I took my laptop to school and left it there for a few days. So when blog inspiration struck while I was sitting on the couch these past few days, the daunting task of trying to keep warm in my frigid bedroom to get it onto the Internerd through my desktop kept me firmly planted in place.
Here’s what’s up, though.
I have essentially finished Endless Ocean. By “essentially”, I mean that I have completed the vague storyline and figured out what triggers the credits. (No spoilers, but despite the relaxed, hands-off, lazy plot, it was actually super cool.) I haven’t explored the whole map, though, or discovered every type of fish, or spent nearly enough time just kind of swimming around and playing with my dolphin friends, or riding whales, or lying on the beach chair on the deck of the Gabbiano – my “small but sturdy ship”.
You can do that, you know – sit on the deck and look at the virtual ocean for however long you want. It’s an island vacation right on your couch! (Blegh.)
I managed to discover all this in between the onset of midterm season and the start of Tattoo Girl rehearsals and the casting process of the Bacchae. I forgot how insane my life is when I’m not taking time off from theatre. The thing is, it usually doesn’t take me this long to get used to it and start liking it again. So tired! No wonder I’m becoming an English major.
In other other news, I bought a thoroughly secondhand copy of this book:
I bought it because it contains a recipe for “Sweet Potato Lobster Loaf”. I don’t think I have any excuse for not bumping this up to the top of my Recipes to Try list.
Other enticing dishes from this tiny (30 pages!) cookbook include avocado soup, mango steak, guava catsup (??), mango whip (sounds much more promising than prune whip, don’t you think?), and banana fudge.
It looks like I’ve got my work cut out for me.
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