Update on everything
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sorcyressSo, here's what my life has been the last n weeks.
*I graduated. This was apparently a big deal or something.
*I took, and as of two days ago, passed my MTELs. Now I can get my teacher's license and get a job or something.
*I am currently in Atlanta. Two days of rest and relaxation with Sparr and the various folks around his living space, and then he and I go up to Columbus, OH on Wednesday for Origins.
*I helped my family move from Columbia MD to Park Ridge (just north of Chicago) IL. This involved driving for about six hours on Tuesday (mom drove the other half.)
*I drove my little sister to and from her college orientation at Hiram college. This involved driving for about six hours on Thursday and Saturday. No mom to help. On the plus side, I own a lot of music, and some of it she likes.
*I spent last weekend in Layfayette Georgia in order to go to my very first burn. Burns are hippie festivals; Burning Man is the best-known example. It was really quite fun, and I enjoyed running around the woods surrounded by hippies, and watching various people perform various arts, and learning things, and posing for photographs and jumping on the trampoline and etc. Also, there was fire, and it was fantastic. Alsoalso, I got to see in passing Amber, who is bright and sunny and really likes me and seems to want me to move to Atlanta almost as badly as Sparr does. She makes me smile a lot.
*I might make a real post about that one.
*Oh, also I went to Balticon a couple weeks ago. I slept in a car, and hung out with old friends and new friends, and again played less werewolf than usual, and broke my JungleSpeed totem (okay, technically Braffy broke it...) and wound up giving kisses to a gorgeous woman with fantastic pink hair, and flirted with the pervy artist, and in general it was all quite good. And like last year, it was a completely significant-other-free con. Which is a little strange, but mostly very freeing --the first time I went to Balticon, I went without my partner, and I kinda really like not being responsible for anyone else's happiness at the con. Not that I don't love being with my partners at cons, you understand --I do love it, very much-- but once a year...I'll gladly take the vacation from feeling responsible for other people's happiness. Because I am responsible, some, no matter how hard I try not to be. At least for my boys.
*Alys graduated high school. Go her!
*This is the first 750words entry I've made in twelve days, and the third this month. Please whine at me to do this. I won't be able to during Origins, but I should at least get my act together the week after, and once I'm back in Boston.
*Looking to get back in Boston somewhere around the fourth. Hoping to spend a night in NYC with...someone. Need to talk to relevant someones and see who has a couch and wants me to sleep on it. (I mean, I also have friends in the city who have couches that I can sleep on, but if I have people who actively want me as houseguest, I'll strive for that first.)
*Week after Origins is Girl Scout Day Camp. This might be my last year, but if you volunteer as an adult for five years, you get a pretty volunteer pin. And next year would be year five. So yeah, MD peeps, I might be looking for crash-space a random week in July or June 2012.
*I dodged the sunburn from camping in the middle of fuckyou Georgia all weekend (I hate the weather here, does it show), but the trade off is that I think I might have some poison ivy on my arm, and I certainly have bugbites everywhere. Still, that doesn't cause cancer, so I'm okay with this. I did my best to keep Sparr and Sarena sunscreened (two of my three campmates --Joe is a redhead and so did a very good job of keeping his pasty self covered) too, and I think it mostly worked.
*Made foodstuff with Sparr earlier --potatos and eggs such to put into breakfast burritos. Was good! Also, I made the mistake of asking Bethany how many people I should cook for (since she is the normal cook hereabouts) and she answered "sixteen".
I did not cook for sixteen people, because Christ, how would I?
That's all for now.
~Sor
MOOP!
(Okay, so, for a very long time now, I've known that MOOP is a burner term meaning Matter Out Of Place --probably learned it less than two years after I coined the term as my own personal word. Holy shit though, people actually use it, like all the time. It's how the burner community refers to trash, or to the action of leaving trash "Yeah, I was MOOPing all over the place last night, I should clean up" or "Jeeze, who left all this MOOP at our campsite."
The weekend was _so weird_ for that alone.)
*I graduated. This was apparently a big deal or something.
*I took, and as of two days ago, passed my MTELs. Now I can get my teacher's license and get a job or something.
*I am currently in Atlanta. Two days of rest and relaxation with Sparr and the various folks around his living space, and then he and I go up to Columbus, OH on Wednesday for Origins.
*I helped my family move from Columbia MD to Park Ridge (just north of Chicago) IL. This involved driving for about six hours on Tuesday (mom drove the other half.)
*I drove my little sister to and from her college orientation at Hiram college. This involved driving for about six hours on Thursday and Saturday. No mom to help. On the plus side, I own a lot of music, and some of it she likes.
*I spent last weekend in Layfayette Georgia in order to go to my very first burn. Burns are hippie festivals; Burning Man is the best-known example. It was really quite fun, and I enjoyed running around the woods surrounded by hippies, and watching various people perform various arts, and learning things, and posing for photographs and jumping on the trampoline and etc. Also, there was fire, and it was fantastic. Alsoalso, I got to see in passing Amber, who is bright and sunny and really likes me and seems to want me to move to Atlanta almost as badly as Sparr does. She makes me smile a lot.
