Busy, BUT,
Try this: http://www.naute.com/puzzles/puzzle13.phtml it took me about 25 minutes to do it. I am not really good at this kind of thing thanks to my good old friend ADD, but I'm pretty sure you guys can pull it off. I really suggest doing it graphically.
aaand psyched for signing up for classes. What are you guys taking? Am I taking classes with any of you? Also does anybody know if pre-reqs are totally serious or if they're a strong suggestion.
THIRDLY I have two credit cards now. Uh oh!!!
i know i need to write...
Miss you all, and i need to put that blogpost down soon. But, until then, here is one of the most badass commercials ive seen in the past year. Tell me what you think! :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLPHrCQr2I
Long time, no see! (or write on this blog...)
Hey guys. It's been a while since I've posted, and I decided that instead of bumming around on the internet being completely useless I'd at least update you all as to what's been going on in my life lately.
I spend each weekday working for my dad, as I mentioned before. For the past couple weeks I've been sanding all the parts of a mahogany piano from which I previously stripped old finish. That was a pretty gross job--I had to glop big dollops of gloop (e.g. stripper) all over a disassembled piano (legs, music desk, lid, pedal lyre, body, etc.). I had to wear these giant gloves to keep my hands from being eaten alive by the gloop, whose clear, slightly bubbly amber appearance belied its corrosive nature.
That was pretty tiring work, but so is the work I've been doing lately, which is sanding all the parts I previously glopped gloop on. My dad and I are using about five different sandpaper grits on each piece of wood to clean up the last of the stain underneath the finish (we're going to re-stain and re-finish this baby). Some of the parts of the piano are solid mahogany, but many of them are merely covered with veneer, meaning that we have to be careful not to sand too much lest we sand through the veneer to the plain maple underneath. It's a pretty dusty job, and I've been wearing a dust mask much of the time, which probably looks hilarious but isn't so hilarious to experience. I mean, it's fine, but when I wear glasses (I prefer not to wear contacts in such a dirty environment) they get all fogged up because the dust mask works so well that even breath can't just go directly through it.
Here's a picture of me after a long day of sanding, to give you an idea of the sheer dust involved...
Every time I try to scratch my nose or something I get dust all over my face. My mom laughs at me whenever I enter the house.
On a slightly less dusty note, I think I'm pretty much finished with sanding after today, unless my dad has something up his sleeve (which kept happening with the stripping...I was so sick of that crap). Which means I'll probably be back to regulating an action. Actions are pretty effing complicated, as you can see:
I wish you could see it in action (heh), but you're all smart and could probably figure it out if you wanted to. Keep in mind that you're pressing down on the key at #58 and it all goes from there. (Alternatively, there's probably stuff all over YouTube on this very subject. But I digress.)
"Regulating" an "action" basically means I have to make sure that each individual part doesn't have too much friction going on in its various pins and hinges, and that everything is lined up and spaced evenly when put together, and that it's level, etc. Mostly so far I've dealt with hammer shanks and flanges, wippens, and jacks.
Besides work, I've been hanging out with my family and a few friends, running occasionally, playing some piano, and reading the physics textbook online in preparation for Physics 45 this upcoming quarter. Yes, I'm going to tough it out. I'm not going to let one quarter of Stanford physics scare me away. Dammit!
Seeing as it's nearly 6 pm, I should go running before dinner (and you can all just pretend I actually did, in case I don't). Looking forward to seeing you all in a little over seven weeks!
Wait, what? We still have to wait seven weeks? What is this?
I spend each weekday working for my dad, as I mentioned before. For the past couple weeks I've been sanding all the parts of a mahogany piano from which I previously stripped old finish. That was a pretty gross job--I had to glop big dollops of gloop (e.g. stripper) all over a disassembled piano (legs, music desk, lid, pedal lyre, body, etc.). I had to wear these giant gloves to keep my hands from being eaten alive by the gloop, whose clear, slightly bubbly amber appearance belied its corrosive nature.
That was pretty tiring work, but so is the work I've been doing lately, which is sanding all the parts I previously glopped gloop on. My dad and I are using about five different sandpaper grits on each piece of wood to clean up the last of the stain underneath the finish (we're going to re-stain and re-finish this baby). Some of the parts of the piano are solid mahogany, but many of them are merely covered with veneer, meaning that we have to be careful not to sand too much lest we sand through the veneer to the plain maple underneath. It's a pretty dusty job, and I've been wearing a dust mask much of the time, which probably looks hilarious but isn't so hilarious to experience. I mean, it's fine, but when I wear glasses (I prefer not to wear contacts in such a dirty environment) they get all fogged up because the dust mask works so well that even breath can't just go directly through it.
Here's a picture of me after a long day of sanding, to give you an idea of the sheer dust involved...
Every time I try to scratch my nose or something I get dust all over my face. My mom laughs at me whenever I enter the house.
On a slightly less dusty note, I think I'm pretty much finished with sanding after today, unless my dad has something up his sleeve (which kept happening with the stripping...I was so sick of that crap). Which means I'll probably be back to regulating an action. Actions are pretty effing complicated, as you can see:
I wish you could see it in action (heh), but you're all smart and could probably figure it out if you wanted to. Keep in mind that you're pressing down on the key at #58 and it all goes from there. (Alternatively, there's probably stuff all over YouTube on this very subject. But I digress.)
"Regulating" an "action" basically means I have to make sure that each individual part doesn't have too much friction going on in its various pins and hinges, and that everything is lined up and spaced evenly when put together, and that it's level, etc. Mostly so far I've dealt with hammer shanks and flanges, wippens, and jacks.
Besides work, I've been hanging out with my family and a few friends, running occasionally, playing some piano, and reading the physics textbook online in preparation for Physics 45 this upcoming quarter. Yes, I'm going to tough it out. I'm not going to let one quarter of Stanford physics scare me away. Dammit!
Seeing as it's nearly 6 pm, I should go running before dinner (and you can all just pretend I actually did, in case I don't). Looking forward to seeing you all in a little over seven weeks!
Wait, what? We still have to wait seven weeks? What is this?
Flying back!
Have any of you ever seen me silent for this long before? Two weeks! The ISS is done, my friends have gone home, and my flight departs in 40 minutes. Its all depressing until I realise im headed back for my last week and a bit at home and then am that much closer to seeing you all again.
