Five pleasant things...
May. 22nd, 2002 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivka...to balance out some of the accident-related negativity taking over my journal.
1. We met with the insurance adjustor last night, and he made us a much better offer for the Mazda than we were expecting.
2. I made two cakes for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curiousangel to take to work: my standard homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing, and a lemon sponge cake with a lemon-sugar glaze, which is one of my mother's recipes that I'd never made myself before. Despite the fact that his department is small, the pans he brought home looked like they'd been scoured by locusts. They seem to have been popular. (Note: must remember that lemon cake would be a good thing to serve trinker, who dislikes icing.)
3. We discovered a Mongolian barbecue place near our apartment, and it shows great promise. The ingredients bar is more inventive than the ones I used to go to in Portland - it includes things like squid and bok choy and baby corn, and you can have solid seasoning ingredients (sesame seeds, fresh ginger, chopped peanuts) instead of just solutions (e.g., gingered water). Mmmm. Lamb and mushrooms and bok choy and tomatoes, in garlic-ginger-chili sauce. Mmmm.
4. I talked withtherealjae about the mystery novel I want to write, and she didn't laugh at me. It's the first time I've told anyone any of my ideas about the story, so her reaction was an auspicious beginning. Even if she is all crushed out on me and therefore a suspect critic.
5. We hit the 75-subject mark this week for our spirituality & HIV study. We're halfway there! ...or at least, halfway through Data Collection Point One. I can't wait to start analyzing the data. There's so much here - I mean, way beyond what we'll need to test our original hypotheses. We'll be writing papers from this data set for years.
1. We met with the insurance adjustor last night, and he made us a much better offer for the Mazda than we were expecting.
2. I made two cakes for
curiousangel to take to work: my standard homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing, and a lemon sponge cake with a lemon-sugar glaze, which is one of my mother's recipes that I'd never made myself before. Despite the fact that his department is small, the pans he brought home looked like they'd been scoured by locusts. They seem to have been popular. (Note: must remember that lemon cake would be a good thing to serve trinker, who dislikes icing.)3. We discovered a Mongolian barbecue place near our apartment, and it shows great promise. The ingredients bar is more inventive than the ones I used to go to in Portland - it includes things like squid and bok choy and baby corn, and you can have solid seasoning ingredients (sesame seeds, fresh ginger, chopped peanuts) instead of just solutions (e.g., gingered water). Mmmm. Lamb and mushrooms and bok choy and tomatoes, in garlic-ginger-chili sauce. Mmmm.
4. I talked with
therealjae about the mystery novel I want to write, and she didn't laugh at me. It's the first time I've told anyone any of my ideas about the story, so her reaction was an auspicious beginning. Even if she is all crushed out on me and therefore a suspect critic.5. We hit the 75-subject mark this week for our spirituality & HIV study. We're halfway there! ...or at least, halfway through Data Collection Point One. I can't wait to start analyzing the data. There's so much here - I mean, way beyond what we'll need to test our original hypotheses. We'll be writing papers from this data set for years.
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Date: 2002-05-22 07:36 am (UTC)3. Flavoring solutions?! Interesting.
4. Why on earth would anyone laugh at you if you declared an intention to write a novel? You write beautifully. (I may also be a suspect evaluator, by your criteria. I'm known as a vicious editor of content, though.)
5. Huzzah on halfway!
no subject
Date: 2002-05-22 07:45 am (UTC)I have always conceitedly thought, "Well, she'd like my icing." But it's also good to have options, right? I'll just have to make you two cakes.
3. Flavoring solutions?! Interesting.
Yeah. You know the Mongolian grill concept, right? The one in Portland had all the seasonings as liquids that you ladled on. Instead of a salt shaker, salt water. And little bits of garlic floating in garlic-flavored water. Chili oil. And so on.
4. Why on earth would anyone laugh at you if you declared an intention to write a novel?
No, no, no. They wouldn't laugh at the intention, they'd laugh at the story idea. Because I'm very good at expository fact-based writing, but why should I think I could be creative?
5. Huzzah on halfway!
I know. I wish it weren't too early to start peeking at analyses.
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Date: 2002-05-22 09:35 am (UTC)I have always conceitedly thought, "Well, she'd like my icing." But it's also good to have options, right? I'll just have to make you two cakes.
Two cakes? Oh, the horror! -grin-
Yeah. You know the Mongolian grill concept, right? The one in Portland ...
Still waffling on going to Portland. -sigh-
4. Why on earth would anyone laugh at you if you declared an intention to write a novel?
No, no, no. They wouldn't laugh at the intention, they'd laugh at the story idea. Because I'm very good at expository fact-based writing, but why should I think I could be creative?
Erm. Oh. But I've *read* your creative writing. It was yummy.
5. Huzzah on halfway!
I know. I wish it weren't too early to start peeking at analyses.
Erk. Like Christmas? There are some sorts of antici--- that I'm not good at.
*gentle nudge*
Date: 2002-05-22 08:02 am (UTC)