Do Fish Burps Echo?

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Fic last updated: 31 March 2010
Formatting last updated: 4 January 2010 by hl (who is awesome!)


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I still exist!

Or maybe I don't!

Can you trust anything written on April Fool's Day?

CAN YOU?!?!?!!!


In other news, the audiofic archive is back up and running and this is so very awesome and thus I am celebrating by watching all of the TV in the world in the background whilst archiving one billion podfics. I'll return to online life and fandom proper once I'm working on that a little less breakneck and then I'll do a proper update-type post and ask how everyone's been doing.

In sum, I LOVE YOU ALL and I have to go archive some things now!


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Sometimes I leap into things without thinking all the way through, without reading all the instructions, or without thinking ahead for all what the instructions might be...

Which is why I now have a patchwork blanket made with a variety of yarns to piece together, and I'm looking at the patches made with 100% cashmere yarn, wondering what to do next. I reclaimed the yarn from a jumper at a second hand store and the shoulder seams were reinforced with some non-cashmere yarn. Of course, it's not until now, when I've knit everything up, that I'm wondering if maybe that means that seaming is complicated when working with 100% cashmere yarn. (My original plan was to use blanket stitch on all the seams.)

So, does anyone have advice on what I should be doing with regards to seaming the 100% cashmere patches?

Cheers!

x-posted to fish-echo and knitting


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*poooof* *de-lurks*

So I might slowly be clawing my way back to having time enough to be actually un-hiatus-y? *touches wood* *crosses fingers* *turns around three times* *throws salt over shoulder* But in the meantime, here's two recipes (even if neither of them are ones which I've promised people. But they're the ones I've finished writing up, so they're the ones getting posted! *g*).

*poof* *re-lurks* :P

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There are two dishes here, the lavender-and-corn and the summer squash. They go rather well together and combine to make a light supper, although if you'd rather have a full meal, I'd suggest adding a nice toasted starch-- ideas I contemplated were: naan, lightly toasted cornbread, a very not-rich biscuit, fresh tortillas, or maybe a simple quesadilla. (Um, yeah, and I also was thinking that a bit of my father's homemade beef jerky would have gone quite well too. Which is clearly not a starch. So, um, let your tummy guide you.)


QUICK DESCRIPTIONS

Recipe 1: Corn with Lavender

A subtle play of flavours in a refreshing summery dish. The warm and soft corn is nicely complimented by the cool and crisp lemon cucumber. It requires a little bit of time and attention during the cooking but isn't inherently difficult.

Recipe 2: A Basic Summer Squash Sauté

Quick, easy, tasty.

Time and serving sizes for making both
1.5 hr-ish
2 people for supper

Photos
I took pictures with my phone, but it's new and I'm having a devil of a time getting it to talk to my computer. Once I get around to figuring that out, I'll update this with pictures.

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I'm sorry that this is all very rough and informal! :( If I'm unclear or if you have any questions, drop a comment and I'd be happy to help!

And if you have any suggestions, observations, etc etc, please also drop them in comments!

[Crossposted to] omnomnom.


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Do you know, I think I spend over an hour per rec on a rec set.... I wouldn't be surprised if it's much more than that, actually /o\ I'm kind of afraid to time myself on the chance that I'd get too downtrodden to actually rec things anymore.

Moving onto lighter topics, [I just recced a bunch of podfics etc] over at fish_recs. The theme for this one is fics which were recorded at my bidding, and other fanworks (mostly podfics but some fics and vids too) which reminded me of them. As usual, I blather on faaaaar too much. I found several mistakes/overlooked links when commenting to readers/authors, so here's hoping I found all of them! *touches wood*

So yeah, another rec set up! I feel all accomplished and stuff :) (Now I just need to also do all the other things on my list... one item at a time, but they'll get done!)


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Last night I had a very intense, vivid dream of the sort that you don't realise didn't actually occur until you wake up enough to realise it must have been a dream.

In this dream, I was following an email conversation amongst all the audiofic archivists, except I started reading in the middle of the thread, so aphelant's comment of 'americano?' was very confusing. Especially since cybel's response of 'cappuccino, I think' seemed to indicate that we'd veered off the subject of the archive. And before I could scrabble up-thread to figure out what the fuck was going on, I'd woken up. And now I won't ever know what was going on in that conversation! >:(

So, any thoughts? :P


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(I caught yet another virus, just as I was very nearly over the last one. Clearly I need to learn how to take care of myself better, or something. Because fuck this.)

