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We wait too long to go from rags to riches
1. I slept nine hours last night. I'd slept an hour the night before. I dreamed I was at a convention where I kept being invited for academic reasons onto panels where I had nothing to contribute (I read Latin, so I was expected to explain the Crusades before the other panelists discussed the work of a nineteenth-century writer with a medievalist background) and walked out of lunch with strangers because one of them kept making offhandedly anti-Semitic comments ("Well, there's the money, but they're all right . . ."). I have no idea where any of that came from.
2. I'd spent the previous evening at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ratatosk's birthday party, for which I provided two cakes: a cheesecake and a brick of chocolate. The latter was the standard variation on chocolate decadence, recipe half-doubled to accomodate more than fifteen people; it is dense and dark and exactly what it sounds like. I watched people discover they couldn't actually eat it by the slab. The former was just a small, solid cheesecake with lemon zest and oil in the filling and a chocolate chip cookie crust, but Tracy had made a specific request for cakes of colors not naturally occurring in pastry, so rushthatspeaks and I bought neon-grade food coloring from Shaw's on Friday night and on Saturday evening turned the cheesecake into this:
The brick of chocolate is served with whipped cream and puréed raspberries, so we partitioned out a third of the cream in advance and frosted the cheesecake with it. The glitter on top is just colored sugar. I regret that I have no photographs of the rest of the cream after we'd turned it electric blue and/or other people had put it on their plates, but maybe Tracy got one. I am informed the raspberries went as well on the cheesecake as on the chocolate. I feel I should say at this point that I had nothing to do with providing the dry ice that people were putting in their drinks, nor did I organize (or play, for that matter) Pin the Shadow on the Groundhog, but I approved of being at a party with both of these things happening. And then I came home and fell over.
3. I still need to write up the movies Rush and I watched the night before that. DooWee & Rice now makes lime habanero chicken bao. They are better than the wings. Also basically a legal high.
4. My poem "Delenda" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It's the poem I wrote a few nights ago. It is about loss and gods and exile; the title is as in Carthago est.
5. Readercon has a safety update.
2. I'd spent the previous evening at
ratatosk's birthday party, for which I provided two cakes: a cheesecake and a brick of chocolate. The latter was the standard variation on chocolate decadence, recipe half-doubled to accomodate more than fifteen people; it is dense and dark and exactly what it sounds like. I watched people discover they couldn't actually eat it by the slab. The former was just a small, solid cheesecake with lemon zest and oil in the filling and a chocolate chip cookie crust, but Tracy had made a specific request for cakes of colors not naturally occurring in pastry, so rushthatspeaks and I bought neon-grade food coloring from Shaw's on Friday night and on Saturday evening turned the cheesecake into this:
The brick of chocolate is served with whipped cream and puréed raspberries, so we partitioned out a third of the cream in advance and frosted the cheesecake with it. The glitter on top is just colored sugar. I regret that I have no photographs of the rest of the cream after we'd turned it electric blue and/or other people had put it on their plates, but maybe Tracy got one. I am informed the raspberries went as well on the cheesecake as on the chocolate. I feel I should say at this point that I had nothing to do with providing the dry ice that people were putting in their drinks, nor did I organize (or play, for that matter) Pin the Shadow on the Groundhog, but I approved of being at a party with both of these things happening. And then I came home and fell over.
3. I still need to write up the movies Rush and I watched the night before that. DooWee & Rice now makes lime habanero chicken bao. They are better than the wings. Also basically a legal high.
4. My poem "Delenda" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It's the poem I wrote a few nights ago. It is about loss and gods and exile; the title is as in Carthago est.
5. Readercon has a safety update.
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Hee. Thank you. I am told it was tasty.
(The choc-brick, on the other hand, is sounding very tempting).
There is a tablespoon of flour in the recipe, a tablespoon of sugar and four eggs. The rest is chocolate. Honestly, I have your e-mail address: I can send you the recipe. Just be warned that it involves a double boiler and interminable quantities of eggbeating.
And congratulations on the sale! I like seeing how this chapbook is falling out little by little. (The shape only becomes clear by looking into the past).
Thank you!
There are a lot of ghosts.
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And if Shackleton ever happens to turn up in the passing ghost-crew, I would be very interested to see the results.
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It should be in your mailbox. I want pictures when you do.
And if Shackleton ever happens to turn up in the passing ghost-crew, I would be very interested to see the results.
So noted. At the moment my brain keeps nudging me with Jean Cocteau, but only as a constellation of ideas, not language. I have a title, which is totally useless.
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Check your e-mail!
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I look forward to hearing how it turned out for you!
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I am very sorry: I didn't actually think of it when I was describing the cake. Would you like me to look into substitutions?
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