Not Much To Report

[xifeng]

So for the past week, more or less everything was more entertaining to me than the Internets, so I wasn't around too much. I wish I could say something really interesting or exciting happened, but basically I just went to work, read stuff (finished Taiko, finally), watched Return of the Jedi for the bazillionth time, and slept way the hell too much. (Lolmom was in Georgia visiting my grandmother, so I was basically holding the fort.) Mom came back yesterday morning; I made calabacitas con elote for lunch yesterday.

I had an interview that seems to have gone nowhere (OH THE SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS), but that's life. There's stuff in the paper this week, anyway. Also, I wish I could tell you all about my OMGEXCITING plans, but there are none, at least at present.

[EDIT: Hittite Week isn't this week, either.]

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[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

Return of the Jedi! ^___^

At least there was an interview. I look at this as a bright spot. Better to spark some interest than to get no hits at all, right?

I heart Allrecipes; it's where I get some of the better concoctions I've experimented with. And this particular recipe looks yumtastic. I love zucchini. It's a pity that my mom is intolerant/sensitive to it, or I would force it into our foods all the time!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

The original trilogy never gets old for me, because it's not like Star Wars was my second-ever fandom when I was a teenager or anything. ^____^ The prequels, however, are dead to me and have been cut out of my will when I make my stupendous millions.

Yeah, I try not to expect much, and I know in all likelihood I'm competing with all the other un- and underemployed people out there. Also, they were only interviewing 4 people for this position, so I consider it flattering that they asked me to come in at all. Still, I'd like to have better work before I die. (Sometimes I wonder if this is the universe's way of saying, "Hey, aren't you supposed to be some kind of writer or something?")

Epicurious and SeriousEats are also your food Gods, and so are a bunch of other recipe blogs/foodie sites I have linked in my bookmarks section. XD That particular recipe is yumtastic; I grilled some chicken breasts and mixed them in so it would be a little more substantial as a meal, and we had it with warm tortillas. Also, it used up a couple of the zucchini that Mom's co-worker gave her XD

Randomly, because I have been curious for a while: What is the adorable creature in your icon? I just sort of want to pet its big fluffy ears.

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

Star Wars should probably count as my "first fandom," which is why I agree with you that the original trilogy is WINWINWIN! The prequels...I love you...? XD Seriously, I resent Lucas so deeply for those. So. Deeply.

Hey, if you're one out of four, that's flattering, indeed. ^_^ I don't know what the message is to you, or if it's just a string of unfortunate events that you wound up working in places you're overqualified/way too intelligent to work in, a.k.a. Lol-Mart (I've taken to interchanging that with my usual "Wal-Star-Mart" as a nickname for The Place Which Must Not Be Named, by the way), but I know you deserve better, either way. I hope you get a call back from an interview soon!

I've never visited either of those! I don't cook often and when I do, if it's not off Allrecipes, it's out of an ancient Betty Crocker cookbook from the early 60s. That thing is kind of a crime against heart health, but it's also kind of a treasure, so we keep it around.

Mmmm, zucchini. Now that's all I want. I had some in vegetarian lasagna tonight, but it just wasn't enough. I still want zucchini bread or zucchini in fajitas, or something.

It's Mieu from the video game Tales of the Abyss. It's a "Cheagle," and although just about everyone I know finds its voice annoying, I find Mieu precious and had to make an icon of him. ♥ He would probably love it if you pet his ears!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

There should be, like, a sticker on DVD cases of the original trilogy (theatrical release, natch) saying THIS IS PERFECT, DON'T FUCK WITH IT. It's Lucas' creation and he can run it into the ground if he wants, but I was v. disappointed in the prequels. Vader's pre-ANH career was a lot more entertaining when there was no official canon and we could make it up for ourselves.

Unfortunately, I got an e-mail from them the other day telling me that they'd chosen someone else for the position, which is disappointing but not that surprising. Indiana has like 10% unemployment right now, and a major employer (Whirlpool) just closed its doors in Evansville forever, so I'm competing with a lot of people, and it's very hard to get a job in Bloomington if you don't live there. At least they had the courtesy to let me know, rather than letting me figure it out from context. Things are looking up in that there's a lot more in the papers that I might WANT to do, as opposed to jobs I don't want but feel like I SHOULD apply for just to bolster my image of myself as having a work ethic.

We have the 1950s Betty Crocker. XD It's a great book to learn to cook from, but you do have to do some cultural adjusting--I made an omelet out of there, extra butter and all, once when I was in college and then wondered why it was so heavy and greasy. Duhhh--Teflon hadn't been invented in the '50s. You should hit up Epicurious and SeriousEats sometime, though--the first has a shitton of recipes and the second is a lot of fun to read.

It is really good stuff. We have a loaf of frozen zucchini bread (omnomnom). Only tangentially related to zucchini, I might have taken some pictures of my garden and hung them up on my journal.

Does he have a high-pitched voice? XD *pets his, and your, ears*