Stuff!

Small things compared to other small things. Trojie, that's one for you.

Really practical advice for single people (at MQ, so not the kind of advice you want your maiden aunt to read. Although if she's your *maiden* aunt, perhaps you *should* pass the advice along).

Straight Guys Tell - an Advocate article on what straight guys in the US military *actually* think of DADT.

Also I signed up for Wrisomifu (writesomethingyoumiserablefuck) this November. So I have to write something for ten minutes today, and this post doesn't count (it might count by the END of the month, but I shall start off on a good note!).

Furthermore, I am reading Hamlet, which is interesting, and George Orwell's Books vs. Cigarettes, which was interesting except one of the middle essays is a long and boring spiel on how prose writing will die under totalitarianism (but poetry will not, since apparently poetry is less reliant on truth or self-revelation, and also Orwell thinks no prose of literary worth was written in the Middle Ages WTF?).

Oooh, sci-fi

"What women do is survive. We live by ones and twos in the chinks of your world-machine."

The Women Men Don't See, short story by James Tiptree (Alice Sheldon).

Is good.

HAVE I MENTIONED THE PART WHERE, ACTUALLY, I AM AN AWESOME COOK?

An awesome cook embarking upon adventures in Financial Vegetarianism (which is not vegetarianism, per se, but the logical principle that there are a lot of cool vegetables out there and other non-meat type things, many of which I have never eaten before due to coming from a meat-and-three-veg family; and also these things are cheaper to buy than meat, therefore my default option when thinking "what shall I cook today" should be a herbivorous dish).

Last night I made this risotto for Orbital Housemate and I, only I added a tin of Edgell's Four Bean Mix (LEGUMES OMG SO AWESOME) and a random bag of cubed, pre-cooked pumpkin that Orbital had in the freezer. Orbital looked at it slightly dubiously and said "it looks very... nutritious", but I think it was mutually agreed to be delicious. And the red beans/pumpkin/asparagus made a lovely colourful dish, which did not look at ALL like BRAAAAINS.

Tonight, a Not Actually Vegetarian Dish That Ought To Have Been Vegetarian (I had no black bean sauce, and so reverted to the carnivore's friend, oyster sauce).

( Stir Fried Seeds and Vegetables )