bedlamsbard | today in Hobbit art: eighteen for the price of one!

Today I baked something, shocker of shockers, and not only that, I baked something from one of my many, many cookbooks. Before anyone gets excited that it was something super-fancy: it was scones, and plain scones at that, since I forgot to grab the currants from my room. But they were good! And now I can stop buying scones. (This is also the first time I've ever baked something using the scale instead of measuring cups, since it was a British recipe.)

(While normally I bake a lot, I haven't been baking much this year because it's slightly more hassle than it is when I'm at home or when I was at Tulane -- most of my baking supplies are in my room rather than in the kitchen, I'm used to using measuring cups and butter that's in sticks, our oven is temperamental, I have to convert oven temps from Fahrenheit to Celsius, I have to make sure there isn't anyone else who wants to use the kitchen at the same time, etc. While it might not sound like a lot, it can add up, especially when I'm already stressed. It's a big change from when I was baking my own bread every week, the way I was at Tulane!)

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Easter vacation starts next week. Easter vacation snuck up on me. Or maybe Easter snuck on me, I don't know. How does time even, where did the term go, OH GOD HELP.

I figure I ought to maybe go somewhere a couple times over the break, since it's about a month off. (Actual conversation I had with English Flatmate N. "Maybe I'll go to Wales. There are whales in Wales, right?" "Yes, but they're fluffy and called sheep." Both of us: *giggle* Me: "Killer sheep, humpback sheep, gray sheep...")

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Sooner or later I will collect all my fills for the 3 Sentence Ficathon and post them over here, but today is not that day.

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And the Hobbit art rec theme for the day is: portraits!

Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Balin, Dwalin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Ori, Nori, Dori, and (the leader of our company) Thorin Oakenshield by