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4 May 2020 22:11 * May the Fourth be with you... I suppose I should finally watch The Rise of Skywalker. It wasn't on my to-do list when it was out in the theaters after the lackluster previous installment. I don't hate The Last Jedi; I think it did a tremendous disservice to Luke and the Rose-and-Finn parts were in desperate need of editing to give them some zip, but it had some good parts. I just wasn't super-excited to plunk down $20 to see the one that came after it and cry about Carrie Fisher.
* Food: I made sweet potato patties with ras el-hanout and without a recipe and they came out splendid. I made masoor dal with coconut, apple, and ginger from a Bon Appetit recipe and it came out okay with enough lime; it may improve tomorrow. I'm not a fan of coconut milk-based curries but it's a 'make what you have' kinda time and my Imperfect Foods box comes tomorrow and I'm low on produce. I made pink lentil soup with harissa last week from the Telegraph's food section and this is how I go from having an unopened two pound bag to wondering if I have enough to make anything else. I probably have fifteen pounds of beans, so I'm not running out of the genre, just the quick-cooking stuff. But that's what the Instant Pot is for.
* I have been proceeding with Qui Habitat and now I'm mopey that (almost) nobody reads it. There are a thousand excellent reasons not to that don't involve the canonical respiratory pandemic in the middle of it and you don't need to explain which one is yours, but I also think I'm doing really good work with it. It's my fannish curse; I can't even get my friends to read my stories because they're long and porn-free and not their current fandom. Although, really, at this rate, QH is so close to original fic that I'm probably doing myself a disservice by not filing the serial numbers off and writing it as a straight space opera. Which I have also failed to turn into a marketing tool -- you don't need the source material!
* I got the sticky tape you're supposed to put where your cats scratch so that they don't. Mine now don't... but the one who was scratching is now licking it all the time.
* Food: I made sweet potato patties with ras el-hanout and without a recipe and they came out splendid. I made masoor dal with coconut, apple, and ginger from a Bon Appetit recipe and it came out okay with enough lime; it may improve tomorrow. I'm not a fan of coconut milk-based curries but it's a 'make what you have' kinda time and my Imperfect Foods box comes tomorrow and I'm low on produce. I made pink lentil soup with harissa last week from the Telegraph's food section and this is how I go from having an unopened two pound bag to wondering if I have enough to make anything else. I probably have fifteen pounds of beans, so I'm not running out of the genre, just the quick-cooking stuff. But that's what the Instant Pot is for.
* I have been proceeding with Qui Habitat and now I'm mopey that (almost) nobody reads it. There are a thousand excellent reasons not to that don't involve the canonical respiratory pandemic in the middle of it and you don't need to explain which one is yours, but I also think I'm doing really good work with it. It's my fannish curse; I can't even get my friends to read my stories because they're long and porn-free and not their current fandom. Although, really, at this rate, QH is so close to original fic that I'm probably doing myself a disservice by not filing the serial numbers off and writing it as a straight space opera. Which I have also failed to turn into a marketing tool -- you don't need the source material!
* I got the sticky tape you're supposed to put where your cats scratch so that they don't. Mine now don't... but the one who was scratching is now licking it all the time.
