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grassangelFirstly, have a link about how commuters read on trains. It is not why commuters do not read as the title states, but it is kind of neat to read through. And wonder why people don't finish books.
This week in course was stocks and sauces. Do you KNOW how long it takes for some sauces? SIXTEEN HOURS. PLUS.
Thankfully, tomato sauce doesn't take that long... only about an hour, maybe.
This coming week is about stewing. The next couple of assessments seem as if they'll be a bit difficult in terms of timing... (2 hours cooking in a three hour window?)
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shadowsinfire came over and we watched the first six episodes of Torchwood. dawnduskdancer will watch them and we shall watch them again in a few weeks time.
It's fun times, but you do realise that the actual stories in season one are horrible and absolutely silly, but at least it doesn't have delusions of plot. Because I do love season two, except for the three episode arc where they decided it was time for plot, but the stories weren't as silly. And I happen to understand that season 3 is filled with plot but no silly at all.
Rewatching also makes me want to write that Ianto/Gwen AU fic that's been lurking around my head. But then I'll remember Ianto/Tosh is also kind of cute and then wander off track with how Jack is such a father and it's a shame he can't have a name like Kuro-papa. And Gwen's kind of mother-y except not and then I'm back to giggling about how obvious the Jack/Gwen subtext is.
Off tangent again, but my parents are rewatching/watching the episodes they missed of Farscape. And I'm having fun too, because I'm usually ironing my uniform when they do so. D'Argo and Rigel and Pilot are my favourite characters but pretty much all the characters which AREN'T Aeryn and Crichton are fun. (This is mostly because he starts out as sciency clever person and she's a fighter but as the series goes on and their relationship develops their roles reverse somewhat. Okay, a little of that is because Aeryn becomes half-pilot or something and has to end up piloting Moya's kid (Moya is a living spaceship) but it still really grates that he ends up ass kicking but she doesn't.)
HOWEVER. Epic crossover material. Peacekeepers think emotion is a bad thing and they're basically mercenaries. There are worm holes. Lotsa aliens. LIVING SHIPS.
And then, keeping with the sci-fi theme, I finished 'Calculating God' by Robert J Sawyer today. It was rather fun, filled with biology and other science references and the god in question was more of thing that poked life occasionally and sometimes shields it from supernovae than anything else.
Except what is the deal with male protags in fiction set in the 'present' (mid-eighties to now) and having a disease which means they'll DIE?
Also, I kind of shipped the two main characters, one of which was an honest alien with six legs. Not exactly the weirdest thing I've ever shipped, but it did feel very weird. (It was also, strangely, het.)
*now has a sci-fi book tag*
Now, off to get clean~
This week in course was stocks and sauces. Do you KNOW how long it takes for some sauces? SIXTEEN HOURS. PLUS.
Thankfully, tomato sauce doesn't take that long... only about an hour, maybe.
This coming week is about stewing. The next couple of assessments seem as if they'll be a bit difficult in terms of timing... (2 hours cooking in a three hour window?)
Yesterday,
shadowsinfire came over and we watched the first six episodes of Torchwood. dawnduskdancer will watch them and we shall watch them again in a few weeks time.It's fun times, but you do realise that the actual stories in season one are horrible and absolutely silly, but at least it doesn't have delusions of plot. Because I do love season two, except for the three episode arc where they decided it was time for plot, but the stories weren't as silly. And I happen to understand that season 3 is filled with plot but no silly at all.
Rewatching also makes me want to write that Ianto/Gwen AU fic that's been lurking around my head. But then I'll remember Ianto/Tosh is also kind of cute and then wander off track with how Jack is such a father and it's a shame he can't have a name like Kuro-papa. And Gwen's kind of mother-y except not and then I'm back to giggling about how obvious the Jack/Gwen subtext is.
Off tangent again, but my parents are rewatching/watching the episodes they missed of Farscape. And I'm having fun too, because I'm usually ironing my uniform when they do so. D'Argo and Rigel and Pilot are my favourite characters but pretty much all the characters which AREN'T Aeryn and Crichton are fun. (This is mostly because he starts out as sciency clever person and she's a fighter but as the series goes on and their relationship develops their roles reverse somewhat. Okay, a little of that is because Aeryn becomes half-pilot or something and has to end up piloting Moya's kid (Moya is a living spaceship) but it still really grates that he ends up ass kicking but she doesn't.)
HOWEVER. Epic crossover material. Peacekeepers think emotion is a bad thing and they're basically mercenaries. There are worm holes. Lotsa aliens. LIVING SHIPS.
And then, keeping with the sci-fi theme, I finished 'Calculating God' by Robert J Sawyer today. It was rather fun, filled with biology and other science references and the god in question was more of thing that poked life occasionally and sometimes shields it from supernovae than anything else.
Except what is the deal with male protags in fiction set in the 'present' (mid-eighties to now) and having a disease which means they'll DIE?
Also, I kind of shipped the two main characters, one of which was an honest alien with six legs. Not exactly the weirdest thing I've ever shipped, but it did feel very weird. (It was also, strangely, het.)
*now has a sci-fi book tag*
Now, off to get clean~