When I land, and then survive the coma i will descend into from not having slept for two days straight(hey i wont see some of these people ever again, so... party while i can eh?), I will post. I really should break it up into bits and leave most of it for personal animated narration! A lot of things happened and when i reflect on the last two weeks its like i was stuck in the middle of a cosmic haze - a term we created at the ISS, besides the 'cosmic cow', 'funking it out', that's so mad/devo(depending on if its really reallly cool or really really devastating) and a load more which i will be generously doling out when im back! Australia nerd slang is the funkiest thing ever!
So after two weeks of solid nerd camp, im headed back to what seems like a probably saner life with sleep being an actual daily activity.
For now, bye. I'm boarding and the emotions are getting a little hard to handle due to several factors. Blog to you all soon!
love,
N
Last bit of asia...
For the last week or two, I have been constantly traveling around...I think I'm getting used to it at this point. I've gone from Hangzhou to Shenzhen (southern China) to Hong Kong to Taipei to Ailishan (also in Taiwan) and finally back to Hong Kong before I head back to San Francisco tomorrow afternoon. Phew.
For the sake of brevity and actually having stories for later, I'll just outline some highlights:
Hangzhou: The last week was interesting with clinical work in a hospital and getting to see acupuncture, cupping, and tuina (massage). I even got a very unexpected first hand experience of acupuncture...it was quite a weird experience. I also got my pulse analyzed, though the analysis was not very optimistic. On my way to the airport in the morning, I took a taxi and started talking with the driver who didn't believe I was from the US at first and took a long stare at me (while driving rather quickly and cutting in front of cars) while saying, "You don't look American." Chinese drivers are scary. But he was really nice and as I left, he was screaming out "I hope you can come back to Hangzhou!" and "Remember my phone number!"
Shenzhen: Lots of food and family.
Hong Kong: So in total I've been in Hong Kong for about 3 days, so I've been running around meeting relatives, shopping, and eating lots of good food. Yum. :)
Taiwan: I got to see a family friend (and the daughter took me around excitedly), an old friend/my former dance teacher, and my lovely roommate. Lots of sightseeing, night market-ing, EATING, and shopping later, I went to the airport to my terminal, only to find that my gate was hello kitty themed. I'm not even kidding...Taiwanese people REALLY like hello kitty.
I feel like there's still a lot more to say about each place but I honestly can't remember right now. Anygay, this way I'll have some stories to tell you guys later. :) Back to sunny California tomorrow!
:)
Hi everyone!
So it’s been forever and a half since I last posted. Lots has happened and I don’t quite remember the details of all of it, so I’ll just go through highlights.
The past few weeks have been pretty wushu-packed for me. Weekdays are pretty much dedicated to training, and then on weekends I get a break to go and actually have a social life. Feels like high school all over again lol. A few weekends ago my friends and I went blueberry picking, which was quite fun. At one point while picking berries I realized I was standing in an anthill and there were ants swarming over my shoes. That part was not so fun. Anyways, we ended up with A LOT of blueberries, and furious baking ensued. We made blueberry muffins and a blueberry tart, both with twice as many blueberries as the recipes called for. They was quite delicious. And very blue.
The weekend of July 4th I went into DC for the Folklife festival and fireworks. Walking around DC is generally fun, but especially on the 4th of july when there are lots of interesting people around. On the way to Folklife we got accosted by some very enthusiastic Mormons, tried to wade through a parade, and made a pit-stop at the Smithsonian. I’ve decided that I really have to go back to explore the Smithsonian more some other day. But that will wait. Eventually we got to Folklife, which is this annual cultural arts festival with lots of cool exhibits from cool places. Wandered around there for the better part of the afternoon, whiling away the hours until it got dark enough for fireworks. The fireworks were very pretty, and the group sitting behind us kept up an interesting commentary throughout the show. Getting home afterwards on metro was an absolute mess. I had never seen so many people on metro at the same time before, but that’s to be expected on july 4th.
Then this past week my friends dragged me out to the midnight premiere of harry potter 6. we decided to go all out and make tshirts. Actually compared to everyone else there we were pretty un-dressed up—some people had some very impressive costumes.
So I stayed out til around 4 that night, and practice the next day was not fun. This last week or so I’m back to my old training schedule where I’m at wushu literally all day, 9 am to 9 pm. When I’m not training I help teach the little kids, which is pretty entertaining sometimes. Frustrating at other times, but they’re cute. Especially Caroline, who is 4 and follows me around everywhere.
And now I’m sitting in Narita Airport in Tokyo, waiting for a connecting flight to Taipei. I have no internet here, so I’ll post this when I get to Taiwan.
Interesting coincidence: I ran into Nekka here! She’s with the US women’s basketball team, on her way to worlds in Thailand.
The gate next to mine is a flight going to SFO. I kinda really want to sneak over there and fly back to Stanford...
Edit: Arrived in Taipei and I’m super tired. and I’m leeching wireless off of I don’t know where but it works. It is nice to be in Taipei again. As much as I hate cities, in some ways I really love this place. I'm here for a few days, then going to southern taiwan for world games, then coming back here to visit family and stuff for another few weeks. but in the more immediate future, i’m meeting up with my lovely roommate tomorrow!! :D
Hey dudes, I'm really busy lately (I am entertaining! the verb, not the adjective), but I need to redirect your attention to something.
You can rate it at this link here.
(Please do. I want this on a print so bad it's ridiculous, mostly since I really frown at this kind of thing usually and will no doubt pass judgment on anyone else who does the same despite my better knowledge.)
You can rate it at this link here.
(Please do. I want this on a print so bad it's ridiculous, mostly since I really frown at this kind of thing usually and will no doubt pass judgment on anyone else who does the same despite my better knowledge.)
An amusing morning (from an email I sent 16 hours ago)
I'm still sitting here at Peet's, and it's a bit diffucult to concentrate. Even though I woke up at 6 am, I'm still feeling energetic right now (7am), and it feels like a waste to be spending my time doing HIPAA training and analyzing data. I'd rather be translating for patients or ambling down some woodsy road/the dish. Ambling, huh. I haven't ambled in forever. I would amble to work, but it's so far that it'd probably take an hour-otherwise, I'd probably do it quite often. My desires notwithstanding, I'm still stuck without a way to efficiently integrate pleasure strolling and my morning commute or to translate Spanish for patients... though I will be interpreting at Arbor Free Clinic Sunday morning. w00t.
