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harborshoreAt the cottage. We have a little bit of internet, which is nice. I had some tiresome news, which was less nice. More tilting at the windmills of Swedish university bureaucracy, woot.
But I sat on the cliffs in the sun today and unraveled a couple of the really knotty thesis knots, and I played tennis and I cuddled with my cat, and I wrote about 800 words of a story, edited a friend's medical school statement that she sent me last week, and I got somewhere with the translation I'm working on (and will be paid for!). All in all, I can deal with the tiresome.
Also, my favorite meme is going around again.
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torakowalski:
Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures.
PS: ♥
But I sat on the cliffs in the sun today and unraveled a couple of the really knotty thesis knots, and I played tennis and I cuddled with my cat, and I wrote about 800 words of a story, edited a friend's medical school statement that she sent me last week, and I got somewhere with the translation I'm working on (and will be paid for!). All in all, I can deal with the tiresome.
Also, my favorite meme is going around again.
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torakowalski:Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures.
PS: ♥
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Date: 2010-08-06 10:30 pm (UTC)Um. Okay, top five female characters to write (fannish, original, girls in RL or not), top five poems right now, and top five feminist writers/thinkers/theorists (if that isn't three separate lists).
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Date: 2010-08-06 10:41 pm (UTC)Top five Shakespeare plays and top five things things you did in London. ♥
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Date: 2010-08-06 11:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-06 11:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-07 01:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-07 05:32 am (UTC)Top 5 favorite articles of clothing? Top 5 comfort foods/drinks?
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:36 am (UTC)Top Five Female Characters To Write
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:38 am (UTC)Top Five Shakespeare Plays
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream
2. Much Ado About Nothing
3. Romeo and Juliet (for the language more than the love story)
4. As You Like It
5. Henry IV Part 1
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:44 am (UTC)1. Bloomsbury bookstores with YOU (no, seriously, that was a great day)
2. Ice cream and then sushi with
3. Henry IV Part 1 and 2, god (also Margaret, the awesome British lady)
4. Getting introduced to Ben's Cookies
5. Hyde Park with my friend Michael--trees and spirited conversation
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:53 am (UTC)1. The cliffs out here (the cottage)
2. The woods near my grandmother's summer house
3. This cafe in Phoenix, AZ (and don't I wish it was closer)
4. My own bed *grins*
5. Next to the water (the sea) where it comes into the park near where my parents live
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Date: 2010-08-07 09:39 am (UTC)Top Five Albums
1. Regina Spektor's Far
2. Subterranean Homesick Blues
3. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
4. Aretha Sings the Blues
5. Goodbye Blues
ETA: Just noticed three of those albums have 'blues' in the title. Uh, I swear I'm not as melancholy as it looks!
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Date: 2010-08-07 04:21 pm (UTC)Top 5 places you've been! Top 5 artists! Top 5 colours!
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Date: 2010-08-07 04:34 pm (UTC)Top 5 stories and books.
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Date: 2010-08-07 05:09 pm (UTC)(also hope the news isn't too bad and things turn around soon. ♥)
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Date: 2010-08-07 06:43 pm (UTC)Top Five Feminists
1. Virginia Woolf, because she's funny and intellectual and still goddamn relevant
2. Evelyn Fox Keller, brilliant feminist science historian
3. Anne Carson, poet and translator
4. Jane Austen
5. Mary Woolstonecraft
And then a whole bunch of others. &feminists;
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Date: 2010-08-07 07:14 pm (UTC)Top Five Favorite Baking Recipes (in no particular order)
1. The following Peanut Butter Chocolate Chips Cookie Recipe
1 3/4 c. sifted all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 egg
1 1/4 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 natural peanut butter
1/2 c. butter
3 tbsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla
chocolate chips, eyeball it to your liking
1. in a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
2. in a large bowl, combine sugar, peanut butter, butter, milk, and vanilla until well-blended.
3. add flour and chocolate chips to wet mixture, stir until just combined.
4. form into balls on cookie sheet, flatten somewhat.
bake at 375F for 10-12 minutes or until just set and beginning to brown. remove from oven and let cool on the sheet for 3-5 minutes before removing to let cool on a wire rack.
recipe claims it makes 24 cookies; i make 1/4 recipe at a time and get 8 per batch, so that would be 24 huge cookies or 32 more reasonably-sized ones. 10 minutes in the oven is perfect for my 1/4 batch of 8.
