Three-day weekend
May. 26th, 2019 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Spring green
I don't really go to Starbucks except during a fun period of springtime when pollen and/or antihistamines give me a sore throat in the morning, which iced milky tea relieves on my way to the office. But that gets expensive fast, so this week I bought a gallon of milk and a 14-oz bag of matcha powder from the corner Korean-Japanese market for about the cost of a week of Starbucks. It is delicious and effective, and it will last … a very long time. 14 ounces turns out to be a lot of matcha when you use about one teaspoon per tall glass of latte. If I were a chinchilla, I could take a dust bath in all this matcha. It may be time to unearth some matcha baking recipes.
Adulthood is fun
I had a dream that I was among a handful of people who landed a job/internship at some biotech company in Kendall Square, after arguing a dude into believing that the hiring manager had not in fact dropped me from the candidate pool. The dream included details about productivity expectations, managerial oversight and salary negotiation. This followed a dream the night before that someone at work helped me out with that RL project that got cancelled.
What the heck, brain? You used to dream about vampires and Star Trek and stuff. At least earlier this week there were dreams about Zahn McClarnon (good) and someone who was either Ben Affleck or Paul Rudd's character from Mute (not good).
In other news, in the past 24 hours I successfully coordinated flight plans with a friend to go to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fanworks, booked two hotels for the vacation portion of my upcoming business trip to Switzerland (!), and did the math on the 6 short train rides I expect to take throughout said trip. Whew.
Spoiled for choice
Too many options for only one day left in the weekend. Work on the Fanworks vid whose June 4 deadline snuck up? Work on a non-deadline-driven vid? Play with a fic or original story? Sort through extraneous belongings in case I decide to move? Research local brokers? Cook and clean? Combine any of these with friend hangout? Or the likeliest option: Stew in indecision.
I don't really go to Starbucks except during a fun period of springtime when pollen and/or antihistamines give me a sore throat in the morning, which iced milky tea relieves on my way to the office. But that gets expensive fast, so this week I bought a gallon of milk and a 14-oz bag of matcha powder from the corner Korean-Japanese market for about the cost of a week of Starbucks. It is delicious and effective, and it will last … a very long time. 14 ounces turns out to be a lot of matcha when you use about one teaspoon per tall glass of latte. If I were a chinchilla, I could take a dust bath in all this matcha. It may be time to unearth some matcha baking recipes.
Adulthood is fun
I had a dream that I was among a handful of people who landed a job/internship at some biotech company in Kendall Square, after arguing a dude into believing that the hiring manager had not in fact dropped me from the candidate pool. The dream included details about productivity expectations, managerial oversight and salary negotiation. This followed a dream the night before that someone at work helped me out with that RL project that got cancelled.
What the heck, brain? You used to dream about vampires and Star Trek and stuff. At least earlier this week there were dreams about Zahn McClarnon (good) and someone who was either Ben Affleck or Paul Rudd's character from Mute (not good).
In other news, in the past 24 hours I successfully coordinated flight plans with a friend to go to
fanworks, booked two hotels for the vacation portion of my upcoming business trip to Switzerland (!), and did the math on the 6 short train rides I expect to take throughout said trip. Whew.Spoiled for choice
Too many options for only one day left in the weekend. Work on the Fanworks vid whose June 4 deadline snuck up? Work on a non-deadline-driven vid? Play with a fic or original story? Sort through extraneous belongings in case I decide to move? Research local brokers? Cook and clean? Combine any of these with friend hangout? Or the likeliest option: Stew in indecision.
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Date: May. 26th, 2019 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: May. 26th, 2019 11:42 pm (UTC)I hope your trip to Switzerland goes well!
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Date: May. 27th, 2019 12:11 am (UTC)My very sophisticated method is shaking the drink in a jar, heh. Means it needs some swirling every few minutes, but worth the ease. Woo for circumventing -- was gonna say Starbucks, but now all I can think is "circumVenti."
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Date: May. 27th, 2019 01:18 am (UTC)Oh, I should add, these lavender shortbread cookies turned out great and were simple (I am not a very experienced baker), and I've considered just subbing out the lavender for some sensible-seeming quantity of matcha powder and seeing what happens. When I do that I'll report on whether the results are any good! My sister has said very hintingly that she would love matcha cookies in the mail. =) But of course, to do that, I have to make sure they are worthy of her nomming!
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Date: May. 27th, 2019 08:58 am (UTC)Hee! :D
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Date: May. 27th, 2019 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 27th, 2019 10:06 pm (UTC)"CircumVenti!" Somebody's gotta use that!