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Jan. 5th, 2007 10:17 amAs my first post of the new year, I will talk about cooking!
It's something I've discovered about myself: you know how some people find menial tasks soothing? Like folding clothes or scrubbing floors or ironing? Apparently for me, stirring is rather Zen. And I don't even make very complicated dishes. I'm no cook - the most I can do is a stir-fry with noodles and sauce from a packet, or maybe tacos. But chopping and stirring and adding and measuring calms my nerves.
I'm even usually barefoot when I cook, although I imagine the 'woman's place' thing is spoiled by the iPod playing game soundtracks and my QANTM T-shirt.
Ah well. The good thing about cooking is that I'm very fussy, so doing it myself ensures I use what I like. Smells are nice, too.
In other news: own a sword. It's plastic and shiny.
Also own: Nightwatch. So far, is fabulous.
There was also something here about how I would like to write a villain who is actually the protagonist, because he's much worse than the antagonist and nobody punished him and he doesn't like that, but I'm not sure how to articulate it, so! Uh. There it is. He would also possibly be a dork. The world needs more fictional dorks.
It's something I've discovered about myself: you know how some people find menial tasks soothing? Like folding clothes or scrubbing floors or ironing? Apparently for me, stirring is rather Zen. And I don't even make very complicated dishes. I'm no cook - the most I can do is a stir-fry with noodles and sauce from a packet, or maybe tacos. But chopping and stirring and adding and measuring calms my nerves.
I'm even usually barefoot when I cook, although I imagine the 'woman's place' thing is spoiled by the iPod playing game soundtracks and my QANTM T-shirt.
Ah well. The good thing about cooking is that I'm very fussy, so doing it myself ensures I use what I like. Smells are nice, too.
In other news: own a sword. It's plastic and shiny.
Also own: Nightwatch. So far, is fabulous.
There was also something here about how I would like to write a villain who is actually the protagonist, because he's much worse than the antagonist and nobody punished him and he doesn't like that, but I'm not sure how to articulate it, so! Uh. There it is. He would also possibly be a dork. The world needs more fictional dorks.
