I figured it would probably be a good idea to set up a permanent list with all my fiction for easy access. So, here goes.

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So apparently there is ancient wheat cultivar called "farro" that the Romans used but that now is planted mainly as groundcover between cash-crop seasons. And certain avant garde chefs took this trash-crop and some 2000 year-old recipes and made something hella good out of it. So now farro is this big, fat trendy thing just like asiago cheese awhile back and goji berries a little more recently.

But you know what? I don't give a fuck who else is making this stuff.

I got my hands on some farro because the natural foods cooperative I belong to (it's like a farm share except year-round) is having a TRY NEW THINGS!! event for the month of May. Last week the "TRY ME I'M DELICIOUS" item was fennel, and it was indeed delicious when stewed with chicken and apples. So I was ready to give farro the old college try, too.

Last night I prepared the farro by boiling for 15 minutes (which is pretty damn simple and quick compared to other grain dishes like sticky rice) and then added salt, olive oil, lemon juice, and a little dried oregano. My intention was to make it a pilaf to go with a lentil stew I'd prepared two nights ago, so I just took a bite of the dressed grains to see how it would taste and...............yowza.

I ate about half the container in one go and only had enough willpower to hold off eating the rest until this morning. It's THAT nutty and flavorful and filling. I thought steel-cut oatmeal was awesome but it's still bland and starchy compared to farro (and the cooking time for oatmeal is way more of a hassle).

This probably makes me a hipster, but as long as I'm a hipster because I tried something a little obscure and I genuinely liked it on its own merits, I am more than okay with that.

Just don't expect me to wear skinny jeans anytime soon.

Title: White Jade Rabbit: A Saiyuki Burial FST
Author/Artist: thenakedcat
Rating: PG-13, this is messed-up-backstory music
Size: 16 songs, 1 hour running time, 96.4MB
( Songlist below cut )

Originally posted by xlickety_splitx at Help Us Support Planned Parenthood

Fandom: Saiyuki Gaiden
Title: "Rapunzel, Rapunzel…"
Author/Artist: thenakedcat
Pairing(s): Tenpou/Konzen if you squint, Konzen + Goku bonding
Rating: G, completely safe for baby heretics
Summary: There’s more than one way to shut a monkey up.
Notes/disclaimer, etc: Inspired by the scene in Konzen’s bedroom where he names Goku, which seems to be the only time in Gaiden his hair isn’t up in the ponytail.

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Originally posted by nagaina_ryuuoh at Stop the Arizona birth control bill

The Graduate Library at the University of Michigan. It felt so beautiful just to get <i>lost</i> in there among the shelves: titles leaping out at me, begging me to crack them open; the weight of so much accumulated human knowledge, but the weight of muscles poised to spring into action instead of a static weight; the occasional chance meeting with another human being startling as if encountering other people for the first time.

The first time I went there, I wanted to hump a shelf I was so taken with the whole thing.

Try to get THAT image out of your mind the next time you go to renew your library books.

Recent conversation with hachisu_no_mi (for context, I recently moved from an apartment to a two-room sublet within a single-family home and I was unpacking as we chatted):

Me: Is it a bad sign that I have a grand total of two towels, but four teapots?
Lotus: It's a sign that... you need tea cozies?

In other apartment news, the couple I am subletting from are currently in a relationship rough patch that looks like the Ho Chi Minh Trail. However, since one of the few things they agree on is the economic necessity of my contribution to the rent and utilties, one pair of noise-cancelling wireless headphones is all I've needed to cope so far.