Life is good. Warning! Long post.
Feb. 23rd, 2007 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zuki_sanSo....I got sick of the old message. And one update every two months is just about right for me.
So. Life is good. Life has been pretty good indeed.
I'm going all right in school, though I could be doing a bit better--fortunately it's February and I've plenty of time to scare myself a bit and take things more seriously.
Gaming's been good--I even ran a session myself, and hope to do so again. I keep wimping out, though.
The weather's been nice, too. There's snow on the groud, and it half-snowed earlier this week mardi gras night as well--but it's actually been really warm and nice! Flip-flop weather for a bare foot fond type like myself. Green grass starting to sprout, new shoots of yarrow and all that. Yarrow shoots are tasty, by the way. They don't have the nice smell of grown yarrow, but they aren't bitter either.
Chris and I cancelled Valentine's day last week because we couldn't think of anything to get eachother, and we didn't want to feed the capitalist machine-monster of Hallmark for the heck of it. There's a DVD that I've got my eye on for him though, maybe, and....y'know, I'd really like a pair of toe-socks that I can wear with flipflops. I like cool socks, and the green and purple striped pair I've got is wearing rather thin.
Also! On wednesday night I saw Man of La Mancha, and I really liked it. It was for a drama paper I need to write, but...I think I can totally write that paper. I'm good at analysis and theme-picking, I knew what I wanted to write about about, oh, half way through the play, and there's tons of stuff to support it. Also, the play was really good. I was the first to stand up at the end whilst clapping. I think I'll go see it again--I mean, you don't write a paper on a piece of literature after just reading it once, though apparently the ephemeral nature of theatre is part of the point.
And yesterday? I made soup. A couple weeks back, I attempted soup....and forgot to turn it off at night while it was simmering....so I woke up at five in the morning, smelling smoke and terrified until I realized that it wasn't fire, just the soup. The I was aggravated and cursing. House smelled like ash for the rest of the week and a bit. But I bought more vegetables,and tried again yesterday, starting earlier in the day. Black beans, kideny beans, and garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas), tomatoes, onion (it needs more onion), and garlic (garlic levels are acceptable, but slightly suboptimal). Oh, and mostly seasoned with basil. As one might imagine, it tastes a bit like spaghetti sauce. This, by the way, is a plus. The barely I cooked and added works very well with the tomato and bean flavors. I like beans.
And, coming up soon....is the con! Anime Oasis! Three days of glorious binging in otakudom and fellow fandom. Or whatever. No sleep on Saturday night. Dancing! Costumes! Money spent well and poorly! It will be good. I'm tempted to sell some blood plasma the week beforehand, so as to create cash....
So! Life is good. Now if I can just kick myself into gear and get the transfer application done for University of Maryland done before the priority date...
So. Life is good. Life has been pretty good indeed.
I'm going all right in school, though I could be doing a bit better--fortunately it's February and I've plenty of time to scare myself a bit and take things more seriously.
Gaming's been good--I even ran a session myself, and hope to do so again. I keep wimping out, though.
The weather's been nice, too. There's snow on the groud, and it half-snowed earlier this week mardi gras night as well--but it's actually been really warm and nice! Flip-flop weather for a bare foot fond type like myself. Green grass starting to sprout, new shoots of yarrow and all that. Yarrow shoots are tasty, by the way. They don't have the nice smell of grown yarrow, but they aren't bitter either.
Chris and I cancelled Valentine's day last week because we couldn't think of anything to get eachother, and we didn't want to feed the capitalist machine-monster of Hallmark for the heck of it. There's a DVD that I've got my eye on for him though, maybe, and....y'know, I'd really like a pair of toe-socks that I can wear with flipflops. I like cool socks, and the green and purple striped pair I've got is wearing rather thin.
Also! On wednesday night I saw Man of La Mancha, and I really liked it. It was for a drama paper I need to write, but...I think I can totally write that paper. I'm good at analysis and theme-picking, I knew what I wanted to write about about, oh, half way through the play, and there's tons of stuff to support it. Also, the play was really good. I was the first to stand up at the end whilst clapping. I think I'll go see it again--I mean, you don't write a paper on a piece of literature after just reading it once, though apparently the ephemeral nature of theatre is part of the point.
And yesterday? I made soup. A couple weeks back, I attempted soup....and forgot to turn it off at night while it was simmering....so I woke up at five in the morning, smelling smoke and terrified until I realized that it wasn't fire, just the soup. The I was aggravated and cursing. House smelled like ash for the rest of the week and a bit. But I bought more vegetables,and tried again yesterday, starting earlier in the day. Black beans, kideny beans, and garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas), tomatoes, onion (it needs more onion), and garlic (garlic levels are acceptable, but slightly suboptimal). Oh, and mostly seasoned with basil. As one might imagine, it tastes a bit like spaghetti sauce. This, by the way, is a plus. The barely I cooked and added works very well with the tomato and bean flavors. I like beans.
And, coming up soon....is the con! Anime Oasis! Three days of glorious binging in otakudom and fellow fandom. Or whatever. No sleep on Saturday night. Dancing! Costumes! Money spent well and poorly! It will be good. I'm tempted to sell some blood plasma the week beforehand, so as to create cash....
So! Life is good. Now if I can just kick myself into gear and get the transfer application done for University of Maryland done before the priority date...
