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| Things You Need To Know About This Journal |
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• LJ: boosette
• JF: shark
• fic journal, here: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) whiteshark
• fic journal, LJ: whiteshark
• domains: boosette.com, contrarianism.net
• mirroring: here, LJ, (not JF)
• friending: have at it, either here or at LJ
• opinion on the LJ/6A/SUP wankfest: expect corporations to act like corporations and you'll be a lot less surprised when they proceed to do so.
♥ I'm here in case my friends come here.
♥ fandoms - (parentheticals don't get much action at all)
Avatar: TLA, SG1, Tortall, Emelan, Howl's Moving Castle*, Felicity*, Anastasia 1997, (Bleach, dueSouth, SGA, Farscape, BSG)
*books
**american girl, books + short stories + movie
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| 2008-03-18 20:27 |
| Real Life: Anygy Letters |
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All I wanted was a Mr. Goodbar to soothe my menstrual-cycle related depression.
Apparently Mr. Goodbar has fallen prey to the vegetable-oil recipe changeover.
Witness, ladies and gentlemen, my very angry letter to the Hershey Company.
( Dear Hershey Chocolate Company, )
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Oh Bella, have you ever heard of firefox + adblock?
Or Spybot Search & Destroy?
Or Adaware?
... Because really, popups? Hardly even exist with those little nifty dohickeys, and there're versions of - at least the last two - going all the way back to Windows 95.
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| 2008-03-17 14:58 |
| Books & Reading: Twilight |
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[I]t was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin ... I have just completely ceased to take this book seriously. "My truck works just fine, thank you very much for your concern." I started to walk again, but I was too surprised to maintain the same level of anger.
"But can your truck make it there on one tank of gas?" He matched my pace again.
"I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.
"The wasting of finite resources is everyone's business." Yeah, okay, the first one was a lie. Now I have completely ceased to take this book seriously. (Seriously.) ... Anyone want to throw together an, "Edward Cullen disapproves of global warming" icon for me?
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| 2008-03-16 22:32 |
| Miscellany: LJ, Site & Fic |
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| Saving Jane - Sleep On It |
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I wonder if I could install the LJ interface to my own website and run my journals from there with an rss feed, if it comes to that?
Probably, and probably it's a solution too techy for me.
(over the course of 25 minutes this afternoon, while cooking something with way too much butter in it, the plaguefic I have always wanted to write sprung close to fully-formed in my head.
I have already sniffled over it.
... yes, it's Tortallverse. I have an "I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU" kind of relationship with this fandom, after all.)
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I have grown, through this iconning session, a deep and abiding dislike for the gaia online dream avatar creator at tektek.org, just for the record.
I improvised on a couple of the characters because (1) no hazel eyes (whiskey tango foxtrot) and (2) horrendous dearth of medieval-renaissance clothes.
Below the cut: Alanna, Daine, Kel, Aly, Beka, Delia, Josiane & Thayet ( Tortall Icons: Gaia Online Style +15 more )
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eggs
salt
water for boiling
ice water
1 pot
1 slotted spoon
1 big bowl
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The whites will be hard, the yolks set but still bright yellow and creamy, the consistancy of a very very very thick custard. Perfect for egg salad or devilling.
To peel the eggs, roll them gently between your palm and the countertop to produce a matrix of tiny cracks - this too makes them easier to peel.
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1 package ramen, chicken flavor (for vegetarian: oriental flavor from top ramen, last time I checked, had no animal product in the flavor packet)
+ Alternately: one cup-a-noodles, chicken, shrimp or CA vegetable flavor
1 tiny clove garlic, smashed into oblivion or grated on a tiny cheese grater/microplane
1/4-1/3 tsp fresh ginger, smashed unto oblivion or grated on a tiny cheese grater/microplane
1 big glob peanut butter (about 1.5 tbsp/brick of ramen)
Tabasco or other pepper sauce to taste.
1. Cook ramen as usual, only adding the flavor packet to the cooking water.
2. Melt together the peanut butter, garlic, ginger and pepper sauce. (Optionally, add everything together and toss once the ramen is cooked.)
3. Once the ramen is done, drain off most of the liquid and toss in the sauce.
Potential Add-ins include but are not limited to: fish sauce, soy sauce, fresh scallion, fresh cilantro, fresh mint, lime juice, cubes of pre-cooked chicken, fresh pea pods, warmed-through frozen peas/carrots/frozen stir-fry medly ... anything that will be cooked through by the residual heat from the noodles, really.
Here at the Broad St & Lombardy Kroger in RVa, a head of garlic goes for .33¢, a big-toe sized knob of ginger for .25¢, a package of ramen for .14¢ and a jar of organic peanut butter for $2.99 (on sale, granted).
The total cost rounds out to about .40¢*, all told, and is both filling and 153% more tasty than Trader Joe's Box of Satay Noodles.
*the garlic and ginger last me for 3-5 weeks, the peanut butter for 1-2 weeks.
Fresh garlic and fresh ginger last, at room temp in a dark place, nigh on forever. Peanut butter and ramen ditto.
Perhaps most wonderfully? The entire thing can be cooked and assembled in a dorm room with nothing more than a clean rock/tin can/chef's knife*+sturdy paper** plate and microwave or electric kettle.
