my most favorite meme

[threeplusfire]

I've been doing this for probably eight or nine years. It is hard to go wrong with this.

Comment on this post with "CAKE OR DEATH" so I know you want to play.
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
You update your journal with the answers to the questions.
You can include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions (but only if you want to).

My questions from imaginarycircus tonight:

1. Are you rooting for Texas tonight, or are you totally indifferent to baseball?
I think I'm morally obligated to cheer for Texas in all things. But quite honestly I find baseball very boring. I find most sports boring. Exceptions are the wide, varied, wonderful world of the Olympics and hockey.

2. If you had to leave Texas and move to another state--where would you go?
Oh lord. I can't even begin to imagine where I could live my current lifestyle anywhere else with the same ease. I suppose I would have to move somewhere that the Alamo Drafthouse has an outpost, so I think that means Virginia or Colorado. I suppose Colorado might not be a terrible place to go. If I had a billion million dollars, I would buy some crazy East Coast estate.

3. Favorite HP book or film? Why?
I'm really fond of The Half Blood Prince because we learn so much about Snape. Though I think the movie missed some crucial bits.

4. Something you've always wanted to learn to cook/bake, but haven't yet?
I would really like to learn to bake breads from scratch. I'm sort of lazy and intimidated by the process. But people have baked bread for a million years and I should get on that. I want to make brioche and crusty French bread.

5. Mac or PC?
I'm a PC dude, all the way. I like to play video games and I like the ability to build my own FrankenPCs. Apple is too much of a closed environment for me and I've never really felt at ease with their interface. Plus I have such *fond* memories of the ancient Apple hulks from grade school and the time a cockroach got into the box and fried itself on the motherboard.

Comments

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Alas, geography. I'm totes good with bread and could teach you.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

This geography thing bums me out. Where is my sci fi future of jetpacks and everything!? Though I guess a jetpack is not practical for carrying bread baking supplies.

I don't know why I'm so worried about messing up bread. What is a good first bread?

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

The problem most beginners have with bread? They are too gentle. Bread is tough and can be manhandled.

Something baked in a loaf pan. A pullman loaf or a whole wheat loaf is probably the easiest. Are you going to hand knead or us a stand mixer?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I have a lovely stand mixer, so I should use it!

I will be rough with the bread, until it uses a safe word. :P

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

The only time you want to be gentle with bread is after the second rise and right before you pop it in the oven to bake.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thank you.

I'm hoping this winter to expand my baking repertoire. More cookies and learn to bread.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Bread should be simple, only contain a few ingredients. Another tip? Always proof your yeast before making your bread by mixing it with hot water (not hotter than 108) and a pinch of flour or sugar, cover with a clean dish towel for 10 mins. It should double in size and there should be a thick head of bubbly foam. If it only has a few bubbles or none--pitch and start over. Dead yeast will not make good bread.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

TEA AND CAKE OR DEATH!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

1. Do you have any great attachment or feeling for the city/state where you were born?

2. What is your favorite game?

3. Do you like Halloween, costumes & candy & pumpkins and all that?

4. I feel like I should know this, but are you in school? What do you do with the time you are not on the internet?

5. Do you think the era of content aggregation & readers will be the death of artistic internet design?

[splix.livejournal.com]

Cake or death!

Death!

No - cake!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

1. Do you prefer to watch movies in a theater or at home?

2. What sort of shoes do you generally wear?

3. If you could go to any country/place in the world, no matter the cost or time or anything, where would it be and why?

4. Do you feel optimistic or pessimistic about the general future? Are we headed to more of the same old same old, a scifi dystopia or are we going to turn this planet around?

5. What are your junk food vices?

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Cake or death!

Or brownies, I want more brownies!

And I totally fell behind on updating lj at least once a week and this will help get me started again! Thank you!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Brownies are indeed a good thing. I think my next project might be chocolate cinnamon brownies.

1. Do you have a favorite student?

2. If California was scheduled to fall into the ocean, where would you settle instead?

3. How was chicken pox for you and did you wind up with any chicken pox scars?

4. Have you found a good balance of baby/work/personal life or not yet?

5. Are you watching Felicia Day's Dragon Age series, or have you played the latest DLC?

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Replied! With typos but I suck at typing one handed:-)

Thank you!

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

Cake or death me, baby.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Your icon fills me with cravings for whoopie pies!

1. What initially drew you to your field of study?

2. Who are your role models?

3. Where have you not been yet that you would most like to go, without thought to cost or time?

4. Do you like whoopie pies? What is your favorite dessert?

5. Do you have opinions on the monarchy?

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Is the meme still open? Cake or death.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Memes are like 7-11s, always open. And full of snacks.

1. What are your favorite charitable endeavors?

2. Do you have much trouble with your neighbors ever?

3. What movie have you recommended the most to people, and why?

4. Do you read your horoscope regularly? And do you think horoscopes are ridiculous?

5. Have you read ny good fanfic lately?

[miep.livejournal.com]

CAKE or DEATH????


hm, I think i'll have cake, thanks.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

1. What kind of cake do you like?

2. When you were ten, what did you want to be?

3. What is your favorite piece of technology?

4. Which three fairy tales do you consider essential/the best/the ones everyone should know?

5. Are you afraid of the dark?

[misti-k.livejournal.com]

CAKE OR DEATH!!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

1. What are your favorite BPAL scents?

2. Have you seen any good local theater in the past year or two?

3. Your least favorite chore?

4. Who are your role models or heroes?

5. Do you vote? Why or why not?