am currently:
a) waiting for the Australia/England Twenty20 match to start in England. My household doesn't have pay TV, so I have to follow the ball-by-ball text commentary on cricinfo, eheu. Well, it's charming in its own way.
b) reading my way through the online stories for the Cambridge Latin Course, in an effort to improve the speed of my reading comprehension. I'm learning some neat vocab, too. Furcifer! Pestis! Fur! But I'm a little baffled by the level of violence - a disproportionate percentage of the stories seem to involve people being brutally murdered.
c) drinking Earl Grey tea. With neither milk nor sugar - I've never taken milk in my tea, because I don't like the texture, but I used to take two sugars. I quit a few weeks ago, and at first I craved really sweet tea every night, but that's pretty much history. Hurrah! My teeth will thank me, and as a reward I'll buy myself some China Keemun and Darjeeling and replace my finished stock of Russian Caravan, which I miss. Other possibilities: Monks and rooibos.
But, I confess, I have some Turkish Apple instant tea (is it even a real tea? I doubt it), which comes with premixed sugar, and I still drink that, and it is delicious. 'Nature identical apple flavour', mmm.
EDIT: No, wait, I've got radio commentary through the BBC site. Three cheers for the internet! And what's up with Australia's ridiculously poor luck? They've called the coin toss wrong in, what, six out of the last eight matches?
Not that I have anything important to post. I am currently:
a) waiting for the Australia/England Twenty20 match to start in England. My household doesn't have pay TV, so I have to follow the ball-by-ball text commentary on cricinfo, eheu. Well, it's charming in its own way.
b) reading my way through the online stories for the Cambridge Latin Course, in an effort to improve the speed of my reading comprehension. I'm learning some neat vocab, too. Furcifer! Pestis! Fur! But I'm a little baffled by the level of violence - a disproportionate percentage of the stories seem to involve people being brutally murdered.
c) drinking Earl Grey tea. With neither milk nor sugar - I've never taken milk in my tea, because I don't like the texture, but I used to take two sugars. I quit a few weeks ago, and at first I craved really sweet tea every night, but that's pretty much history. Hurrah! My teeth will thank me, and as a reward I'll buy myself some China Keemun and Darjeeling and replace my finished stock of Russian Caravan, which I miss. Other possibilities: Monks and rooibos.
But, I confess, I have some Turkish Apple instant tea (is it even a real tea? I doubt it), which comes with premixed sugar, and I still drink that, and it is delicious. 'Nature identical apple flavour', mmm.
EDIT: No, wait, I've got radio commentary through the BBC site. Three cheers for the internet! And what's up with Australia's ridiculously poor luck? They've called the coin toss wrong in, what, six out of the last eight matches?
1/2 Prince (manga) : 1/2 Prince (translated novels)
( I want to kill monsters to my heart's contentCollapse )
Short version: virtual reality, gender bending, feminism = things I like.
( I want to kill monsters to my heart's contentCollapse )
Short version: virtual reality, gender bending, feminism = things I like.
I'm feeling crazy anxious at the moment and I don't know why. It's okay when I stop and breathe deeply and talk to myself firmly about acknowledging irrational feelings and staying positive, but as soon as I turn my attention to anything else it sneaks back up on me, and next thing I know it feels like there's an anvil sitting on my chest. I'm constantly stressed and constantly scared.
I just want to shake myself and say calm the fuck down. Seriously, is there anything to be scared of? Pull yourself together.
I just want to shake myself and say calm the fuck down. Seriously, is there anything to be scared of? Pull yourself together.
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