Below are the most recent 14 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 28th, 2009
steele_the_wolf	5:53p	New years resolution Why bother! I can't ever seem to keep my New Years Resolution. ....hmmm... Ah-hah! That gives me an idea! My New years resolution is to stay out of shape, not make lots of money, and not obtain vast amounts of knowledge and power. Oh yes, I definitely can't wait to fail at this New Years resolution! :D (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
doc_moreau	10:12a	oh boy Well, i was going to go and see Avatar again, and drag my mom along... But there are relatives visiting from Maryland, and stuff... so now i'm going to go and see Avatar again with a family katamari ball including a mom, a step-father, an aunt and uncle, two cousins, and a grandmother. :o I hope everyone will enjoy it! And i hope they're not late, it will be hard to hold that many seats, heh. I should probably take a nap first. I'll be dead tired by 6pm if i don't. ;_; Current Mood: excited (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
cypherwulf	10:01p	Ok, figured out the recipe ( Best Barbecue Seitan Ever ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
cypherwulf	1:14a	Cooking nerd rambling I just achieved the holy grail of veg cooking... I cooked perfect seitan. *falls to her knees, fists balled up, tears falling from her face* Let me elaborate on the preparation of seitan so you can understand why I'm currently flipping my shit. Seitan is one of those foods that's more an art than a science, a really difficult and unforgiving art. Everyone has their own recipe for it, and for the best kinds, there's always a long list of things you have to do (or not do) for it to come out right. Start with cold water (if you don't do this you are just fucked), keep it at a simmer while cooking (allowing it to come to a boil will unleash the demons of hell itself), knead the dough a certain amount (pray you never find out what happens when you knead too much), mix a certain proportion of wet and dry ingredients together (you only get one shot at this DONT FUCK UP), and the list goes on. And even if you've made seitan many times before, there is still a chance you could, oh, I dunno, NOT ADD ENOUGH LIQUID TO YOUR POT and all the angels of heaven will descend upon you to cast you into eternal hellflame. And even the best recipes are usually only ok until you do yet more things to them. Plain seitan is just not very appetizing. It's all about getting a certain texture, flavor comes later. So maybe, if you have never cooked seitan before, you are beginning to understand why this is so very...very important. There is a reason they call it seitan. It is because making seitan is the cooking equivalent of having a guitar duel with Satan himself. But I somehow, through an intervention by fate or God himself (glory!), have cooked the PERFECT BATCH OF SEITAN. It is JUICY on the inside and FIRM on the outside! It is FLAVORFUL! It is DELICIOUS! It is FIBROUS! (Something I thought only possible to achieve with modern machinery) *Victorious, she stabs her chef's knife into the cold earth and looks off into the horizon while epic soundtrack music plays* ... .......................I just hope I can cook it like that next time >_>. Honestly I have no idea how I did that :P. I loosely followed one recipe and it ended up totally different than normal, lol. I'll write down what I did and if it works the same way next time, I'll post the recipe here. As far as seitan recipes go, it was not difficult, so I won't feel bad sharing it and putting others through my pain hahaha. Current Mood: accomplished (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
cypherwulf	6:43p	Tegaki E Finally got a Tegaki E blog. All my visual entries will go there. Current Mood: creative (2 Comments |Comment on this)
feyala	3:13p	Activism, ho! In other news I aced my interview today for the grassroots campaign to raise support to defeat the Stupak amendment. I start Monday. Canvassing seems kind of like face to face telemarketing, but on the up side I now have a lot more experience talking with strangers, and it's for a good cause, so it shouldn't be too bad. The social environment seems pretty laid back, which is a plus. Ironically the protest I was a part of in San Francisco a few weeks ago helped me land the job, haha. My interviewer was impressed that I already knew about Stupak and thought the die-in protest idea was pretty fun. I forgot to mention that earlier - first protest ever and somehow I ended up in like half the photos on the Indybay article about it. It's like where's waldo but not as fun. I should be making $300-500 a week, with possibilities for overtime, and my income will depend in