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I made this chocolate mousse tonight. It's good, though I think I made the same mistake the poster made, because mine is also riddled with small bits of unmelted chocolate (or perhaps the meringue was too cool? It is fairly cool in my apartment so I don't think "room temperature" means what they intended it to mean). And also, there are way too many fucking bowls involved. Okay, it's only two, but you have to wash one of them in the middle of the process and I do not have enough room to be pouring things from bowl to bowl and washing up in the middle. I have a cutting board laid over my sink and a strip of counter space about 12" long by 4" wide, and the top of my stove. That is it. My life, so hard. wah wah wah.
I think I'm pretty much decided on what I'm making for gifts, but tomorrow I will be trying out some kind of cinnamon chocolate cake. I will report back how it turns out. If it is really awesome, maybe I will drop out the nutella cake and substitute it. Decisions, decisions.
I think baking is a good way to spend the coming snowpolcaypse, don't you?
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Bring me the finest bagels and muffins in the land! My yuletide story has been sent off to beta!
It turned out all right in the end, I think. It needs a good polishing, but it isn't the horror I was afraid it was going to be when I was struggling over each and every word.
Now onto Broken Toys!
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I stayed up late last night and now I am very tired. It was hard to get out of bed this morning. It is very cold outside, and it's supposed to snow. My parents said not to come, because of the weather. So I have an unexpected weekend at home. Surely there will be baking. And writing. And sleeping. Dear god, so much sleeping.
Have a poem, since I am clearly incapable of writing an entry:
The God Who Loves You
It must be troubling for the god who loves you
To ponder how much happier you'd be today
Had you been able to glimpse your many futures.
It must be painful for him to watch you on Friday evenings
Driving home from the office, content with your week—
Three fine houses sold to deserving families—
Knowing as he does exactly what would have happened
Had you gone to your second choice for college,
Knowing the roommate you'd have been allotted
Whose ardent opinions on painting and music
Would have kindled in you a lifelong passion.
A life thirty points above the life you're living
On any scale of satisfaction. And every point
A thorn in the side of the god who loves you.
You don't want that, a large-souled man like you
Who tries to withhold from your wife the day's disappointments
So she can save her empathy for the children.
And would you want this god to compare your wife
With the woman you were destined to meet on the other campus?
It hurts you to think of him ranking the conversation
You'd have enjoyed over there higher in insight
Than the conversation you're used to.
And think how this loving god would feel
Knowing that the man next in line for your wife
Would have pleased her more than you ever will
Even on your best days, when you really try.
Can you sleep at night believing a god like that
Is pacing his cloudy bedroom, harassed by alternatives
You're spared by ignorance? The difference between what is
And what could have been will remain alive for him
Even after you cease existing, after you catch a chill
Running out in the snow for the morning paper,
Losing eleven years that the god who loves you
Will feel compelled to imagine scene by scene
Unless you come to the rescue by imagining him
No wiser than you are, no god at all, only a friend
No closer than the actual friend you made at college,
The one you haven't written in months. Sit down tonight
And write him about the life you can talk about
With a claim to authority, the life you've witnessed,
Which for all you know is the life you've chosen.
~Carl Dennis
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As a result of the Nor'easter that is forecast for tomorrow, there actually is a pretty good chance of SE Virginia getting snow tomorrow night. (Much better than I thought last night, ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) goldy_dollar.) Cue Virginians freaking out variously: "YAY SNOW! Let's get out the sleds!" or "ACK, SNOW! Stock up on supplies!"
*facepalm* Oh, Virginians. Y'all are so cute.
ETA: Note that, even if it does snow here tomorrow night? It will almost certainly melt by midday on Sunday. If we even get so much as to actually cause problems driving (although that's not really that much for folks around here).
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\o/
1240 words!
I'm not done, but the end is in sight!
Woo!
And now I must go to bed, because I am up way too late.
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Friday Night Lights
( spoilers )
I love this show so so much. I can't believe that it consistently gets shut out of awards, because it is pretty consistently (early season 2 aside) head and shoulders above most other shows on television. Sigh.
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I came home from work tonight and took a nap. I haven't done that in ages (I mean, okay, a few nights ago I fell asleep on the couch, but that wasn't planned - this was planned). I also ordered in, something I don't do very often anymore either. I got my period this morning and it's freaking freezing out. I felt I deserved both.
