Cookiepocalypse 2: The return of the revenge of the son of the cookie: The final chapter.
So apparently, over the last four weeks, I have made 70 plus cookies.
>_>
In any other context, this would not sound all that arduous, but I have to say, I have not actually had a full day off of cookies in 4 weeks.
Until today. It was glorious.
Posting doesn't count. It doesn't smell like sugar. Unlike my apartment, my clothes, and perhaps most disconcertingly, my cat.
The results of 4 weeks, minus 2 cookies I forgot to add:
Dome trenches:
Other concert cookies:
Drama, variety, movie and PV cookies:
Pictured: My cat, picking up my slack by spending quality time with Chaucer while I paint cookies.
Anyhow. In my last cookie post, I ended with the Believe animated PV Yatterman cookies just begun.
Reference:
Somehow, I managed not to take any other process pics of these cookies. You know why? Because I was On. A. Mission.
A mission to finish cookies.
So, here are the cookies:
YattaNino
YattaOhno
YattaSho
YattaAiba
YattaJun
I actually did two sets of these, since the hand-cutting and baking were so dicey. They look so pudgy and potbellied, but that was probably a good thing, since the cartoonish models might have tempted me otherwise to have been more detailed. The limitations of the cutters as stencils kept my bad tendencies under control.
Small favors.
Anyway.
These cookies were really difficult and drove me almost to tears. After putting them safely behind me, I decided to tackle the details of the Dome trenches because they were familiar and because there were so damn many of them that I thought I would feel much better if I could call all 19 of them finished.
I kind of love the sparkle-factory effect of having a dozen glitter-crusty cookies laid out.
The only major change in these from the last time I did the Dome Trenches is that I changed the glitter on Ohno--since there isn't a great shiny blue glitter that works with the color of Ohno's trench, I decided instead to use an iridescent clear glitter. It made Ohno's sparkle more consistent with his compatriots' which I felt was only fair.
Because really, in what universe should Ohno be less sparkly than the rest of Arashi? No universe I want to belong to.
NEEDS MOAR SPARKLE (also more hair).
As before, Trench!Ohno got roots, and then lighter hair on top:
Hair for everyone!
I have to admit, somehow, the trench hair was harder for me to do this time--I think it had something to do with the texture of the icing--it just wouldn't cooperate.
I gave up on that batch of icing and made a new set for the Maou cookies:
Because Naruse never wore anything much but black or charcoal suits (well that and the towel, which in retrospect might have been a missed opportunity on my part), the hair and the attorney lapel pin were really all I had to work with in terms of identifying him as anything other than a tiny pretty man in a suit.
As usual, the food coloring markers helped a lot in making the template:
Before I painted in the shoes, I swear Naruse looked like he was running around in Aiba's manpris. It is a good look for no one, but it gave me a giggle to think of Naruse in any casual wear.
I added the other clothing details and the hair part reference.
For such a little man, Naruse has a lot of hair.
A couple of finished Naruse cookies:
So sweet and innocent looking, aren't they? Don't believe it. They are heartless killers.
As a quick project, I decided that I didn't like the Ohmiya SK without their respective sparkly sheens, so I added lustre dust in gold and silver:
To be honest, I'm still not sure if if was an improvement or not, but I guess they're more accurate?
Another easy cookie because of its simplicity was Dondake Sho from the Fail!detectives episode of Shiyagare (#23):
The major issue I had was wanting to make the coat look like a fur coat, so I messed with the texture of the black-brown to make it look kind of furry:
I ended up ignoring the dangly earrings because I was worried about making it work with the hair . . .
After Dondake!Sho, I was left pretty much with all-new technically challenging cookies:
T.A.B.O.O.
>_>
Jun's opening outfit from the Scene concert:
I don't know who told Jun that wearing chandeliers on his shoulder epaulettes was a good idea, but I cursed them repeatedly.
I just. What? Those crystal drops look like he raided some little old lady's living room and affixed part of her light fixture to his shouldersO__o
My ambitious sketch, which I just noticed now, incorporated the gold non-wallet chains on Jun's right side, which I failed to add in on the actual cookie. I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight when I finish this post.
And then, from the Anniversary concert, what I fondly refer to as Marching Band Jun:
I'll be honest. At this point, I started wondering if fandom was just screwing with me.
Nevertheless.
