Pandemic life( Nothing to report, really. )Previous poll reviewIn the Cluedo poll, by far the most popular weapon was the cassowary (53.3%), followed by extremely elegant clothing (33.3%). In ticky-boxes, musical frogs and the wishing abyss tied for second place with 42.2%, after hugs with 75.6%. Thank you for your votes!
ReadingMore of
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins (I'm enjoying it, but it feels like it will never end), more of the latest
Rivers of London (also audio), and more of
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall (library book). A browse through
Low-FODMAP and Vegan: what to eat when you can't eat anything by Joanne Stepaniak (library book), of which more below.
Kdramas/CdramasI'm still going with
Nothing But Love, eking it out. Pru and I watched two episodes of
Mystic Pop-up Bar, and it's pretty great. I don't know why I bounced off last time. It does help that Choi Won-young, one of the dads from
Family by Choice, is main cast and I love him.
Other TV/moviesWow, almost no TV. Some Vir Das standup (very good), finished
The Sympathizer with our tv-watching friend (fascinating, dark, very black comedy), two episodes of
Fringe season 2 with my sister. One episode of new
Magnum PI (very woohoo the military!). A ton more
Bluey.
Bluey observation; ignore if you prefer to watch unquestioningly.
Andrew: Why is the mum always hanging out laundry, when none of them wear clothes?
me: ......... at the cinema for its 50th anniversary rerelease, so fun!
Guardian/FandomEverything is happening everywhere all at once. We're wrapping up the readalong, and the Slo-mo Rewatch starts this weekend on
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sid_guardian!
guardian_wishlist is in sign-ups!
fan_flashworks stuff is happening behind the scenes! And I have a ton of
fan_writers comments to reply to! \o/
Audio entertainmentWriting Excuses are doing a deep dive on Charlie Jane Anders'
All the Birds in the Sky. I haven't read it, but I still enjoy their analysis. The last episode gave me ~writing thoughts~, and I scrawled a bunch of extra stuff for my WIP, which I then immediately took out again because it didn't fit, but I'll use it somewhere else.
Letters from an American is really good, and 12ish minutes of US politics a day is about all I can take. I started
Alba Salix, Royal Physician but am still not sure.
Online lifeAfter I posted my last
fan_writers post, I got a ton of great comments, and... hit a wall with things to reply to. I'm kind of paralysed by my inbox, now, overwhelmed, and not keeping up with my reading page either. Tabs continue to propagate. Also, my arms are such a mess, argh. I'm going to need them for Wishlist, so I'm trying to slow down, but <speech tone="wail">I don't waaaaant toooooo.</speech> :-( tl;dr Sorry if I haven't replied to you! I still plan to! <333
Writing/making thingsAfter a week and a half of brain static, I tried to write a last-minute drabble for the FFW amnesty round and ended up with 1300 words of "srsly, nobody asked for this." Still working on my DNW-kink fic and having a ball.
Life/health/mental state thingsOverwhelm plus sore arms, dohhhhhh. But my mood and energy levels are pretty good, despite that.
KoreanI have a theoretical plan to read the
Guardian subs in Korean (진혼 자막 한국어으로) as we go through the rewatch. I'm completely 100% expecting to fall behind, but still, any reading is better than none, right?
FoodNew things I've made in the last week:
- a carrot, walnut and sultana cake, recipe from the back of the sultana packet; as I added a cup of this and a cup of that, I started going, "I'm going to need a bigger cake tin." Then I got to 1 cup of oil and three eggs, and looked at my mixing bowl. "I'm going to need a bigger bowl!!" Ended up cooking it in two unevenly distributed cake tins and taking one out early, lol.
- vegan nutty gravy from the vegan low-FODMAP book; I used so many substitutions (regular miso for light miso, soy sauce for low sodium tamari, etc) that I'm not sure what it was supposed to taste like. It was good but a bit strong.
- baked lemon tofu (ibid); Very Tangy. I tried this twice, and the first time I didn't have enough lemon juice, used some lime instead, and thought that was why it was So Tangy. The second time I followed the recipe more closely (just switched out thyme for oregano and added some maple syrup because yum), and it was still a bit overwhelming. Overall, not unsuccessful, but I don't know how to turn this into a meal.
Conclusion: I'm enjoying my experiments. It's fun flailing around, all "Stand Back, I'm Going To Try
Science Cooking!" :-) Also, I feel like recipe books are like fan reccers: for best results, you have to find the ones you click with.
Good thingsBluetooth earpieces. Sisters. Reading glasses (but not the needing of them). Libraries. Unexpected story developments. Recipe books. Bluey! Biking.
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I can handle
View Answersmild
21 (44.7%)
a vague tingle
19 (40.4%)
a distinct tingle
24 (51.1%)
hot
17 (36.2%)
searing
6 (12.8%)
call the fire department
2 (4.3%)
depends on the cuisine
13 (27.7%)
other
4 (8.5%)
ticky-box full of Michaelangelo's many naked dudes
23 (48.9%)
ticky-box full of someone else is cooking dinner
26 (55.3%)
ticky-box of ducklings debating the merits of existentialism
23 (48.9%)
ticky-box full of chocolate (hot or solid)
30 (63.8%)
ticky-box full of hugs
38 (80.9%)
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