Rambly Saturday Post

[kelly_chambliss]

I have finally finished my almost-final version of my dysfuncentine story -- only three days late. This lateness is getting to be a bad habit: here I am with my third extension since September, I who once prided myself on Never. Missing. Deadlines. My apologies to the long-suffering featherxquill: you'll have the file soon, my dear, I promise!

Reminder: Don't forget that it's Minerva Month at discusshpfic. This week's story is one of my favorites: miss_morland's The Lost Country, about Minerva and her mother. It's really a stellar fic that I felt never received sufficient attention. I left a lot of squee over at the discussion com, but I hope to go back and leave a more considered response. Do check it out if you get the chance. I really like the idea of this comm, but it just doesn't seem to have caught on; there's rarely any commentary.

If you want to discuss "The Lost Country," leave your thoughts here.

Last Saturday night found me at the the-ah-tah; this week, I'm staying in. I hope to finish one fic, start another, and catch up on some reading. I also feel like eating a considerable quantity of ice cream, but I'll probably resist. (It won't be as hard as it sounds -- I don't actually have any ice cream in the house at the moment, so I'd have to go to the store. But I am more slothful than gluttonous, so I probably won't. I do, however, have a lot of alcohol already to hand. So perhaps I'll just drink.)

One of my flisties maliciously helpfully pointed out that it's only six weeks until the hp_beholder stories are due. I haven't in the least decided how to approach my prompt yet!

You know how it is with fest prompts. . .before the assignments come out, I always look over the prompts and mentally sort them into four groups: 1) a fairly small group of the prompts that I would be ecstatic to receive, 2) a mid-sized group that I'd be perfectly satisfied to receive, 3) a mid-sized group that I'd really rather not receive, and 4) a small group that I would rather eat glass than receive.

In all my fests so far, I have only once received an "eat glass" assignment, and I was able to get that one changed (to a Group 1 assignment, believe it or not). You'll be glad to hear that I don't have to slice my esophagus over hp_beholder, either. Yes, I received an assignment from Groups 1-3. Which group, you ask? Ah, that would be telling.

Today's burning question for the flist: What are your favorite and non-favorite flavors of ice cream?

My favorites (in no order): anything flower-flavored; mint chocolate chip, coffee, anything with coconut (particularly coconut almond fudge), butter pecan, pistachio, hazelnut, peppermint (with candy bits), pumpkin, rocky road, orange sherbet/vanilla ice cream swirl.

My least favorites: things with too many add-ins (like Moose Tracks), anything with actual frozen bits of fruit (I don't mind peach and strawberry as flavors, but coming across frozen chunks of strawberry and peach or whatever is to me like the mouth's equivalent of fingernails on blackboards), any chocolate/banana mix, raspberry ripple (not sure why).

ETA: Friends just called to see if I wanted to go out to dinner. Short answer: you bet. I can drink there. I'll write when I get home.

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[delphi]

Today's burning question for the flist: What are your favorite and non-favorite flavors of ice cream?

You can't know how happy I am for an excuse to procrastinate.

Favourite flavours: chocolate and raspberry, chocolate and peanut butter, chocolate and mint (but not mint chocolate chip)

Least-favourite flavour: I love cheesecake, but I can't stand cheesecake ice cream. It just takes like it's gone off.

Pretty much the best ice cream I've ever had, though, was this saffron ice cream with honey and cardamom sesame snaps that Baskin Robbins was selling a few summers ago. I've never been able to find it since, but it was absolutely lovely.

[kelly_chambliss]

Ooh, that saffron/cardamom ice cream sounds wonderful. At Baskin-Robbins, no less -- it seems intriguingly adventurous of them. The only trouble with very delicately-flavored ice creams (and it sounds as if this might be one of them) is that your mouth quickly gets cold, and you can no longer taste the flavor. I've had this happen with lavender and violet ice cream, on those rare occasions that I ever find it.

You're right about cheesecake ice cream tasting like it's gone off, although I've found that some is better than others. (You'd think that, having found some that wasn't good, I wouldn't keep trying it. But I always try any ice cream that's offered me, just on principle.)

[delphi]

That's a good point - ice cream is one of the few desserts I'm good at self-regulating exactly because you stop tasting it if you eat too much. :-)