And And And
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x_losWe were supposed to see Matilda in Seven-Dails-But-Not-The-Donmar-So-God-Knows-Where-This-Venue-Is tomorrow night, but they canceled it without warning us. They let us reschedule, but didn't email, apologize, or *offer* to reschedule us. Katy had to call them up to arrange things; she only knew something was amiss by looking at her credit card receipt. I am 80% sure that was an appropriate semi-colon use...
Last night in fit of madness asked Miles Richardson whether he was in an Innocent orange juice commercial that sounded suspiciously familiar. We'll see how *that* goes. Said something like 'Orange you in this? *link*' Love and hate self in equal measure. Not sorry.
An recommended these: http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/04/when-irish-eyes-are-smiling-little-baileys-cheesecakes-5-ingredients-10-minutes/ , and they sound v. nice. So did her other rec: http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/32364/Old-Fashioned-Soft-Pumpkin-Cookies/detail.aspx , but getting tinned pumpkin in the UK can be an annoyance.
I'm really enjoying this EP right now:
Recently just in the course of doing chores, and in an attempt on Sunday to have an actual 'day off' with Katy (didn't *really* work), I've been watching a lot of television.
Stuff I am into at the moment:
- Rewatching the old Our Mutual Friend with Paul McGann's Ridiculous Mustache. I mustache you not to laugh at it, it is a very serious facial hair statement. I love a good Dickensy funtime.
- Downton Abbey, which I recently found myself defending vociferously against charges that it was the opiate of the masses right before going 'wait WHAT, self?' I did not know I cared!
- Merlin, which has stolen Who's goodness with MAGIC!! or something in order to produce shockingly competent television, after having been in a slump for a good portion of last year. I'm pretty suspicious about last ep and don't know whether to take its Big Event as permanent, given the forces in play this series.
- Star Trek: Next Generation: Katy and I's rewatch has cleared mid Season Six, after stalling for like a week due to my unwillingness to watch horrible horrible shit happen to Picard. The ep wasn't quite as AWFUL as my childhood had painted it, and I think I built it up enough for Katy consequently to deaden the blow for her, which is for the best as Benny has, as Katy pointed out, filled our Reptile Empire Gratuitously Torturing Our Hero quota for all time. Chain of Command Part II is a successful and not, I think, unnecessary story about torture, in an Orwellian/1984 kind of way, but I sort of feel its messages lodged in me the first time I saw it and now its content seems a bit 'oh', not through any fault of its own.
- Sarah Jane Adventures: This series strong as usual. Quite sad I'll never learn more about The Captain, the best parrot!regeneration of a TL that ever there was. Also I want Luke and his new sister to bond properly, but I guess there's not any time.
- Top Hat: it's an old Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie that was on iplayer while I was making my marinade and doing dishes last night, and I don't know that I'd ever even him in anything before. Not quite finished, but so far rather clever and funny at points. Good random Gertrude Stein joke. Hate her writing. Three Lives destroyed my own will to liiiive. Is her Italian fashion designer friend supposed to be gay? If so, surprised they went there. If not, some of the jokes make less sense.
MONDAY
- emailed both potential gumtree people a final time about stupid cushions
- edited Warnes letter w/ Katy
- emailed Warnes
- replied to Mendelson
- replied to Douglas-Fairhurst
- replied to Newlyn
- grocery shopping
- started barbacoa pork marinating
- made peanut butter power smoothie from new Allegra book: not v. good, nothing to the nutella smoothie, and equally sickly-rich
- did dishes
- cat litter box
- got unused bookshelf out of the living room and asked Andre if he'd take it--no, but Kassia would
- tidied room
- laundry
- got pork barbacoa in the oven--this is a fusion of two recipes: http://www.foodbuzz.com/recipes/841977-cafe-rio-pork-barbacoa and http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/caf-pasquals-barbacoa-10000001023838/ . I also sliced the meat open and pushed in a few little chunks of home-made rosemary lardo. I sort of felt my way. This was a 'wet' version--I've done it once before, but it was kind of a dry rub version. This time and last I made big batches--here a little less than 5 lbs. (costing 9 pounds) of pork shoulder--because the recipe is so time consuming and labor intensive it's not worth doing unless you make a lot. It freezes very well: this will be providing handy, tasty, instant taco meat for months, it's good until about this time next year. Make SURE you watch the last step with the shredding, soaking, and quick re-cooking, it makes all the difference between a sad pitiable waste of time, meat and money and what barbacoa SHOULD taste like.
