All this stuff in my head.

I just resisted the urge to cite the Sacred Band of Thebes in response to a gays in the military flamewar. (I figured the cultural context for a modern military unit is sufficiently different that it'd be taken as disingenuous.) But it amuses me tremendously that this sort of thing is in my head to have available for such commentary, even if I don't take the opportunity.

"I'm not a historian or an etymologist, I just have a lot of useless crap in my head." --John Kensmark, rasfc

I want to make soup, and have essentially none of the ingredients I need. Moomph, moomph, moomph. I should study my cookbook and make a list so maybe said ingredients can be gotten if teinedreugan gets home before the grocery closes. It's not a soup I've tried making before, either, and I'm only dimly familiar with its cultural context. So. Experimentation ahoy.

It's nice to know that I can have a relationship-process related glitch, pinpoint it before it's turned into something catastrophic, get into a medium where I have belief that it can be resolved, and actually resolve it. Within the course of an hour. And I'm gonna publically snuggle brooksmoses now, so there. *snuggle*

Deep pondering question of the week: Is my sudden recent craving for cocoa more closely related to the weather (cold and iggy lately) or the current downpoint in my hormone cycle?

Interesting coping mechanisms.

( A little plural stuff. )

Anyway. I've got another sort of project in mind; I want to develop an herb garden. Preferably something I can move, so something in pots or the like would be a requirement. (I'm feeling exceptionally frustrated about the prospect of starting a satisfactory garden and possibly moving away from it before I'm done with it at the moment.)

So I'm sort of doing a combination "What should I put this in?" and "What should I grow" brainstorming solicitation. I really like the idea of strawberry pots, and not just because I want to get one for Kunda for a humidity box, I just think they look neat. So I might be doing herbs in strawberry pots. Some European flavoring things, some for Asian cooking of various varieties -- I started with Chinese, and am sort of dabbling with adding bits of Indian and Vietnamese.

One of the things I really want out of life is to try dwarf citrons again, kaffir limes and other limes and lemons and maybe other things besides, but I'm still waiting to see if my orange survives the year without coming down with blight, and I don't think we can handle the light requirements for the winter. I shan't let myself start whining about wanting a greenhouse again, though.