I started with TABOO because it gave me an excuse to watch that performance repeatedly and it never fails to crack me up.
Though I prefer him without the hat.
Actually, check out the hair on the backdancer O__o I capped this basically because I love this performance most after Sho loses the hat, and then about spit out my drink when I looked at what was going on behind Sho.
Though is it just me, or is Sho kind of nonfaily-hot in that cap, flaily backdancer with crazy animate hair aside?
Anyway. Progress shots!
The gold braiding actually came out better than I expected!
Here, I added the buttons and a bunch of the other gold glaze details, and laid out the medals in white to be detailed with the food coloring markers later.
With colors added. Also, I added black glitter to the tie, though it's subtle here--the tie is sequined ^_^v
Bless JE costume designers. Seriously. Because that costume didn't have enough flash already >_>
EXTREME CLOSEUP (mostly because I'm tickled at how well the picture came out)!
Completed TABOO--I made 3 of him in the end, in case one destructed:
I actually might make this one again. He was a lot of work, but bizarrely fun. I was never quite happy with the way the military bar ribbons on his upper chest came out. I think I could improve on this.
Here's the template for Jun's first outfit in the Scene concert. Look how deceptively simple it looks!
A reminder of how this actually looked in concert:
*headdesk*
A mid-process shot.
>_>
I swear, it got better.
I enjoyed doing Jun's beaded cuff bracelet, and I liked the iridescent blue-purple powder which somewhat captured the way that jacket changed colors from dark blue-->purple, though it ignores the way it would randomly look teal, too, as well as the texture. I had this great idea to use a texture stamp to show the brocade, but that didn't work at all, so I scrapped it.
The weird gold and blue pants were a bit of a pain, as well, and I wasn't sure how to handle the lace sarong thing.
I decided to take a page out of the JE playbook:
When in doubt, more glitter:
*nods*
sparkle is always the answer.
With hair, it looks a bit more together.
I am highly amused by the chandelier crystals:
So tonight I'll add the gold chains, since I haven't packed this one yet,and I will feel better. The real question here is whether I'll use glitter or glaze.
Or I could use both, I suppose . . .
*ponders*
edit: DONE. Also, egregiously sparkly. BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT.
>_> I ended up using glaze and gold mystical dust (look, I don't name these things, though I do buy them. That said, "mystical dust" is pretty rad--it makes me feel like I'm buying supernatural contraband). It is all that is glittery and shiny and sparkly. All is right with the world.
This also means that I get to celebrate tomorrow as the 'first day without cookie-making'--again. Hee!
As for Marching Band Jun, he's probably the most elaborate cookie I've made to date.
This costume's details have details.
First of all, his lapels are covered in a mosaic of mirror shards and then on the right side, there are also black shards that appear to vaguely make out "X5," in reference I guess to 5 guys and 10 years?
You have no idea how long I stared at my computer screncaps to make that out.
In addition to those more obvious details, the costume also incorporates many types of braiding, dainty gold buttons everywhere, red glitter detail dots on the waist border (fun!), gold piping details on the white shirt, a tiny Western-style black skinny necktie thing WITH RED POLKA DOTS ON IT, gold piping stripes on the pants, gold frayed stuff going on on the sides of the pants and god knows what else.
I did actually sacrifice some minor details, like the black shiny squares on the shoulders--With the complicated lapels, and busy armband-piping details, I didn't think I could work it in without it getting ridiculous and messy-looking.
Progress shots:
Tiny BUTTONS! *squee*
I particularly like that the boots had buttons that coordinated with the elbow band buttons. Thank you, anonymous costume designer&hearts
For the lapels, I used pearlescent silver sanding sugar and black nonpareils to imitate the mirrors and the X5 detail.
Then I added red polka dots to the neck tie, for which I now have a bizarre fondness:
Yes, I used the takoyaki pokey probe thing to add the tiny dots. Just for reference, that cookie is about 4 inches tall. Those dots are tiny.
Here, I've added much of the gold braiding in a yellow piped icing, and then covered it and the buttons with a gold edible glaze.
With gold lustre dust suspended in vanilla vodka, I added those gold details on the shirt front:
Finally, the pant details!
And the hair!
For the record, Jun's hair in Scene and in the Anniversary concert is not really all that easy to evoke in icing form. I did my best O__o I am happier with the Marching band cookie, but considering the difficulty level of both of those costumes, I'll be satisfied that they mostly came out ok at all.