*for smashing the garlic/ginger unto oblivion
** for smashing upon
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| 2008-03-12 13:38 |
| Things I need to do today or I will fall down dead: |
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| 1 Man Banjo! - Blue Fool |
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Get my cell phone out of my car, oops.
+ call mom, make sure she knows I'm not dead.
Bloody well finish See No Evil.
+ Draft book report.
Read EMP for Beginners, find +2 more sources re: EMP (scholarly journals).
Do laundry.
+ Every item of clothing I own is dirty. Not because I've worn everything I own, but because I never folded it and everything wound up on the floor. Oops.
Clean my room.
Acquire + watch ...
+supernatural 1.01
+gossip girl 1.01
+jericho 2.05
Read bits of ...
+ Peter Pan
+ Gospel according to Biff
Listen to ...
+ another hour of TQ
Work on ...
+ the fic depository at contrarianism.net?
Switch out my bedsheets for not-flannel ones?
+ except it got really cold last night?
Acquire from kroger, once my account has been refreshed of funds ...
+ stuffed peeps in a box
+ giant yellow peep plushie pillow
Something about my End of the World FST is not sitting right with me. Anyone want to listen to it and tell me what's not okay/what's working/what needs to be rearranged? (The tracklisting stays, unless you have a song to swap in with the same runtime as the song you want to swap out because I have an exactly hour and 20 minute playtime and I am loathe to give that up.)
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So, my favorite thing about march is the sweet, beraisined fake Irish soda bread that the grocery stores pass off to us unsuspecting patrons - mostly because it is sweet and beraisined.
I know that this is called spotted dog, and that the kind my mom used to bring home from her work before their falling out had caraway seeds in it (caraway has a really distinct taste), and The Internet is telling me* that this version is called spotted dick.
What I am wondering is whether anyone has any recipes**, because I am thinking it would be cheaper to make my own than to spend ≈$4/$5 per tiny loaf for said pan of yummyness. Also, The Internet is spitting up a bunch of different recipes and I am loathe to trust any given one that I cannot be sure has been tested by a Real Live Human.
Um. American measurements please; I do not have measuring implements with Rest Of The World units.
*along with: You can cook potato chips in the microwave, which is true and amazing yum. Also homemade popcorn can be microwaved with butter/a little oil in a paper bag which is also yum.
**(that don't require suet - although I'd probably just sub in a little more butter and a little less water to account for the H2O in the butter/non-presence of H2O in the suet?)
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Nature of the accident: Some idiot going way too fast down Marshall hit a truck and flipped their car. Alternate routes include Clay Street and, for those in Carriage House and Broad & Belvedere Apts, SOL Ave.
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Throwing an object for a retriever to retrieve and then removing oneself from the premesis such as with placing a door between oneself and the retriever + object of retrieval:
Genius method of distraction + getaway.
or
omgwtf you are one cruel bastard.
Updating the media consumption 2008 post right now.
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I may not have pwninated my midterms, but I definitely passed them.
(ohgod please don't let the finals be cumulative.)
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| 2008-03-05 12:21 |
| Overcome with the feeling of OH PLEASE NO. |
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Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
oh god please let her give us the 320 midterm as a take-home, too
eta - winter come baaaaaaaaaaaack, oh god why is everything blooming right now???
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This is why I don't watch tv:
We know who won the game and don't need reiterated, put the damn show back on.
We know it's raining, put the damn show back on.
We know McCain is winning/already won his nomination, put the damn show back on.
We know Clinton/Obama are neck and neck, put the damn show back on.
We know your tornado warnings are all lies, put the damn show back on.
NO REALLY RICHMOND, WE CAN TELL IT'S RAINING, PUT THE DAMN SHOW BACK ON.
Although if you absolutely have to interrupt our thrill-a-minute hunt-the-spook-tv you could at least tell us to expect RANDOM POWER OUTAGES.
Lights are back on now, though.
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( Jericho 2.04: Nuts, TPTB, just ... nuts. )
More thoughts re: after midterms.
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Still ache. It's not a "crap broken" or a "crap dislocated" or a "crap muscle ripped away from bone" ache, just a normal "fuck the sidewalks of richmond" ache.
Also! I have my middle click back! Under system preferences > dashboard & expose, just make sure that there is no item set to "Middle Mouse Button" and both firefox & safari 3 will use middle click to open a new tab.
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If you have enough money for a new Business Building in downtown Richmond, you have enough money for sidewalks that don't make people fall on their faces.
(For a second there I thought I'd dislocated my shoulder. Now I just hurt.)
ETA: The new plan: Test out of Latin 202 next fall, change language to Russian.
Because I do not want to subject myself to VCU's Arabic program.
Or: finally get a new copy of the HSEP reqirements and see whether I'm here for 1.5 more years or 2/2.5 more years.
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On the burners right now:
- Apocafic take umpteen million: ≈1600 words
- Whispersverse take two ≈1700 words
- Original: impossible house story, ≈100 words
... I want to get some more done this week inbetween midterms. which, by the way, are going to kill me I swear. (oops.)
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Fic snip: ( Read More... )
Yes, the apocafic, take umpteen million. Probably five years after season 7?
... The Cabal is also known as ICONGG, or The International Cabal of Nerds, Geeks and Gamers. (The ones who reconstructed the internet and re-named it the Troll Bridge.)
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