Fun in the kitchen! And other places!

Aug 16, 2011 19:20

I had some leftover red bell pepper from my last cooking marathon, so I played mad chef a bit and cooked it up with diced onion, carrots, and chicken in olive oil, chucking in just for shits and giggles (more the latter than the former *crosses fingers*) oregano, garlic powder, some butter, and Lowry's salt (I pray at the altar of Lowry's salt, ( Read more... )

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 00:31:49 UTC
I was having a really great day up until my parents got home, and my mother ambushed me about...something or other, it's possible I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention. But still, it never fails, whenever work and/or school's going well, I get home and it all goes to crap, or vice versa. I want to be sick again so everyone will leave me alone.

Anyway...you've also reminded me that I need to go grocery shopping because I haven't made dinner in like a week. And I'm sad because we're not doing a White Collar/Covert Affairs post this week or ever, for a while anyway.

So now I'm going to go off and...avoid doing the reading I need to do for the exam I have on Thursday and do fandom stuff instead. Just like being back in college!

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lotus0kid August 17 2011, 00:49:45 UTC
Aw, well, at least you're feeling better?

Yeah, I'm gonna miss live posts. I suppose I could do one for Doctor Who when it starts up next next Saturday...

*snort* No kidding! I really couldn't imagine taking a class again, plus a full-time job.

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 00:55:04 UTC
*sigh* Yeah, I am feeling better. Which is good.

That would be nice...I feel bad that englishmuffin2 is going to be in a whole different time zone, though. That's disappointing.

Heh, it wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't gone to Mexico then gotten sick; I was really on top of things before all that, and now...eh.

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lotus0kid August 17 2011, 01:13:12 UTC
It is! Certainly wouldn't want some sick-y dragging ass behind me at the PP comedy show.

Yeah, I mean, well, when exactly does it come on? Wouldn't it air at the same time as us, that time being a few hours earlier from her POV? Maybe..? *has a headache*

I always hated being absent and falling behind.

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 01:18:33 UTC
Please, I've spent entire vacations with a cold, I could handle a comedy show. Maybe.

It depends on the channel, but for the most part they air at, say, 8pm here at EST, and then 8pm according to PST (so 11pm our time). This is based only on the fact that when the writers of WC do Twitter posts for the California people, it's not at our time, it's at...12ish?

Yeah, it's at least partly my fault, but bleh, whatever, I have experience dealing with this. And even if I fail, well, I have a job and it's not like it's going to screw my GPA.

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lotus0kid August 17 2011, 01:26:21 UTC
We-ell, you just take it easy until then.

I dunno, I'm too lazy to look it up, but you're probably right. I feel like I remember seeing a show come on at 8pm EST and 7pm OTHER TIME. But I've been on the tough side of the time difference, keeping up with UK Top Gear.

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 01:28:50 UTC
Ahaha, in between studying for my exam and all the actual work I have to catch up as well as all the fandom stuff, not so much on the taking it easy. But I am really looking to Friday, anyway.

Yeah, some shows do the 7pm, 6pm Central or whatever, but if you think about it that probably really screws with their scheduling so I don't think any of the USA shows do.

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lotus0kid August 17 2011, 01:38:21 UTC
Aw, I'm sorry to hear that. Friday should be fun, though I've had mixed experiences with live stand-up.

Yeah, it just makes sense to keep everything at the same time, even if those times aren't the same.

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 01:40:59 UTC
Live anything is kind of a crapshoot; the only live standup I've seen was Jon Stewart (with Mike Birbiglia as the warm-up act), so I probably don't have the most representative experience.

*laughs* This conversation is worthy of a Doctor Who episode. Or a quip, at least.

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lotus0kid August 17 2011, 01:45:57 UTC
I saw a couple of good folks in college, but once I went with my mom and stepdad to this show at a restaurant... The first comic was pretty good, an older lady who told a lot of jokes about seniors, but the guy after her... I've blocked out most of it, all I really remember is an overwhelming sense of "Aaaaawkwaaaarrrd..."

Hee. You know, I will never forget the oddity of traveling from England to the US, traveling backwards in time.

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 01:49:13 UTC
One of the old Cow Nipple writers (no one you've met) did standup, and he invited us all to go see him perform at some college-sponsored thing or another, but I never got a chance. For the better, probably. I'm sure it would've been...awkward.

Heh, is it backwards, then? Well anyway, that's why I could never travel with the Doctor, time zones alone confound me.

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lotus0kid August 17 2011, 01:54:38 UTC
It would be strange to watch someone I knew do stand-up. It has been interesting listening to Nerdist, though- they have a lot of really amazing comics on talking a lot of genuine theory and stuff.

Yeah, we're something like five hours or so behind. I have to avoid the live-posts for Top Gear and until someone posts a download.

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 02:02:30 UTC
To be fair a lot of the Cow Nipple meetings tended to devolve into bad (sometimes cringeworthy) stand-up. But in public is just a whole different level. We were going to do podcast-ish things way back when, or basically just record meetings, but then we realized some of the stuff we said would totally get us banned or protested or both.

Yeah, that does make sense, because it's the same with DW; they see it before we do sometimes a week beforehand when BBCA screws with us.

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lotus0kid August 17 2011, 02:07:07 UTC
We-ell, you slap an explicit label on there when you put it on iTunes and you're golden, more or less.

It's a weird experience to see those posts and know something is airing right now, and yet, you're not missing it.

P.S. Dangit, I wanted to go to sleep at 10, but Carpe Brewski updated. *desperately tries to skim and not skim at the same time*

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visiblemarket August 17 2011, 02:11:11 UTC
Well, I'd still be worried about how that'd be perceived by the public university that funds our existence. I say, like I'm still running the damn paper. I miss running the damn paper.

I still feel like I'm missing it, sometimes enough to try and download it once it's available.

Pffft, I'm reading about assets and liabilities of the Federal Reserve System, which is just as exciting as epic bromances.

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