Speaking of difficult hair, the last two cookies I made were Jun and Nino from the Love Situation set from Time:
Oh yes. That was going to go well.
It's a sad sad day in Sad Day Town when I am more freaked out about the fact that I have to try to reproduce idol hair in icing than the fact that I also need to render pink and sparkly silver camo in said icing.
Let's not discuss the whole lettering thing.
Actually, let's.
I gave up on the hot pink lines around the letters, as well as the glitter (I KNOW >_<) because I didn't think I could control the glitter or the markers quite well enough to risk losing the entire cookies and also because I didn't have the right glitter colors anyway.
Had I had the glitter in all the required colors, I might have taken the risk. On the whole, though, I like these cookies and don't really regret the decision. The food coloring in those markers runs when damp and it probably would have been a disaster to try to brush glitter-infused vodka anywhere near those letters.
Pics!
While the silver glaze was still wet and tacky, I cut up silver edible glitter hearts (Love Situation &hearts!) for the textured sparkle, since I realized that A) it was Sunday, which meant that B) the only place in town with edible glitter was closed, which was fine because C) the basic silver edible glitter was kind of the wrong color and had blackish edges which would have looked all wrong with this.
Here is a little heart glitter, for reference. Pay no attention to how I knocked over the bottle in the background, spraying around 4 dozen of these over my kitchen table :P
Here is the final effect of the chopped up hearts over the glaze:
Next, I mixed up concoctions of pink lustre and petal dusts, and with the power of layering and daubing, tried to approximate a much simpler and larger camo print. I think it would have been a mistake to try to accurately render such a small camo print--it seemed more important to make it recognizably pink camo.
A slight closeup:
Compared to the original pants, I think it's a pretty good match, if a bit brighter than the original:
Next I tackled the letters--I decided to pipe them to give them more dimensionality.
Luckily, one of my photobooks had extraordinarily clear pics of these shirts, so I could get the color sequences right and try my best to emulate the font.
Finally, I added the color with the food coloring markers and the aforementioned hair:
Jun's cookie also sports his swanky double-buckled black leather cuff and his silver pendant necklace.
And those were all the cookies!
A recap by members:
Ohno designs:
This one is still probably my favorite, not just of the Ohnos, but of all of the cookies I made ^^;:
Sho designs:
My favorite Sho:
Poor Aiba looks so underrepresented D:
But this Friendship was probably my favorite of his:
Nino did a bit better in terms of representation:
For Nino, it's a toss up between these two, who do not belong in the same universe at all:
And Jun had the highest number of requested designs, with 7 cookie types in total.
I . . . can't choose between these, either >_<;
The sparkles!
The clean look!
The detail!
*flails*
Is it wrong to be so fond of these? I kind of wish I were keeping some of them ^^;
. . .
Thus ends Cookiepocalypse. I don't see myself doing this type of massive project again, but this was a special case, obviously.
While the fundraiser ran afoul of PayPal, etc, I think it was a great thing to participate in, not only because it did a great job of bringing in money, but really because it gave fans a forum to interact with other people similarly upset when many of our RL acquaintances might not have had some of the same reactions to the disasters. For me, the most rewarding part was the way that for the most part, strangers were willing to trust each other--that the fundraiser was on the level, that promised goods would be sent, that even if it took me 4 weeks to bake a bunch of cookies, the cookies were really coming. It feels like a moment where community could be built out of something awful.
That said, I will be very happy to get these cookies out of my house.
I'm addressing and boxing them over the next few days. Mailing should be fun what with the Tax Day post office rush. I'm hoping most cookies make it to their new homes intact and that the recipients like them *crosses fingers*
After that, I expect it will be a while before I make cookies again (with one exception for a very patient friend).
On the other hand, my new friend might want a workout . . .
This gallery has (at the end), close up pics of each of the cookies I made over the past 4 weeks, if you are curious, or want to see your cookie if you ordered one. I was going to have a little gallery here, but honestly, this post is long enough, and what with LJ's scrapbook being such a mess right now, I decided against it.
Your internets will thank me ^^;
Soooooo . . . I have this 2 inch pile of grading to do. Not so bad, though--on Monday, it was 4 O__o
Back to work for me. The cat has absorbed about all the Chaucer she can--I'm going to see if snuggling her will osmotically prep me for class.
