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minor frustrations and speculations
Aug. 26th, 2021 12:07 pm・I really really want to go swimming—not my usual form of exercise, but it’s too damn hot in summer for anything else. Sucks to be me in this case, the sea is a day trip (at least) away and the nearby public pool is probably a bad idea right now for obvious reasons.
・I accidentally invented a delicious and simple carrot recipe: cut into coins and parboil, then heat some olive oil and add a lot of cumin seeds. Put in the carrots and sauté until crisp/browned on both sides, adding some salt during the process (blood pressure permitting). The end. Cumin seeds are magic.
・Listening to the Pastoral Symphony; the fifth movement, to which my mind always adds the epigraph “We believe that God still loves the world...”, tends to make me cry. (A long story, it’s not my faith but I associate that phrase with the calm after the storm.) Also I remember labeling the second movement “Chrestomanci’s garden” in my old orchestra part, a Venn diagram with minimal overlap.
・Yu-jie did her damnedest to teach me to pronounce 出去 (“go out”), apparently one of the trickiest words in Chinese to say correctly, and I’ve been going around the house ever since muttering “chūqù train, chūqù train...” to myself like an idiot, because the dumb pun is the only way to avoid getting frustrated坏了 with the practice, I used to have a better ear for pronunciation than this.
・( The Rebel episodes 29 and 31 rambling )
・Trobadora may remember that photo of Zhu Yilong that made us think “he’s playing Duv Galeni in the (sadly nonexistent) Chinese Vorkosiverse live-action drama.” My brain looked at Wang Yang (Chen Moqun in The Rebel) and went “Aral Vorkosigan” all of a sudden, and now I can’t unthink it. Any other interesting fancasts for this would-be series? (Also, no joking I can’t even imagine what the censors would make of it. Proudly independent Komarr, possibly.)
Be safe and well.
・I accidentally invented a delicious and simple carrot recipe: cut into coins and parboil, then heat some olive oil and add a lot of cumin seeds. Put in the carrots and sauté until crisp/browned on both sides, adding some salt during the process (blood pressure permitting). The end. Cumin seeds are magic.
・Listening to the Pastoral Symphony; the fifth movement, to which my mind always adds the epigraph “We believe that God still loves the world...”, tends to make me cry. (A long story, it’s not my faith but I associate that phrase with the calm after the storm.) Also I remember labeling the second movement “Chrestomanci’s garden” in my old orchestra part, a Venn diagram with minimal overlap.
・Yu-jie did her damnedest to teach me to pronounce 出去 (“go out”), apparently one of the trickiest words in Chinese to say correctly, and I’ve been going around the house ever since muttering “chūqù train, chūqù train...” to myself like an idiot, because the dumb pun is the only way to avoid getting frustrated坏了 with the practice, I used to have a better ear for pronunciation than this.
・( The Rebel episodes 29 and 31 rambling )
・Trobadora may remember that photo of Zhu Yilong that made us think “he’s playing Duv Galeni in the (sadly nonexistent) Chinese Vorkosiverse live-action drama.” My brain looked at Wang Yang (Chen Moqun in The Rebel) and went “Aral Vorkosigan” all of a sudden, and now I can’t unthink it. Any other interesting fancasts for this would-be series? (Also, no joking I can’t even imagine what the censors would make of it. Proudly independent Komarr, possibly.)
Be safe and well.
