Playing ketchup

Reason #142 why my f-list is cool: One day last week, one person posted that the temperature with wind chill was -83.9 C/-119 F, and another person posted that it was 40 C/104 F.

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After receiving some good news last Friday that I can't talk about yet except under friends-lock lest people at work see it, I had a nice weekend. The weather on Saturday was pitch-perfect spring, warm in the sun with a crisp breeze, so when my dad and I turned over the garden and planted peas, we didn't even need the jackets we'd worn outside. We had lemonade (mm; 1.5 c fresh-squeezed lemon juice to 5 c water to 1 c sugar = lip-smacking heaven in a pitcher) and barbequed burgers that night.

(On the official first day of spring yesterday, it sun-sleeted on us on the way home, and the wind blew in heavy gusts all night.)

Sunday morning I made some carrot ginger soup, which is a vivid orange and quite tasty, even if our hand puréer didn't quite purée all the bits of ginger and carrot. It's made of carrots, onion or leek, ginger, chicken broth and orange juice, all blended together, and good hot or cold. Yum.

Then it was off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) to see Patrick Stewart in Macbeth with ten of the NYC fangirls crew. ( If it didn't have Patrick Stewart in it, it wouldn't be going to Broadway next... )

Afterwards, we had quick drinks around the corner, and barely_bean, krisdia and I stuck around for a lovely dinner in which we trashed discussed several SGA fics and compared multidisciplinary/integrated/honors programs from our college days, among other things.

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I did finally watch the SGA season finale and liked it. I'm sure I'll have something to say about it eventually.

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This week, A Helping Hand became my first fic to reach three pages of comments. Yay!

Then someone was looking for Substitute (a.k.a. the SGA PWP with the golf club) on sgastoryfinders. jadesfire2808 fortuitously linked to my website when she answered the call, so I was able to track page hits. Check out these statistics:

    - Three people followed the link back to my LJ and commented.*
    - There were 260 hits on that page on the website that day.**
    - Five to ten people went on to read my other two SGA fics. No comments on either of those.

I'm not complaining, not at all; those are thrilling numbers. I just think it's interesting to see another instance of the low comment-to-hit ratio, and wish again that LJ offered a unique-visitors counter.

*One of them asked, "Are you for real?" but I'm choosing to take that as a compliment, since it also said the story was hotter than it should've been.

**Actually, I'm surprised it got that many after the way the story sounded from the request.

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Oh—and—very important question. Johnny Cash & John Denver singing "Country Roads": slashiest '70s country duet ever? I saw this recently on a John Denver PBS special and couldn't stop grinning at the way they were looking at each other while they sang. I did find it on YouTube for you (go to about 5:55 for the pre-song chat), but the picture quality's terrible; you can hardly make out their faces.

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A happy Purim or Good Friday/early Easter to those of you who celebrate, happy spring break to those who are on them, happy long weekend to those who have one, happy birthday to kassrachel, and a very happy Friday to the rest.