Pictures post!!!
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sigmastolen1. BUT FIRST! a quiz.
2. Things I have cooked:
pre-baking:
post-baking and DELICIOUS, posed with pineapple hot mitts and Huw:
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ofmornings, but then it lived inside my camera forever, so breakfast, crepes (inside: nutella, peaches, pears; on top: whipped cream containing sugar -- good idea -- and sweet vermouth -- not so good) & coffee (mug from thinkgeek.com: FTW!):
Oh, speaking of cooking! That's what I did ALLLL MORNING today. Chocolate chip pancakes, which turned out a little too dry, maybe because I added some cocoa powder and it absorbed the milk? also I didn't measure the flour too painstakingly I guess. AND the little pumpkin my mum gave me was actually a PIE PUMPKIN! And I didn't make a pie with it, but I did scrape it out (with much elbow-grease) and make PUMPKIN MUSH by stirring its innards up with an egg, condensed milk, sugar, and spices (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves), pouring it into casserole dishes, and sticking it in the oven (no, I didn't measure anything here, either). I tried to roast the seeds (sprinkled half with sugar, half with salt, plus various spices on both sides, including cinnamon, chili powder, ginger, curry powder, and I forget what else) but I ended up burning them to a blackened crisp and setting off the smoke alarm and making the kittens hide under the bed. Oops.
3. Star Trek waffles!
Flatmate saw these at the store and impulse-bought them for me. I, following my usual if-it's-awesome-save-it-forever mentality, refrained from eating them for quite a while. Flatmate, to encourage me to eat them, came home several days later all "I got you some syrup!" which is sweet but also happened about a day after we had the conversation where I don't really like syrup that much, so that actually ended up kind of irritating me. *shrug* Whatever. But anyway, I finally broke out the waffles -- with proper documentation of the event, of course. There are still six more waffles to eat, so expect further Nerdy Waffle Pictures.
the box:
the waffles:
Uhura
And some kind of alien
I do wonder how these actors feel about having their faces on waffles, and people eating them. I guess it's probably about the same as having their faces all over any other kind of promotional materials or tie-in merchandise or whatever.
4. Downtown LA and the opera costume shop sale:
graffiti first:
Guilty {up arrow}
(S)KILL(ed) ILLEGAL ALIENS -- graffiti as a transformative work?
a mochi van (the end of the line to get in was next to a mochi plant, haha):
on sale: a costume worn by UCLA voice professor andsilver fox EMBODIMENT OF AWESOME, Russian bass-baritone Vladimir Chernov, in a 1995 production of Stiffelio. Note the $2000 price tag.
5. Travel fun: These were from my trip to Texas last spring. I'm lucky that I amuse myself so well -- it keeps me from being bored.
wide shot:
close-ups:
TASTY FARES HAHA THAT'S A CUTE PUN, SOUTHWEST! (fares like travel payment AND like food :D)
MY COMMENTARY, LET ME SHOW YOU IT
MY COMPLIMENTARY NUTS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM
I'M SUCH AN IDIOT
I also had some napkins that were pretty great, but I have mislaid them. I really hope I didn't leave them tucked inside Dorian Gray when I returned it to the library :\
6. And some random stuff!
the bassoon studio after they stoleded our grand piano. No, actually, it was sold at the piano sale we host every September, and then there was some weirdness with the piano company that runs it -- they couldn't get a loan to buy new pianos with (see, they buy pianos on a loan and put them in our practise rooms and we break them in for a year and then they sell them fo' cheap and use the profit to pay off the loan, I think?) -- so then we suddenly had an upright instead of a grand and it was quite traumatic.
this is how excited Los Angeles is about Gustavo Dudamel: he lines our boulevards. From near to far, radiante Gustavo, vibrante Gustavo, electrico Gustavo, pasion Gustavo:
aaaaaaaaand, what I wore to my orchestra audition. I was pleased with myself, okay? but man, I really need to clean my mirror.
COMING UP NEXT: EPIC KITTEN PICTURES POST. (srsly, EPIC.)
BUT FIRST! btw that concert tonight?
especially when the glockenspiel has that part (two octaves up) BECAUSE IT'S AN IDIOMATIC GLOCKENSPIEL PART and it's a big tutti and no-one can hear the bassoon.
You are Strength
Courage, strength, fortitude. Power not arrested in the act of judgement, but passing on to further action, sometimes obstinacy.