The coffee shop owner has been listening to the same song for 20 minutes now. Seriously. The song only lasts 3 minutes or so, but the owner's husband found a devious way wear out its appeal. It's a famous Spanish opera love song that everyone remakes in different languagues, and the owner's husband made her a recording in which the French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, etc. versions are concatenated (and somehow all sung by the same guy backed up by the same orchestra). I initially thought the song was all beautiful and romantic, but the 7th repetition of some Spanish guy's expression of his undying love borders on wretched excess much in the same way as "99 bottles of beer on the wall," and it's starting to piss me off. Kind of makes me want to club a baby seal while telling a Hellen Keller joke to a dead baby in Darfur. Alternatively I could club a baby seal while telling a dead baby joke to Hellen Keller in Darfur, and the result would be the same.
Haha wow, that's kind of morbid. I should probably go. Here's something to cheer you up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gTGmbA40ZQ
Better than that blasted Josh Groban version
The coffee shop owner has been listening to the same song for 20 minutes now. Seriously. The song only lasts 3 minutes or so, but the owner's husband found a devious way wear out its appeal. It's a famous Spanish opera love song that everyone remakes in different languagues, and the owner's husband made her a recording in which the French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, etc. versions are concatenated (and somehow all sung by the same guy backed up by the same orchestra). I initially thought the song was all beautiful and romantic, but the 7th repetition of some Spanish guy's expression of his undying love borders on wretched excess much in the same way as "99 bottles of beer on the wall," and it's starting to piss me off. Kind of makes me want to club a baby seal while telling a Hellen Keller joke to a dead baby in Darfur. Alternatively I could club a baby seal while telling a dead baby joke to Hellen Keller in Darfur, and the result would be the same.
Haha wow, that's kind of morbid. I should probably go. Here's something to cheer you up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Better than that blasted Josh Groban version
medieval times!
hey all! haven't blogged in awhile, since nothing really excited has happened. but something awesome happened today so i decided to talk about it.
so i saw public enemies last friday. it was pretty good - johnny depp did a great job as the incredibly badass john dillinger. there's this part where he breaks out of prison and steals the prison warden's ford v8 (the newest, fastest car!!) and drives off away from the jail, which is surrounded by a bunch of us army soldiers who are clueless to his escape. but then he hits a red light and he just slows and stops for it, while the guy he broke out with is just staring at him with a "....." face while he's just waiting at the intersection where a few soldiers are talking to each other. hahahaha. but the overall movie was only ok. a lot of violence.
today i went to medieval times with the other interns at the company. apparently it's pretty popular, but i'd never heard of it. it's like a dinner/tournament-play-show with a medieval theme. we ate from plates without utensils and drank from flagons of pepsi (definitely medieval). the show was really good. couldn't say much about the plot but the acting, costumes, and fighting were extremely well done. horseback choreography is very hard, but the horses were extremely well trained. the people also fought with swords, poleaxes, maces, flails. i put a lot of pictures up on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/photos/?ref=sb#/album.php?aid=2032835&id=1198727477 also uploaded some videos.
hope you're all having great summers!
- alex
so i saw public enemies last friday. it was pretty good - johnny depp did a great job as the incredibly badass john dillinger. there's this part where he breaks out of prison and steals the prison warden's ford v8 (the newest, fastest car!!) and drives off away from the jail, which is surrounded by a bunch of us army soldiers who are clueless to his escape. but then he hits a red light and he just slows and stops for it, while the guy he broke out with is just staring at him with a "....." face while he's just waiting at the intersection where a few soldiers are talking to each other. hahahaha. but the overall movie was only ok. a lot of violence.
today i went to medieval times with the other interns at the company. apparently it's pretty popular, but i'd never heard of it. it's like a dinner/tournament-play-show with a medieval theme. we ate from plates without utensils and drank from flagons of pepsi (definitely medieval). the show was really good. couldn't say much about the plot but the acting, costumes, and fighting were extremely well done. horseback choreography is very hard, but the horses were extremely well trained. the people also fought with swords, poleaxes, maces, flails. i put a lot of pictures up on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/photos/?ref=sb#/album.php?aid=2032835&id=1198727477 also uploaded some videos.
hope you're all having great summers!
- alex
My Brand New (40+ years old) Bike
So. As many of you know, my bike last year was rather small.
A while back, we had some family visiting. They have two kids - one's nine and the other is twelve. When they left, my dad was curious what was going on in our lives when Tyler and I were that age. He pulled out a dvd from around that time and found out that I was NINE when I got that bike. That would explain its size.
Anyway, we've had some bikes hanging in our garage for a long time. One of them is Tyler's - I was thinking of using it next year but after riding it a bit I'm not sure it's ideal either.
So today we tried another one. It was my uncle's. I asked my dad about when he thinks they got it - he estimated about 1967. Making it at least 40 years old. Wow.
Anyway, I tried it out today. Shifting can be a fun sort of guessing game. The brakes sort of work. It's one of those speed bikes so the handles really don't extend very far - it's a bit difficult to turn.
All these factors combine to form a rather entertaining and hilarious experience.
I realize I haven't said too much here in a while. I'll update some more soon =)
-Alex
A while back, we had some family visiting. They have two kids - one's nine and the other is twelve. When they left, my dad was curious what was going on in our lives when Tyler and I were that age. He pulled out a dvd from around that time and found out that I was NINE when I got that bike. That would explain its size.
Anyway, we've had some bikes hanging in our garage for a long time. One of them is Tyler's - I was thinking of using it next year but after riding it a bit I'm not sure it's ideal either.
So today we tried another one. It was my uncle's. I asked my dad about when he thinks they got it - he estimated about 1967. Making it at least 40 years old. Wow.
Anyway, I tried it out today. Shifting can be a fun sort of guessing game. The brakes sort of work. It's one of those speed bikes so the handles really don't extend very far - it's a bit difficult to turn.
All these factors combine to form a rather entertaining and hilarious experience.
I realize I haven't said too much here in a while. I'll update some more soon =)
-Alex
One Month
we are now 33% done with summer! i make it sound like a terrible chore on purpose - because i miss you all!
For those of you who have seen Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na
I now know every single word to "Kabhi Kabhi Aditi." I can sing in Hindi! Woot.
High in Sydney!