Also, my new comforter arrived. I haven't had a new one in ages. I still love my old (fifteen-years-old) black comforter with the lilies on it, but I needed something new and this one is pretty. Hopefully it's warm, too. I'm not going to put it on the bed till my period's over, though, just to be safe.
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I need to go on a hunt for femslash and hope it doesn't suck. (Pathetic pun, I know.)
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various. and also sundry:
= 850 words on my yuletide. I am getting there, I think. I hope. *meep*
= I have Google wave invites (I never log in, because it seems pointless and counterintuitive to me, but whatever), DW invites, and those LJ holiday coupons if anyone wants them.
= I posted two ficlets in the past two days:
Sometime Around Midnight
Dark Angel; Max/Alec; pg; 310 words
Since he can't get drunk, there's only one way to forget.
I look at the world and I notice it's turning
Harry Potter; Remus/Sirius; pg; 650 words
"I needed to hear this song." (sequel to The Love There That's Sleeping)
They were the only complete results from my foray into the ten songs/ten ficlets thing this time around, though I started a couple others that might get written once yuletide is done.
= Is it me or is delicious really flaky lately? Half the time I click on something and I get the "experiencing technical difficulties" message.
= I am attempting to put together some top 10 lists for the decade and while I think I can sort of do favorite characters (way more than ten *snerk*), favorite episodes is frustrating me, partly because my memory is pretty crappy, and partly because I can only think of WW and BSG episodes, and also because I waffle about whether to include "The Body" or OMWF. Though I have to say, I think best episode title of the decade has to go to "Dim Sum, Lose Some," but only because I am ridiculously fond of bad puns.
It is a puzzlement.
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Somehow I'm not in my usual holiday mood this year. December is zooming by at a truly ridiculously fast pace, and I haven't had time to do most of my usual things beforehand. Also I am physically ill and feel like crap. Bleh.
Two things I found myself reading this morning, both resulting from ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) zvi's signal boost:
marina about Russophobia and who is Russian. And branchandroot While we're at it...
thete1 "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!"
(Full disclosure: I was trying to learn how to date again around the time of the Transformers film this past summer. That's how I ended up seeing it, along with Wolverine and a couple other films. I'm not proud of this fact, but there it is. And only one of the many reasons that one particular guy from last summer and I are not seeing each other any more is that I tried talking about why the Transformers films were problematic... I'll leave it to your imagination as to how spectacularly well that went. *eyeroll*)
Short summary of something that could turn into a huge tl;dr post, because holy crap this year has sucked: If I wasn't angry, I wasn't paying attention.
Here, have more links:
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/the-last-airbender-primer/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/the-last-airbender-film-cast-in-60-seconds/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/do-children-see-race/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/yellow-face-a-documentary-on-the-last-airbender-film/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/interviews/sdcc/
I'm thinking I may need to get my hands on DVDs of the Avatar: The Last Airbender tv series, because I haven't seen it. I will not be seeing the Avatar movie. ETA: To clarify, I will not be seeing EITHER of the movies; see comments below.
In completely, completely unrelated news, I've now got a draft of my Yuletide story that doesn't make me cringe, so at least I'm on the ball about something.
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So it's quote Leo McGarry day:
"If we're going to walk into walls I want us running into them full speed. We're going to lose some of these battles, and we might even lose the White House, but we're not going to be threatened by issues. We're going to bring 'em front and center. We're going to raise the level of public debate in this country, and let that be our legacy." *sniffle* Oh, Leo... (You might also enjoy watching this vid, and by "enjoy" I mean "get chills and bawl like a baby" [the way the show used to make me], which is impressive for something that's not even a full 2 minutes long. At first I was like, "this is an odd song choice" and then some of the lyrics make it more understandable, and THEN the chorus kicks in and that is where the chills and the crying come from.) *** Thank you to all the people who had such kind things to say on the love meme. I truly appreciate it. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Thank you also to celtprincess13 for the lovely card, and to angelgazing for the delicious cookies and the amazing gift. ♥♥♥♥♥ *** I made the buttermilk cake again today, but I switched out orange zest for the lemon zest and added two tsp of orange juice. And left out the raspberries. It's good, but it's lacking something. Possibly I will add dried cranberries on top next time. Hmm... *** Criminal Minds( spoilers want to be a BAMF like Emily Prentiss when they grow up )*** Thanks to fleurdeleo, angelgazing and luzdeestrellas, I think I have figured out how to fix my yuletide story. I hope. I just have to figure out how to actually write it. I mean, I have 600 words so I'm on the way, but you know, there have been plot developments and you know how that hurts my wee brain. But I have a plan now, I think. I hope. Wish me luck! *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/107606.html.  people have commented there.
