Work and People

[e_moon60]

Although I had two very sticky days with the book this week, I made my words goal with some spare change--just over 12,000.

And I must remember that some nice email/comments showed up.  On the other hand...so did some not-nice ones.

Naturally, it's easier to talk about the latter than the former, in part because telling the audience that I got a

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[controuble]

Hmmm...I usually make Greek style chicken with lemon and oregano. Will have to try rosemary some time.

Then again, you could subscribe to the meme running around FaceBook right now, "If life gives you lemons, throw them back and demand chocolate."

[e_moon60]

Oh, definitely try the rosemary. Oregano's one of my favorite herbs too, but rosemary & lemons (and lots of garlic) with a roast chicken is...wonderful-wonderful.

I had chocolate and ate twice as much of it this week as the week before, thanks to the lemons. I now ask of life DARK chocolate, preferably Green & Black's 85% cocoa.

[green_knight]

I really do need to get around to making a Food Icon.

Two caveats:

- vegetables make for a really inappropriate icon when you're talking about deserts
- don't also have a 'flood' icon. They look very similar when you're tired or in a hurry.

[melissajm]

Sorry to hear about the bad week. I hope you get some good "soup" out of it.

[e_moon60]

I will. It just has to simmer awhile. Once I finally caught on to the real situation (not the surface situation) and had a long talk with my husband, the mood began to lift.

[melissajm]

Oh good!

[melissajm]

Husbands are so very, very good for that type of thing. :)

~Gretchen S.

[e_moon60]

But it's your duty as a writer to put your characters through trials and tribulations...otherwise they soon grow bored and begin to make their own problems, which don't fit the plot.

[gotica]

Would it be a waste of lemon meringue pie to have a fan fling it back in the faces of the naysayers by saying that I think what you do is fantastic and the works you create brilliant?

Actually, it would be a waste of pie but I'm sure it would sting no?

[e_moon60]

Now that you've told me nice things...how about we just sit here and eat the pie. Those others don't deserve to have even the taste of it.

[gotica]

Mmm I now have a desire to do some baking even though I did have pie this week. I will share one I prepared earlier (well last year) its eye candy for the stomach.

[e_moon60]

OMG! And photographed from above, so it's easy to imagine falling right into it, mouth open. You do FANCY. You do FANCY amazingly well. (I do rustic and home-cooked.)

Mouth is watering. Must. Go. Bake. SOMEthing!

[keristor]

"The only right move is to stop the TPP at the first sentence" reminds me of Heinlein's advice that any sentence starting with a clause containing 'but' ("It's none of my business, but...", "I shouldn't say this, but...", and the like) should be punctuated immediately after the 'but'. The use of excessive force in the punctuation may not be socially acceptable (killing someone for a first offense, for instance). (I have paraphrased, and probably conflated a couple of his (vice Lazarus Long) comments.)

I like your ideas about what to do with lemons! Not that I have anything against fresh-made lemonade either.

I'm less certain about the phrase I read as "this morning's sausages, deglazed with a slug". Oh, "of red wine", that makes a difference, the other seemed a little strange (and is an artefact of the way I parse sentences in a linear way)...

[teriegarrison]

In my browser window, the line ended with 'slug', so my mind did the same thing yours did before my eyes managed to travel to the beginning of the next line. :-) (BTW, remember me from breakfast one morning at Eastercon? My hair's longer now than in my photo with this post. I think it was either Sunday or Monday we sat together and had a bit of a chat.)

[keristor]

Ah, I remember from the picture (similar enough that my recognition system actually works), but not which morning. Mornings are too late at night at cons *g*.

[e_moon60]

Oh, that "deglazed with a slug" line got a LOL from me--suddenly the poor slug was gazing at me with a pleading expression, begging not to be put in a pan of hot sausage bits and scraped around...and into my head came a Gilbert & Sullivan song, "Poor Wandering One..." I think it's from Pirates of Penzance, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it transmuted into "Poor wandering slug...how did you land in the sausage?"

Yes, I have a very silly mind.