Since my last Ask the Upa post was so angsty (if you can't see it, it's because it's friends-locked - yep, it's that angsty), I thought I should follow it up right away with a more cheerful subject. Halla asked about what I like cooking and baking and what I'd like to be able to make.

I think some people say that anyone can learn to cook and that it ( Read more... )

I may not be a great cook, but I make absolutely splendid spaghetti bolognaise. At least the one I made today was just right. Not to dry, not too greasy, not too dull and not too salty. I also sliced up some (fresh, not canned) mushrooms to fry with the beef. And cheese, of course. There are few things I cook without cheese (and I can't think of ( Read more... )

The Joyclub really seems to be kicking off again. I approve.

Had a long day yesterday, but I survived in the end, and that's what counts. We read some poems in my first class yesterday. The most brilliant one was by Shakespeare. You can read it here. The girl next to me was frantically trying to analyse this sonnet; why did Shakespeare write such an ( Read more... )

Did an exam on King Lear today. It wasn't half as scary as I thought it would be. I think my main fear was that the passages we'd have to analyse would be some very obscure and difficult ones, but luckily they were just two of the ones we'd done in class.

During the break I was reading a few chapters from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for a ( Read more... )