jumping up a flight of stairs

[aamcnamara]

In food-related news, project Avoid Dining Halls Over Fall Break progresses nicely. For lunch I had the leftovers of the rice-and-vegetables from last night, some potato chips I'd picked up in my wanders, and an apple previously scrumped from the dining hall plus sunflower butter.

When it came to dinnertime I was a little more ambitious: I'd gotten some frozen ground-turkey patties in Northampton and cooked them up last night to refrigerate. Today I broke them into pieces and put them in the rice-cooker along with a can of beans and a can of tomatoes, and cooked the result. Then I dumped all that into a plastic thing, stuck it in the fridge, and put some rice in the rice-cooker--with spinach (local! organic!) in the steamer-pan. Result: deliciousness. Thought I had made too much rice, until I started eating. Nom.

Best part: I have two days' worth of leftovers, and will only have to do rice and vegetables tomorrow and the next day in order to have just as much tasty food. I think we call that a win. Even if I had to wash All The Things afterward.

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31.8 / 75

Today I invented time travel. Perks of being a speculative-fiction writer. Though admittedly it's a fantasy novel and the time travel is done with magic, which isn't how most people who write time travel mean that sentence. (Query: fantasy novels with time travel? They must exist, but I can't think of any.)

My Big Goal had been, as you know Dear Reader, a complete re-draft of this by the end of the month. That... may not happen. But progress feels good: I am hitting my forehead against new snags!

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Have His Carcase, Sayers: Well, that was rather silly. But I liked it--though not as much as Strong Poison or Gaudy Night. Benefit is that now I get to reread Gaudy Night before I go on to Busman's Honeymoon.

"J.J." (Criminal Minds episode): That was good.

Comments

[aliseadae]

First dragons now time travel?!

[jesstherobot.livejournal.com]

They must exist, mustn't they? But the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Harry Potter. Hm. Congrats on progress, anyhow!

Also, "J.J." was excellent, considering, wasn't it? I may or may not have been a leetle teary-eyed by the end. ahem.

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

I love time travel. I think most fantasy time travel is one way, with no complicated jumping around and paradoxical situations, which I think is more time travel-y than when some one ends up in past for no apparent reason. Anubis Gates by Tim Powers is one with wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, though. (And is also very good.)

[vcmw]

Time travel back and forth in a single big jump is more common than small-hop time travel in fantasy. The Dalemark Quartet book four by Diana Wynne Jones has time travel by means of object (as well as, I think, time travel by means of innate power). I think it's the Sage of Theare by DWJ has time travel because the person doesn't grow up the way they are supposed to and time gets all squiggly to try and put it right.

I don't remember Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander but I think that it had time travel.

Kids books often have "time travel to a special historical place" involved. Or to a mythological almost place - as Edward Eager's Half Magic, some of the E. Nesbit books, I think that Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill (which I haven't read) has time travel of someone somewhere?