*waves at Flist*
>_>
In any other context, this would not sound all that arduous, but I have to say, I have not actually had a full day off of cookies in 4 weeks.
Until today. It was glorious.
Posting doesn't count. It doesn't smell like sugar. Unlike my apartment, my clothes, and perhaps most disconcertingly, my cat.
The results of 4 weeks, minus 2 cookies I forgot to add:
Dome trenches:
Other concert cookies:
Drama, variety, movie and PV cookies:
Pictured: My cat, picking up my slack by spending quality time with Chaucer while I paint cookies.
Anyhow. In my last cookie post, I ended with the Believe animated PV Yatterman cookies just begun.
Reference:
Somehow, I managed not to take any other process pics of these cookies. You know why? Because I was On. A. Mission.
A mission to finish cookies.
So, here are the cookies:
YattaNino
YattaOhno
YattaSho
YattaAiba
YattaJun
I actually did two sets of these, since the hand-cutting and baking were so dicey. They look so pudgy and potbellied, but that was probably a good thing, since the cartoonish models might have tempted me otherwise to have been more detailed. The limitations of the cutters as stencils kept my bad tendencies under control.
Small favors.
Anyway.
These cookies were really difficult and drove me almost to tears. After putting them safely behind me, I decided to tackle the details of the Dome trenches because they were familiar and because there were so damn many of them that I thought I would feel much better if I could call all 19 of them finished.
I kind of love the sparkle-factory effect of having a dozen glitter-crusty cookies laid out.
The only major change in these from the last time I did the Dome Trenches is that I changed the glitter on Ohno--since there isn't a great shiny blue glitter that works with the color of Ohno's trench, I decided instead to use an iridescent clear glitter. It made Ohno's sparkle more consistent with his compatriots' which I felt was only fair.
Because really, in what universe should Ohno be less sparkly than the rest of Arashi? No universe I want to belong to.
NEEDS MOAR SPARKLE (also more hair).
As before, Trench!Ohno got roots, and then lighter hair on top:
Hair for everyone!
I have to admit, somehow, the trench hair was harder for me to do this time--I think it had something to do with the texture of the icing--it just wouldn't cooperate.
I gave up on that batch of icing and made a new set for the Maou cookies:
Because Naruse never wore anything much but black or charcoal suits (well that and the towel, which in retrospect might have been a missed opportunity on my part), the hair and the attorney lapel pin were really all I had to work with in terms of identifying him as anything other than a tiny pretty man in a suit.
As usual, the food coloring markers helped a lot in making the template:
Before I painted in the shoes, I swear Naruse looked like he was running around in Aiba's manpris. It is a good look for no one, but it gave me a giggle to think of Naruse in any casual wear.
I added the other clothing details and the hair part reference.
For such a little man, Naruse has a lot of hair.
A couple of finished Naruse cookies:
So sweet and innocent looking, aren't they? Don't believe it. They are heartless killers.
As a quick project, I decided that I didn't like the Ohmiya SK without their respective sparkly sheens, so I added lustre dust in gold and silver:
To be honest, I'm still not sure if if was an improvement or not, but I guess they're more accurate?
Another easy cookie because of its simplicity was Dondake Sho from the Fail!detectives episode of Shiyagare (#23):
The major issue I had was wanting to make the coat look like a fur coat, so I messed with the texture of the black-brown to make it look kind of furry:
I ended up ignoring the dangly earrings because I was worried about making it work with the hair . . .
After Dondake!Sho, I was left pretty much with all-new technically challenging cookies:
T.A.B.O.O.
>_>
Jun's opening outfit from the Scene concert:
I don't know who told Jun that wearing chandeliers on his shoulder epaulettes was a good idea, but I cursed them repeatedly.
I just. What? Those crystal drops look like he raided some little old lady's living room and affixed part of her light fixture to his shouldersO__o
My ambitious sketch, which I just noticed now, incorporated the gold non-wallet chains on Jun's right side, which I failed to add in on the actual cookie. I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight when I finish this post.
And then, from the Anniversary concert, what I fondly refer to as Marching Band Jun:
I'll be honest. At this point, I started wondering if fandom was just screwing with me.
Nevertheless.
I started with TABOO because it gave me an excuse to watch that performance repeatedly and it never fails to crack me up.
