2005-02-07, 12:56 PM — chickpea curry
I've been doing a lot of cooking lately. A lot more, I think, than I really ever have before. It is hard, because I am lazy and really hate all the associated stuff that goes with the cooking... the cleaning up afterwards, particularly... well, and sometimes the actual cooking process takes forever. So what happens is that it's one of those things that though I know I will enjoy both the cooking and the eating, I don't really feel like making the effort... and that's when the frozen pizzas come out.
The other problem I have is a leftover prejudice. Even though I know it tastes just as good or possibly even better the next day, not to mention that it's easier than cooking and cheaper than frozen pizza, I just... tend to avoid leftovers until they start making faces at me from the back corners of the fridge.
All this aside. Yes, I have been cooking quite a lot lately. And I have really been enjoying it. Currently I'm eating [leftover!] chicken korma that fishy and I made on Saturday night... and actually, I'm quite proud of myself. Ignoring for a moment the fact that the korma came out of a jar (we got it from my grandmother for Christmas, so it seemed about time to use it) it tastes pretty good, and the chickpea curry I made to go with it tasted fantastic, too.
So, yes. Cooking. And I vaccuumed this morning. These are things I do when I'm trying really hard not to remember that all my lichen samples for my thesis are DEAD.
2005-02-01, 04:41 PM — mangaholic
Currently fascinated with xxxHOLiC, a CLAMP manga... have to say, the art is absolutely lovely and the storyline is engaging. Love the characters.
But I do wish DelRey (publishers of this particular manga in Canada) would stop trying to get me to purchase not just this series but also Tsubasa, which while I would like to read it is -not- the story I am interested in now. So much "this manga crosses storylines with Tsubasa! buy it so you don't miss anything!" etc. etc. I like the style of xxxHOLiC better, anyways... although that's not to say I wouldn't like the other...
Blah blah. You know the line... rampant consumerism and me having problems with not buying things that advertisers tell me I should... I wish they would just stop it already.
2005-01-28, 01:46 PM — ideas for reducing the stagnation
So, I have to wonder what the point of this whole website really is anymore. I'm not updating it and I suspect that anyone who did read it is slowly growing tired of checking back and finding the same old entry again and again.
I go through spurts of wanting to share my random thoughts with the world. Frankly, I also go through spurts of having thoughts to share. I don't always feel eloquent or interesting enough to write anything here. Frequently I don't.
I have this problem, see, with talking about school here, in that I feel it's always whining; my life is full of difficult things, but nothing so difficult or tremendous that I feel I can complain. I have lots of wonderful things too, things that I cherish... but they don't necessarily get written down here either.
I thought of reducing bp to an abstract sort of thing where I write only fiction or those random thoughts that I would write down in a scrapbook of thoughts to keep for ideas. Maybe not a reduction; maybe an expansion. But then I have to wonder if posting fiction or ideas here would make me any more likely to post or to write fiction at all? The conclusion I come to is no.
And I really don't have much to talk about that I'm extremely passionate about. The environmental issues I investigate at school are important, but I spend enough time muddling through them and condemning various sectors of the human race in my head an in discussion with others in my program that I don't really want to put it here.
I would keep a birding journal online, perhaps, and that might be a fun idea. Goodness knows most of the people who read this little blurb aren't going to be so interested in that, but there are others who would be. I could keep a gardening jounal online, too.
That's something to do this summer, I think. Keep a garden, not necessarily a journal about the garden... although to be fair maybe I should do both. I'm not going to have a garden here, but I am going to tear up a plot at my parents' and visit it regularly, once or twice a week, to weed and putter about. I'm already getting excited about ordering seed for it, laying it out... a 10x10 vegetable plot, and maybe I'll throw in some New England asters and black-eyed susans...
So, yes. I'm not giving up on myself here yet. Not quite. There are things to say, things to do...