Yes, it's been awhile.

So. Yeah.

Predominantly sheer laziness, a bit of post first draft hand-in celebrations and a hint of severely fucked up sleep schedule have been what's going on that's caused the lack of blog posts. I handed in the thesis on the 1rst of June, and I'm waiting on the comments from my reader. She's taking her time, which worries me a little since I have to hand in a second draft at the end of the month. I know she's busy, but I may send her an email on Sunday to quietly remind her that she'll probably want me to change some things. We'll see.

The initial, immediate celebration of the thesis hand in started with having to mop up a swimming pool that had appeared in my living room. I live in a highrise. On the 14th floor. Yep.

Please ignore that hideous, pink rodent cage that's the size of a bookshelf. My roommate is planning on moving her girls into bigger digs, and paint that monstrosity soon.

See those slightly blacker parkay tiles? Not really attached the floor in this picture.

We had all our living and dining room furniture pushed up towards the front door to allow the contractor to come in and fix the floor that bubbled and popped as a result of the water. They've also been on the outside of the building, hopefully fixing the actual problem, whatever it is. There's a couple of theories about why this has happened, and none of them have to with me leaving a window open during a rain storm. We have a nice, shiny chunk of floor now from the varnish though, so you win some things.

I pulled an all nighter on the night before the first draft due date to try and edit the thesis a few more times, and my sleep schedule has been out of whack ever since. The bright side to that is that I've been super cleaning the room and going through some stuff to try and purge things. I've also been working through some craft projects at three in the morning, as a result of finding some supplies in my closet. One of them is a tutorial for a Moroccan styled tea light lantern that I saw ages ago on Matsutake. So far the glass paint is producing interesting results. I have a lot of really amazing patterns on real Moroccan lanterns online, so I may try something a little more intricate than the original tutorial.

Crafting with wine!

I have actually been doing some cooking, especially since I purged a bunch of my old or not ever used cookbooks (Blasphemy!). I'm trying to really try some more recipes from the books that I have, especially my Nova Scotia Cooking and my Easy Indian Cooking cookbooks. I've neglected to take pictures of most of them, so there are hints of them in the iphoto library.

 Honey Grilled Scallops from Nova Scotia Cooking.

Coorg-style Pork Curry from Easy Indian Cooking.

That's my update for now, but as a final thing, I just found an amazing steampunk photo shoot by Pixie Vision Productions for Clockwork Couture with Grant Imahara. Yes. Please.

 The eye patch... the leather... the manliner. What I'd do to be that sword. That sounded creepy.

 Cutest, thing, ever. Melt, etc.

Dear god this is hot in so many ways! The whole shoot is on the Pixie Vision Productions facebook page.