I want to stomp on your macarons
Feb. 27th, 2011 09:20 pmI feel I should keep some kind of record of all the things I've made in my state of panic. This is over the last fortnight.
( Bakepocalypse )
Mostly, when I'm feeling anxious but imobile, I cruise through Tastespotting and bookmark likely recipes. Then, when I'm feeling anxious and frenetic, I cook. It's a coping strategy. We still have a month to go. I'm eyeing a recipe for brandy snaps right now. Tastespotting is a pretty good round up of food blogs, even though every second recipe is fucking macarons right now, what is it with macarons? I don't get the fascination - they're biscuits coloured with food colouring.
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lilacsigil called the Nuclear Medicine department, and spoke to them about what facilities she'll actually have in her room. She'll have a phone! And they said she can bring a computer, as long as it doesn't have a signal (so no internet, boo), and it won't have to be burned. They'll store it for her and when it's no longer radioactive, she can have it back. So now, she's loading an old laptop with comics and games and TV, so she'll have something to do and watch while she's in her lead room.
They want her to have two showers a day to reduce the amount of radioactivity on her skin. Presumably they won't be Silkwood showers.
Tinee Linkspam:
Ikea instructions for Stonehenge. This explains so much about my experiences with Ikea. Maybe I should have consulted a druid.lilacsigil, on the other hand, has no problems assembling their furniture. (Maybe she is a druid?)
Field Guide to Angry Birds, by birdchickblog, who normally posts digiscope photos and stories of Neil Gaiman's bees. Then, on my Mashable feed, this showed up: Angry Birds: Infograph of the most appealing birds.
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junetide is an original fic and art exchange. I think this is an awesome idea. There's a discussion post on how how the exchange could go here.
staranise is hosting a cranky meme, which has been fun to drop by and see if I can help make someone's day less cranky. I'm not cranky, myself, surprisingly, so I don't have a thread of my own to link here, but if you're on it, link me so I can see if there's something I can do to alleviate your cranky somewhat.
I, um, have a fic to post, but I need a beta. And my usual beta is hibernating right now, though she's had a read-through, in that 'Please tell me this makes sense and uses words in a coherent manner' way. It's for the Sanctuary kink meme, it's a Torchwood crossover, Declan/Jack, with reference to Watson/Jack and Watson/Declan. About 1800 words, rated R.
Would anyone be willing to have a look at it? I can pay in everlasting fudge.
( Bakepocalypse )
Mostly, when I'm feeling anxious but imobile, I cruise through Tastespotting and bookmark likely recipes. Then, when I'm feeling anxious and frenetic, I cook. It's a coping strategy. We still have a month to go. I'm eyeing a recipe for brandy snaps right now. Tastespotting is a pretty good round up of food blogs, even though every second recipe is fucking macarons right now, what is it with macarons? I don't get the fascination - they're biscuits coloured with food colouring.
lilacsigil called the Nuclear Medicine department, and spoke to them about what facilities she'll actually have in her room. She'll have a phone! And they said she can bring a computer, as long as it doesn't have a signal (so no internet, boo), and it won't have to be burned. They'll store it for her and when it's no longer radioactive, she can have it back. So now, she's loading an old laptop with comics and games and TV, so she'll have something to do and watch while she's in her lead room. They want her to have two showers a day to reduce the amount of radioactivity on her skin. Presumably they won't be Silkwood showers.
Tinee Linkspam:
Ikea instructions for Stonehenge. This explains so much about my experiences with Ikea. Maybe I should have consulted a druid.
lilacsigil, on the other hand, has no problems assembling their furniture. (Maybe she is a druid?) Field Guide to Angry Birds, by birdchickblog, who normally posts digiscope photos and stories of Neil Gaiman's bees. Then, on my Mashable feed, this showed up: Angry Birds: Infograph of the most appealing birds.
junetide is an original fic and art exchange. I think this is an awesome idea. There's a discussion post on how how the exchange could go here.staranise is hosting a cranky meme, which has been fun to drop by and see if I can help make someone's day less cranky. I'm not cranky, myself, surprisingly, so I don't have a thread of my own to link here, but if you're on it, link me so I can see if there's something I can do to alleviate your cranky somewhat.I, um, have a fic to post, but I need a beta. And my usual beta is hibernating right now, though she's had a read-through, in that 'Please tell me this makes sense and uses words in a coherent manner' way. It's for the Sanctuary kink meme, it's a Torchwood crossover, Declan/Jack, with reference to Watson/Jack and Watson/Declan. About 1800 words, rated R.
Would anyone be willing to have a look at it? I can pay in everlasting fudge.