school angst & coconut brick
29 Aug 2005 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenei've been subject to anxiety! anxiety! anxiety! at fairly high levels for a couple of weeks now because classes start officially in a week, and today's the freshman orientation course, which i'm going to in under an hour even though i am no longer a freshman. with luck, it will just be a couple hours' lecture in swedish and will happily answer all my questions. i still haven't been able to find out what all the courses are worth--but there is so much inside my major concentration to take (sociology) that i don't have to take anything else this year except language (beginning finnish, level 3 swedish).
thus for weeks i've been avoiding trying to hash out a schedule by hanging out in #primenotprime, making tweaky revisions to my horribly long sga story (which is 2/3 through the *really* final beta and will probably be posted today or tomorrow), and reading random things on the internets like the letter from the church of the flying spaghetti monster to the kansas board of education (and i so want a pirates vs. global temperature mug). last night i finally gave in, with a little cheerleading from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
perhael, and made one. it only took like an hour, after all that fuss. who knew? i've spent longer than that mocking a single badfic in my quest for endless procrastination.
in other news, the day before yesterday i decided to bake while wax was at work, and was given a super-easy coconut bread recipe by the fierce yet lovelyisilya. unfortunately, i spaced out on the self-rising part of the flour and forgot to add any rising agent to the dough at all, so what i ended up with is a sort of charming little coconut brick. ("it's really very heavy," said wax, "you could bash someone's head in.") of course, it still tastes good, it's just very... solid. and kind of mysteriously rubbery, like coconut latex. and then to add further to my cooking misadventures, yesterday at the store i accidentally bought a jar of olives with pits--which seem to be everywhere here like a plague!--because i couldn't read the finnish on the jar. "i wonder if this finnish phrase means the olives have pits," said i. "oh well--only one way to find out!" they did. i used them to cook anyway, but mostly their function in the dish is decorative since eating them is such a pain in the ass.
thus for weeks i've been avoiding trying to hash out a schedule by hanging out in #primenotprime, making tweaky revisions to my horribly long sga story (which is 2/3 through the *really* final beta and will probably be posted today or tomorrow), and reading random things on the internets like the letter from the church of the flying spaghetti monster to the kansas board of education (and i so want a pirates vs. global temperature mug). last night i finally gave in, with a little cheerleading from
perhael, and made one. it only took like an hour, after all that fuss. who knew? i've spent longer than that mocking a single badfic in my quest for endless procrastination.in other news, the day before yesterday i decided to bake while wax was at work, and was given a super-easy coconut bread recipe by the fierce yet lovely
isilya. unfortunately, i spaced out on the self-rising part of the flour and forgot to add any rising agent to the dough at all, so what i ended up with is a sort of charming little coconut brick. ("it's really very heavy," said wax, "you could bash someone's head in.") of course, it still tastes good, it's just very... solid. and kind of mysteriously rubbery, like coconut latex. and then to add further to my cooking misadventures, yesterday at the store i accidentally bought a jar of olives with pits--which seem to be everywhere here like a plague!--because i couldn't read the finnish on the jar. "i wonder if this finnish phrase means the olives have pits," said i. "oh well--only one way to find out!" they did. i used them to cook anyway, but mostly their function in the dish is decorative since eating them is such a pain in the ass. 
