I made bikkies! I went to the library! Apparently I am four years old, because this was enough to make me twinkly-cheeked and rosy-eyed. If you are feeling at all ennui-ed, perhaps a little pallid or blue with the ongoing round of daily life, may I suggest a visit to a library and some bikkies [...]
Tagged baking, reading timeI am blogging on the go! The old-fashioned way: this post was originally drafted by pen, in a moving vehicle. A long car trip, not of our choosing, appeared on the schedule. As someone who guards their weekend with the snarling jealousy of a griffin defending its hoard of Snickers bars, this was not an [...]
Tagged banging on, yarnosophySecondary subtitle: Things I learned while making hummus! “Many words on hummus: Part 1″ was PHILOSOPHY; Part 2 is PHACTS. Aunty Wikipedia tells me it is “also spelled hamos, hommos, hommus, homos, houmous, hummos, hummous, or humus”, but I’m happy to say that searching for “hummus” took me to the right page and that page [...]
Tagged many words on hummusI wanted to subtitle this post “Philosophy” but I already used a colon in the post title and I’m not sure whether I like multiple subtitles. So: PHILOSOPHY. I made hummus today. (Oh, really, bethini, do go on!) (Thank you, I shall.) I love this stuff. I have a clear memory of tasting it as [...]
Tagged many words on hummusI would like to mention two extremely cool things I have encountered. My life, as I am sure I have mentioned from time to time, is supremely awesome. These cool things are just little out-shoots of awesome, like sparks that fly joyously upwards from the BONFIRE OF AWESOME that is my life. Cool thing the [...]
Tagged awesomeAutumn never ceases to grab my attention. You’d think I’d have worked out the pattern of seasons by now, but no. I be the daft-yet-delighted one. Summer bundles along, and I’m just thinking I’ve got the hang of things — warm, long days, sticky backs-of-knees — and then one morning I think it’s slightly cooler, [...]
Tagged banging onI’ve just finished two awesome books and I have to tell you about them! Now! The Secret History by Donna Tartt Holy cow this one is good. I understand it’s Tartt’s first novel and it’s incredible. Six elite Classics students (passionately committed to Ancient Greek) at a Vermont university are involved in an accidental death [...]
Tagged reading timeI would like to present a compare and contrast essay on Bill Bryson’s “The Lost Continent” and Kerouac’s “On the Road”. I finished them both in short succession and they beg, beg I tell you, to be analysed via a compare and contrast essay. Both deal with road trips around the US, but in totally [...]
Tagged reading time(The above is taken from a joke my Dadini told me as a kid — I mean, when I was a kid, not him, since obviously I wasn’t around when he was a kid — involving a chicken borrowing books at a library on behalf of a frog. I have been walking around the house [...]
Tagged reading timeI have a lot of respect for the power of habit. I think the brain — well, the whole damn sack of meat, really — is an astonishingly efficient system, one that identifies habits and streamlines things so you get better at doing the things you do most often. In some ways, this is awesome: [...]
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