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As 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.

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Cooking is always an excellent way to start out the new year. And heck, it's just an excellent way to start a new day. I don't really do much cooking, although I keep wanting to learn more. So far, my repertoire basically consists of: chocolate chip cookies, ginger bread cookies, and caramel filled brownies. Oooh! And the most delicious potato salad ever (it's

kadrin's recipe).

I don't think I know what Nightwatch is. Care to explain?

Also, I was randomly looking at some fanart and came across an El Dorado sketch by

vejiita4eva. It's the second picture down. Word of warning, though -- if you go looking through her memories, you'll see she has another El Dorado fanart, but it is, um, really rather slashy. (This one isn't, or at least, it's ambiguous enough that it doesn't need to be interpreted that way.)

Mmm. I like learning to cook, and the fact that what I'm learning to cook is also healthy and pretty nutrionally well-rounded makes me happy. Potato salad? Ooo. It's one of the Wacky Cooking Times, I guess? Man, I oughta look through those. LJ LURKER POWERS - ACTIVATE!

It's a Discworld book, part of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch arc. Commander Samuel Vimes gets sent back in time to his own past, and he has to teach himself how to be a Watchman, in the middle of a revolution, as if it weren't hard enough learning everything the first time. And all right, this will probably make me sound insane, but about halfway through, some background characters appear.

Named the Rutherfords.

And - just -

Bloody hell! I'm pretty sure it's a coincidence, but as if I needed more fuel for the unholy Thief/Discworld crossover theory spawning itself in my mind. (Also, I found out that Terry Pratchett is apparently a big fan of Thief.) My brain is going "LOL MAYBE THE CITY'S FORGOTTEN NAME IS ANKH-MORPORK" and "Garrett vs. Vimes - Greatest Thief That Ever Lived and the Universe's Policeman. Cynic versus cynic, snark against snark. WHO WINS?" and it's crazy, although I'm going to hit somebody with that latter prompt if it's the last thing I do.

Oooh, that's very nice indeed! Thank you! Hmm. Here is an 'interview' with Garrett that I find really rather awesome, if only for him calling the questioner a "strange voyeuristic interviewer". It's written by Terri Brosius; she does a lot of the design and writing work, so it's about as close to canonical as these things ever get. (I - I looked at the slashy picture. Willpower, why hath thou forsaken me. Still, they are one of the few slash pairings I actually can see the basis for, so I didn't mind.W ould you like me to see if I can find some Shadowrun art? I know it's out there, I'd just have to find the links again.)