a miscellaney

[bedlamsbard]

* Huh. Interesting. Apparently I have no problem handwriting a Elizar Confesor-POV chapter of Dust (knock on wood; I am feeling superstitious at the moment), but the Eustace chapter has stalled out with the stupid stupid dryad. Maybe I should start the chapter later. This would work much better if I felt comfortably having actual chapters solely from the POV of OCs, which, by the way, I do not. At this point, I am damned well getting there, though. (Except then all my POV characters would be male, which, no. And I didn't realized I'd done that, and now I'm a little pissed. Well, except Leocadia and Beka.)

* I have a $20 gift card to Amazon, courtesy of Tulane Office of Admissions (or possibly the Honors Program, I don't remember), and one book I want in my hands right this instant, but which only comes out to about $13. Plus, you know, $25 and they give you free shipping. WHAT ELSE SHALL I BUY? I am thoughtfully eyeing The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook and Love Soup, but there are a couple of knitting books I want to. Or I could get something that is not a book!

* I currently have The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion out from the library and oooh, it is amazing. I have not baked anything from it yet because (1) we are out of brown sugar and (2) I don't actually feel like baking today (!), but it is lovely and amazing and oooh. Depending on the quality of no less than five baked goods chosen from its pages, I may or may not buy it. Up this weekend: gingerbread pancakes, y'all. I don't even like pancakes, but these ones are GINGERBREAD.

* Books I have read so far this summer: The Fourth Crusade, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, The Lies of Locke Lamora (reread), Bretz's Flood.

* Rewatched Congo last night (on recorded VHS, no less; you would not believe how bad the picture quality was -- just about as bad as our TV reception is); I had forgotten there was an Awesome Female Character! I haven't reread the book recently, and I think Karen Ross was less awesome there, but she was fabulous in the movie. Also did not realize that she's a young Laura Linney! (Of course, my dad was making noises about political correctness. *scowls*)

* Am not caught up on Lost or Fringe, but am caught up on Glee. I honestly don't know why I watch this show, y'all; I hate it like burning but the music's good.

* My last two boxes have come from New Orleans; I had to have a friend ship them out after I left, but they are here! Poor Timon got stuffed in the top of the big box, and now...he is crooked.

* I am extremely, extremely glad my dad isn't in Thailand right now. For anyone who is -- stay safe, y'all.

* The result of yesterday's baking was oatmeal pecan chocolate chip cookies from Joy the Baker. I'm actually not a fan of classic chocolate chip cookies, so chocolate chip cookies with a little weight and some extra oomph to them? Perfect. (Plus, they have oats and nuts in them! They're practically health food!)

* Food question! Okay, so the Vietnamese restaurant by campus -- okay, it's about half an hour away or so by foot, it's on Claiborne -- has this clear soup that they serve as an appetizer that also contains cilantro and glass noodles. Also maybe chives or something of the sort? I'm not sure. It is not pho. Does anyone know what the name of it is? (And/or a good recipe?)

Comments

[senmut]

I remember loving Congo in the theater, despite most of the ones I saw it with not enjoying it near as much.

[lady_songsmith]

I think an OC POV chapter would work. The outsider perspective would be interesting. Little confused on the all-male comment, though: you mean if you only wrote OC chapters? because we've had Susan and Lucy and Jill and (I'm guessing) we will in future.

[snacky]

Oooh, Love Soup sounds AWESOME. *puts on wish list* As for other ideas, do you like comics? Because I think you'd like Fables. And I waaaaaaant the King Arthur book! I need to put that on my list too.

Oh man, I remembering reading Congo and seeing the movie, but for the life of me, I can't remember anything about it. Sigh.

I am all caught up on Lost and Glee, but need a huge catchup on Fringe. I think that's my first summer watch.

Mmmm, those cookies sounds delicious. Have you tried the urban legend Neiman-Marcus cookie? It sounds kind of similar.

If you want another set of eyes on the Dust chapter, you can shoot it my way.

[bedlamsbard]

Yeah, if I only did OC chapters -- the majority of my main/primary OCs are male. Elizar Confesor, Mayor, Vespasian of Glasswater, Casmyn Wavewalker (though he hasn't appeared yet), Graynor -- the only female OCs that have been featured more or less prominently have been Leocadia of Newisle and Beka Confesor, with Sitarah Halfaxe and Onahoua Malukai also getting nods. There've been a couple others, but they haven't been as prominent.

[bedlamsbard]

It was lots of fun! Now I want to go watch the Jurassic Park movies...man, I wish I'd bought the Jurassic Park trilogy on DVD instead of the Bourne movies, because those bore me and now I'm stuck with them. *pouts*

[bedlamsbard]

Doesn't it? I have been eyeing it lustfully for a year or so now. One of these days I'm going to crack. (Just as a warning, it's vegetarian.) Hmm, I've looked at Fables a couple of times, but I'm not on a comic kick at the moment.

King Arthur has multiple (huge) books! And I just went through the Baker's Companion marking recipes, and oh, it looks really good -- not fancy stuff, but lots of instructions on basics and a hell of a lot of recipes that cover the basics of almost everything. (Even puff pastry; I am so excited!)

Killer gorillas, lost diamond mines, adventure. The usual.

I'm only one episode behind on Fringe, but the season finale is tomorrow. I think I am planning to watch the two-parter on Friday? So I don't end up with a cliffhanger going mad. Huh, I need to catch up on Caprica as well as Lost.

I haven't! Although there's another really good recipe that's similar to those cookies -- proportions are a little different, and I think it adds cloves as well, but the real kicker is that it adds in a teaspoon or two of orange zest, which is amazing. I love orange zest. (Funnily, I don't like oranges, so I don't use orange zest as much as I'd like. Must pick up more tangerines.)

We make the assumption I have a chapter at all. I have about 1500 words each on two different drafts. *sighs* I know what's going to happen (and it's fun! There's a fight!)! I'm just having problems actually writing.