I made curry!
I think Tuesdays are going to be Good, organisation-wise. Today I had a 09:15 which never happened, because the lecturer never showed up, followed by breakfast in the RKC, then a StatMech lecture which was quite awesome, then I walked with James to the costcutter to buy a red pepper and some mayonnaise, and then I went to Hes Post Office to pay the next instalment of the water bill, and then I went home and that was my morning!
Then I mixed the mayonnaise with ketchup to make pink mayonnaise and stirred in the prawns I bought the other day and ate that with crispbreads for my lunch, and then I washed up things and then chopped up things until I had chopped all the things to turn into curry. Except, before I chopped the things, I mixed up half a coconut block with boiling water, because as far as I've been told, that's required for making curry.
Ingredients!
1 potato
quarter swede
two carrots
half a red pepper
100g coconut block + 400ml hot water
half a packet of casserole beef
a small brown onion
spices: cumin, coriander, turmeric, paprika, pinch dried chilli flakes
One thing I like about using the slow cooker is that I can be as disorganised as I like - it doesn't matter when things go in the pot. Also I can take a rest while chopping.
Following getting the food cooking, and realising that I didn't really have time for the shower I'd wanted, I sat and painted my nails. I realised when I was half-way to uni that larp is tomorrow and I don't have any remover. Fail. But the painting itself made me happy. So anyway, I went back to Uni, because I had a 17:15 lecture... except, I'd counted wrong, and got to physics at about 1600, where I proceeded to be sociable for a while, which was good.
I'm completely not talking about my mental stuff. How weird. Basically, I had a panic last night, then when I went to bed felt like I was floating on something far squishier than my bed and my body (not my brain, so much) was 'awake', and I got a text message at about ten to two, over an hour and a half since I'd lain down, replied to it (no turning on the light, it was by my bed) and put my head back on the pillow, all with no change in sleepiness. I did drift off at some point, I think - it was the kind of restful not-sleeping, though, if anyone knows what I mean?
I had an alarm set for 0700, because of the 09:15 lecture. There was more light coming under my door from the hall light that apparently never gets switched off than through the window. So, anyway, I got up and everything (just yoghurt for breakfast, because I was in one of those 'but I want different food!' things), having had not enough sleep but apparently functional anyway, go to my lecture and end up talking really fast about pointless stuff to a guy to sat behind me in the lecturer-less lecture room. Then there was a James! Yay! (He often gets weirded out by how happy I am to see him wandering over. I think it's partly 'yay people!', partly 'yay friend/larper', partly 'yay person who understnds my brain at least a bit' and mostly 'IF I DON'T MAKE MY HAPPINESS REALLY OBVIOUS, HOW WILL YOU KNOW?!' wherein I err on the side of over-exaggeration. Because at least that way, it's obvious what I'm thinking.
And then when it was plain that the lecturer wasn't turning up, there was breakfast, and DuD squee which I listened to (I don't know the setting, but larp squee is a fairly universal language, I think), and bacon, and YAY PEOPLE and I skipped around the RKC at one point (in my defence, the tea-sugar has on the other side of the room and I had to travel somehow... and again for the cutlery, and again for something to stir my tea, and again for water).
With Mike earlier, I had a big 'argh, argh, there is SOUND and there is AIR and it's ALL AROUND ME ARGH!' thing briefly, also too much from me. Maybe it's just the being yay termtime, maybe it's my brain, who knows these days. Tell me if I'm acting odd, btw, guys, I need to monitor this stuff just in case.
It kinda sucks that my brain is gearing up to be OMG SUPER PRODUCTIVE before any actual work has been set.
And then, at the time when I had a lecture, there was a lecture! Nuclear Physics I, which, from how the 1st lecture was, seems to be really interesting. I might see if I can get a summer project in the Nuclear group - I'll want to do my BSC in Condensed Matter Theory if possible, and I want to get some breadth of projects - I've done one QM modelling in CMT so far, and the BSC project I started but dropped out of was with Irena on Quantum Transport.
I think summer projects are what I have instead of part-time job experience. XD Though, I also have my work experience pre-uni. Need to be all up-to-date and stuff, especially with being a madwoman, else I'll never get employed. And employment is required for disposable income for spending on things like gluten-free bread. (I had a couple of loaves at Steve's house, and I so so miss being able to just MAKE TOAST.)
And then there was the evening, which contained COLD WINTER AIR and a shower so that I have clean hair again, yay, and nomming the curry with some rice and being REALLY FULL from curry, which I made myself did I say, and then internets for like an hour and some until it is Now.
