The myriad wonders of YouTube, part 1, courtesy of grad school buddy C.V.: Finnish disco with bad English grammar and the best early '80s dancing ever. C.V. has apparently recorded an acoustic blues cover of this, which I absolutely cannot imagine.

The myriad wonders of YouTube, part 2: Sad Kermit covers Elliott Smith.

I made these cookies last ( Read more... )

1. Well, my big accomplishment for this weekend is, I organized all my CDs. For some people, this is a small-to-medium accomplishment, but I have a rock snob's CD collection, with some items dating back to junior high school. I have not organized said collection since 2003. In that time, my collection suffered a major loss by theft, a small loss by ( Read more... )

After the self-shaming exercise that was the WIP meme, I signed up for The Finishathon. And you should too, if you're drowning in unfinished fic or unstarted bunnies. There's a deadline and voting! It's almost like grad school, only with more porn and less getting really excited because John Ford wrote a play set in Sparta ( Read more... )

I am really really working on school, I swear, but I saw this video courtesy of Serious Eats while taking a much-needed lunch break and hey, more awesome paradigm-shifting egg technique. This one shows how to do a rolled omelet, which is a whole different creature than scrambled eggs in terms of technique and chemistry. Interesting that the filling ( Read more... )

This is mostly the post where I go on and on about the World Figure Skating Championships. But first, some things for those of you who see the words "figure" and "skating" together in this journal and don't click past the cut tag ( Read more... )

You know what I haven't posted in a while? A recipe. I've been cooking a lot of familiar things lately, I guess. When I haven't been just eating a turkey sandwich or something.

Rotini Tricolori with Sea Scallops and Garlic-Tomato SauceIngredients ( Read more... )

I made lasagna tonight, and in the process made three of my friends hate me for living so far away. Apparently I make things sound yummy without really trying.

The following is totally annavtree's fault:

Poll

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I made the most amazing thing tonight. See, there's a grad student picnic thingy tomorrow, and I foolishly told the person organizing it that I was happy to bring whatever she needed me to, and she told me what she really needed was dessert. This demoralized me, as dessert is really the only thing I don't make well, mostly because my taste in ( Read more... )

First four top-five lists. Have I mentioned lately that I'm bored? You can make more requests here.

( On the sexiness of Kaylee Frye, the silver linings of New England winters, the people I hated in college, and the many uses of tofu. )

It takes an event like remixredux to get me to update my website, so thank heaven for little remix challenges. The five most recent stories are now up. More excitingly, the FUQ no longer says I live in Japan, and there are three new fandoms on the Myers-Briggs page. On the latter, a lot of it's really tentative, so suggestions are welcome ( Read more... )