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okay i'm kinda mopey today
i guess, if i have to be polite about it, i'd describe our principal as not really a people person; not particularly tactful. she said something today about us being traumatised though, and yes, i guess those are reasonable words. it's not shock anymore; it's just stretched out and unpleasant.
it was the kids' last day today, and then we had a ( Read more... ) -
an apology, and emergency dessert
After hanging out in a friending meme for a few pages, I feel like I should post something either fannish or substantial here, if not both. But the back of my brain is spending most of its time stressing about work closing down in a week and a half, and still not knowing what I'm doing next year. I will know by 15 January; perhaps then I will start ( Read more... ) -
quinoa salad as made for work pot lunch last week
and then emailed to the all-staff list, where i garnered as many compliments for my recipe writing style as for the salad itself.
I totally forgot that I promised to write out my recipe for quinoa salad! here is less of a recipe and more of an idea:
quinoa is probably in the health food or the gluten free section of the supermarket. You can get red ( Read more... ) -
how to take apart the library
saddest first week of term 4 ever, i feel - although (still!) super glad that we're closing down this year and not trying to hold out one extra year. I'm on the committee to organise the last day (for students) party; my suggestion was a frozen margarita machine but that got turned down ( Read more... ) -
i have made a lot of plans lately
It occurs to me that none of this information has actually all been written down anywhere, and has only passingly been referenced on twitter, so noone does actually know everything that's going on with me lately! i keep telling one person at a time and then being surprised that everyone doesn't know. oops ( Read more... ) -
still haven't touched the desserts chapter
So anyway, the other thing I've been doing lately is cooking my way through Viva Vegan. It's a great book, generally well written and full of interesting sounding recipes, and ingredients I don't often cook with. The first thing I cooked out of it this year was the potato & chickpea enchiladas, which got the response "how is this vegan? it's really ( Read more... ) -
i ran a con!
oh my god it's over ( Read more... ) -
semi-related thoughts and an invitation:
would you like to come to watch doctor who with us on mondays? we have been rewatching from the beginning of new who, in order to edumacate C, who finally got sick of not knowing what we were talking about. also i will cook you dinner, if you text me by 5pm on any particular monday (not valid june 11!). i admit that, being fairly familiar with ( Read more... ) -
read some books and want to tell you about them
I have actually been reading books that are not ya and books that are not written by ladies but this looks like a theme so let's run with it for now. Not really spoilers, i don't think, but some of these books are pretty recent plus some of these reviews got quite long.
( Please ignore Vera Dietz, A S King ) -
books for you!
I am moving house and am not fond enough of the following books to move them too. but I could give them to you!
( crime, boarding school stories, sf, and random stuff )