Oh and one more note. Stir your food as your cook it to make sure it cooks evenly. I think it works. Not sure, but logically it makes sense.

1 chicken breast
1/2 of a sausage
2-3 celery stalks
1 green pepper
1/2 onion
1 can of tomatoes and okra (or just tomatoes if you’re iffy on okra)
chicken broth or chicken stock
2 cups of uncooked white rice
Vegetable oil
Chili powder
Salt and pepper
Assorted other spices (it really doesn’t matter all that much…)

Preparation
Cut the chicken breast into bite size chunks, slice the sausage however thick you want it going into your mouth, and cut up your veggies however big you want them

Cook Time!
1) Pour enough vegetable oil into a big pot to the coat the bottom, and then some. Set the temperature to medium high.

2) When the oil is hot enough, put in your chicken and cook for 2-3 minutes. Make sure to move them every now and then. I actually cooked my chicken too long and it came out a little tough in the end, which was disappointing… but oh well! Don’t worry about not cooking them thoroughly, I THINK that it’ll be on the stove for long enough to cook them completely anyway. Don’t sue me if you get salmonella or something though.

3) Put in your sausage and the veggies, stir around a little bit to coat it, allow to cook for 1 minute.

4) Lower the temperature to low and pour in 2 cups of uncooked white rice. Coat the rice with oil. Add your long-release spices now. If you have no idea what that is, then whatevs, just through in all your spices now. Stir it around to coat everything.

5) Pour in about 3 cups of chicken broth to cover EVERYTHING. Don’t worry about floating veggies or meat or whatever. You want to cook the rice in this stuff. If you think you have enough, you probably don’t. Add a little more. It’ll be fine. Probably. At this stage, you want your rice to cook completely. You don’t want to have bits of crunchy, uncooked rice in your jambalaya. Reduce to the lowest you can get to without simmering it. Either way, cover it and cook for about 15-20 minutes, or until most of the liquid has been absorbed by the rice.

6) Add the canned tomatoes (and okra). Cook for another 10 minutes.

7) Once all the liquid has been absorbed, turn off the heat. Stir in salt and hot sauce. Add pasta sauce if you want more liquid.

Yeah, I hate people who change fan alliances too. They’re called bandwagon fans and people hate them, although usually it’s because they come in the middle of the season when a team is just becoming hot. Usually people stay with them until the preseason and then leave when they lose in the playoffs or gloat about it when they win the championship.

And… yeah. Oh, about hatred for the Patriots. Hmmm… I personally don’t think there’s as much vitriol for them as in years past. I think the greatest dislike for them came in 2007, when they were on their way to a perfect season. Everyone hates a perfect team. Everyone hates it when a team wins at their expense. The Pats did a lot of winning that year, until it came to the Super Bowl where they lost to the Giants. After that, it was mostly smirks and stuff.

There really isn’t as much hatred for the Pats, mostly because they haven’t been the Super Bowl since 2004 and they haven’t won a playoff game since 2007. So…

But yeah, having different jerseys in support of different teams in the same sport is pretty goddamn stupid. A true fan should only root for his own team. Yeah, he can support one team against another, but he should only buy jerseys for one team. For me, it’s the Philadelphia Eagles in football, UNC in college basketball, and the Red Sox in baseball.

I guess I don’t really have a team in college football. It used to be Michigan, but there’s no particular reason why. I guess it ought to be UNC by default, but I don’t know anything about the team. I like Texas and USC, but there’s no particular reason why either. I guess I just like college football in general. There are definitely teams I hate though. I hate LSU, I hate Ohio State, and I hate Miami. I like Stanford. So… yeah.

This was quite rambly.

Anyway. So yeah. Nomming on peoples and stuff. Because vampires find people tasty? I guess? Either way. Yeah.

That is my vampire nom post. Yup. :]

So for the next couple posts or so, it’s just going to be about my hypothetical life as a vampire. Just because I can. Meh.

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This post is really quite pointless. BUT WHATEVS.

Here are all of them:

http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/ee97/PenguinNinja1408/Picture%20Diary%20May%208/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ20

And here are the ones where I had something in mind.