This is a card of courage and energy. It represents both the Lion's hot, roaring energy, and the Maiden's steadfast will. The innocent Maiden is unafraid, undaunted, and indomitable. In some cards she opens the lion's mouth, in others she shuts it. Either way, she proves that inner strength is more powerful than raw physical strength. That forces can be controlled and used to score a victory is very close to the message of the Chariot, which might be why, in some decks, it is Justice that is card 8 instead of Strength. With strength you can control not only the situation, but yourself. It is a card about anger and impulse management, about creative answers, leadership and maintaining one's personal honor. It can also stand for a steadfast friend.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
2. Things I have cooked:
pre-baking:
post-baking and DELICIOUS, posed with pineapple hot mitts and Huw:
this was supposed to be posted to a comm,
ofmornings, but then it lived inside my camera forever, so breakfast, crepes (inside: nutella, peaches, pears; on top: whipped cream containing sugar -- good idea -- and sweet vermouth -- not so good) & coffee (mug from thinkgeek.com: FTW!):
Oh, speaking of cooking! That's what I did ALLLL MORNING today. Chocolate chip pancakes, which turned out a little too dry, maybe because I added some cocoa powder and it absorbed the milk? also I didn't measure the flour too painstakingly I guess. AND the little pumpkin my mum gave me was actually a PIE PUMPKIN! And I didn't make a pie with it, but I did scrape it out (with much elbow-grease) and make PUMPKIN MUSH by stirring its innards up with an egg, condensed milk, sugar, and spices (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves), pouring it into casserole dishes, and sticking it in the oven (no, I didn't measure anything here, either). I tried to roast the seeds (sprinkled half with sugar, half with salt, plus various spices on both sides, including cinnamon, chili powder, ginger, curry powder, and I forget what else) but I ended up burning them to a blackened crisp and setting off the smoke alarm and making the kittens hide under the bed. Oops.
3. Star Trek waffles!
Flatmate saw these at the store and impulse-bought them for me. I, following my usual if-it's-awesome-save-it-forever mentality, refrained from eating them for quite a while. Flatmate, to encourage me to eat them, came home several days later all "I got you some syrup!" which is sweet but also happened about a day after we had the conversation where I don't really like syrup that much, so that actually ended up kind of irritating me. *shrug* Whatever. But anyway, I finally broke out the waffles -- with proper documentation of the event, of course. There are still six more waffles to eat, so expect further Nerdy Waffle Pictures.
the box:
the waffles:
Uhura
And some kind of alien
I do wonder how these actors feel about having their faces on waffles, and people eating them. I guess it's probably about the same as having their faces all over any other kind of promotional materials or tie-in merchandise or whatever.
4. Downtown LA and the opera costume shop sale:
graffiti first:
Guilty {up arrow}
(S)KILL(ed) ILLEGAL ALIENS -- graffiti as a transformative work?
a mochi van (the end of the line to get in was next to a mochi plant, haha):
on sale: a costume worn by UCLA voice professor and
5. Travel fun: These were from my trip to Texas last spring. I'm lucky that I amuse myself so well -- it keeps me from being bored.
wide shot:
close-ups:
TASTY FARES HAHA THAT'S A CUTE PUN, SOUTHWEST! (fares like travel payment AND like food :D)
MY COMMENTARY, LET ME SHOW YOU IT
MY COMPLIMENTARY NUTS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM
I'M SUCH AN IDIOT
I also had some napkins that were pretty great, but I have mislaid them. I really hope I didn't leave them tucked inside Dorian Gray when I returned it to the library :\
6. And some random stuff!
the bassoon studio after they stoleded our grand piano. No, actually, it was sold at the piano sale we host every September, and then there was some weirdness with the piano company that runs it -- they couldn't get a loan to buy new pianos with (see, they buy pianos on a loan and put them in our practise rooms and we break them in for a year and then they sell them fo' cheap and use the profit to pay off the loan, I think?) -- so then we suddenly had an upright instead of a grand and it was quite traumatic.
this is how excited Los Angeles is about Gustavo Dudamel: he lines our boulevards. From near to far, radiante Gustavo, vibrante Gustavo, electrico Gustavo, pasion Gustavo:
aaaaaaaaand, what I wore to my orchestra audition. I was pleased with myself, okay? but man, I really need to clean my mirror.
COMING UP NEXT: EPIC KITTEN PICTURES POST. (srsly, EPIC.)
BUT FIRST! btw that concert tonight?
especially when the glockenspiel has that part (two octaves up) BECAUSE IT'S AN IDIOMATIC GLOCKENSPIEL PART and it's a big tutti and no-one can hear the bassoon.
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PIANO!
Date: 2009-10-25 11:37 am (UTC)Re: PIANO!
Date: 2009-10-25 03:48 pm (UTC)"More room" is pretty much how we're looking at it -- supposedly new pianos are supposed to come next week, and I don't know whether we'll get one. It would be nice, for ease of rehearsing with one's accompanist, but it's also nice being able to spread out in there. Like, I'm playing a duo with Ian and it's been nice to have so much space for that.
Re: PIANO!
Date: 2009-10-25 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-26 06:52 pm (UTC)