2. This recipe for soft oatmeal cookies
3. These Chocolate Cookies
4. This cake, except I make the filling using instant coffee stirred into a paste with about three drops of water or so instead of vanilla sugar
5. Vanilla Roasted Pears--MY GOD.
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Date: 2010-08-07 07:19 pm (UTC)Top 5 favorite articles of clothing
1. My green flowery dress that is my mom's old stage costume
2. My stripey purple Gap cotton underwear
3. My black arm warmers
4. My stripey grey/silver high top Converse
5. My new plaid button-down that has ruffles ♥
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Date: 2010-08-07 07:21 pm (UTC)Do you mean stories as in fic? And books as a separate list? Or the same one? :D
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Date: 2010-08-07 07:26 pm (UTC)Sorry for the unclear list. I meant one list for fic another for books.
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:15 pm (UTC)1. Dad's lasagna
2. The cup of tea
3. Cinnamon rolls
4. Mom's hazelnut chocolate cookies
5. Hot chocolate
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:34 pm (UTC)Top 5 places I've been
1. Fourni, Greece
2. London
3. San Francisco (or rather, the vineyard we borrowed and stayed at about thirty miles outside of the city)
4. Altea, Spain
5. The Swedish archipelago ♥
I have to think about the Top 5 artists, but the Top 5 colors:
1. GREEEEEEEEN.
2. Black (unlike my heart, baby)
3. Blue, same as the sea, so greyish, really, but mostly blue
4. Currently I am a huge fan of purple, the kind that is a bit pinkish--I own a lot of Gap underwear with this color
5. The sort of yellow that's in sunflowers
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:34 pm (UTC)You ask tough questions. I shall ponder and return.
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Date: 2010-08-07 09:09 pm (UTC)Okay, that does it. As soon as I get my loan, I'm going to pay off my library fines and get out the uni's copy of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Fuck any of the reading I actually have to do, I've been thinking about reading this for a long time, and you just clinched it.
&Jane Austen; indeed. But I will be checking out the others too. Just, y'know. After Woolstonecraft.
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Date: 2010-08-08 12:51 am (UTC)But this is a lovely, lovely list! All of thsoe are FANTASTIC albums.
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Date: 2010-08-08 03:16 am (UTC)And since you offered - how about your top 5 favorite one pot/pan/dish recipes?
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Date: 2010-08-08 10:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-08 10:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-08 10:46 pm (UTC)In no particular order and with an attempt to choose different genres:
1. Women and Apple Trees by Moa Martinsson
2. Homecoming by Julia Alvarez
3. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
4. The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
5. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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Date: 2010-08-08 10:49 pm (UTC)1. Parker and Hardison from Leverage
2. Bones and Booth from Bones
3. Josh and Amy from TWW
4. Willow and Tara from BTVS
5. Logan and Veronica from VM
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Date: 2010-08-08 10:51 pm (UTC)1. Leverage. Leverage Leverage Leverage.
2. The 5th season of DW, yes.
3. The BBC version of Emma that came out last year was fantastic.
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Date: 2010-08-08 11:03 pm (UTC)1. Nirvana's Unplugged in New York
2. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
3. Hole - Live Through This
4. David Bowie - Sound + Vision (this compliation thing I can never stop listening to.)
5. Metallica - Garage Inc
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Date: 2010-08-08 11:15 pm (UTC)1. The dessert at the restaurant in a teeny-tiny town outside San Francisco that looked like a set from a Western movie: vanilla/lavendar pannacotta. Like sheer heaven in a cup.
2. The ice cream I had at this tiny cafe in Rome--it was just plain chocolate, lemon sorbet, and hazelnut, but Jesus fucking CHRIST, I've never had better ice cream.
3. The chocolate orange cookie they sold me at Ben's Cookies at Kensington High Street in London last week.
4. That time we were backpacking in Greece and I had fried fish at a restaurant on a tiny tiny island called Fourni and it was basically that day's catch...
5. This one time my sister and I made pizza with arugula, mozzarella, avocado (we added that after it was done), roasted peppers, and our own chili tomato sauce. Unf.
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Date: 2010-08-16 07:31 pm (UTC)I always like knowing about the books people love.