- researched Marcus (a lot of googling, reading book reviews, and listening to a BBC radio "In Our Times" program on literary modernism from 2001 that WOULD NOT END and was full of accents so frankly ridiculous they seemed to require a reverse!Higgins-Pickering treatment--I have never heard the vowels in 'aesthetic' so ROUNDLY abused)
- drafted Marcus letter
- sent a 'please keep me in mind'
- talked to Mez about Mah Emo Problumz
- GREAT meeting w/ Goriunova: she is SO nice. It's good to have a firm back-up safety option, even if it's for a school I don't want (admittedly with an advisor I'd QUITE like). I really REALLY like her, and we had a valuable conversation about our research, the material out there, her upcoming book, why a PhD takes at least three, but more likely 4 years, the post-PhD job market, teaching opportunities, etc. I left before I got too weird or anything--getting a bit worse about AUGH INTERVIEW AUGH NEW PEOPLE AUGH LEAVING THE HOUSE because I've been so *buried* in here recently, working without seeing anyone I don't live with for like, days. on. end.
- defreinded neo-con blow-hard from MA on fb--good riddance. Probably never going to see those people again/don't have to do that sad scrabble to try and get along with people I think are fine but can't feel much kinship with/closeness to. Sigh. Good night and good luck and go fuck yourselves, Goldsmiths.
- got through the depressing "Four Lights" episode of Next Gen so we can get on to cheerier things
- figured out where/when my QM meeting is tomorrow: noon-fifteen and MARS/Mile End
- sent Shalka email
- emailed Marcus
- battled insomnia-fused-with-tiredness by making this entry (LIKE A BOSS!)
Last night in fit of madness asked Miles Richardson whether he was in an Innocent orange juice commercial that sounded suspiciously familiar. We'll see how *that* goes. Said something like 'Orange you in this? *link*' Love and hate self in equal measure. Not sorry.
An recommended these: http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/04/when-irish-eyes-are-smiling-little-baileys-cheesecakes-5-ingredients-10-minutes/ , and they sound v. nice. So did her other rec: http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/32364/Old-Fashioned-Soft-Pumpkin-Cookies/detail.aspx , but getting tinned pumpkin in the UK can be an annoyance.
I'm really enjoying this EP right now:
Recently just in the course of doing chores, and in an attempt on Sunday to have an actual 'day off' with Katy (didn't *really* work), I've been watching a lot of television.
Stuff I am into at the moment:
- Rewatching the old Our Mutual Friend with Paul McGann's Ridiculous Mustache. I mustache you not to laugh at it, it is a very serious facial hair statement. I love a good Dickensy funtime.
- Downton Abbey, which I recently found myself defending vociferously against charges that it was the opiate of the masses right before going 'wait WHAT, self?' I did not know I cared!
- Merlin, which has stolen Who's goodness with MAGIC!! or something in order to produce shockingly competent television, after having been in a slump for a good portion of last year. I'm pretty suspicious about last ep and don't know whether to take its Big Event as permanent, given the forces in play this series.
- Star Trek: Next Generation: Katy and I's rewatch has cleared mid Season Six, after stalling for like a week due to my unwillingness to watch horrible horrible shit happen to Picard. The ep wasn't quite as AWFUL as my childhood had painted it, and I think I built it up enough for Katy consequently to deaden the blow for her, which is for the best as Benny has, as Katy pointed out, filled our Reptile Empire Gratuitously Torturing Our Hero quota for all time. Chain of Command Part II is a successful and not, I think, unnecessary story about torture, in an Orwellian/1984 kind of way, but I sort of feel its messages lodged in me the first time I saw it and now its content seems a bit 'oh', not through any fault of its own.
