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Jan. 26th, 2004 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesWe got two more inches of snow sometime between dusk last night and 9:30 this morning. Any time it would like to stop that, I'd be all for it. I don't know why I bother looking up the weather forecast any more, since all it ever says is "cold, cloudy, and it's either definitely going to snow or it might snow".
I fought my way through 30 pages of Victor Hugo on the subject of the history of theater from the Greeks to the 1800s. He's got a couple of good points, but I don't think he's got 30 pages' worth, and I still have another ten pages to go before I'm done. Part of his problem is that he makes his point and then proceeds to repeat himself two or three times before he goes on to his next point. No wonder most of his books are so long (although I wouldn't know, never having read any of them all the way through. I started Les Miserables once, in English, and gave up after about 60 pages).
In more cheerful news, I discovered something really nifty by accident yesterday. Plain yogurt and milk and apricot jam and nutmeg makes a truly wonderful milkshake. I had some apricot jam I wanted to get rid of, and some yogurt left over from the mango lassi experiment, and I threw them in the blender and decided they needed something else. Opened the spice drawer, decided that since I didn't have any cinnamon, it would have to be nutmeg instead, threw some of that in, tasted it and thought I must have been insane to want cinnamon in the first place. It rather hit the spot. I suppose it would work with other flavors of jam and other spices, too. If I could get frozen fruit out here, I'd try it with that instead of jam and thereby cut way down on the sugar, which I don't need anyway.
I should sit down and make a list of things not to forget about before I forget about all of them.
I fought my way through 30 pages of Victor Hugo on the subject of the history of theater from the Greeks to the 1800s. He's got a couple of good points, but I don't think he's got 30 pages' worth, and I still have another ten pages to go before I'm done. Part of his problem is that he makes his point and then proceeds to repeat himself two or three times before he goes on to his next point. No wonder most of his books are so long (although I wouldn't know, never having read any of them all the way through. I started Les Miserables once, in English, and gave up after about 60 pages).
In more cheerful news, I discovered something really nifty by accident yesterday. Plain yogurt and milk and apricot jam and nutmeg makes a truly wonderful milkshake. I had some apricot jam I wanted to get rid of, and some yogurt left over from the mango lassi experiment, and I threw them in the blender and decided they needed something else. Opened the spice drawer, decided that since I didn't have any cinnamon, it would have to be nutmeg instead, threw some of that in, tasted it and thought I must have been insane to want cinnamon in the first place. It rather hit the spot. I suppose it would work with other flavors of jam and other spices, too. If I could get frozen fruit out here, I'd try it with that instead of jam and thereby cut way down on the sugar, which I don't need anyway.
I should sit down and make a list of things not to forget about before I forget about all of them.
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Date: 2004-01-26 10:13 am (UTC)