The Hubs pointed out that I missed
something really big in my blog last week. I'm a silly billy. After
posting my fried zucchini flowers on the Facebook, I also tweeted a
photo to Giada DeLaurentiis via the Twitter. She then re-tweeted it to
her followers – that's a big compliment! Yes, I'm on Twitter. I'm
on almost every social media that my readers and potential readers
use. In Twitter's case, it's also where a lot of my favorite chefs
hang out. I have kibitz with many of them. This has been my biggest
reaction yet. I was really jazzed. I have no idea why I forgot to put
it in the blog last week.
Speaking of cooking, I did a lot of it
this week. I don't think I've done this much advanced cooking (that
is cooking done in advance of the week as opposed to cooking that
requires advanced skills) since April of 2010 prior to my second
surgery. There was a lull in my editing gigs that coincided with a
streak of cool weather for LA. Those occurrences gave me the
opportunity. And then, there were some huge sales on all sorts of
meat. Thus, I made vats of chicken and beef stock and slow roasted a
lot of meats and even made a big pot of chili. I had really slacked
off on the practice which makes life so much easier day to day where
getting meals prepared is concerned. Since I cannot predict my energy
levels on any given day, being able to defrost a tasty protein is
more than half the battle for meals. And not to sound like too much
of a carnivore, I also soaked and cooked three kinds of beans! Now I
have to package all that food for the freezer. Geez.
Too Many Hats
I was two kinds of editor last week.
There was the prose editing of Marguerite Lliteras' book, The Intern
and then there was editing manga with Again Tomorrow. They were polar
opposites in what they required. Switching between them was
challenging. I'll get into more details about the obstacles I had to
deal with in the manga in a separate blog. Let's just say that there
a whole lot of ways to interpret the word freeloader, and the context
is really important. At least with The Intern, I could call the
really patient author and ask questions. I also had to do a final set
of corrections on Ensnared Volume 2. My head was swimming in words
from different eras and cultures. And then I had to wear the
screenwriter hat and the producer hat to figure out how to make a
change in shooting location for one of the projects on the front
burner work. On at least two days last week, I was wearing all of
those hats. Everything I needed to accomplish got finished to my
satisfaction, but I am really mentally exhausted at this writing. I
haven't even been able to think about the ramifications of the film
project's progress. That's probably a really good thing. I think I
would be really freaking out (from happiness and panic). As I have
said before with film 'Oohh, Aahh, that's how all of this starts, but
then later there's the running and screaming' –
Dr. Ian Malcom Jurassic Park- The lost World.
Updates
Some
big ones are coming soon. I have to go now. There's more football,
and I need to just veg out for a while.
Stay
tuned!
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