So everyone,
I had one of the best flight journeys of my life half of which i spent blissfully passed out and the other listening to the corniest 90s music. Ah and also.. You know those annoying kids that point out the window and squeal and swoon at everything they see? Im the worst kind! I was absolutely enthralled by down under from up above. The friggin country changes terrain every ten flight minutes and its breathtakingly beautiful. I just slammed my face at the window and kept it pressed against the pane for so long im pretty sure the glass had moulded a little to impression my face. (SQ 233, seat 51K for those who want to check ;P). The miracles of supercooled liquids and a hyper excited ....(damn it! i dont even know what to refer to myself as. I think i need to creat a new species.)
I reached sydney at 4:30pm local time. I might as well let you guys know that i am now a full 18 hours ahead of you guys! muhahahaha
Its amazing to be back to the university of sydney. Ive been given a room that is atleast thrice the size of a westlag room - all for myself.. I didnt know the staff at the science school get treated that nice! So now im off to spook people out by walking around the place(there is not a single other person here yet for the ISS.. im the first! some other random people for some other random conference do exist.), with a ridiculous grin plastered on my face. Then going to play(read blast) music and jump around my little fort while i try to unpack thing into my *hold your breath* personal closet(XL) with a beautifully framed full length mirror! My last time here was PURE FUN, and i cant wait for this event to start. The minute i figure out how to hack their wireless(or muster up the decency to ask for the password), im putting up pics.
Loads of other stories in just one day of flying including being pecked on the cheek by a frenchman with a mohawk, bursting into song(LOUDLY) - Elvis's Jailhouse Rock, in the plane and irritating the air hostess by asking her to get me pen after pen to write my name once - her fault that one. the first six pens wouldnt write! i'm saving them all for you guys! Seriously people.. I really dont need in flight entertainment to keep me engaged. I am the entertainment.
For now - the spooking and my room await! wheeeee
muah,
N
I had one of the best flight journeys of my life half of which i spent blissfully passed out and the other listening to the corniest 90s music. Ah and also.. You know those annoying kids that point out the window and squeal and swoon at everything they see? Im the worst kind! I was absolutely enthralled by down under from up above. The friggin country changes terrain every ten flight minutes and its breathtakingly beautiful. I just slammed my face at the window and kept it pressed against the pane for so long im pretty sure the glass had moulded a little to impression my face. (SQ 233, seat 51K for those who want to check ;P). The miracles of supercooled liquids and a hyper excited ....(damn it! i dont even know what to refer to myself as. I think i need to creat a new species.)
I reached sydney at 4:30pm local time. I might as well let you guys know that i am now a full 18 hours ahead of you guys! muhahahaha
Its amazing to be back to the university of sydney. Ive been given a room that is atleast thrice the size of a westlag room - all for myself.. I didnt know the staff at the science school get treated that nice! So now im off to spook people out by walking around the place(there is not a single other person here yet for the ISS.. im the first! some other random people for some other random conference do exist.), with a ridiculous grin plastered on my face. Then going to play(read blast) music and jump around my little fort while i try to unpack thing into my *hold your breath* personal closet(XL) with a beautifully framed full length mirror! My last time here was PURE FUN, and i cant wait for this event to start. The minute i figure out how to hack their wireless(or muster up the decency to ask for the password), im putting up pics.
Loads of other stories in just one day of flying including being pecked on the cheek by a frenchman with a mohawk, bursting into song(LOUDLY) - Elvis's Jailhouse Rock, in the plane and irritating the air hostess by asking her to get me pen after pen to write my name once - her fault that one. the first six pens wouldnt write! i'm saving them all for you guys! Seriously people.. I really dont need in flight entertainment to keep me engaged. I am the entertainment.
For now - the spooking and my room await! wheeeee
muah,
N
Four hours and a bit
And I will be on my way to bangalore to get on a flight to Sydney. It seems weird to say goodbye though - to all of you, because this trip is only getting me physically closer(it's all about relativity ;P) to each of you - tiffany included!
So I won't!
love,
N
So I won't!
love,
N
I am watching Ella Enchanted for some reason
I was like "this is not even trying to be subtle" the first time I read it when I was in like, fourth grade, so I don't know why I bother thinking it's going to be even remotely watchable. (I also just realized the "edit html" tab means you can actually write this shit in html and you don't have to use the "ADD IMAGE!" tag, which I should have known anyway since I've done it before a million times. durf.)
ANYWAY
Before I get to the fun stuff I've set up for you folks:
My neighborhood was on fire for a while. I heard the first explosion and thought it was Alex falling in my bathroom. He thought it was me dropping something in the kitchen. Whoops!
SO!!! I made the most delicious lime tea cookies the other day. It's some martha stewart shit I picked up a while ago and figured you folks could benefit from the recipe, seeing as it's the best goddamn thing in the world. A VISUAL TUTORIAL FOR ALL Y'ALL. Only they are really bad pictures because my camera is broken, and I also did not actually follow the instructions. So you are getting college student instructions, meaning they are better targeted to this audience.
MAKE SOME GODDAMN COOKIES
HOW TO MAKE THE BEST GODDAMN COOKIES
SHIT YOU'LL NEED
That should cover it.
Here, I will show you what I used.
Flour gets its own solo shot and the first slot because I feel bad for it.
WOO
I used unsalted butter because my mom bought some by mistake and has no use for it. This is another reason you would use unsalted butter instead of normal butter. WE ARE CULINARY SCAVENGERS, MY FRIENDS
My best friend. He's saved me every time I go to make a buttermilk cake.
A CHEESE GRATER!
....WHICH I CANNOT REACH
(but, like most Stanford students, resourcefulness has not escaped me)
Yesss.
SO.
Your butter needs to be room temperature when you do this, otherwise you're going to have a serious problem when you go to mix it. Preferably over room temperature. If you've left your butter out, stellar, if you haven't, it's the summer and putting it in the sun is a great idea.
It's ready to go when it's all melty and gross. Until then, keep your stick and a half in the light. (Heh.)
In the meantime, get a 1/3 cup of sugar ready to mix with the butter. This sounds like it won't be enough for all the butter. I promise, it is, but if it's really a problem (which it sometimes can be) feel free to add a bit more sugar. It really won't kill you.
STUFF TO PREPARE WHILE YOU'RE WAITING FOR YOUR BUTTER TO MELT OR SOMETHING:
Mix the salt (if you're using it), the cornstarch, and the flour together with a whisk in another bowl. Careful not to spill anything, you'll look like a really stereotypical baker and probably piss off whoever else has to use your kitchen.
