combo tuesday
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thegreatratsbydid a thursdaypost but just on neocities last week 8/28 so this one kinda short! I am comboing it for dreamwidth and tumblr. finally told my advisor that I need a crumb, a mote, a smidgen of attention from her and she was very amenable thank god
started trueanon episodes on falun gong. banter made in a lab to appeal specifically to NY metro area listeners. hums the cellino and barnes theme song
new jim gordon must die!
apparently Franz Ferdinand will be in my area on tour this fall so I've been jamming to their newest album to decide if I'm going to buy a ticket (I think I am, I'm really enjoying it). a little more synth-heavy than some of their past albums. synth riff in The Doctor reminds me of Ghost lol. Favorite tracks: Audacious, Hooked, Build It Up, Night or Day, Tell Me I Should Stay, The Birds. I recognize that's six tracks out of an eleven track album so I'll call Hooked my favorite I think.
studying my torah for yom kippur....I have memorized 3 out of 9 verses which isn't bad for the timeline I'm on right now
Mud and Canvas by StormsBreadth: MDZS larp AU! thanks B for the rec. it's a fuzzy feel-good one, definitely one of those AUs where you can tell the author is Deeply involved with the thing the AU is about a la Sasuke and the Ottowa housing authority.
in the last arc of Evil as Humans!
need to go to the library because I want to take out a hard copy of Greg Egan Blindsight
a little more buffy
more apothecary diaries with boyf, like 4 episodes left of s2? I realized the other night we accidentally skipped episode 5 so we have to do a brief backtrack lol
disco elysium is good, y'all. been playing with a friend. I like Joyce a lot and not just because she's a milf
I don't normally note down magic the gathering in here because it happens sporadically and is mostly just a vehicle to hanging out as opposed to being About The Game but we've been doing vintage cube draft and last game I actually put together a really good deck and beat the best player out of our friends...dark depths and vampire hexmage hashtag synergies
remember that little bowl from may? finally retrieved from kiln! she's adorable! the plan is to do this pattern on the inside (so sides and bottom I think) of a matcha bowl for a friend's birthday present.
very slowly drawing blobs on the inside of the matcha bowl for friend. I think it's a birthday gift so as long as it's done by Oct 19 I'm golden
made the classic chicken rice with buttered onion from deb smittenkitchen. my thighs are on the small side so I had wayyy more rice/onion than chicken but that's alright, it freezes well
pasta and fried zucchini salad. really good. gonna make it again this week I think but using a big ass squash from my friend's garden instead of zucc. I don't have a food processor so it's not much of a "sauce" but I'm gonna see what I can do this week with a grater instead of haphazardly chopping.
made about 1/4-1/3 cup of ricotta cheese using some 2% milk that had gone off, just the old standard "heat to 180, add acid, stir, strain with cheesecloth", which I then used...
...to make another deb smittenkitchen eggplant involtini! I halved it and subbed in about 1/4 cup of cottage cheese for the last bit of the filling, and used a farmers market eggplant. yummy! definitely want a larger eggplant in the future though, some of my guys were verryyyy little
shocking no one, deb smittenkitchen number three: cucumber crunch salad with tofu. my new best friend shelf-stable block of silken tofu. cukes came from a friend's garden so they had more and larger seeds than I normally like but the dressing is divine, would be really good as a cold noodle dish as well.
made ginger and peach simple syrups! ginger went fine but I forgot about pectin in fruit so I accidentally candied peaches/some sort of peach jam...I did 2:1 sugar:water so it's so so so sweet. found a blog called 'southern fatty' to check something for the peach simple syrup recipe, which, what a blog name for a non fat person to use huh. but he accidentally fermented his peaches apparently. anyways. :|
otherwise fallow since Thursday. leftovers zone.
listening
started trueanon episodes on falun gong. banter made in a lab to appeal specifically to NY metro area listeners. hums the cellino and barnes theme song
new jim gordon must die!
apparently Franz Ferdinand will be in my area on tour this fall so I've been jamming to their newest album to decide if I'm going to buy a ticket (I think I am, I'm really enjoying it). a little more synth-heavy than some of their past albums. synth riff in The Doctor reminds me of Ghost lol. Favorite tracks: Audacious, Hooked, Build It Up, Night or Day, Tell Me I Should Stay, The Birds. I recognize that's six tracks out of an eleven track album so I'll call Hooked my favorite I think.
reading
studying my torah for yom kippur....I have memorized 3 out of 9 verses which isn't bad for the timeline I'm on right now
Mud and Canvas by StormsBreadth: MDZS larp AU! thanks B for the rec. it's a fuzzy feel-good one, definitely one of those AUs where you can tell the author is Deeply involved with the thing the AU is about a la Sasuke and the Ottowa housing authority.
in the last arc of Evil as Humans!
need to go to the library because I want to take out a hard copy of Greg Egan Blindsight
watching
a little more buffy
more apothecary diaries with boyf, like 4 episodes left of s2? I realized the other night we accidentally skipped episode 5 so we have to do a brief backtrack lol
playing
disco elysium is good, y'all. been playing with a friend. I like Joyce a lot and not just because she's a milf
I don't normally note down magic the gathering in here because it happens sporadically and is mostly just a vehicle to hanging out as opposed to being About The Game but we've been doing vintage cube draft and last game I actually put together a really good deck and beat the best player out of our friends...dark depths and vampire hexmage hashtag synergies
making
remember that little bowl from may? finally retrieved from kiln! she's adorable! the plan is to do this pattern on the inside (so sides and bottom I think) of a matcha bowl for a friend's birthday present.
very slowly drawing blobs on the inside of the matcha bowl for friend. I think it's a birthday gift so as long as it's done by Oct 19 I'm golden
eating
made the classic chicken rice with buttered onion from deb smittenkitchen. my thighs are on the small side so I had wayyy more rice/onion than chicken but that's alright, it freezes well
pasta and fried zucchini salad. really good. gonna make it again this week I think but using a big ass squash from my friend's garden instead of zucc. I don't have a food processor so it's not much of a "sauce" but I'm gonna see what I can do this week with a grater instead of haphazardly chopping.
made about 1/4-1/3 cup of ricotta cheese using some 2% milk that had gone off, just the old standard "heat to 180, add acid, stir, strain with cheesecloth", which I then used...
...to make another deb smittenkitchen eggplant involtini! I halved it and subbed in about 1/4 cup of cottage cheese for the last bit of the filling, and used a farmers market eggplant. yummy! definitely want a larger eggplant in the future though, some of my guys were verryyyy little
shocking no one, deb smittenkitchen number three: cucumber crunch salad with tofu. my new best friend shelf-stable block of silken tofu. cukes came from a friend's garden so they had more and larger seeds than I normally like but the dressing is divine, would be really good as a cold noodle dish as well.
made ginger and peach simple syrups! ginger went fine but I forgot about pectin in fruit so I accidentally candied peaches/some sort of peach jam...I did 2:1 sugar:water so it's so so so sweet. found a blog called 'southern fatty' to check something for the peach simple syrup recipe, which, what a blog name for a non fat person to use huh. but he accidentally fermented his peaches apparently. anyways. :|
otherwise fallow since Thursday. leftovers zone.
