A useful email forward...

This is from my friend Jeanine. Dude, I am so trying this. As soon as I buy cocoa. And chocolate chips. New eggs might be a good idea too...Can you tell I don't cook much? :)

 

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
 
  
4 tbsp. flour
 4 tbsps. sugar
 2 tbsps. cocoa
 1 egg
 3 tbsps. milk
 3 tbsps. oil
 3 tbps. chocolate chips (optional)
 A small splash of vanilla extract
 1 large coffee mug
 
 Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg & mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil & mix well... Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts. The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).
  And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Awesome blog entry from screenwriter John August

Check out this blog entry from John August about what to do with lots of ideas competing for your time and how to decide which to work on first. I particularly love the dialogue between the three ideas talking about how to compete for John's attention. "Quick! Get him while he's in the shower." Love that. And it's true. Lisa Shearin and I had a long conversation last year at RT about the desire to own tub markers so we could write down ideas that came to us during showering. :)

The sun!

What is it about warm weather that just makes everything feel better, more possible? Love it! :)

 

Random updates:

 

--The Romantic Times Book Lovers' Convention is actually just around the corner (April), and we're all starting to get ready. Ordering little prizes to give away, figuring out our schedules and such. :)

 

--Expecting edits on my young adult novel (tentatively titled The Ghost and the Goth) in the next month or so.

 

--Stopped by Love is Murder Convention this weekend. There was a reenactor fest going on in the same hotel. I loved seeing all the period clothing (I learned you do not say costume!), everything from Caesar's soldiers (in metal armor and everything) to Civil War hoopskirts. How cool!

 

--I am just loving The Big Bang Theory, though I find this debate about whether Sheldon has Asperger's Syndrome interesting. I'd rather have them not "out" him. I already assume that he's different but that's what I like about him. He represents all of us who are socially awkward to various degrees (myself included). I don't need to have a label slapped on it. Though I understand why advocates for those with Asperger's would like to have him as role model, of sorts.

 

My favorite quote from Sheldon is from a recent episode when Penny pushes past him as he's opening the door to his apartment. She tells him to shut the door, and he does...while still standing on the outside. When she opens the door and tells him to get inside, he tells her she told him to shut the door, but she didn't say anything about coming inside first. (Love it!) Then, they're both hunched against the door, listening, and finally Sheldon says, "I'm sorry. I don't know what this social situation is. Can you give me a hint?"

 

Or something to that effect. Yes, it's funny on its own, but also because I recognize that feeling of "what the hell is going on here and should I say something or just stay quiet and go with the flow?"

 

Sheldon, champion of socially awkward but sweet people everywhere.  

 

--Am counting the days to the release of City of Glass by Cassandra Clare.

 

--Woot! Just found work is letting us out early today! Yea!