I haven't posted in a while, because I complained about sports in the UK and then Team GB went and did better than ever before and everyone started to be proud for once, so now I'm worried that if I whine about anything on here it might come true ( Read more... )

I'm in the kitchen, enjoying the calm before the storm while J gives the kiddies a bath downstairs.  This week is going to be insane.  Tomorrow, we both have a paper due and a written exam (for the same class, the bastard)... not so worried about it - I only have 9 pages of 20 written, but my plan is pretty comprehensive so it's just a question of ( Read more... )

It took a few weeks, but I finally got some feedback on the banana bread.

J's mom: "Your banana bread was outstanding."
Polyphila: "Really??? YAAAAY!!! Wow!!!!!!! Go me!"
J's mom: "Oh yes. Every dog in the neighbourhood managed to choke it down."

:-D

I am pleased to report that I survived Mrs J - more or less unscathed.  I only got a marginally hard time about my accent - apparently "speaking English" meant "speaking Alabamese," which is something else again (Best. Accent. Ever.), and I am blissfully unaware about the success of the banana bread, since she was under strict instructions not to ( Read more... )

I'm looking forward to heading down to DC tomorrow for the Cherry Blossom Festival - next on my list of random things to see in random places.  More random, however, is the fact that said trip also incorporates meeting J's mother for the first time.  I'm not yet sure how I feel about this - it's been a while since I met anybody's mother, least of ( Read more... )

I'm actually quite excited about Valentine's Day for a change, but I suspect it's because this year's festivities mainly involve Food. We decided that the best way to get around overpriced, overcrowded restaurants and Hallmark Hell, and to celebrate the fact that we are both ridiculous foodie snobs, would be to make our gifts to one another the ( Read more... )