My House is Clean

I must be procrastinating.

Round Two of Wicked vs Protein bars

FIGHT!


Edited to add:
While Round Two may not be the burst of yummy genius I'd hoped for, it isn't the disastrous failure of its predecessor either.

Dry, but it has a taste that is quickly growing on me. And it holds together slightly better. I consider it a success.

Protein Bars: 1
Wolo: 1

In a completely unrelated note

To writing, I am making homemade protein bars for the first time. they currently sit in the oven making their transformation from caterpillar to tasty, nutritious butterfly... well that's the hope at least. Since I made up the recipe after studying dozens of other recipes, smashing a bunch of ingredients together and hoping for the best. Somewhere poor Frozecat is crying over that last sentence *grin* Teehee

Work continues to be new and interesting, the calm before the student storm that blows in in T minus 3...2...

How many minutes should I leave my nummy butterflies in for? 20? 30? Do I look like a fucking baker? Do I? The correct answer is no. Hell I don't even know what temp to cook them on. I guessed. Good lord, what if it rises up out of my oven not a butterfly, but some devious oat blob, angry and burnt?! What do I beat it away from me with? Water? Then it'll just be gooey oat blob of drowning doom. Fire? It's not a zombie. Acid. Excuse me, I must find some acid. Quickly.

Update:
Protein bars: 1
Wolo: 0
I am made of protein bar making fail. :( They are the driest of dry things. They make the desert look positively brimming with moisture. Clearly I must hone my protein bar-fu for round two. I tried to salvage them and succeeded only in wasting more food.

Street Kings

Is an interesting movie and worth a watch. I'm not even going to attempt to give you a plot summary because it might spoil the movie for you, and because it changes a lot throughout the story. They did a great job of keeping the anti-hero protag very much a "someone you're not quite sure you should root for" kind of guy. It's a shades of grey movie, strongly so. If you're looking for a clear-cut, hero wins all flick, this ain't for you. It's fairly violent and decently bloody.

Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Aweosme documentary. Want to have your beliefs about sterioids challenged? Watch this. The bit about Ben Johnson versus Carl Lewis is absolutely sad and fascinating all at once. The man should not have had his medal taken away by Carl Lewis of all people. Seriously, very good movie with moments that really make you think and question the crap we've been fed on this subject.


Enjoy!

Dragging my heals, I'm doing it right...

on research today for some reason. I don't particularly want to research dueling even though I actually do find it to be a rather interesting subject. I sort of just want to write, but I'm running out of scenes that don't require research. I feel like I'm getting bogged down and don't know where to pick up from and start writing again. Strange I know. I keep going over my outline and most the scenes (even the exciting ones) aren't grabbing me like they usually do. It's been like this for a while. Have I lost the love for my story? wtf.

The hardest parts for me to write, I think, are the transition scenes that you have to have to move from one important moment to the next. (start sarcasm)What? I can't write all action and conflict all the time? (end sarcasm) well poo.

Alright, enough whining.

I haz an Outline!

Well, what passes for one for me at least. It's done. Whew!

I also have a tentative title. Now to hammer out some of the noticed plot problems and then get back to writing.

Hopefully starting a new job soon and am taking one course this semester so between all that finding time to write could be problematic. I will do mah bestest.

I'm officially the farthest in plotting and writing of anything I've ever done. I've got about 30-40 thousand words actually written for this story. More if you want to count the copious amount of notes I've made for it. Most of which didn't make it into the outline I posted on 2YN. Damn thing's big enough as it is.