Zest your limes! The really-small setting can suck because sometimes it doesn't work. It's okay to use the small-medium side, most of the zest will be really small anyway and it works just fine.
TO GET THE MOST JUICE OUT OF YOUR LIMES:
Roll the lime between the palm of your hand and your counter a lot. You can feel it getting softer, yes?? This is because you are pretty much pre-juicing it and I seriously need to stop this line of thought because it's pretty obvious I'm sexually frustrated
Juice your limes! (god damn it)
Get yo vanilla.
NOW! Your butter really should be ready by now. If it's not, I DO NOT suggesting melting it in the microwave. This will make mixing it harder because of how the powdered sugar will stick to the sides and not blend in right. This is still going to be a problem but you'll be able to figure it out.
SO!
Mix your butter and 1/3 cup of powdered sugar together on a high speed until it's all combined. It should be a pale, soft and fluffy mixture. Mix in your vanilla, lime juice, and lime zest.
It'll look something like this.
Make sure to dig the lime out of your mixer and put it back in.. the sauce. It should smell pretty good right now.
Add the flour mixture on A SLOW SETTING and mix it until everything turns into a dough. Make sure it's all combined.
The dough should look like this. It will feel really oily and kind of gross. I do not suggest texting after handling, because you will have to clean your phone, and I promise that's not fun.
Roll your dough into logs, put them on a baking tray and shove it in the fridge for at least an hour.
I obviously don't have a lot of room to work with, but I try. The recipe suggests you roll them into like, an 1 1/4" diameter roll, but this is kind of useless since you're going to need to re-knead it anyway unless you having baking parchment.
IF YOUR KITCHEN IS WELL-STOCKED AND HAS BAKING PARCHMENT, ROLL THE LOGS LIKE MENTIONED AND PUT THEM IN PARCHMENT BEFORE PUTTING THEM IN THE FRIDGE. I AM NOT LUCKY LIKE YOU.
While you wait for the hour to pass, watch something on TV, or something. Here, have some youtube videos.
This is hilarious and unexpected. Suggested if you like the song "Such Great Heights." Also avoid it if you like the song "Such Great Heights." Once you get the idea, skip to 3:45 to hear the most hilarious take on the lyric "come down now..."
This is my favorite short film. It is made by the dudes who run the forums I chill out at a lot. If you think purposely bad things are funny, watch it.
For those who think not-purposely-bad things are funny.
I just think everyone would appreciate this, except Oliver, who appreciates nothing on youtube
OH WOW IT'S BEEN AN HOUR HOW CURIOUS
NOW!
You will take out the logs and you're going to notice that they feel really, really hard and you will probably feel like you fucked up and stand in the kitchen looking dejected until you realize you can just, um, knead the dough. I guess it doesn't apply if you're parchmenting this bitch, but since when does convenience build character, am I right???
When you reknead the dough, make small cookies about 1/4" thick. The batter is absolutely delicious (unless you're going gluten-free) so if you feel the urge to eat a tiny bit, go ahead (Zoe, I'm looking at you.) Place them on the baking tray an inch apart. A little more, a little less won't kill you.
While you're doing this, pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. This whole making cookies thing takes a long damn time, so it should be ready by the time you've got your cookies together.
Baking time!
Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes. They'll start to turn golden at the bottom and smell really, really good.
Then they're done baking!
BEING VERY GENTLE, put the cookies on some cooling trays for about 3 minutes. Don't burn yourself!
Here comes the fun part.
Put the rest of the powdered sugar I had you take and put it in a bag. Then, putting in a few cookies (like 7?), toss that shit until the cookies are coated in powdered sugar. Take those out, put 'em on a plate, and repeat till you got them all lookin' delicious. You gotta do this while they're still warm, so try and make this part fast-paced and exciting.
Awww HELL yeah.
FINAL STEP: eat that shit
SO this is already a long post, but the past week has been really fun. Alex decided one night on a whim that we should go to Vancouver for the night, so we did! We spent the night getting drunk off our asses in a few bars (and got into a club with a fifty dolla' cover charge for free on basis of being cute). I was also dressed in a skirt that did not even go to my mid-thigh (which was funny because I was wearing bright blue PANT-EEZ), and this really tight stripey shirt which looked absurdly cute. We pretty much just put the outfit together at Goodwill and bought it just so we could go to Vancouver.
It was awesome.
Then I woke up late the next day and it turned out that my other best friend Emilie had work off! We were going to catch lunch at a park near my friend Rikki's house, but it turned out A RECORD-ATTEMPTING ZOMBIE WALK was occurring in my favorite neighborhood in Seattle, so we tore up clothes (you can find pictures on facebook pretty easily) and headed on down. This drunk lady gave me and Emilie whiskey while rattling on about culinary school.
It did end up setting a Guinness world record for largest zombie flashmob. Neat!
Um, since then I've been helping Mom with parties since my cousins are visiting. Sam comes over to stay for a couple weeks tomorrow, so I am cleaning my room, which sucks. I am also oversleeping worse than ever.
ANYWAY I GUESS THAT'S IT. There are more stories within stories, but I think I just won a record for longest post so I will just stop now.
Edit: Noted that pictures break tables. Don't care.
ANYWAY
Before I get to the fun stuff I've set up for you folks:
My neighborhood was on fire for a while. I heard the first explosion and thought it was Alex falling in my bathroom. He thought it was me dropping something in the kitchen. Whoops!
SO!!! I made the most delicious lime tea cookies the other day. It's some martha stewart shit I picked up a while ago and figured you folks could benefit from the recipe, seeing as it's the best goddamn thing in the world. A VISUAL TUTORIAL FOR ALL Y'ALL. Only they are really bad pictures because my camera is broken, and I also did not actually follow the instructions. So you are getting college student instructions, meaning they are better targeted to this audience.
MAKE SOME GODDAMN COOKIES
SHIT YOU'LL NEED
- 1 1/2 sticks of butter (RECIPE SUGGESTS UNSALTED BUTTER. IT ALSO SUGGESTS SALT LATER. I'll write notes for either, but if you just use salted butter it's totally fine. IF, GOD FORBID, YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS FOR A VEGAN: replace with margarine. This is the only part of the recipe that uses animal products. It is not a problem.)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (this is a very small amount of salt, so seriously, the difference between this and just using regular butter is pretty much nonexistent. Whatever you're more comfortable with.)
