There was a GNEW, agnother GNEW
Great NorthEastern War, for those not in the SCA, or even not in this region of the SCA. It was a very good GNEW. I got five beads and my husband got a rock.
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Great NorthEastern War, for those not in the SCA, or even not in this region of the SCA. It was a very good GNEW. I got five beads and my husband got a rock.
I made it to Readercon last night just in time for Jennifer Pelland's (
jenwrites) reading of her story "The Ghosts of New York." Awesome story, very intense, some fascinating ideas about death and ghosts. And then to a panel discussion called "You Don't Know Dictionary" about word usage, with Greer Gilman (
nineweaving) on the panel, of course, and that was interesting, too. Sources of words and what they convey and choice of words to use and the effects, such as why readers now feel cheated if you use "wagon" instead of "wain" in your fantasy book.
I hung out around the hotel a while after the panels. On the way out, finally, I walked down a corridor of closed doors for the smaller conference rooms but heard what wasn't quite Nine Inch Nails coming from one of them. Peeked in. A small group of people were playing Rock Band, the display projected on a large screen, and yes, "The Perfect Drug". The guy was nailing the vocals, too, in time and pitch. Just not quite Reznor. :-)
More Readercon today and Sunday, with an SCA event (GNEW) on Saturday to ring a change.
Oh, and I've also made a few updates to the www.chansonarts.com website. The "life drawing" section is temporarily gone till I get a better, more recent set of images uploaded. For the rest, if you follow my deviantArt page, you won't see anything you haven't seen before. It's like a "best of" version.
Kir is a wonderful summertime drink, even for cold, wet summers. It is less cold today and the wet is more traditional, with passing thunderstorms instead of a stalled grey soaking. Kir also has the advantages of making cheap white wine drinkable, and of simplicity: a glassful of white wine and a few dollops of cassis over ice.
Barley bannocks, on the other hand, suck. At least, so far. Two out of four recipes tried, and both went into the trash. They were edible, in that it wouldn't kill you to eat them. I'm hoping for something a little better while trying not to get too far away from the traditional.
The Mediterranean chicken isn't too bad. Bake cut-up chicken tenders with olive oil and lemon juice and thyme and garlic powder at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 35 minutes. Drain some of the liquid off. Stir in thawed chopped spinach (about 10 oz. pkg.?), diced plum tomatoes (3), and sprinkle with 1/2 lb. crumbled feta chese, return to oven for 10 minutes. Chopped black & green olives can be served on the side, or mixed in at the same time as the spinach and tomato, depending on how people in your dinner party feel about olives. Serve over linguine or spaghetti or rice.
Fimo is not as good as Premo!. But Fimo was on a very good sale and it's not nearly as bad as basic Sculpey. So now I have more clay for art pieces.
I'm still hoping to get to Readercon.
My mother broke her hip. She's 85 and fragile, just come from a hospital visit for another condition. They will do surgery tomorrow morning because my sister, who is there, knows (and I agree) that it would kill her to be bedridden with a broken hip, even at home. So now it's a question of if she will survive the surgery.
More Kir. Kir Royale, btw, is made with champagne instead of white wine. Just so you know.
So it turns out we're not going to be at Buttery Birthday, because the plans for my daughter's massage class went all screwy and we've decided it's best to stay home and catch our breaths. But I did finally make pound cake with the double-yolk eggs (not so good: I worried about it being just too dense and added baking powder, and it ended up too fluffy) and chocolate cloud cookies (sorry,
nineweaving, no preview, but I'll hope that extra cookies at Readercon would stll be acceptable; also, it's been a terrible week to try meringues) and started a new batch of cordial (of blood orange peel and lemon peel in brandy) and I'm currently simmering the apple chutney (thank gods, now those apples are out of the fridge and there's ROOM!). Maybe some clay play later. Or tomorrow, before the next life drawing class.

| NIN - June 3, 2009 NIN donor package picture with my co-donor friend Walter Elly, backstage at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, on June 3, 2009. |
So far, it looks like this:
IMs: AIM (often), MSN (rarely)
Blogs: LJ (often), Dreamwidth (single post), Blogger/Blogspot (single post), WordPress (single post)
Other: deviantArt (often), Photobucket (on & off), Twitter (profile only), MySpace (profile only), Facebook (profile only), Etsy (shop still not open), two personally owned websites: chansonarts.com (slowly constructing something someday worthwhile) and dragonbear.com (SCA related and must update sometime)
This doesn't even count places where I'm a member for casual posts, such as Yahoo groups or gaming sites. If I wanted to have all these active, I'd need 1000 hours a week to do it! But, they exist and so I seem to think I should be there. I post, I have a profile, therefore I am.