part on how well I do/how much effort I put in, which is awesome. I'll be making at least $8/hr (min wage) even if I do horribly. I don't really have much in the way of expenses, so this is almost completely just to get me back in the black and try to make a dent in my debt/create a savings safety net. We'll see how it goes. I didn't run away to become a hippie in order to work a normal job, but this albatross around my neck needs to go too. On the up side, without having to pay rent, this job should wipe out my debt relatively quickly if I apply myself - 500 a week is around what I was making in Steamboat and I couldn't spend that money fast enough. :) I wonder if my credit card company is going to freak out when I start making $1000+ payments... I've heard of them doing so to others before. Current Mood: thoughtful (4 Comments |Comment on this)
feyala	2:21p	FC Meme I'm probably going to FC if I can help it, it's so damn close... so here's a thing about it. Where are you staying? Somebody's floor ideally, possibly a stairwell or roof if not. Keeping an eye out for floor space. :) Who will you be with? I'm hoping to run into a few of my friends (Tiggeh and Coug, some of the oregon furries, ecmajor, etc), but otherwise I don't have that many plans. I'm open to suggestions! Do you do trades? Sometimes. What suits will you have? Probably none. :( What is your gender? Female How old are you? 25. Can I touch you? Uhhhhh. Ask. Can I talk to you? Sure! I'm always up for talking. :) Can I buy you lots of drinks? Sure! Can't say I'll be getting plastered though... Can I give you lots of money? This situation has never come up. o.o Can I hug or snuggle with you? Uhhhh. Ask. Probably not unless I already know you. How tall are you? 5'4"ish You look pissed off out of suit, can I come up to you? If I look pissed off please tell me. o.o; It's probably not intentional. Are you nice? Most of the time. Unless you touch me without asking or are generally some sort of douchebag. Are you cliquey? Sometimes. I try to reach out to people I don't know but it can sometimes be kind of daunting. Don't let this dissuade you from approaching me though! Can I stalk you? ... what. No. How long are you going? Probably the entire weekend. Do you have an artist table? Nope. Do you like parties? Sometimes. I've heard... mixed things about parties at large conventions though. If I find one I'll probably check it out and decide for myself if it's my sort of scene. If i see you, how should i get your attention? Come up and say hello. I respond mostly to "Fey". Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
cypherwulf	5:26p	A good week I just made myself a new drink. I call it "A Good Week". It's the bastard child of a margarita, a mojito, and a midori sour. Ingredients: -An entire ice cube tray worth of ice (or more if you want more of a slushie consistency) -Half cup of tequila -Quarter cup of midori -Juice of half a lime -One and a half cups margarita mix -Sprig of mint Blend everything in a blender except for the mint. Pour into glasses and garnish with mint leaves. (Comment on this)
feyala	2:25p	December Haven't posted all month, really? Huh. I met a pretty awesome guy who calls himself Ergoat and I've been staying at his place for most of this month. We see eye to eye on a lot of stuff and have been watching way too much anime (Samurai Champloo, yay!) and other shows, although we have been interspersing those with some great conversation. It's kind of boggling how living indoors and being sedentary seem to pair themselves for me... Days and weeks pass without so much as a blink when there's indoor plumbing and heat and shiny glowing boxes and stuff. Showers and fresh laundry are nice, but I worry that it's too nice, it seems to derail my entire chain of events when I live in this kind of environment. I don't have the connections to the people so I don't find out about stuff that's going on, and I'm uninvolved which keeps me from finding out stuff that's going on, etc. I can see why people live at Hellarity even if it isn't that great - how the hell do you find out what's going on when everything is word of mouth otherwise? Augh. I have been working some on a website I've been meaning to, so that's good at least. I've got an urge to do art, but other than some sketches I haven't really had much concrete in mind to put my efforts towards. I need to do some repair on stuff that I was meaning to send off to people, as some stuff got broken in transit, no doubt from my dog stomping on them. :( Went to see Avatar the other night, and it's a pretty great movie - if it holds up as well on the second viewing I think it might be one of my favorites, even though the plot is a bit thin. The acting, characterization, and