Though I prefer him without the hat.
Actually, check out the hair on the backdancer O__o I capped this basically because I love this performance most after Sho loses the hat, and then about spit out my drink when I looked at what was going on behind Sho.
Though is it just me, or is Sho kind of nonfaily-hot in that cap, flaily backdancer with crazy animate hair aside?
Anyway. Progress shots!
The gold braiding actually came out better than I expected!
Here, I added the buttons and a bunch of the other gold glaze details, and laid out the medals in white to be detailed with the food coloring markers later.
With colors added. Also, I added black glitter to the tie, though it's subtle here--the tie is sequined ^_^v
Bless JE costume designers. Seriously. Because that costume didn't have enough flash already >_>
EXTREME CLOSEUP (mostly because I'm tickled at how well the picture came out)!
Completed TABOO--I made 3 of him in the end, in case one destructed:
I actually might make this one again. He was a lot of work, but bizarrely fun. I was never quite happy with the way the military bar ribbons on his upper chest came out. I think I could improve on this.
Here's the template for Jun's first outfit in the Scene concert. Look how deceptively simple it looks!
A reminder of how this actually looked in concert:
*headdesk*
A mid-process shot.
>_>
I swear, it got better.
I enjoyed doing Jun's beaded cuff bracelet, and I liked the iridescent blue-purple powder which somewhat captured the way that jacket changed colors from dark blue-->purple, though it ignores the way it would randomly look teal, too, as well as the texture. I had this great idea to use a texture stamp to show the brocade, but that didn't work at all, so I scrapped it.
The weird gold and blue pants were a bit of a pain, as well, and I wasn't sure how to handle the lace sarong thing.
I decided to take a page out of the JE playbook:
When in doubt, more glitter:
*nods*
sparkle is always the answer.
With hair, it looks a bit more together.
I am highly amused by the chandelier crystals:
So tonight I'll add the gold chains, since I haven't packed this one yet,and I will feel better. The real question here is whether I'll use glitter or glaze.
Or I could use both, I suppose . . .
*ponders*
edit: DONE. Also, egregiously sparkly. BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT.
>_> I ended up using glaze and gold mystical dust (look, I don't name these things, though I do buy them. That said, "mystical dust" is pretty rad--it makes me feel like I'm buying supernatural contraband). It is all that is glittery and shiny and sparkly. All is right with the world.
This also means that I get to celebrate tomorrow as the 'first day without cookie-making'--again. Hee!
As for Marching Band Jun, he's probably the most elaborate cookie I've made to date.
This costume's details have details.
First of all, his lapels are covered in a mosaic of mirror shards and then on the right side, there are also black shards that appear to vaguely make out "X5," in reference I guess to 5 guys and 10 years?
You have no idea how long I stared at my computer screncaps to make that out.
In addition to those more obvious details, the costume also incorporates many types of braiding, dainty gold buttons everywhere, red glitter detail dots on the waist border (fun!), gold piping details on the white shirt, a tiny Western-style black skinny necktie thing WITH RED POLKA DOTS ON IT, gold piping stripes on the pants, gold frayed stuff going on on the sides of the pants and god knows what else.
I did actually sacrifice some minor details, like the black shiny squares on the shoulders--With the complicated lapels, and busy armband-piping details, I didn't think I could work it in without it getting ridiculous and messy-looking.
Progress shots:
Tiny BUTTONS! *squee*
I particularly like that the boots had buttons that coordinated with the elbow band buttons. Thank you, anonymous costume designer&hearts
For the lapels, I used pearlescent silver sanding sugar and black nonpareils to imitate the mirrors and the X5 detail.
Then I added red polka dots to the neck tie, for which I now have a bizarre fondness:
Yes, I used the takoyaki pokey probe thing to add the tiny dots. Just for reference, that cookie is about 4 inches tall. Those dots are tiny.
Here, I've added much of the gold braiding in a yellow piped icing, and then covered it and the buttons with a gold edible glaze.
With gold lustre dust suspended in vanilla vodka, I added those gold details on the shirt front:
Finally, the pant details!
And the hair!
For the record, Jun's hair in Scene and in the Anniversary concert is not really all that easy to evoke in icing form. I did my best O__o I am happier with the Marching band cookie, but considering the difficulty level of both of those costumes, I'll be satisfied that they mostly came out ok at all.