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I look at the world and I notice it's turning
Harry Potter; Remus/Sirius; pg; 650 words
"I needed to hear this song."
This is a teeny sequel to The Love There That's Sleeping. This won't make much sense without reading that.
( I look at the world and I notice it's turning )
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Feedback would be awesome.
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By way of temve and jamie:
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/the-new-facebook-privacy-settings-a-how-to/?em
http://gawker.com/5427077/the-valleywag-guide-to-restoring-your-privacy-on-facebook
http://dotrights.org/what-does-facebooks-privacy-transition-mean-you
For the record? I really, really, really, really, really, really, really dislike Facebook. But I'm there with my RL identity helping family members stay in touch with each other, and attempting to teach them about online privacy and security issues. The whole site leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and I feel like I'm being online-stalked by most of my high school graduating class most of whom apparently couldn't be bothered to Google for me for nearly twenty years. Ugh. The things I do for my extended family...
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baking update: fudge - not really baking, of course
fic update: I've started trying to put up my fic at archiveofourown.org, but I'm finding the posting interface difficult to use. For instance, apparently the way to save a draft is to hit "cancel". ???
Also, I'm going to try to see whether this cross-posting thing works.
Other, fannish: We just watched the Viggo Mortenson & Ed Harris movie Appaloosa. There must be fic, right?
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So, LJ got caught trying to force everyone to specify male or female on their userinfo (suspicions are for advertising demographics), and is backpedaling lots and lots. Details here, including where to go to register your opinion on the matter, from synecdochic.
I've been poking at how to run a ficathon on LJ and Dreamwidth simultaneously for a while now. I might have to start looking into that more. :(
ETA: I have something on the order of a bazillion (yes, that's a technical term) Dreamwidth invites, so if you'd like one, please either comment to tell me what e-mail addy you'd like it sent to, or e-mail me at havocthecat at gmail.com and let me know.
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I've just made the following as a post in my LJ:
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LiveJournal is removing the Unspecified option for the gender field. That's right: you get to be male or female. Period. That's it.
Details here: http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/366609.html
This journal has been, in my user profile, "Unspecified" gender for a long time, because gender is not binary. If/when I am unable to decline to state my gender, or if/when I am forced to declare my gender along a binary division, here on LJ, I will be deleting this journal.
I have Dreamwidth invite codes for anyone who wants them, just provide me with the email address you want the code sent to. There is also http://dw-codesharing.dreamwidth.org/ as well, which does not require you to provide your email address to anyone.
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Dreamwidth, I adore you. <3
ETA: And now I've added the following to my LJ post:
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ETA: The code has now been rolled back and will not be pushed with the next codepush.
After seeing some of the reaction to this entire situation from my LJ friendslist, however, I will be deleting this journal later today. elkes_obsession is already gone. I had been committed to trying to do everything I could to keep unbroken links, to retain memories categories, to not delete entries, even though so many things about LJ's ownership bother me. I'd tried to retain the human connections across the multiple sites. But apparently plenty of the folks I've felt I was making the effort for are sick and tired of this sort of thing. I'm getting a 'don't let the door hit your ass on the way out' vibe, and damn, that HURTS. And so now I'm just DONE.
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So.
elkes_obsession is gone, as it was a navigational tool to organize my views into various LJ communities, and I'd left it up in case others were getting benefit from it.
And elke_tanzer. Created on 2002-04-13 12:36:18 (#527447), watching 515 friends, communities, and feeds. 19,435 comments received, 19,512 comments posted, 2,880 Journal Entries, 204 Tags, 16,918 Memories.
Done.
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Can we please have the long-promised wholesale migration of fandom to somewhere other than LiveJournal now?
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