Bread and Circus

Okay, so this is driving me crazy. There was a AE Inception fic that had Eames as the host of a television cooking show, and Arthur and Ariadne were fans who watched his show and went to one of his book signings. And I remember one of Eames's tv episodes featured him showing his viewers how to use various parts of a pig when cooking food. Of course this entailed him going to a local slaughterhouse and taking off his shirt so that he wouldn't get bloodstains on it, because Eames is shameless. For the life of me, I cannot remember the fic, and believe me, I have Googled every variation of "inception + fic + eames + cooking show"

So my harddrive crashed yesterday. This was not surprising. I'd been taking care of my suspiciously slow computer for a few days like it was a drunk friend from out of town, so I had piled it on top of frozen vegetables wrapped in dish towels and done a Restore Point so that I could pull all my files off. Still took forever, and I was up till like 4AM. Grumble grumble.

Unfortunately, engineering requires a great deal of proprietary software that I don't currently have on my loaner laptop, so I basically have to go into the labs to work, which is not cool, as I have a major homework due this week for Dark Arts. I am under a lot of frustration and work and sadfeels at the moment, so if anyone has any fic recs they would like to put forward, I would love to have something to come home and read at the end of a long and tiresome day.

UGH. We had our Defence Against the Dark Arts exam today. For those of you who don't know, our computer science department is amazing, and this is the name they gave our malware/cybersecurity class. 

This exam was like taking a 3 hour exam in 50 minutes. It was just like...I mean, there are sections of the study guide THAT I WROTE UP that were on the test, and I still don't remember them, so I don't know what hope other people have. There were some questions where people just answered with "Really? REALLY? This?" and didn't even bother trying. Still it could have been worse.

Afterwards, a bunch of us from the exam went out to brunch and got drunk off mimosas. Aaaand my psych evaluation appointment is in an hour, so we'll see how that goes. I should be sober by then. Keyword: should.

Unless I'm mistaken,shouldn't the lyrics be "It's Friday I'm in love."

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 I've seen this in the media, and now I see it on LJ's fandoms too. Why the hell are you upping the rating because you're writing slash? If I see another post ON A SLASH COMM that says 'Warning: slash,' I will despair. Yeah, I get it. You don't want people who dislike slash to be surprised halfway through the story. But slash isn't a warning, it is a pairing. Put it under Pairings!

We've all seen this in the movies; even though I don't like those kinds of movies, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry was apparently threatened with a higher rating if the two main characters had kissed. Really? ACTUALLY? Because yeah, that totally shows that all love is equal.

Everywhere is like "PG: heterosexuals doing the horizontal tango" and "R: gays exchanging meaningful glances across the room oh god cover the children's eyes and spare the pregnant women."

Proving that I am not the most adept cook ever, a look at the year's failed recipes that never made it to my journal:



Dango, Japanese dumplings with a soy dipping sauce. I used Indian rice flour instead of Japanese, and so the cooking time, texture, and taste were all completely wrong.



Chocolate souffle: I was going to christen my new ramekins by making something new. They were great, all puffy and looking legitimate...and then I took them out of the oven and they fell in and cracked and tasted weird.

I have some idea of what I did, I think. I don't like really sweet things, so I used considerably less sugar than the recipe called for, which not only made the cake taste bland, it also messed up the texture. I was also a bit paranoid about baking it because of the eggs in there, so I overbaked it, which made it too dry. This is a recipe I'm willing to try again. Might even make one of those chocolate volcano things, you know- the cakes with the molten chocolate in the center. Seems fairly easy from a theoretical standpoint. (famous last words)

If I make it through this week, I will be so very VERY grateful. I should even be talking right now, I should be studying the hell out of the exams I have one after another this week. I spent three days studying for Differential Equations (tally it again, for the very last time) because I usually spend more time studying for math than other things.
Right now I'm studying for Circuits, which is beating me soundly, and tomorrow I have CS, which I'm not REALLY concerned about. Studying for a few hours today should suffice since I studied over the weekend, but I want to get a good grade in that class.

Then I have to record a Systems presentation with my group, which shouldn't be too bad. But then I have Digital Logic Design. (T_T) I haven't been able to study at ALL for that class, and I need to get a good grade. I guess I'll just study like hell today for Circuits, (going to office hours, so I need to finish the chapters) work on CS, and then study the life out of Digital Logic Design on Tuesday and Wednesday.

I HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS FREAKED OUT EVER

I'm really trying to look forward to Thursday night, when some people will be coming over to my place to watch Firefly/Stargate. I usually find out I'm staying late before breaks and send out a last minute email inviting people to come. This time I figured everything out early, so I sent the email yesterday. Hopefully too many people won't show up. My common room is only so big, after all, though these are the people I played Quidditch with on Halloween, so I'm sure if sci-fi is involved, they'll find a way to optimize capacity. ^_^

ARRG! I hate taking all math and science classes. Everyone is like, "Well, it's your fault for being in the e-school." People said that about nerd school back in high school. I want to kick them in the eye. There's challenging, and then there's RIDICULOUS. And then there's the engineer that told me he once took a class in the college, and the room beside him basically watched the Office every day for lecture.

Really? I mean, I understand they have difficult classes too, like Math and Science and Business (though I suspect I did mediocre in that economics class mainly because it always came second place to e-school classes, I couldn't help it. So working for that class had to be like an afterthought, and I couldn't enjoy it) but REALLY?

I actually had some significant stuff to say here that I totally forgot about. Such is the nature of anger and pathetic whining.

(end rant, going back to work)

AUGH!

I got the application done early and everything! I went to the post office today to get stamps and mail it.

Apparently it is a national holiday and the post office is CLOSED.

WHAT are the chances of that? A national holiday randomly falls on the day I actually want to send mail. I was so completely surprised, I thought the woman that told me was pulling my leg. SERIOUSLY. What kind of bad luck do I have that something like this happens to me? This is how it was a few weeks ago. I would have a sudden rush of bad luck, and then a rush of good luck. (I failed my lab yesterday, so I suspect this cycle's bad luck streak started yesterday. No! I got an infestation of bugs in the suite/my room starting about Saturday. We didn't know it was really bad till Sunday/Monday, when we realized we were all having the same problem. How do freaking fruit flies get in anyway? We didn't have a fruit fly problem for MONTHS.

And now suddenly I throw a way a piece of melon into the garbage and two hours later it's crawling with them. Ugh. I just used an empty cereal box to seal off the top of the garbage can so they'll stop flying all around my room. I have NO IDEA what i"m going to do to get rid of them. I have them all trapped basically. But...I don't want to open it now. XO

My friends say that since my bed has started eating my pencils and erasers (they're there, I leave for two minutes, I come back, they are GONE) and there is an infestation of fruit flies, it's probably like the end of days or something in my room. I'll let them know when my laptop starts crying blood.

Now I just have to start stalking this every day to see if I got in.

Just found out CS project I thought was due next week is due this week/tomorrow. Aaand apparently there's a pre-lab I have to do for Electronics that I just found out about. AND there's this frakking long Systems Portfolio my group and I apparently have to finish by Friday by 5Pm before we all go home for break. So remember that thing about hubris coming back to bite from two posts ago? Um, yeah.

And the internet keeps cutting off at my university. Because I used to be ITC, people are bitching about it to me.

SO WHAT IF THE SERVER IS DOWN? WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT?!

Most useful thing I could ever do is organise an angry mob. But I feel 'organised' and 'mob' are words that should not be put together. Unless we're talking about the Mafia.

On the plus side, I'm getting interviewed for a 12 week IT internship for Genworth Financial in Richmond, Virginia. So I'm going to be living away from home for three months again if I get it. *thinks* And I'll be away from home during winter break. Wow, I'm just not going home, am I?

I'm also potentially getting interviewed by Freddie Mac, so we'll see how that comes through.

Okay, back to differential equations. (Another check for NF-kun)

Proof that this class is taking over my mortal life: I've mentioned it 5 times in the past ten posts. Yup...yup...*fall*

Differential Equations is taking over my LIFE. That is seriously ALL I do all week- I can't enjoy any of my other classes. (Okay, so they're engineering classes, so 'enjoying' is a relative term. I like my Digital Logic Design and Computer Science classes).

Some of the problems take more than a page front and back. Some of them take an entire sheet of paper just to SET UP before I even start the goddamn problem. WHY? WHY?!

I also think I may have a cold. Suite mates are shunning me because they think I have swine flu. Not true! All lies! They're having me go to Student Health tomorrow so I can get checked out. T_T  I do not like teh needles and teh cold pokey fingers.