Bumbershoots and Ladders

hazelnut_cafe @ 2012-04-25T09:55:00

2012-04-25T14:56:10Z

"One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do--you can either type or kill yourself."

- Anne Lamott, "Bird By Bird"

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hazelnut_cafe @ 2012-01-08T18:36:00

2012-01-09T00:36:14Z

What up, 2012?

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New Media

2011-06-12T23:39:35Z

One Week One Tool

Re-inventing the Lecture (Or, Why Online Lectures Don't Work, and What We Can Do About It)

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Daniel Deronda Quotations

2011-05-07T23:31:39Z

"No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another. Changes in theory, religion, admirations, may begin with a suspicion of dissent or disapproval, even when the grounds of disapproval are but matter of searching conjecture" (361).

(Eliot, George, and Graham Handley, ed. Daniel Deronda. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.)

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hazelnut_cafe @ 2011-04-04T07:13:00

2011-04-04T14:14:07Z

I feel like I'm living in borrowed experience lately. It feels a little precarious, all of it.

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Bow Tied Snausages

2010-11-09T20:52:07Z

1/2 package of bow-tie pasta, cooked
steamed green beans
1 package of sundried tomato chicken sausage
green onions, sliced
garlic
olive oil for stir frying and a bit of butter afterward
salt or soy sauce to taste

makes 3 meals

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Savory Mushroom-Cheddar-Basil Scone/Biscuits

2010-10-22T14:32:38Z

(Modified version of this recipe)

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup cold butter or margarine, cubed

1 egg
1 cup milk
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
chopped basil leaves
4 mushrooms, finely diced
garlic
salt

Directions

In a bowl, combine the flour and baking powder. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In another bowl, combine the egg, milk, cheese and pesto. Stir into flour mixture just until moistened.
Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead 8-10 times. Transfer to a greased baking sheet. Pat into a 10-in. circle; cut into eight wedges but do not separate. Bake at 400 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

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songs

2010-10-14T21:23:40Z

"Read My Mind" ~ The Killers
"Helmat" ~ Hauschka
"Do You Think There's a Heaven" ~ Danna/Devotchka (Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack)
"Honey Honey" ~ Feist
"Question" ~ Old 97s

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Music

2010-10-04T04:44:00Z

"Sweet City" ~ The Traveling Band

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Today Songs

2010-09-28T19:23:19Z

Sioen, "Sleeping Beat"
Johnathan Elias, "Move"

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"Little things in books," note-to-self 2006

2010-09-23T23:06:07Z

Things To Look Up from book:

    •    "And I was desolate and sick of an old passion" ~ Ernest Dowson
    ⁃    also: "I have forgot much, Cynara!"

    •    "Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! / O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!"   ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

    •    "Lugs" is Scottish for "ears"

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Lovely Project Rant video

2010-09-23T00:13:50Z

This makes me smile.

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Grad School Cookbook: Egg Scramble

2010-09-19T20:32:09Z

Ingredients:

3 eggs
1 tiny farmers' market onion
1 stalk celery
pinch shallot salt
pinch French thyme

Not-starving in style! :D

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Songs

2010-09-18T19:44:39Z

"Solace for the Pain" ~ The Gentle Waves (very mellow)

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Song

2010-09-07T01:43:14Z

Sia - "Soon We'll Be Found"

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Old photos...

2010-07-25T05:56:59Z

Good gracious, these were from five years ago at least!

I haven't seen a mantis in a long while! Maybe one of this one's children will be waiting to say hello when I go back to visit family next week...

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That purple roving turned out rather nicely!

2010-07-20T17:27:05Z

The lighting doesn't really convey the color it worked out to be at all, (it's much more blue when this camera isn't making artistic decisions for it,) but I think the hue variation at least shows up a bit.

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Scarf!

2010-07-20T17:13:04Z

Today I am playing a game I like to call Pretend To Be Productive.
It involves me posting my projects on Ravelry (which is exciting; I love Ravelry!) in the hope that some bored soul on the knitterwebs will see it and think I'm doing things with my life other than delaying this whole studying business, thus somehow translating into me actually having accomplished something... (?)

In the spirit of such things it seemed only right to include it in my personal journal, in the hope that Future Me will see it and think I'm doing something with my life et cetera et cetera.

Hey Future Me! I am knitting an alpaca scarf ~~in the summertime~~.

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Crafting- Zigzag Bag

2010-07-20T17:05:48Z

I started this pattern as something to occupy my hands during movies and then had to figure out what to do with it and it eventually just turned into a pouch. Credit to the five-year-old next to me during a long plane flight for her excellent advice and some help stitching too. We agreed that we could make it look like a hungry critter with a big mouth using button eyes. (Hence the paper arms I gave him for the purposes of his fashion shoot.) His name is Ziggy.

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hazelnut_cafe @ 2010-06-28T23:28:00

2010-06-29T04:30:38Z

“Come Thou Font of Every Blessing” by Fiddlesticks in Hymns and Songs of the Mormon Pioneers

“Boy With a Coin” ~ Iron and Wine

“The Recruited Collier” ~ Kate Rusby

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Photography

2010-06-23T20:01:22Z

Behold the Noble Pepper Grinder!

Erm...
Yes.

So, ( Flickr Link )

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David Foster Wallace's Graduation Speech

2010-06-11T16:28:15Z

I was talking with Gordon today and he linked me to this incredible speech. It's terribly poignant and lovely.

( Read more... )

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Waltzer (Name or occupation? Who knows.)

2010-06-08T19:53:14Z

Another darkroom class photo.
I don't know why, but things look fine whenever I use the computer that's hooked up to the scanner, but the moment I look at them again on my home computer they always look really faded and gray. It's kind of infuriating.

( Flickr link )

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Gameplan

2010-06-08T19:46:45Z

Things I had:
1) Access to a darkroom
2) Photographic paper
3) Gears
4) A Sharpie

Things I didn't have:
1) Film

I had fun with it anyway.

( Flickr Link )

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Grass in Grass, Sassafras

2010-06-07T16:34:40Z

This was part of the first set I ever processed in the darkroom, which is how that splotch came to be. I think it was kind of a happy accident- it seems to fit with the general feeling. Weird how a splotch can serve as a souvenir.

( Flickr Link )

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Bumbershoots and Ladders

hazelnut_cafe @ 2012-04-25T09:55:00

hazelnut_cafe @ 2012-01-08T18:36:00

New Media

Daniel Deronda Quotations

hazelnut_cafe @ 2011-04-04T07:13:00

Bow Tied Snausages

Savory Mushroom-Cheddar-Basil Scone/Biscuits

(Modified version of this recipe) Ingredients

Directions

songs

Music

Today Songs

"Little things in books," note-to-self 2006

Lovely Project Rant video

Grad School Cookbook: Egg Scramble

Songs

Song

Old photos...

That purple roving turned out rather nicely!

Scarf!

Crafting- Zigzag Bag

hazelnut_cafe @ 2010-06-28T23:28:00

Photography

David Foster Wallace's Graduation Speech

Waltzer (Name or occupation? Who knows.)

Gameplan

Grass in Grass, Sassafras

(Modified version of this recipe)

Ingredients