Loved this article, which is sort of a quiz about Austen, but really rather more than that. There are quite a few things in it I'd never really thought about:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/18/ten-questions-jane-austen?mobile-redirect=false

I may need to look into getting this book!

Yesterday I remembered that I had two zucchini sitting in the back of my fridge's vegetable drawer, so I decided to try something I'd read about in a couple of cookbooks, pasta with sauteed garlic and grated zucchini. It was pretty good, especially with lots of parmesan, although I think I could have let the zucchini cook a bit longer (the pasta was done by that point; next time I'll time it better).

This afternoon it occurred to me that the leftovers could really benefit from having a poached egg on top along with the grated parmesan. So that's what I just ate for dinner. Yum.

I read about this in Extra Virginity (that book I read about olive oil), and was genuinely surprised I'd never heard about it before:

Monte Testaccio: a mountain of Roman amphorae
http://irisharchaeology.ie/2012/04/monte-tesstaccio-a-mountain-of-roman-amphorae/

Guess who just stayed up until 4:30 in the morning to read Black Heart by Holly Black after her library request came in on Saturday? That's right; this loser.

*facepalm*

Well, that's completely going to throw my day off-kilter.

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London's Smallest Statue:
http://blackcablondon.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/cabbies-curios-londons-smallest-statue/

Bleh. Stonyfield has added stevia to its nonfat "smooth and creamy" yogurt (the peach flavor, at least), and you can tell. It has a slightly artificial taste now, which I suppose is ironic.

Back to trying to write and panic at the same time, I guess.

In his essay on playing Touchstone for the Players of Shakespeare series, David Tennant remarks prophetically that he was pleased with his costume because it seemed like the right decision to put Touchstone into traditional fool's garb, "and anyway I've always liked long coats..."

(I am irrationally pleased by the several ways in which this icon is appropriate for this post.)

Somehow all the chocolate has gone away. :(

(I have been trying to buy free trade chocolate, but the bars get eaten so fast! That is one thing that a bag full of Dove dark chocolate pieces does have going for it; it lasts in the fridge for a while.)

I just ate a spoonful of strawberry jam out of the jar, that's how much I wanted dessert. Actually, fact, it wasn't even jam, it was spreadable fruit. I am a ridiculous human.

Dinner was good, though. A couple days ago, I got home late, so dinner was a can of tuna in olive oil, a can of white beans, a couple handfuls of baby spinach, and some lemon juice and olive oil. I had a spoonful or two left, so tonight I mashed up the rest of the beans-and-tuna with some sauteed garlic, and made it into a pasta sauce for spaghetti, along with the rest of the spinach. I would eat that again, even if I weren't trying to use up leftovers.

David Tennant is playing Malvolio in a BBC Radio 3 production of Twelfth Night on April 22:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g4vgj

There are also some Globe actors on board: Naomi Frederick (Rosalind in the production of AYLI with Jack Laskey and Jamie Parker) is Viola, and Trystan Gravelle (Berowne in LLL) is Sebastian. They're also doing R&J the week after, with Trystan Gravelle as Romeo.

Came across pictures of series 7 filming, with Matt, Karen, and Arthur.

Started flailing uncontrollably and yelling things like "oh, help, Pond feelings" and "I was not expecting this" and "look at their little faces!" And also, ( tiny costume spoiler )

...yep, always going to live alone.

(but honestly, why are they all so darling? My feelings about them exist in a realm that is apparently only very flimsily attached to what happens on the show.)