Sounds....fun.....Hec.

Yeah, that'll be fun.

Emmett keeps stopping in the middle of his homework to go over and kiss his sister. He thinks I'm not looking.

(The house rule is: Don't Mess With The Baby When She's Quiet! Instituted by me since I am the chief comfortador and it is my job to settle her down when she spirals into the arsenic hour and then JZ and Emmett sneak up on her cuteitude and Mess With The Baby and cause her to holler all over again.)

Yay we're getting Indian food!

Anyone have any good cookie recipes? A bunch of us at school are doing a cookie exchange, and I don't bake too often, and I don't have any good recipes. I looked through my cookbooks, and pretty much just found chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin and sugar cookies, which are boring. I found one interesting-looking one in an Indian cookbook, made with cardamom and ginger, but I'm not sure about it. Anyone have anything they'd recommend? The search engine at epicurious is down.

I can give you some from the cookbook.

ETA: in my lj cuz it's easier - [link]

Preheat oven to 350F

3 ounces unsweet chocho, chopped
2 cups semisweet (usually a bag, I have good luck with even the double chocolate ghiri... chips)
1 stick, (0.5 c) unsalted butter, chunked

In a double boiler, melt above, stir until smooth, and go on to next

3 large eggs, room temp
1 c + 2 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoons fine ground espresso (french roast,etc)

Beat sugar,eggs and coffee on high until they ribbon. 3-5 minutes.

3/4 c flour
1/3 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Sift the flour, bp and salt together.

Mix chocolate with eggy stuff, thoroughly.

Add floury stuff until just mixed.

Drop spoonfuls of batter (I go small) onto greased sheet, bake 8-10 minutes. (With the small ones, 8 minutes is enough) or until they puff and crack.

If multiple staged sheets, stirring the batter thoroughly between spoonings keeps it from looking grainy.

Cool for a few minutes before taking off cooking sheets.

Well, damn. Apparently 2006 is trying to go out with a bang or some shit. Just got an email that a guy we knew in college is dead. Dead! He was younger than us! No idea how he died, but he left behind a wife. WIFE! At like, 28, a widow!?!? Damn.

He was the first boy (or, person, actually!) I ever kissed.

I suddenly realize I need to go to class, and then I realized I haven't been in like, months, and I really have to go but I'm really scared to, etc...

I haven't had one in a while, but I used to always have dreams that I was in the halls in high school, but didn't know my schedule, and couldn't find what class I was supposed to be in next.

My big, big anxiety dreams are always about plays -- every time I finish a production, about 6 weeks later I'll have a dream that the play wasn't actually over, it was just on hiatus, and the first performance of the second run is in a few minutes.

Oddly, though I haven't been in a play in FOREVER, I've had these more recently--that I'm about to be in a play, or am on stage, and don't know any of the words.

meara, that sucks about your friend. How awful.

I'm rewatching Top Chef and really even more amazed that even when they are in the same room the resemblence between Ted and Ilan still holds up. I mean, you'd think that when you saw them together you'd realize that they don't resemble each other at all. But nope, they totally do.

That recipe looks pretty good. Thanks!

ION, my microwave is now officially dead.

Also, got my hair cut, with a stylist I hadn't seen before. I like the cut, mostly, but it's got that weird uneven look that it always gets when someone who doesn't understand curly hair cuts it.

Tomorrow, I've got to go buy some barrettes and headbands, since it's not long enough to put in a ponytail anymore, and I need some way to keep it out of my face while I'm studying.

Oh my, meara. That's awful. I'm sorry.

{{{meara}}} I'm sorry.