sometimes i struggle a little with what this blog is for. i know i don't really write for an audience, and yet at the same time i constantly feel like i do, however small it is. i don't keep it as a personal or private record - between my email and notebooks, i don't need yet another venue to document my hum-drum daily life. & who cares if i bake shit anyway? but i keep wanted to 'post things on my blog' for whatever reason, so here goes.
i'm tempted to explain certain bits of my oxford life to 'everyone back home' but it feels rather redundant, so i'll stick to links to the ever-so-trusted wikipedia for know. it frustrates me that anything i post is always a month behind--i'll log in my ideas and then forget to finish until a time like now (28th may, for example) when i'm sick in bed on a saturday & can't really concentrate on one task to completion.
already today i've managed to start doing laundry but not finishing, because someone left their wet stuff in the machine, i went into town to get some medications & only to find out i have been mixing the wrong ones & came back with perogies instead, i've watched half a tv programme on italian food & religion which has been making me LOL all afternoon, and i've updated facebook about 10 times now. dreadfully boring being sick. i pick up my book but i get sleepy but i don't want to sleep but i can't go outside & i want to go running but can't because i'm ill and all together this is just a frustrating unpleasant place to be. remind me to book tickets for london, btw. on top of it all, i keep swallowing my own snot which is getting disgusting. perhaps that's why i'm not hungry.
this has nothing to do with what i meant to write about, which was may morning.
it's been a weekend of baking for me. david was having a few old friends from undergrad over for the celebrations so i thought i'd bake a cake. alas, i forgot to take a picture of the said cake & the only one i have is of it in the fridge, which is not a very nice one at all. it was a coconut lime cake (infused with rum). i didn't like it, but everyone else did. one chap ate three slices in a go, so i was pleased.
perhaps not the nicest cake picture ever... it was slightly lopsided toO! but was it ever difficult to get the toasted coconut only on the sides & not on the top! & for comparison purposes, here is what i was going for (the light green coconut lime one, obviously):
we're getting there.
i'm tempted to explain certain bits of my oxford life to 'everyone back home' but it feels rather redundant, so i'll stick to links to the ever-so-trusted wikipedia for know. it frustrates me that anything i post is always a month behind--i'll log in my ideas and then forget to finish until a time like now (28th may, for example) when i'm sick in bed on a saturday & can't really concentrate on one task to completion.
already today i've managed to start doing laundry but not finishing, because someone left their wet stuff in the machine, i went into town to get some medications & only to find out i have been mixing the wrong ones & came back with perogies instead, i've watched half a tv programme on italian food & religion which has been making me LOL all afternoon, and i've updated facebook about 10 times now. dreadfully boring being sick. i pick up my book but i get sleepy but i don't want to sleep but i can't go outside & i want to go running but can't because i'm ill and all together this is just a frustrating unpleasant place to be. remind me to book tickets for london, btw. on top of it all, i keep swallowing my own snot which is getting disgusting. perhaps that's why i'm not hungry.
this has nothing to do with what i meant to write about, which was may morning.
it's been a weekend of baking for me. david was having a few old friends from undergrad over for the celebrations so i thought i'd bake a cake. alas, i forgot to take a picture of the said cake & the only one i have is of it in the fridge, which is not a very nice one at all. it was a coconut lime cake (infused with rum). i didn't like it, but everyone else did. one chap ate three slices in a go, so i was pleased.
perhaps not the nicest cake picture ever... it was slightly lopsided toO! but was it ever difficult to get the toasted coconut only on the sides & not on the top! & for comparison purposes, here is what i was going for (the light green coconut lime one, obviously):
we're getting there.
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