I don't usually read a lot of Vorkosigan fanfic -- mostly because everyone else's favorite characters seem to be Gregor and Ivan, and if you asked me about my least favorite characters, they're way up there, sorry -- but OMG, you guys, if you know anything about the Vorkosigan series, you have to read this right now.

Signals That Sound in the Dark ( Read more... )

(Apologies to Monty Python for the title.)

The other day I finally got around to watching, with lysimache, the episode of the New Avengers that has Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins in it. (2x05, "Obsession ( Read more... )

Bread update: Cream Cheese Bread. The book bills this as a sweet cake-like bread, but I did not find it particularly sweet, nor did it taste much like cream cheese. It's still good, though. Made a medium-size loaf because I did not want to figure out what "1/2 egg" in the small loaf recipe could possibly be. On the plus side, I have now ( Read more... )

Today I got to go down to Santa Cruz and have lunch with antigone921 at the Saturn Cafe. It was fun. Mmm, Chocolate Madness. Well, the half-size. That's taken care of all my chocolate needs for the foreseeable future.

Plus, of course, it was nice to see antigone921 again; we got to catch up a good amount. And she hooked me up with more Torchwood than I had previously ( Read more... )