Currents of Time

I like sweet potatoes. Last time Aniko and I raided the local grocery, I picked some up, because I knew they were fairly simple to prepare and also yummy, and easily experimented with. I didn't do much in the way of experimenting this time around, because I have a few recipes... But they're kind of vague in places and we didn't always have all the ingredients. (No bell-pepper? Eh, it's not that important... No cumin. What does cumin even taste like? Oh, wait, this has cumin in it. Maybe this will work? Wait, it's already in the list... OH CRUD I BET THAT'S TOO MUCH CINNAMON. [It was] ... We don't have canned crushed tomatoes, either. ... Spaghetti sauce it totally crushed tomatoes.)

I've made sweet potato and peanut butter soup (it's good) and some sweet potato + a million seasonings + tofu .... stir-fry thing. "Skillet dinner," my mother calls it, apparently.

There are no more sweet potatoes now, though. TRAGIC.

Oh, wow, I have half of the instructions on how to make our Thanksgiving dinner. And a million other soup recipes. I just made soup. I don't want more soup.

...I am hungry and have no idea what I'm making for dinner tonight and so am browsing my cooking folder, could you tell? Next thing you know, I'll start posting the recipes I've been using.



Transformers: Animated is over now. This is very sad. I'm going to miss it, and I wish they'd had another episode to wrap things up in, but I'd probably be saying that even if they had. Here is where I'd go off on a million things about it if I weren't sure you're all beyond sick of hearing about robots at this point. (Haven't mentioned BotCon in this entry yet. Let me remedy that. BOTCONBOTCONBOTCON. Wait, where am I going, again? And when? I've forgotten somehow. Something about trans... transf... tansfers? I'm transfering? Oh, right. ROBOTS.)


...By the way. Printer. I love how you periodically decide to reinstall yourself. It is not the least bit annoying or inconvenient. Please, let us play this game again.

There's currently a spider stuck in/under a soup can on the floor in the kitchen. I really ought to get an envelope or something and move it outside, but... spider. Large spider. Also, it's dark outside.

Spring is the worst thing ever.

... I'm sure it will be fine there until tomorrow. But if you never hear from me again, know that it was probably the (that phrase has had a lot of use ever since I moved out...) spider.


TOMORROW I WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE SOUP. With sweet potatoes. And onions. And possibly peanut butter. Hopefully it will be delicious. I'd make it tonight, but I have food left over from last night to consume instead, and the less time I spend in there with my eight-legged fiend, the better.


This last Tuesday, I ended up in line (t was Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's, for all the good it does you to know this now) behind my high school chorus teacher. It was kind of weird, because I've been thinking a lot about chorus and how much I miss singing (just not enough to inflict my voice upon anyone, since apparently my singing voice is freakishly awful). I summoned him with my brraaaaaiiin. Or something. The weirdest bit about it was he still knew me - my face and my name. (I graduated five years ago and he was only there for my last year.) Go figure. Teachers have awesome face and name recall powers.


Transformers: Animated is amazing. I love spending twenty-someodd minutes gleeing over it on Saturdays. (The nods towards the older series and fans are the best thing. This week's episode had an especially hilarious one. I love everything about this fandom, even if half the time the people in it do befuddle me some.) Why do we have to focus on the movie again (NOTE: THIS IS NOT A REAL QUESTION. I KNOW WHY, SO DON'T WORRY)? I would so much rather have more Animated. WHY IS SEASON THREE ALMOST OVER?

Someone's put it up.

All current episodes can, so far, be found here.

They were suspended. However, they are also back. Not everything's up, but stuff from episode 9 and onward can be found here.

( Episode Order )

I'll probably rewatch it after work. I did.

If not for YouTube, I could not watch this series. Thank you, YouTube, for existing.