- 2 tablespoons of squeezed lime juice (you can get this from a lime if you're OK at this, but if you're not I will give you tips. also you can just use two limes. it is really not a big deal.
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups of flour (IF YOU ARE MAKING THIS GLUTEN FREE BECAUSE YOUR AUNT/CUTE EX-BOYFRIEND HAVE CELIAC DISEASE: this is the only part of the recipe you need to replace with a different ingredient. Use soy flour if you can. This will, naturally, make the batter disgusting to taste but rice flour doesn't hold as well, etc. OH, ALSO NOTE THAT THEY WILL NOT HOLD VERY WELL WITH SOY FLOUR EITHER. IN FACT THEY WILL EXPLODE INTO POWDER AT FIRST BITE. BE WARNED.)
- The zest of a lime!!! A couple limes will be fine for this, but if you want to use one, that's cool too. Keep the pieces small or else the cookies are gonna be a pretty chewy experience.
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- A cup of powdered sugar. Yum.
- A couple baking trays.
- A few cooling trays. You know. The wiry ones.
- Fridge space.
- A grater. (YES, WELL, I REALIZE I SHOULD BE USING A ZESTER. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ZESTERS. JUST LIKE OTHER PEOPLE DON'T HAVE FRIENDS BECAUSE THEY ARE INSUFFERABLE KNOW-IT-ALL JERKS WHO FIND THEIR ONLY SOLACE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY KNOW THE CORRECT KITCHEN IMPLEMENTS.)
- An electric mixer. Otherwise you are going to hate your life.
- A BAG TO TOSS YOUR COOKIES IN (I have wanted to say this the entire post)
- OH RIGHT, AN OVEN
- Shit for measuring
That should cover it.
Here, I will show you what I used.
Flour gets its own solo shot and the first slot because I feel bad for it.
WOO
I used unsalted butter because my mom bought some by mistake and has no use for it. This is another reason you would use unsalted butter instead of normal butter. WE ARE CULINARY SCAVENGERS, MY FRIENDS
My best friend. He's saved me every time I go to make a buttermilk cake.
A CHEESE GRATER!
....WHICH I CANNOT REACH
(but, like most Stanford students, resourcefulness has not escaped me)
Yesss.
SO.
Your butter needs to be room temperature when you do this, otherwise you're going to have a serious problem when you go to mix it. Preferably over room temperature. If you've left your butter out, stellar, if you haven't, it's the summer and putting it in the sun is a great idea.
It's ready to go when it's all melty and gross. Until then, keep your stick and a half in the light. (Heh.)
In the meantime, get a 1/3 cup of sugar ready to mix with the butter. This sounds like it won't be enough for all the butter. I promise, it is, but if it's really a problem (which it sometimes can be) feel free to add a bit more sugar. It really won't kill you.
STUFF TO PREPARE WHILE YOU'RE WAITING FOR YOUR BUTTER TO MELT OR SOMETHING:
Mix the salt (if you're using it), the cornstarch, and the flour together with a whisk in another bowl. Careful not to spill anything, you'll look like a really stereotypical baker and probably piss off whoever else has to use your kitchen.
Zest your limes! The really-small setting can suck because sometimes it doesn't work. It's okay to use the small-medium side, most of the zest will be really small anyway and it works just fine.
TO GET THE MOST JUICE OUT OF YOUR LIMES:
Roll the lime between the palm of your hand and your counter a lot. You can feel it getting softer, yes?? This is because you are pretty much pre-juicing it and I seriously need to stop this line of thought because it's pretty obvious I'm sexually frustrated
Juice your limes! (god damn it)
Get yo vanilla.
NOW! Your butter really should be ready by now. If it's not, I DO NOT suggesting melting it in the microwave. This will make mixing it harder because of how the powdered sugar will stick to the sides and not blend in right. This is still going to be a problem but you'll be able to figure it out.
SO!
Mix your butter and 1/3 cup of powdered sugar together on a high speed until it's all combined. It should be a pale, soft and fluffy mixture. Mix in your vanilla, lime juice, and lime zest.
It'll look something like this.
Make sure to dig the lime out of your mixer and put it back in.. the sauce. It should smell pretty good right now.
Add the flour mixture on A SLOW SETTING and mix it until everything turns into a dough. Make sure it's all combined.
The dough should look like this. It will feel really oily and kind of gross. I do not suggest texting after handling, because you will have to clean your phone, and I promise that's not fun.
Roll your dough into logs, put them on a baking tray and shove it in the fridge for at least an hour.
I obviously don't have a lot of room to work with, but I try. The recipe suggests you roll them into like, an 1 1/4" diameter roll, but this is kind of useless since you're going to need to re-knead it anyway unless you having baking parchment.
IF YOUR KITCHEN IS WELL-STOCKED AND HAS BAKING PARCHMENT, ROLL THE LOGS LIKE MENTIONED AND PUT THEM IN PARCHMENT BEFORE PUTTING THEM IN THE FRIDGE. I AM NOT LUCKY LIKE YOU.
While you wait for the hour to pass, watch something on TV, or something. Here, have some youtube videos.
This is hilarious and unexpected. Suggested if you like the song "Such Great Heights." Also avoid it if you like the song "Such Great Heights." Once you get the idea, skip to 3:45 to hear the most hilarious take on the lyric "come down now..."
This is my favorite short film. It is made by the dudes who run the forums I chill out at a lot. If you think purposely bad things are funny, watch it.
For those who think not-purposely-bad things are funny.
I just think everyone would appreciate this, except Oliver, who appreciates nothing on youtube
OH WOW IT'S BEEN AN HOUR HOW CURIOUS
NOW!
You will take out the logs and you're going to notice that they feel really, really hard and you will probably feel like you fucked up and stand in the kitchen looking dejected until you realize you can just, um, knead the dough. I guess it doesn't apply if you're parchmenting this bitch, but since when does convenience build character, am I right???
When you reknead the dough, make small cookies about 1/4" thick. The batter is absolutely delicious (unless you're going gluten-free) so if you feel the urge to eat a tiny bit, go ahead (Zoe, I'm looking at you.) Place them on the baking tray an inch apart. A little more, a little less won't kill you.
While you're doing this, pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. This whole making cookies thing takes a long damn time, so it should be ready by the time you've got your cookies together.
Baking time!
Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes. They'll start to turn golden at the bottom and smell really, really good.
