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Sep. 25th, 2011 01:34 pm
crankyoldman: "Hermann, you don't have to salute, man." [Pacific Rim] (jones hat)
Since I discovered I can cook, I regularly go to the farmer's market, and learn how to eat/cook what I bring back. Most of these recipes will be vegetarian-ish, not because I actually am a vegetarian (I'm not) but because I just don't buy a lot of meat or like to have it more than once or twice a week.

Anyway, I kept meaning to make this post for a while, as I start trying stuff on my own. My favorite things to cook are pseudo Italian and Japanese, so! If it's adapted from a recipe I found online I will link to that recipe. My variations tend to have less ingredients, or not contain ingredients I dislike or can't eat.

foodz )
crankyoldman: "Hermann, you don't have to salute, man." [Pacific Rim] (engineers bring it)
I have found the lab that is to become my new home.

And it's not in the aero building.

In fact, it was my freshman year lab home. But since the shiny new aero building has been made, it is somewhat less used. And as shiny as the aero building is, the lab tables SUCK. They're TINY! How is any respectable engineering student supposed to work on THOSE?

Luckily, this lab has the old HUGE lab tables. And since there are less comps? Some of them have become dual monitored.

Dual. Monitors.

You cannot understand my love for dual monitors until you've got Matlab and google and like some random pdfs and a lab report Word file open. Screen real estate is GOLD.

I've also gone nearly all Portable Apps with my stuff, because AIM annoys me, the computers I can log into don't even have Trillian, and well, I like my firefox settings. Though I need to update it to Firefox 3, as I haven't used the portable apps since I was last in school. Oy. Well, when I'm not being eaten by lab report and homework and exams, I'll fiddle with it.

In other news Justin made food today. It was good and I took some of it home because I like to eat a lot. I will return his container later. I also have eggs now (I just wanted the six pack! COME ON FOOD MART WORK WITH ME HERE.) Eggs are great. I love protein.

I also have acquired an umbrella from Justin's lab, because someone left it and it was sitting for a while and I left my umbrella at my parents' house. So it's mine. It's huge and I can wear it across my back like an anime samurai.

I'm also thinking about doing a sort of weekly, "stuff I learned this week that was kind of cool" and try to write it in layman's terms so I make sure I understand it conceptually. And ya'll might learn some rocket science. Sound fun? I think it does.

Oh and I got the new Venetian Snares CD, Detrementalist! and it's kind of awesome. I'm ridiculously fond of the track "Koonut-Kaliffee" because Leonard Nemoy is sampled in it and I always imagined he would narrate my life.

You know, theoretically speaking.

~Cendri
crankyoldman: "Hermann, you don't have to salute, man." [Pacific Rim] (the queen)
There is nothing I am more hedonistic about than food.

I am somewhat particular; not one of those "can eat anything" types, but very certainly not the white bread type. Being of the more Eastern European descent, I can't eat food that's... bland. While salt tends to fix a lot of things, I much prefer paprikas and garlics; if I don't need a mint by the end of the meal, it's bland. XD My favorite little cafe in town has a creole/cajun bent, which is most excellent, because that's another group that believes in strong flavors. Hell, they make me like seafood, and the only other way I'll eat it is, well, in sushi.

This comes up because I decided to go sit in the cafe today, and read my Joyce and generally behave hedonistically. This meant the worlds' most flavorful steak wrap (aka: the reason I can't go to "Mexican" restaurant and order a beef wrap without some sighing) which balances the peppers and tomatoes and actually puts a sauce in as well as doing the well-done just right... I had a very nice lunch, basically. My wallet feels it, but this is the first day I've felt hungry since getting sick, which means I need to reward my returning appetite.

I need to get some more cooking skills, because I quite adore food--I just get caught up in things and don't want to prepare it. Since I've managed to train myself to keep things generally clean (this was a rather hard habit to change, I am scatterbrained and sort of always doing five billion things at once), I figure this year would be a good time to train myself to not always fall back on food prepared by other people. I won't have a normal meal plan this year (or a kitchen of my own, but one will be nearby), so I suppose this is the best time for that. I recall when I lived out in Dayton by myself I was pretty good with feeding myself, but college makes one lazy. XD

In other news, no one is at work today and thus I have not been hassled. Considering that I've gotten more done than just about anyone else and managed a vacation in the middle, I think I've earned back my "girl gets shit done" title. About damn time, it was really starting to irk me. I am not Scotty. I am not a miracle worker.

I'm also going to see an old friend of mine on Friday, which is exciting. I'm bringing her kid some books. Since everyone I knew from way back is married or spawned. Ha, I'm getting old.

Also, [profile] phoenixmonthly should be coming out soon! I think we finally have an idea of what's involved, which is good. Look for it on Monday or sooner!

~Cendri

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