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The sound of the wind up here is ridiculous.
It's so very, very bleh outside, and I have to go out in it eventually, but not yet! Not yet. Which means after an unwanted hiatus (I have to get better about managing "freelance" tasks when I have guests), I finally can share my latest Things I'm Verbing. I'm really proud of Direct action, dirty hands and Asian-Americanness; all the stories in ( Read more... ) -
Bread: Half art, half science, all bafflement
The bad sign is that I'm already plotting my follow-up loaf, when I still have to figure out how I'm going to eat the monster I just made (butter and honey, probably, if the first slice is any indication). Some thoughts right from the start: This is definitely a white bread. I used 1/4 cup of whole wheat flour (instead of spelt, which GBBO taught ( Read more... ) -
Do I need a baking icon? Am I going to turn into that person?
I kind of wanted the next bread I attempted to be this skillet rosemary garlic loaf that
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Very sorry not sorry.
There is a deafening all-day Orthodox Jewish rave happening on my residential street today. Happy Purim; I'm in hell. I'm also wondering if I can just call in a noise complaint, because I am super petty when it comes to thundering techno and devotional music taking over the entire several-block radius.Meanwhile, I have used up the dough and made ( Read more... ) -
So much for to-do lists, there's an entry to post!
I have this easily digestible list of things I want to get done today, but now that I look at it, none of it looks very fun. (It's stuff like breaking down paid freelance work, novels and other projects in 25-minute chunks, or organizing piles of random ephemera I've carried through at least three moves, or figuring out how to use up some ( Read more... ) -
Well, this sort of petered out.
Is today Bucky's 100th birthday? I thought it was in May -- it's possible I'm mixing him up with Harry Percy, which... well, you know ( Read more... ) -
I have too many brown shoes and not enough black shoes, it turns out.
Now that I've resolved to go biking this weekend to some places I want to go, the weather has dropped from 73F earlier this week to 34F right now and a low of 16F tomorrow. This is not the climate change I was promised by all those buds and blossoms! (I mean, maybe it is. It is. But still, it was nice while it lasted ( Read more... ) -
Slighty erotic half-onion
A salute to my favorite MCU character in one of my favorite fics I've written about her (who am I kidding, any Peggy Carter fic I've written is my favorite):Robinson turned to Carter. “What about you, Peggy? You all set up for a good time tonight ( Read more... ) -
Strangely good things that I've made happen since waking up
- I started reading The Artist's Way last night after a dear friend sent it to me. Today I did the morning pages, three handwritten pages of stream-of-consciousness gunk to get out of my head. I think it worked, although it was hard as hell.
- I found out I've been accepted to the Amy Kurzweil Graphic Memoir for Writers class! More comics-making! ( Read more... )
- I started reading The Artist's Way last night after a dear friend sent it to me. Today I did the morning pages, three handwritten pages of stream-of-consciousness gunk to get out of my head. I think it worked, although it was hard as hell.
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It's been a while since a straight-up grabbyhands post, hasn't it.
When I checked my bank account this morning, I had a little more than $105 in checking. HAPPY AUGUST!! I cannot wait to start getting paid, especially for the damn work I've already done, but also not least because there's a bunch of stuff I just want.- For instance, Doc Martens likes to torment me, like with these black-and-white brogue Mary Janes. ( Read more... )