*I might make a real post about that one.
*Oh, also I went to Balticon a couple weeks ago. I slept in a car, and hung out with old friends and new friends, and again played less werewolf than usual, and broke my JungleSpeed totem (okay, technically Braffy broke it...) and wound up giving kisses to a gorgeous woman with fantastic pink hair, and flirted with the pervy artist, and in general it was all quite good. And like last year, it was a completely significant-other-free con. Which is a little strange, but mostly very freeing --the first time I went to Balticon, I went without my partner, and I kinda really like not being responsible for anyone else's happiness at the con. Not that I don't love being with my partners at cons, you understand --I do love it, very much-- but once a year...I'll gladly take the vacation from feeling responsible for other people's happiness. Because I am responsible, some, no matter how hard I try not to be. At least for my boys.
*Alys graduated high school. Go her!
*This is the first 750words entry I've made in twelve days, and the third this month. Please whine at me to do this. I won't be able to during Origins, but I should at least get my act together the week after, and once I'm back in Boston.
*Looking to get back in Boston somewhere around the fourth. Hoping to spend a night in NYC with...someone. Need to talk to relevant someones and see who has a couch and wants me to sleep on it. (I mean, I also have friends in the city who have couches that I can sleep on, but if I have people who actively want me as houseguest, I'll strive for that first.)
*Week after Origins is Girl Scout Day Camp. This might be my last year, but if you volunteer as an adult for five years, you get a pretty volunteer pin. And next year would be year five. So yeah, MD peeps, I might be looking for crash-space a random week in July or June 2012.
*I dodged the sunburn from camping in the middle of fuckyou Georgia all weekend (I hate the weather here, does it show), but the trade off is that I think I might have some poison ivy on my arm, and I certainly have bugbites everywhere. Still, that doesn't cause cancer, so I'm okay with this. I did my best to keep Sparr and Sarena sunscreened (two of my three campmates --Joe is a redhead and so did a very good job of keeping his pasty self covered) too, and I think it mostly worked.
*Made foodstuff with Sparr earlier --potatos and eggs such to put into breakfast burritos. Was good! Also, I made the mistake of asking Bethany how many people I should cook for (since she is the normal cook hereabouts) and she answered "sixteen".
I did not cook for sixteen people, because Christ, how would I?
That's all for now.
~Sor
MOOP!
(Okay, so, for a very long time now, I've known that MOOP is a burner term meaning Matter Out Of Place --probably learned it less than two years after I coined the term as my own personal word. Holy shit though, people actually use it, like all the time. It's how the burner community refers to trash, or to the action of leaving trash "Yeah, I was MOOPing all over the place last night, I should clean up" or "Jeeze, who left all this MOOP at our campsite."
The weekend was _so weird_ for that alone.)
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Recipe Scaling
on 2011-06-21 05:49 am (UTC)Multiply the ingredients as appropriate.
Re: Recipe Scaling
on 2011-06-21 12:38 pm (UTC)There's also scaling up the cookware volume and time considerations. One person can only juggle so many frying pans at a time. Unless you have a commercial kitchen, you can't cook with bigger than N" skillets/pans which will only hold so much food..
Re: Recipe Scaling
on 2011-06-21 02:12 pm (UTC)Re: Recipe Scaling
on 2011-06-21 02:46 pm (UTC)I'm just saying logistically it is very different - you can't fit 16 eggs into the same pan you'd scramble 4 eggs in. You might want to use a different strategy altogether - maybe baking them in the oven. Chopping 4 potatoes isn't bad. 16? At that point, maybe you want to use a food processor, or use the frozen potato cubes.
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on 2011-06-21 08:43 am (UTC)See, while hippies may in fact have mainly been in search of a good party with some free love and drugs, and their social activism rooted not so much in justice as in a desire to avoid being drafted, having to get real jobs, or pay for anything, the hippie movement had social change as a core aesthetic. It was most definitely political.
Burning Man, on the other hand, is an arts festival. It's a very very good arts festival, but as much as many Burners would love to think it is about social change (and have thus appropriated the term hippie) it's mainly our culture's most privileged members and some very talented artists studiously avoiding political agendas.
Bias note: I am totally a Burner, and some of my earlier memories are of participating in the anti-war movement during the Viet Nam war.
I did not cook for sixteen people, because Christ, how would I?
on 2011-06-21 11:37 am (UTC)Cost without cake or drinks, probably $35-40. Or assign people the different elements.
Re: I did not cook for sixteen people, because Christ, how would I?
on 2011-06-21 11:37 am (UTC)CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Re: I did not cook for sixteen people, because Christ, how would I?
on 2011-06-21 10:03 pm (UTC)Re: I did not cook for sixteen people, because Christ, how would I?
on 2011-06-21 10:04 pm (UTC)and all of that sounds nummy.
(and congrats to Kdsorceress)
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on 2011-06-21 02:31 pm (UTC)