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isozymeI have the itch to try making puff pastry from scratch -- I taught myself how to make macaron shells, surely i can do kouign-amann! I need to buy a rolling pin. So far in my baking exploits I've been using a combination of fingers and an empty vodka bottle any time I need to roll something out, which I admit isn't....ideal. I also really need some new silicone spatulas because scab-cat ATE not one, but BOTH of my spatulas and now I am stuck with only wooden spoons.
Since I am too mad at Jeff Bezos to use Amazon I need to work out which stores actually sell kitchen supplies. I know that my small protest of Amazon in particular doesn't do anything but I'm fucking pissy. Amazon has made me forget what normal businesses are! That's weird! Paying for shipping is a bummer, but it turns out that I save money because I don't buy extra shit that I don't need to make it to the $50 limit for free shipping.
In other online business news, literally one time I visited the Rural King website and put in my email for free shipping because I was looking for pine pellets to use as cat litter and I heard you could get them cheaper if you bought them as horse bedding instead. Then, stupidly, I opened ONE promotional email because they said it was Chick Month and I wanted to see if they'd literally send you baby chickens in the mail. Yes, they will. Amazing. Unfortunately, this had consequences: now I get an email from Rural King literally every single day telling me to buy live rodent traps and fencing and bulk livestock feed. I should unsubscribe from their ads, but it's so on-brand that I can't bring myself to do so.
Still out of creative words post 40k of emotionally intense fanfiction. I edited two original stories and sent them out again -- they're both ones that have gotten a lot of rejections, but re-reading them convinced me that they're good, just bad fits for a lot of markets. They're not written in what I've been calling "genre prose," and I think that hurts my chances for publication. On the other hand, I'm fucking tired of writing genre prose. I know how to do it and it's not actually that literary or sophisticated. Being "lyrical" isn't one of my main goals. I want to be clear, compelling and insightful. I want my prose to reflect the POV character's voice. My dialogue aims to be distinct and different from character to character, reflecting personality and not just whatever seems the most bleak or punchy or plot-required. Salty post incoming about Clarkesworld.
Fed the fish yesterday. Unfortunately this is not just sprinkling flakes into an aquarium. It took ten hours to feed the whole scientific zebrafish facility -- longer than usual because one of the systems' automatic water management computery-bits have broken and I had to do all of it manually -- and I came home exhausted and extremely crabby and reeking of brine shrimp and paramecia. I won't have to do it for another 6 to 12 months, and that's the only blessing.
Since I am too mad at Jeff Bezos to use Amazon I need to work out which stores actually sell kitchen supplies. I know that my small protest of Amazon in particular doesn't do anything but I'm fucking pissy. Amazon has made me forget what normal businesses are! That's weird! Paying for shipping is a bummer, but it turns out that I save money because I don't buy extra shit that I don't need to make it to the $50 limit for free shipping.
In other online business news, literally one time I visited the Rural King website and put in my email for free shipping because I was looking for pine pellets to use as cat litter and I heard you could get them cheaper if you bought them as horse bedding instead. Then, stupidly, I opened ONE promotional email because they said it was Chick Month and I wanted to see if they'd literally send you baby chickens in the mail. Yes, they will. Amazing. Unfortunately, this had consequences: now I get an email from Rural King literally every single day telling me to buy live rodent traps and fencing and bulk livestock feed. I should unsubscribe from their ads, but it's so on-brand that I can't bring myself to do so.
Still out of creative words post 40k of emotionally intense fanfiction. I edited two original stories and sent them out again -- they're both ones that have gotten a lot of rejections, but re-reading them convinced me that they're good, just bad fits for a lot of markets. They're not written in what I've been calling "genre prose," and I think that hurts my chances for publication. On the other hand, I'm fucking tired of writing genre prose. I know how to do it and it's not actually that literary or sophisticated. Being "lyrical" isn't one of my main goals. I want to be clear, compelling and insightful. I want my prose to reflect the POV character's voice. My dialogue aims to be distinct and different from character to character, reflecting personality and not just whatever seems the most bleak or punchy or plot-required. Salty post incoming about Clarkesworld.
Fed the fish yesterday. Unfortunately this is not just sprinkling flakes into an aquarium. It took ten hours to feed the whole scientific zebrafish facility -- longer than usual because one of the systems' automatic water management computery-bits have broken and I had to do all of it manually -- and I came home exhausted and extremely crabby and reeking of brine shrimp and paramecia. I won't have to do it for another 6 to 12 months, and that's the only blessing.
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