Hiya, welcome to Sailor Coruscant's Archive. I'm your host, Sailor Coruscant, though in real life I go by the (somewhat more prosaic) name 'Catherine'. I'm a PhD student who occasionally dabbles in fandom. That means that as you wander around my site, you'll no doubt find fanfiction and fanart for my various projects, but there are also a few original stories (one of which was even published for money - well, gift vouchers), my photo albums (currently under construction) and of course my online diary (which I am going to update any day now)! So please look around, have fun, let me know your thoughts on yaoi and hopefully we'll become friends someday.

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My day to day life is sometimes interesting, sometimes full of insight, and sometimes just plain weird. So, here for the very first time is the totally insane rantings and ravings of Catherine. I don't normally approve of sharing my thoughts with the internet at large, but what the heck. Let's give it a try, shall we?

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Party Time!

Today I emailled the boss a more or less "complete" draft of a thesis chapter. For all that it's chapter two, this is the first time I've actually sent him something for this project (honours was 5.5 years ago now, it hardly counts), so I'm a little terrified, but he replied back with a promise that "[he's] looking forward to making comments ranging from the bleeding obvious to the sublime", so I'm going to hope for the best and celebrate the achievement that saw me working all long weekend and not regretting a second of it.

Said celebration has taken the form of a visit to my favourite restaurant here in Cambridge, where I had a delicious Latvian potato bake, a beer, and dessert has just been delivered. I think I may have earned it.

I take it back. I don't even know what one could to earn this - it's simply indulgent and not even the long walk back to my b&b in the rain will see me deserve this kind of deliciousness.

Chocolate Wake-Up Cake, from the Rainbow Cafe.

Labels: cake, death by chocolate, england, phd, science, thesis ftw, trip09

posted by Catherine, 6:42 AM | permanent link | (2) comments

Monday, December 29, 2008

Post-Christmas Roundup of things that are nifty...

I'm back at home now, no more house-sitting. But I've sadly caught a cold somehow and feel like death warmed up.

I think I'm in love with the "proofreader" function in Pages. Calling me on using the word "Headmaster" because it's gender-specific? Rock on, proofreader, rock on!

Going through the yuletide archive and picking out my favourites for future reference. I love all of these, and if you know the fandom you probably will enjoy them too.

xkcd: The Amazing Adventures of Hat Guy and the Girl Who Stole His Hat
OMG VELOCIRAPTORS!
Portal: Pre-test Diagnostic Log #045216/F/4
Pern: The Free of Pern

In other stuff I've found around the internet, we've apparently discovered that people who skip breakfast are likely to have sex at an earlier age than those who don't. I skip breakfast all the time, but I guess I'm doing it wrong or something.

Labels: cake, fanfiction, I am a fanfic whore, iCatherine, yuletide

posted by Catherine, 6:06 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Being Nice is Nice, I guess...

Gave my busdriver a cupcake this morning. I'm sure she thought I was joking when I offered her one, but she waited when she saw me running and then said "ooh, and she has cakes" when I got on the bus, so I did what came naturally and offered her one. At the end of the ride, I handed over a coffee mudcake wrapped nicely in a tissue and told her to have a wonderful day. I hope she trusts me enough to eat it.

Labels: cake, cooking, public transport

posted by Catherine, 10:02 AM | permanent link | (1) comments

Thursday, December 06, 2007

1.3 days to go...

My long awaited vacation is here at last. Only I'm not ready yet, I haven't even thought about packing and my PhD isn't in a state to be abandoned for a month despite me staying til 9 tonight. *sighs*

But my cake decorating class is done and I'm rather pleased with the monstrosity of a result:

But right now I think it's time to sleep. Night all...

Labels: cake, holiday, I made this, I want to go home now

posted by Catherine, 11:18 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Friday, September 28, 2007

Yo, all...

Been very slack with blogging recently, I know. But it's okay, because the PhD is mostly going along, I survived my review meeting without tears and someday I hope to graduate. Please god let me graduate. Oh, and I moved offices again. Which was probably the best solution to the bee problem (though filling the hole in the wall was a good attempt).

I'm going away to Mudgee tomorrow, to get some driving experience, since I'm only halfway through the practice I need to get my driver's license. I'd like to get my P plates before I go away in December. Have fun without me, and don't burn the place down in my absence.

ETA: I keep forgetting to tell you guys, but I signed up for a cake decorating class. Expect interesting photos once it starts.

Labels: bees, cake, feeling better (with application of alcohol), fire pretty, mudgee, odd smells in my office, phd

posted by Catherine, 6:35 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Thursday, July 25, 2002

More Mochi
Yo all. I'm a little tired today, and I can't really remember what I was going to post about, so I'll just have to write a couple of different posts in between doing my housework.

But first thing's first. For those who requested it, here is the recipe for mochi that I made:
Mochi in Peanut Sauce

I've got some other recipes that I'll post as I try them, along with reviews and stuff.

James and I are currently up to Sailor Moon ep42, for anyone who is keeping up with that story.

Oh, and I spent two hours last night setting up a message board on this site. You can view it here.

Labels: cake, cooking, japan, mmm food, mochi, sailor moon, this was before tags

posted by Catherine, 12:58 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

The Mochi of the Moon is sticky, but it puffs up when you cook it...
Today I made mochi.
Weirdest stuff on earth.
Actually, I'm not sure that I made it right, well, at least, maybe my shop's definition of mochiko is different to that of the person who wrote the recipe, for I made it exactly to the recipe.
But the peanut butter sauce was yummy.
So was the mochi, truth be told.
Yet it was the strangest stuff... It was really odd, in that when a light pressure is applied, the mochi dough behaved as a liquid, but when you put some omph in it, it seems to shatter like a solid. Really weird.
But I had fun anyway.
In the interests of improving my mochi, I'm going to put a formal request here:
Send me your recipes!!!!
Oh, and odango recipes are also welcome!!!
*hugs*

Labels: cake, cooking, japan, mmm food, mochi, sailor moon, this was before tags

posted by Catherine, 3:56 PM | permanent link | (0) comments