tasty tasty tasty stew

I was listening to music while shredding old receipts - hey, it's better than having a final today, which I didn't, because I am DONE! for the quarter (yay!) - when I suddenly noticed I could read the Japanese song titles iTunes was displaying. Cool.

For those wondering, I did keep working through my Japanese course, even though I had dropped to audit. I'd have passed. With a solid B, which normally would have been amazingly great, but since I have to be stupidly GPA-focused for the time being, it was better that I didn't have that B.

I haven't started taking flower pictures again yet, but there are some great opportunities. I need to start taking them! Oh well, here's one of the remaining leaf pictures from last fall.


A Light in the Forest

I made beef stew for dinner, which is the first time I've ever made that. It turned out really well. In fact, I think it's about the best European-derived meal I've ever made outside thanksgiving. I made it based on a combination of two recipes, one I found here and one in the 1964 Joy of Cooking. The recorded the combination as I made it below the cut.

( Modified beef stew recipe )

( I will EAT YOUR SUN. But then plant flowers. )

Today's MiniCultural Warfare Update

Focus on the Family's graphics have officially become Colbertian. From today's threatdown Family Advocates Call COPA Ruling 'Troubling', Focus on the Family Citizenlink, 22 March 2007, I present:



ETA: adularia has called for a Cultural Warfare Re-Captioning Contest on this picture, to which I can only say oh CHRIST yes. Post your entries below!