deeply immersive world really make it for me. I'll be going to see it again with my friend in IMAX 3d at some point. Oddly, watching the movie brought out certain parts of my psyche that I hadn't seen in a while, I went for a run after biking back 'home' here, and it was nice. Definitely an interesting experience. I might make a filter to talk about this sort of stuff more at some point as I don't know if I really want to bare my spiritual beliefs in front of people I'm fairly sure won't get it (Hi parents!). The movie was also fun in another way - it reminded me of this clip in which Derrick Jensen shows us what it would be like if Star Wars was an environmentalist film. I pictured the Na'vi holding up protest signs and chaining themselves to things, maybe singing some songs about how the humans should give peace a chance. Yeah. On the same note, I've been reading a lot of things lately that have my hackles up - here's a piece by the National Geographic about the kingpin of endangered species trading, who seems more or less untouchable by the conventional 'justice' system, and here's one about how China just ate their last tiger. But oh, let's just boycott them! That'll work for sure! Let's spread leaflets about how eating endangered species is bad! Maybe protest in front of a store that sells snakeskin handbags. Fuck I hate people sometimes. The health care bill is a farce... it's a giant handout to the health insurance companies without any real reform. They are allowed to cap coverage. They are doing more to ban abortion than has ever been done before with the Stupak amendment. There is absolutely no incentive for health insurance companies to do anything other than maximize profits which will drive up costs for everybody and we get to pay fines from the IRS for this 'privelige'. Single payer or go home, seriously. FOR PROFIT companies only exist to serve their shareholders. Go watch Sicko again and tell me how handing these assholes mandatory contracts for every man woman and child is a good thing. They've made their mercenary living since the Nixon era by denying health care to people who need it. By killing us. I have an interview tomorrow for a job doing activism for Planned Parenthood. Not exactly ideal but it's an income. I don't actually need an income for anything other than paying my debt, which is kind of aggravating. I'm considering donating eggs - at $7000 for a few weeks of injections and a horribly invasive procedure it's certainly not bad, but I have severe moral qualms about being responsible in part for there being more people on this dirt ball, even if they are wanted by their parents. It would, however, completely eliminate my debt in one fell swoop. Problematic. Well, on the positive side of things, I'm warm this holiday season, I've got good company, a care package with treats from my loving parents, and I'm free from almost all unhappy obligations, so overall it's not nearly as bad as it could be. :) So uh, merry generic holiday season and all that. Hope you all are enjoying it! Current Mood: bored (1 Comment |Comment on this)
madtoburn	8:25a	I wanted to post a little thank you for all the holiday wishes and cards and whatnot. I feel awkward having disappeared from LJ at this time of year, and even more awkward at not really being able to do anything back for anyone. We're tight this year, and aside from the beautiful necklaces from Solo, we blew even our gift budget on a snake rescue instead. But I want you to know it's appreciated. I hope everyone has a good season. Maybe I'll catch you next decade. Current Mood: aggravated
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
doc_moreau	7:00p	Someone get a gun before it comes any closer This is what i have to put up with OH GOD WHYYY D: It's NSFW... and NSFL, too. (not safe for life) Anyway, everyone knows i like vore, and that is why i go to that site... but man, some of the stuff that people post there is like, yeah, that. There is not enough eyebleach ... Also, Avatar is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen, btw. In case anyone wanted a followup to my last entry. Soooo amazing! Current Mood: nauseated (9 Comments |Comment on this)