I think sleep should occur soon. Today has been a day full of Doing Things, and tomorrow will also be a Day, that one also being a Day containing LARP, and so more sleep than last night shall be required. Or not-sleep, I guess. Not-sleep tends to work well enough, because it's a bit like sleep.
Then I mixed the mayonnaise with ketchup to make pink mayonnaise and stirred in the prawns I bought the other day and ate that with crispbreads for my lunch, and then I washed up things and then chopped up things until I had chopped all the things to turn into curry. Except, before I chopped the things, I mixed up half a coconut block with boiling water, because as far as I've been told, that's required for making curry.
Ingredients!
1 potato
quarter swede
two carrots
half a red pepper
100g coconut block + 400ml hot water
half a packet of casserole beef
a small brown onion
spices: cumin, coriander, turmeric, paprika, pinch dried chilli flakes
One thing I like about using the slow cooker is that I can be as disorganised as I like - it doesn't matter when things go in the pot. Also I can take a rest while chopping.
Following getting the food cooking, and realising that I didn't really have time for the shower I'd wanted, I sat and painted my nails. I realised when I was half-way to uni that larp is tomorrow and I don't have any remover. Fail. But the painting itself made me happy. So anyway, I went back to Uni, because I had a 17:15 lecture... except, I'd counted wrong, and got to physics at about 1600, where I proceeded to be sociable for a while, which was good.
I'm completely not talking about my mental stuff. How weird. Basically, I had a panic last night, then when I went to bed felt like I was floating on something far squishier than my bed and my body (not my brain, so much) was 'awake', and I got a text message at about ten to two, over an hour and a half since I'd lain down, replied to it (no turning on the light, it was by my bed) and put my head back on the pillow, all with no change in sleepiness. I did drift off at some point, I think - it was the kind of restful not-sleeping, though, if anyone knows what I mean?
I had an alarm set for 0700, because of the 09:15 lecture. There was more light coming under my door from the hall light that apparently never gets switched off than through the window. So, anyway, I got up and everything (just yoghurt for breakfast, because I was in one of those 'but I want different food!' things), having had not enough sleep but apparently functional anyway, go to my lecture and end up talking really fast about pointless stuff to a guy to sat behind me in the lecturer-less lecture room. Then there was a James! Yay! (He often gets weirded out by how happy I am to see him wandering over. I think it's partly 'yay people!', partly 'yay friend/larper', partly 'yay person who understnds my brain at least a bit' and mostly 'IF I DON'T MAKE MY HAPPINESS REALLY OBVIOUS, HOW WILL YOU KNOW?!' wherein I err on the side of over-exaggeration. Because at least that way, it's obvious what I'm thinking.
And then when it was plain that the lecturer wasn't turning up, there was breakfast, and DuD squee which I listened to (I don't know the setting, but larp squee is a fairly universal language, I think), and bacon, and YAY PEOPLE and I skipped around the RKC at one point (in my defence, the tea-sugar has on the other side of the room and I had to travel somehow... and again for the cutlery, and again for something to stir my tea, and again for water).
With Mike earlier, I had a big 'argh, argh, there is SOUND and there is AIR and it's ALL AROUND ME ARGH!' thing briefly, also too much from me. Maybe it's just the being yay termtime, maybe it's my brain, who knows these days. Tell me if I'm acting odd, btw, guys, I need to monitor this stuff just in case.
It kinda sucks that my brain is gearing up to be OMG SUPER PRODUCTIVE before any actual work has been set.
And then, at the time when I had a lecture, there was a lecture! Nuclear Physics I, which, from how the 1st lecture was, seems to be really interesting. I might see if I can get a summer project in the Nuclear group - I'll want to do my BSC in Condensed Matter Theory if possible, and I want to get some breadth of projects - I've done one QM modelling in CMT so far, and the BSC project I started but dropped out of was with Irena on Quantum Transport.
I think summer projects are what I have instead of part-time job experience. XD Though, I also have my work experience pre-uni. Need to be all up-to-date and stuff, especially with being a madwoman, else I'll never get employed. And employment is required for disposable income for spending on things like gluten-free bread. (I had a couple of loaves at Steve's house, and I so so miss being able to just MAKE TOAST.)
And then there was the evening, which contained COLD WINTER AIR and a shower so that I have clean hair again, yay, and nomming the curry with some rice and being REALLY FULL from curry, which I made myself did I say, and then internets for like an hour and some until it is Now.
I think sleep should occur soon. Today has been a day full of Doing Things, and tomorrow will also be a Day, that one also being a Day containing LARP, and so more sleep than last night shall be required. Or not-sleep, I guess. Not-sleep tends to work well enough, because it's a bit like sleep.