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Looking for an excuse...

If this paper mentions "star seeds" one more time I'm going to quit and just go watch Sailorstars on youtube.

Labels: cambridge, sailor moon, thesis ftl, trip09

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

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

Uranus, Neptune, Pluto - No Action
Grrr at the lack of dubbed Sailormoon in my life. Just when I thought I would finally get video copies of 67-68, Channel ten is showing garbage. But anyway, moving on to an account of the past few days in my life...

On Wednesday, I did have to go into uni for fun and not-profit. Yup, the observatory was open to a bunch of vacation-care kids who all wanted to look through the telescopes at pretty things. Well, actually, because it was the middle of the day, we started things off by taking them into the planetarium, because it's fun and because in the planetarium they get to see stars even at lunchtime (which it was). Once again I didn't do the presentation, but that's okay, because I love watching them and it is always a lot of fun. The little girl sitting next to me was scared of the dark, so I had to hold her hand throughout, but she was okay and ended up feeling brave enough to whisper to me about what stars she knew and how her mum had shown her how to find Libra and Gemini. So kawaii!!!!
Anyway, after that, we did walk the group over to the observatory, doing the scale model of the solar system as we went. It was fun also, for the kids enjoyed running around holding stakes with the names of the planets on them and one boy especially enjoyed calling out "I am Uranus" as he ran across the field. It was all kinda amusing really. Then we got to the observatory, where Geoff (according to Lesa his name is pronounced "Ge-Off" which pisses a bunch of us off) had set up the 16-inch telescope for observing of venus. Now Venus is absolutely gorgeous at the moment, half-phased, and full of shining planety goodness. And of course, once someone points it out to you, you can see Venus naked-eye during the day. Very, very nice.
As we were all gaping at Venus, James, my uber-sexy boyfriend, had set up another telescope for observing the moon, which is also half-phased at the moment. And everyone loves staring at the moon, which I'm sure will come as a shock to Lesa, who always insists we find lots of globular clusters to show people when they come to the observatory. But anyway, they could see craters and things and it was very exciting.
Ooh, and as I was helping James with showing off the moon, Lesa set up her 6-inch telescope with the uber-cool filter on it so that we could observe the sun! Don't try this at home without the proper equipment, but looking at the sun through a telescope was definitely one of the coolest things ever. Even James being afraid his eyeballs would be fried was cool. But yeah. Sunspots are pretty...
So, after the chibis went home and we packed up, I headed off to James' house, where we curled up watching Sailor Moon for a few hours... More than a few actually, but that's beside the point.

Thursday...
Umm, I watched some more Sailor Moon with my boy. We got through a lot, right up until Endymion is captured by the Dark Kingdom. *whimpers softly* But yeah, lots of fun. And there was chocolate and coke to be consumed. Oh, and pancakes too! I love pancakes, as James can now doubt attest to. *grins* But yeah, it was so much fun. And his mum is a good cook. I should steal more of her recipes, I think. *smiles*

*yawns* Actually, it's past my bedtime now, I believe, so I'm going to leave you. I'll finish bringing this up to date tomorrow or something.
Goodnight world.

Labels: astronomy, sailor moon, this was before tags

Goodmorning world.
Well, I got up extra early this morning so I could watch Sailor Moon on Cheez tv, and of course it's not on. What does this mean? Could it all add up to mean that Channel Ten is bastardly and didn't buy the rights to all of Sailormoon R? Let alone S and SuperS? *sighs* I just knew it was too good to be true.

But I will tell you one thing: Spiderman Unlimited sucks big time. What is with that cape? It's so incredibly ugly. I'd show a picture here, but of course I can't find any on the place called the internet. But I did find an almost unlimited number of sites saying just how sucky it is. So I guess I'm not the only one who thinks it's terrible. First time for everything.

So yeah. Story of my morning. Hopefully tomorrow Sailormoon will be back on and all will be well.

Right now I'm downloading episode i of Hikaru No Go, which seems interesting enough. Actually, episode i just finished, so I guess I'm downloading episode ii now. *smiles* Mmm... burning my bandwidth... Well, it's not like anyone else in my family takes advantage of the high amount of downloads we can get, well, 'cept my brother who is constantly downloading pr0n. Anyway, the only real limit to the amount of anime I can get would be the fact that I only have a 2Gb harddisk in this computer. But on the other computer (which will hopefully become linked to the network soon) I do have 2Gb just of chobits, which is so cool... *giggles* I probably should get my boyfriend on the case and get him to burn those to cd so that I can have the space back for something else. Or I could invest in a burner of my own...

Anyway, I have some washing to go put on the clothesline now, so I'd best go do that.

Labels: anime, sailor moon, spider, this was before tags