I'm tired of being tired. I'm tired of deadlines which can only shift so much (sometimes not at all) even though I'm ill. I'm tired of having a tired brain (I have what feel like the beginnings of interesting -- and possibly self-insightful -- thoughts about identity and disability and culture and norms, and my brain is too sluggish to finish thinking the thoughts to myself, let alone try to formulate them into a state that I can run them past someone else.). I'm tired of the fact that I slept the weekend away (including a good chunk of the time that I was visiting with friends. To be honest, the fact that I could 'accidentally' fall asleep on the couch was a good chunk of why I was persuaded to go out in the first place). I'm tired of being too tired to easily maintain my normal good cheer (evidently it takes energy to be hyperactive, who knew?). I'm tired of the fact that I want to curl up on the sofa and drowse off and yet I've got too much to get done right now to afford that (that I can have a nap later isn't a useful carrot when I'm tired right now). I'm tired of the list looming off in the murk, containing all the things which can be put off until I have more energy, sitting there and getting longer and longer and I can't do anything about it (because lately it seems whenever I try I end up spending more of that coin I don't have and then I end up right back where I started but more exhausted and how is that useful (answer: it's not)).

Faaaaaaaah. I'm going to go see if there's anything on the list I can kick 'till later and then I'm going to do whatever can't be put off and then I'm going to motherfucking take a nap. It'll be the best nap which ever did nap. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!


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The tally currently stands:

Fish: |
Fish's immune system's work ethic: -1
Space Viral invaders: |

I've managed to catch another virus and within only days of posting my last entry! Thus, I've decided to give my immune system a negative point. :(

*insert something witty here*

Okay, back to bed. >:(


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Allow me to present a play in a few acts, called 'This is Fish's life this past month':

Fish's body: Oh no! Space viral invaders!
Fish: *takes a nap*
Fish's immune system: Huh?
Fish: *sleeps more*
Fish's immune system: Bwah?
Fish: *feels rotten*
Fish's immune system: You want me to do what now?
Fish: *stays in bed for several days straight*
Fish's immune system: Okay, fine, I'll do something! *poke*
Fish: *thinks she's feeling a little bit better*
Fish's immune system: Boy, that sure was a lot of work! You don't mind if we take the next week or two off, right?
Fish: *gives up on going into work for a while*
Fish's office mates: You sound/look horrible, why are you here?
Fish: I don't even remember anymore. I swear when I got up this morning noon, I thought that there was some deadline or something that really had to get done?
Fish's boss: Go home.
Fish: *goes*
Fish: *sleeeeeeeeeeeps*
Fish: *wakes up, but only a little*
Fish: *sits/sleeps on couch and watches lots of hockey and DVDs of crappy awesome middling TV*
Fish: *sleeeeps*
Fish's immune system: I'm getting kind of bored with all this sleeping. Wow, I'm so bored that maybe I'll actually do some work!
Time: *passes*
Fish: Wow, I don't feel quite so much like a puddle of goo anymore! Wow!
Fish's body: *puts it in the net*
Fish: ...is it possible to feel like half a puddle of goo?

Final score:
Fish: |, Fish's immune system's work ethic: 0

Aaaaand in other news, somewhere in there [I wrote a mini-rec set on the theme of hockey].


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Dude, it had to be in two LJ posts because evidently I don't know when to shut the fuck up? Or something. At this point, I have no idea what on earth is in that rec set any more, I mean, I really hope it doesn't contain, like, me doing keyboard mashes or something, but fuck if I'm going to look at it for any longer. I think my head might explode if I do. I'm fairly certain that this means that when I look back at it later, I'll cringe with embarrassment. OTOH, it's posted, boo-yaaah! (I'm trying not to think of how long ago I promised this set.) Erm, this half of a set? Because I feel like it's still not long enough, so eventually there'll be the other half. But before then I'll probably post some other recs, because it turns out I'm really bad at writing things in order (this should *not* be a surprise anymore, really), so yeah, there's bits and bobs of other recs gathering dust on my computer. Maybe I'll clean some of those up eventually and post them. But in the meanwhile, I'm going to go do a celebratory dance or something, I don't know. *collapses into a puddle* Oooh, there's ice cream in the freezer, mayhap I'll go investigate that! *reconstitutes self from puddle for sake of ice cream*

ETA: AHHAHAHAHHAHAA, WHO FORGOT TO PUT IN THE LINK? OH YEAH, IT WAS ME! http://fish-recs.livejournal.com/2… /ETA


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