Holidays and Writing

[lea_hazel]

For Shavuot it is a (relatively recent) tradition to eat lots of dairy products. I like this, because I love eating dairy and cooking with it, I do a lot better with it than with meat, and so sometimes I volunteer myself for holiday meal duties. Last night I made spaghetti in pesto sauce, a filo pie with cheese and onion, and fresh rolls with yeast. The pie recipe I improvised after not finding anything that was quite what I was looking for, and it came out great. The rolls were a pain because yeast has to rise overnight, and it was my first time baking with it. In the end they came out pretty good, though. Sadly, the pesto was under-spiced and thus too mild. Too bad, it smelled really great.

In other news, my junetide story has gotten completely out of hand. And I absolutely have to finish it this week as soon as possible, because I have two exams coming up for which the volume of material is absurd. The idea I came up with, it sounded like something I was up to. Only when I actually sat down to write, the story wouldn't go where I told it to. Man, the editing on this will be awful.

ETA: What the everloving fuck. My computer has sprouted the strangest bug. A whole bunch of programs just, like, swapped icons with each other. I could not figure out why there was a Sims icon on my taskbar, since I never pinned it there. I unpinned it, and it turns out that icon was leaving to Firefox, of all things. Adobe Reader has the MS Paint icon, MS Paint has something that looks like OpenOffice, what the fuck.