cypherwulf	4:13p	Traveled each and every highway... Yes there were times, I'm sure you knew, When I bit off more than I could chew But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all And I stood tall, and did it my way Had a totally epic dream last night. First, let me describe the setting. Imagine a vast canyon in a desert. Suspended in the center of it is an immense darkly radiant spherical sac suspended to the sides by black webs. There are places in between the webs that wind around the sphere where it's soft enough to dive in. Once past the initial membrane, you would find yourself in a dimly lit space that seems to stretch out even further than it appears on the outside. The atmosphere on the inside is like cool air in every respect except you could swim through it like water to get around to the hundreds of smaller spherical building/planets suspended on the inside. I swam around this place for a bit with my companion. I think he was human, or appeared human, and I was something else, but still vaguely humanoid in shape. Eventually we met a colossal whale with six tails whose eyes alone were bigger than I. It was something like a seer, and said I had to go on a quest to find a hidden power that would allow me to stop a tornado that would otherwise rip through the canyon and destroy the sphere. My companion and I agreed to help, even though all the other beings that lived in the sphere heckled us, said it wasn't possible, that fleeing was the only option. We ignored them and left to follow the vague clues given by the enigmatic whale creature. Anyway, cue long adventure sequence that I've forgotten much of. I think we stopped at a tavern at one point to get directions but that's all I remember about that part. Eventually I did find the thing the whale was talking about and took it into myself. My companion and I made it back in time to see a large tan-yellow tornado entering the entrance of the canyon. Most of the people had already fled, and my perspective shifted to third person view of the cockpit of the flying ark that the denizens of the sphere had used to get to safety. They saw me run for the tornado, and all yelled at me to give up, to not throw my life away, but I continued forward. As I closed ground on it, I felt something changing in me. I leaped into the air while spinning around and transformed into a blue tornado twisting in the opposite direction and clashed with the yellow tornado with equal force. Quickly, the yellow tornado slowed, then dissipated altogether. Everyone in the ark cheered that their home had been saved. I shifted back into my normal form, but the momentum of spinning so fast flung me from the hot desert air into the cold dark sphere. I swam back to the whale to tell it I succeeded, and that I would be leaving to continue my travels, but the whale said it had another adventure for me, and told me to follow. Then I woke up. The tornado symbolism is of some note to me, since friends have dreamed about me turning into a tornado on more than one occasion. For what is a man, what has he got, If not himself then he has not, To say the things he truly feels, And not the words of one who kneels, The record shows I took the blows, And did it my way Tonight, I gotta help a friend kick some outta control homunculus ass. That's my mission for today. Let it come, my companion and I will take it on. Current Mood: energetic Current Music: "My Way" (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
doc_moreau	7:17a	GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS . .. ... .... ..... AVATAR DAY :o oh god... it's going to be a long day, and i'm going to be exhausted by 3:30 or whenever it is i get home... but i'll be up north at the IMAX theatre at 11am to try and get a good seat for the noon showing, and holy crap, i know it's going to be awesome. :D I saved a prickly pear Syzmo* for the occasion so hopefully i won't nod off during the film. That would be lame. Blue people with tails, fuuuuck yeah. * A delicious organic energy drink that is a perfect size to conceal in my jacket! And also the perfect size to be refreshing yet not of quantity enough to make me have to get up and go to the bathroom (and thus miss anything) heh. I haven't been this excited about seeing a film in a while... District 9 was close, but not quite the same level. ...am i susceptible to hype? I dunno... i think even if there was no hype i would still be pretty damn excited. I know that once i visit Pandora through the immersion of moviegoing i'm not going to want to return. That's how beautiful worlds are... Also, it's an amusing contrast that the other Pandora i've been visiting lately is [almost literally] a garbage heap. Such an ugly place! The New Haven on that Pandora actually makes New Haven Connecticut look nice, lol. Not an easy thing. (Been playing Borderlands.) Current Mood: anxious Current Music: UGH i have xmas music in my head D: (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
cypherwulf	6:08a	This is some gay shit Just finished a fun Gurren Lagann art meme. There's DICK in it and implied GAY so...not safe for work u_u. No huge spoilers or anything, but I guess there's no point in looking if you've never seen/read it. Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)