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icepixieYuletide update: I finished my assignment and a treat! This is awesome! I had a plan for another treat, but it went down in flames. On the other hand, this morning I woke up with an idea for yet another treat, which should be fun. And I may yet find another way to write for the fandom of the Doomed Treat.
In the meantime, in space pilots news, I've plotted out all the new stuff I want to happen to them on their journey, which is still going to make a very short novel, but nevertheless, the pacing should work better once I write all of this and insert it. To get myself back in the mood, I'm reading Atlantic Fever, which is mostly about the publicity surrounding Lindbergh and his competitors as they prepared and made attempts to cross from New York to Paris. Highly relevant to my interests!
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I finished all ten episodes of Bunheads last week. It definitely has flaws--you rest the entire emotional payoff of your midseason finale on a reference to someone else's movie, really?--but I've somehow fallen in love with all the characters, annoying as they can be in their own ways. This show got me to care--nay, to angst--about a teenage romance! (It was Boo and Carl, like that's any surprise when they were basically playing out an iteration of every Astaire/Rogers movie ever made while also doing ballroom dance--although I question whether anyone behind the scenes actually watched the movies, if their "Fred and Ginger Dance" is a waltz. Everyone knows their stuff was mostly foxtrot-based! Um, for subsets of "everyone" that exclude "people who are not dance geeks.")
Anyway, cuteness! I look forward to its return in January, especially since Fringe will be ending around the same time.
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Since I haven't taken/posted many pictures lately, have one of my cute food:
Apparently there is such a thing as "cocktail" rye bread. It is tiny and adorable. Sandwich ingredients: turkey, colby jack cheese, cranberry sauce, chopped onions, brown mustard.
(My cranberry sauce recipe: 1 (12 oz.) bag cranberries, 2 oranges (I use navels), 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup water, splash of orange juice, cinnamon and ginger to taste. Boil until cranberries pop, simmer until desired consistency and thickness, add a bit of cornstarch dissolved in cold water if the damn thing won't thicken, chill and slather on sandwiches. NOM.)
Also have a photo I'm calling "Post-Apocalyptic Patio with Scarf."
The scarf is new, and at the moment, quite possibly the prettiest thing I own. This photo better captures the color: it's an eye-popping, gorgeous electric tealy blue.
In the meantime, in space pilots news, I've plotted out all the new stuff I want to happen to them on their journey, which is still going to make a very short novel, but nevertheless, the pacing should work better once I write all of this and insert it. To get myself back in the mood, I'm reading Atlantic Fever, which is mostly about the publicity surrounding Lindbergh and his competitors as they prepared and made attempts to cross from New York to Paris. Highly relevant to my interests!
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I finished all ten episodes of Bunheads last week. It definitely has flaws--you rest the entire emotional payoff of your midseason finale on a reference to someone else's movie, really?--but I've somehow fallen in love with all the characters, annoying as they can be in their own ways. This show got me to care--nay, to angst--about a teenage romance! (It was Boo and Carl, like that's any surprise when they were basically playing out an iteration of every Astaire/Rogers movie ever made while also doing ballroom dance--although I question whether anyone behind the scenes actually watched the movies, if their "Fred and Ginger Dance" is a waltz. Everyone knows their stuff was mostly foxtrot-based! Um, for subsets of "everyone" that exclude "people who are not dance geeks.")
Anyway, cuteness! I look forward to its return in January, especially since Fringe will be ending around the same time.
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Since I haven't taken/posted many pictures lately, have one of my cute food:
Apparently there is such a thing as "cocktail" rye bread. It is tiny and adorable. Sandwich ingredients: turkey, colby jack cheese, cranberry sauce, chopped onions, brown mustard.
(My cranberry sauce recipe: 1 (12 oz.) bag cranberries, 2 oranges (I use navels), 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup water, splash of orange juice, cinnamon and ginger to taste. Boil until cranberries pop, simmer until desired consistency and thickness, add a bit of cornstarch dissolved in cold water if the damn thing won't thicken, chill and slather on sandwiches. NOM.)
Also have a photo I'm calling "Post-Apocalyptic Patio with Scarf."
The scarf is new, and at the moment, quite possibly the prettiest thing I own. This photo better captures the color: it's an eye-popping, gorgeous electric tealy blue.