Then they're done baking!
BEING VERY GENTLE, put the cookies on some cooling trays for about 3 minutes. Don't burn yourself!
Here comes the fun part.
Put the rest of the powdered sugar I had you take and put it in a bag. Then, putting in a few cookies (like 7?), toss that shit until the cookies are coated in powdered sugar. Take those out, put 'em on a plate, and repeat till you got them all lookin' delicious. You gotta do this while they're still warm, so try and make this part fast-paced and exciting.
Awww HELL yeah.
FINAL STEP: eat that shit
SO this is already a long post, but the past week has been really fun. Alex decided one night on a whim that we should go to Vancouver for the night, so we did! We spent the night getting drunk off our asses in a few bars (and got into a club with a fifty dolla' cover charge for free on basis of being cute). I was also dressed in a skirt that did not even go to my mid-thigh (which was funny because I was wearing bright blue PANT-EEZ), and this really tight stripey shirt which looked absurdly cute. We pretty much just put the outfit together at Goodwill and bought it just so we could go to Vancouver.
It was awesome.
Then I woke up late the next day and it turned out that my other best friend Emilie had work off! We were going to catch lunch at a park near my friend Rikki's house, but it turned out A RECORD-ATTEMPTING ZOMBIE WALK was occurring in my favorite neighborhood in Seattle, so we tore up clothes (you can find pictures on facebook pretty easily) and headed on down. This drunk lady gave me and Emilie whiskey while rattling on about culinary school.
It did end up setting a Guinness world record for largest zombie flashmob. Neat!
Um, since then I've been helping Mom with parties since my cousins are visiting. Sam comes over to stay for a couple weeks tomorrow, so I am cleaning my room, which sucks. I am also oversleeping worse than ever.
ANYWAY I GUESS THAT'S IT. There are more stories within stories, but I think I just won a record for longest post so I will just stop now.
Edit: Noted that pictures break tables. Don't care.
Settling down...ish.
Things haven't been as exciting after settling down on campus, but hopefully still interesting. We just finished 2 weeks of classes and next week we're going to a hospital for clinical work. I think we'll be shadowing doctors or at least be looking at different treatments. I even have a white lab coat and we might get those face masks..which would lead to some very interesting pictures. I'll see tomorrow what we do exactly. :)
Along with classes about diagnosis, acupuncture, massages, and "beauty care," we've also gone on field trips to different places like a herb museum and the national tea museum. The herb museum has some of the strangest things like animal statues...including one deer that has fangs. (vampire bambi?!) It also led out to this street market with lots of food, stores, and a golden Buddha. The national tea museum, on the other hand, was kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Last weekend I ended up meeting up with my family because they were in southern China and then they flew up to visit and sightsee a little bit. It was good seeing them again after the past few months and I've missed my brother and how we always end up doing the weirdest things/having the weirdest talks. We all went to Wuzhen, a village with a canal flowing through it and the town essentially on these small roads on either side, a night market, and around the West Lake. I found hilarious Chinglish signs like the one below:
Around campus, there's this little street market thing called "rubbish street" I've been frequenting to get dinner. I've also wandered around and there are tons of little stores and vendors...that contain many interesting shirts. One example: "muo si ni" which they translated it to "always want touching you" when it's really like "touching you to death."
As of now, I've visited both parts of "heaven on earth," which are supposed to be Hangzhou and Suzhou. A group of us left for Suzhou on Friday afternoon and it was a long, confusing, and very "local" (it was packed, not very clean, full of all sorts of people) train ride there and when we arrived, we stayed at this cute hostel in a very quaint street. It was next to a canal and full of little shops and people just walking around, talking, and old women synchronized dancing to classical Chinese music. The five of us shared a room with a small (shorter than me!!!) Chinese girl who is also from the same area we came from. She was really nice and we all had dinner together before walking around and just talking. The following day, we hit up the major tourist sights like Tiger Hill and the Humble Administrator's Garden. They were absolutely gorgeous (and full of funny signs) and we found lots of cool little spots to rest or practice our taichi/taiji (which we've been learning along with lectures). There are lots of hilarious signs around there too, like "take care of the environment and the environment will take care of your mood," "your health rests with your civilized behavior," and "crowd way. be careful!"
Oh, and Andrew, in response to your comment (I haven't been able to comment yet..), I didn't see too much dancing, but I can definitely see what you mean. With the exception of the random gogo dancers, that is.
Along with classes about diagnosis, acupuncture, massages, and "beauty care," we've also gone on field trips to different places like a herb museum and the national tea museum. The herb museum has some of the strangest things like animal statues...including one deer that has fangs. (vampire bambi?!) It also led out to this street market with lots of food, stores, and a golden Buddha. The national tea museum, on the other hand, was kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Last weekend I ended up meeting up with my family because they were in southern China and then they flew up to visit and sightsee a little bit. It was good seeing them again after the past few months and I've missed my brother and how we always end up doing the weirdest things/having the weirdest talks. We all went to Wuzhen, a village with a canal flowing through it and the town essentially on these small roads on either side, a night market, and around the West Lake. I found hilarious Chinglish signs like the one below:
Around campus, there's this little street market thing called "rubbish street" I've been frequenting to get dinner. I've also wandered around and there are tons of little stores and vendors...that contain many interesting shirts. One example: "muo si ni" which they translated it to "always want touching you" when it's really like "touching you to death."
As of now, I've visited both parts of "heaven on earth," which are supposed to be Hangzhou and Suzhou. A group of us left for Suzhou on Friday afternoon and it was a long, confusing, and very "local" (it was packed, not very clean, full of all sorts of people) train ride there and when we arrived, we stayed at this cute hostel in a very quaint street. It was next to a canal and full of little shops and people just walking around, talking, and old women synchronized dancing to classical Chinese music. The five of us shared a room with a small (shorter than me!!!) Chinese girl who is also from the same area we came from. She was really nice and we all had dinner together before walking around and just talking. The following day, we hit up the major tourist sights like Tiger Hill and the Humble Administrator's Garden. They were absolutely gorgeous (and full of funny signs) and we found lots of cool little spots to rest or practice our taichi/taiji (which we've been learning along with lectures). There are lots of hilarious signs around there too, like "take care of the environment and the environment will take care of your mood," "your health rests with your civilized behavior," and "crowd way. be careful!"