- Sarah Jane Adventures: This series strong as usual. Quite sad I'll never learn more about The Captain, the best parrot!regeneration of a TL that ever there was. Also I want Luke and his new sister to bond properly, but I guess there's not any time.
- Top Hat: it's an old Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie that was on iplayer while I was making my marinade and doing dishes last night, and I don't know that I'd ever even him in anything before. Not quite finished, but so far rather clever and funny at points. Good random Gertrude Stein joke. Hate her writing. Three Lives destroyed my own will to liiiive. Is her Italian fashion designer friend supposed to be gay? If so, surprised they went there. If not, some of the jokes make less sense.
MONDAY
- emailed both potential gumtree people a final time about stupid cushions
- edited Warnes letter w/ Katy
- emailed Warnes
- replied to Mendelson
- replied to Douglas-Fairhurst
- replied to Newlyn
- grocery shopping
- started barbacoa pork marinating
- made peanut butter power smoothie from new Allegra book: not v. good, nothing to the nutella smoothie, and equally sickly-rich
- did dishes
- cat litter box
- got unused bookshelf out of the living room and asked Andre if he'd take it--no, but Kassia would
- tidied room
- laundry
- got pork barbacoa in the oven--this is a fusion of two recipes: http://www.foodbuzz.com/recipes/841977-cafe-rio-pork-barbacoa and http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/caf-pasquals-barbacoa-10000001023838/ . I also sliced the meat open and pushed in a few little chunks of home-made rosemary lardo. I sort of felt my way. This was a 'wet' version--I've done it once before, but it was kind of a dry rub version. This time and last I made big batches--here a little less than 5 lbs. (costing 9 pounds) of pork shoulder--because the recipe is so time consuming and labor intensive it's not worth doing unless you make a lot. It freezes very well: this will be providing handy, tasty, instant taco meat for months, it's good until about this time next year. Make SURE you watch the last step with the shredding, soaking, and quick re-cooking, it makes all the difference between a sad pitiable waste of time, meat and money and what barbacoa SHOULD taste like.
- researched Marcus (a lot of googling, reading book reviews, and listening to a BBC radio "In Our Times" program on literary modernism from 2001 that WOULD NOT END and was full of accents so frankly ridiculous they seemed to require a reverse!Higgins-Pickering treatment--I have never heard the vowels in 'aesthetic' so ROUNDLY abused)
- drafted Marcus letter
- sent a 'please keep me in mind'
- talked to Mez about Mah Emo Problumz
- GREAT meeting w/ Goriunova: she is SO nice. It's good to have a firm back-up safety option, even if it's for a school I don't want (admittedly with an advisor I'd QUITE like). I really REALLY like her, and we had a valuable conversation about our research, the material out there, her upcoming book, why a PhD takes at least three, but more likely 4 years, the post-PhD job market, teaching opportunities, etc. I left before I got too weird or anything--getting a bit worse about AUGH INTERVIEW AUGH NEW PEOPLE AUGH LEAVING THE HOUSE because I've been so *buried* in here recently, working without seeing anyone I don't live with for like, days. on. end.
- defreinded neo-con blow-hard from MA on fb--good riddance. Probably never going to see those people again/don't have to do that sad scrabble to try and get along with people I think are fine but can't feel much kinship with/closeness to. Sigh. Good night and good luck and go fuck yourselves, Goldsmiths.
- got through the depressing "Four Lights" episode of Next Gen so we can get on to cheerier things
- figured out where/when my QM meeting is tomorrow: noon-fifteen and MARS/Mile End
- sent Shalka email
- emailed Marcus
- battled insomnia-fused-with-tiredness by making this entry (LIKE A BOSS!)