Speaking of difficult hair, the last two cookies I made were Jun and Nino from the Love Situation set from Time:
Oh yes. That was going to go well.
It's a sad sad day in Sad Day Town when I am more freaked out about the fact that I have to try to reproduce idol hair in icing than the fact that I also need to render pink and sparkly silver camo in said icing.
Let's not discuss the whole lettering thing.
Actually, let's.
I gave up on the hot pink lines around the letters, as well as the glitter (I KNOW >_<) because I didn't think I could control the glitter or the markers quite well enough to risk losing the entire cookies and also because I didn't have the right glitter colors anyway.
Had I had the glitter in all the required colors, I might have taken the risk. On the whole, though, I like these cookies and don't really regret the decision. The food coloring in those markers runs when damp and it probably would have been a disaster to try to brush glitter-infused vodka anywhere near those letters.
Pics!
While the silver glaze was still wet and tacky, I cut up silver edible glitter hearts (Love Situation &hearts!) for the textured sparkle, since I realized that A) it was Sunday, which meant that B) the only place in town with edible glitter was closed, which was fine because C) the basic silver edible glitter was kind of the wrong color and had blackish edges which would have looked all wrong with this.
Here is a little heart glitter, for reference. Pay no attention to how I knocked over the bottle in the background, spraying around 4 dozen of these over my kitchen table :P
Here is the final effect of the chopped up hearts over the glaze:
Next, I mixed up concoctions of pink lustre and petal dusts, and with the power of layering and daubing, tried to approximate a much simpler and larger camo print. I think it would have been a mistake to try to accurately render such a small camo print--it seemed more important to make it recognizably pink camo.
A slight closeup:
Compared to the original pants, I think it's a pretty good match, if a bit brighter than the original:
Next I tackled the letters--I decided to pipe them to give them more dimensionality.
Luckily, one of my photobooks had extraordinarily clear pics of these shirts, so I could get the color sequences right and try my best to emulate the font.
Finally, I added the color with the food coloring markers and the aforementioned hair:
Jun's cookie also sports his swanky double-buckled black leather cuff and his silver pendant necklace.
And those were all the cookies!
A recap by members:
Ohno designs:
This one is still probably my favorite, not just of the Ohnos, but of all of the cookies I made ^^;:
Sho designs:
My favorite Sho:
Poor Aiba looks so underrepresented D:
But this Friendship was probably my favorite of his:
Nino did a bit better in terms of representation:
For Nino, it's a toss up between these two, who do not belong in the same universe at all:
And Jun had the highest number of requested designs, with 7 cookie types in total.
I . . . can't choose between these, either >_<;
The sparkles!
The clean look!
The detail!
*flails*
Is it wrong to be so fond of these? I kind of wish I were keeping some of them ^^;
. . .
Thus ends Cookiepocalypse. I don't see myself doing this type of massive project again, but this was a special case, obviously.
While the fundraiser ran afoul of PayPal, etc, I think it was a great thing to participate in, not only because it did a great job of bringing in money, but really because it gave fans a forum to interact with other people similarly upset when many of our RL acquaintances might not have had some of the same reactions to the disasters. For me, the most rewarding part was the way that for the most part, strangers were willing to trust each other--that the fundraiser was on the level, that promised goods would be sent, that even if it took me 4 weeks to bake a bunch of cookies, the cookies were really coming. It feels like a moment where community could be built out of something awful.
That said, I will be very happy to get these cookies out of my house.
I'm addressing and boxing them over the next few days. Mailing should be fun what with the Tax Day post office rush. I'm hoping most cookies make it to their new homes intact and that the recipients like them *crosses fingers*
After that, I expect it will be a while before I make cookies again (with one exception for a very patient friend).
On the other hand, my new friend might want a workout . . .
This gallery has (at the end), close up pics of each of the cookies I made over the past 4 weeks, if you are curious, or want to see your cookie if you ordered one. I was going to have a little gallery here, but honestly, this post is long enough, and what with LJ's scrapbook being such a mess right now, I decided against it.
Your internets will thank me ^^;
Soooooo . . . I have this 2 inch pile of grading to do. Not so bad, though--on Monday, it was 4 O__o
Back to work for me. The cat has absorbed about all the Chaucer she can--I'm going to see if snuggling her will osmotically prep me for class.
*waves at Flist*