Oh, and Andrew, in response to your comment (I haven't been able to comment yet..), I didn't see too much dancing, but I can definitely see what you mean. With the exception of the random gogo dancers, that is.
i made pasta!
so i made pasta today because i didn't want to keep eating out all weekend. i only had noodles and sauce, and no meat or veggies or whatever (not even salt) so i couldn't really flavor it, but it still tasted pretty good :)
half a pound of noodles
asking mariel for help :D
finished product
the mess i made and needed to clean up
:D
bonus: a picture of my bike with small wheels. i have since switched the bike for the same one as my roommate's which blizzard lends out for the summer.
my bike (it's a foldable bike i got from my uncle because my usual was too big to fit in the car)
the other bike
half a pound of noodles
asking mariel for help :D
finished product
the mess i made and needed to clean up
:D
bonus: a picture of my bike with small wheels. i have since switched the bike for the same one as my roommate's which blizzard lends out for the summer.
my bike (it's a foldable bike i got from my uncle because my usual was too big to fit in the car)
the other bike
Its been a while
And a lot happened...
1) I can drive (YAY!)
2) I went to Coorg - one of my favorite places in the world, right alongside the top of the Harbour Bridge, Sydney and A2. A weekend of doing absolutely nothing but reading Steinbeck, eating and sighing at the perfect beauty of my home town.
3)Last Saturday(at Coorg), i suffered from an unnatural(eh?) rush of adrenalin and went absolutely crazy with my sister. We tried the most ridiculous of stunts, the attempts toward which were carefully recorded by my mother and just as carefully encrypted and hidden by me afterward :). While showing off my newly acquired skills at 'handstanding', i tipped over at the very top and landed gracefully on my neck and shoulder. My dad nearly skinned me, after making sure i was alive, for, as he says, 'almost killing myself or atleast crippling myself for life'. Result - ban on adrenalin rushes. meh. im fine now.
4)The power just went off. We have had power for an average of six hours everyday because the beautiful monsoon hasnt hit us hard enough as yet. (we get electricity from hydel power, and no rain = no water = no electricity). But in the meantime, ive weaned myself off technology, learnt to cook some fantastic stuff, reinvented my game in badminton and table tennis and done the craziest stuff with my darling sister - again videos have been shut in a dungeon at the centre of the earth ;P
5)I punched a guy in the face. Not the first. Not the last.
6)Tomorrow i take off to the place where i learnt to dream - Bangalore - the city that is solely responsible for my reaching Stanford. I hate the city - its filthy, commercialised, crowded and the traffic crawls, but it dreams big and a bit of that rubbed off on me. Plus i met my best friend there and that alone is enough for me to like bangalore... a bit. So meeting family and friends there = fantastic food(everyone takes it up as their responsibility to feed me.. and i love it!), shopping for next year and preparing for the rest of my summer.
7) On Wednesday at 11pm, I will be on a flight to Sydney. The day I land there is a huge party, and the day after.. till we, the staff of the 35th International Science School at the University of Sydney are inundated with 140 high school students from 11 different countries. When i went to sydney two years ago, the two weeks i spent there gave me some of the best memories of my life. And this time will only be better! :)
The one huuuge minus - i may not have internet access when im there for nearly four weeks. Im going to try and change that, but id love to talk to you all before i leave... just in case. Lets try and talk monday or tuesday!
8) I swore... finally. But will not offer repeat performances to anyone. All i can say is that It was very well provoked in this situation.
A lot more happened, but im saving it for live re enactments later on those fine evenings at Kimball. For now... goodbye. Tell me what you want from down under and i'll bring you that even if i have to hunt it down.
Alex's video just made me miss you all waaaay too much. You guys should really try and stay out of my head yknow?
Love,
Nruthya
Power back on now. Going to post this while it lasts.
1) I can drive (YAY!)
2) I went to Coorg - one of my favorite places in the world, right alongside the top of the Harbour Bridge, Sydney and A2. A weekend of doing absolutely nothing but reading Steinbeck, eating and sighing at the perfect beauty of my home town.
3)Last Saturday(at Coorg), i suffered from an unnatural(eh?) rush of adrenalin and went absolutely crazy with my sister. We tried the most ridiculous of stunts, the attempts toward which were carefully recorded by my mother and just as carefully encrypted and hidden by me afterward :). While showing off my newly acquired skills at 'handstanding', i tipped over at the very top and landed gracefully on my neck and shoulder. My dad nearly skinned me, after making sure i was alive, for, as he says, 'almost killing myself or atleast crippling myself for life'. Result - ban on adrenalin rushes. meh. im fine now.
4)The power just went off. We have had power for an average of six hours everyday because the beautiful monsoon hasnt hit us hard enough as yet. (we get electricity from hydel power, and no rain = no water = no electricity). But in the meantime, ive weaned myself off technology, learnt to cook some fantastic stuff, reinvented my game in badminton and table tennis and done the craziest stuff with my darling sister - again videos have been shut in a dungeon at the centre of the earth ;P
5)I punched a guy in the face. Not the first. Not the last.
6)Tomorrow i take off to the place where i learnt to dream - Bangalore - the city that is solely responsible for my reaching Stanford. I hate the city - its filthy, commercialised, crowded and the traffic crawls, but it dreams big and a bit of that rubbed off on me. Plus i met my best friend there and that alone is enough for me to like bangalore... a bit. So meeting family and friends there = fantastic food(everyone takes it up as their responsibility to feed me.. and i love it!), shopping for next year and preparing for the rest of my summer.
7) On Wednesday at 11pm, I will be on a flight to Sydney. The day I land there is a huge party, and the day after.. till we, the staff of the 35th International Science School at the University of Sydney are inundated with 140 high school students from 11 different countries. When i went to sydney two years ago, the two weeks i spent there gave me some of the best memories of my life. And this time will only be better! :)
The one huuuge minus - i may not have internet access when im there for nearly four weeks. Im going to try and change that, but id love to talk to you all before i leave... just in case. Lets try and talk monday or tuesday!
8) I swore... finally. But will not offer repeat performances to anyone. All i can say is that It was very well provoked in this situation.
A lot more happened, but im saving it for live re enactments later on those fine evenings at Kimball. For now... goodbye. Tell me what you want from down under and i'll bring you that even if i have to hunt it down.
Alex's video just made me miss you all waaaay too much. You guys should really try and stay out of my head yknow?
Love,
Nruthya
Power back on now. Going to post this while it lasts.