It’s the back of my house. It’s big, but also really empty…

I used to sit and wait for the bus here.

New England horror road of horror and doom. No streetlights here.

Another one.

This is the opening of the trail that I walk on. Yep. Doesn’t it look inviting?

I want to live in a house like in these pictures. You don’t really see it, but there’s this huge hill behind it and a bunch of trees around it.

El tormente…

I’m guessing it must have rained because the water spilled over and onto the trail.

“Also don’t dump bodies here. It contaminates the water.”

It’s a bridge.

It’s water flowing under the bridge.

Glug glug Monster

When you get further down the trail, the trail gets worse and puddles collect. When it gets hotter, mosquitoes breed like motherfuckers here.

Here comes the sun da da da da…

It’s me and my very Asian face. I’m not smiling. :[

I felt some drops of rain hit my face.

This was just weird.

View from my bedroom window.

This is where I sleep for the next three months.

Stack of books

Desk stuffed with stuff from years ago.

I need to get a real capo.

Anyway… so yeah. There it is. Look at them and stuff.

Tomorrow I might walk five miles from the Durham Public Library. I’m going to get books because I am boooorrrreeed.

But… now I’m in Connecticut and she’s in North Carolina, and I MISS HER SO MUCH. That is a frowny face.

I sound like a walking cliche. But that’s okay. Because that’s what I am. I am very much the reverse of an emo. HURRAH.

Okay I’m done. Sleepy time naow?

It’s not a bad relationship. It’s a happy relationship. I like it. She likes it. It’s comfortable. Others are more leery of it. Maybe it’s not the smartest thing to get into a relationship or whatever at this stage, but… I dunno. I generally just let things come to me when they do, even if the timing isn’t the most convenient. It’s always worked for me. But… yeah. I see their point, but whatever. I like it.

I’ve also been watching Mortal Kombat 9 fatalities by the guys at Rooster Teeth on Youtube. They’re really cool and BLOODY. Gory as hell. I dunno. They’re entertaining in a way. *shrug*

I’ve also started playing guitar. It’s been about a week or so since I’ve practiced, but I’ve been learning how to do chords and stuff. It’s been a bit easier to learn since I know how to play violin and I already know about some music theory, so that helps too. I’ve been learning how to play some Radiohead and Iron and Wine songs. I’m still not really good, but it’s become easier for me to shift my fingers and pluck the strings and stuff. It’s fun.

And… yeah, that’s about it. My life’s not all that interesting. :/

So I’m not drunk right now. Drunk time begins ETA 7 hours and 30 minutes. So not for a while. BUT IT SHALL BEGEH-HEH-HIN. But not yet. But it why?

But for what reason and purpose has a drunk time been called? Well loyal readers… BECAUSE an event of great magnitude and preponderous IMPORT has occurred. What is this so called EVENT? Well, merely the end of a horrible, horrible week. It is for that reason that a drunk-time call has been issued.

Yep. Horrible week. Mundane, perhaps, but the past 5 days/120 hours/7200 minutes/362000 seconds have been an absolute clusterfuck of evilness. It’s not like the ENTIRE world is trying to gang up on me, it’s not like Teemo, Akali, AND Twitch have burst from the jungle for a gank, it’s not like all the Night Elf Rogues in the entire Alliance are coming after me, it’s not like I’ve simply walked into Mordor, it’s not like I’m Tila Tequila at an ICP concert, it’s not like I’m your mom at a frat party (out of all those references I’m sure that something jumped out to all of you)… but there’s at least a little corner of the world that is full of sadness and depression that is mine alone.

So. Yep. There’s that little bit of catharsis out of the way. Time for no-no juice… mmm… that is some good no-no juice.

Best Mac and Cheese from a Box

Alright, so start by making your regular mac and cheese from whichever brand you choose. I usually by the Harris Teeter store brand of mac and cheese because there’s a Harris Teeter close to where I live right now and it’s still pretty good for a store brand.

Right, now that you’ve cooked your macaroni and strained it out of the water, put it back into the pot from whence it came and lower the heat to medium low (closer to low than medium). Put in about a spoonful of butter (as per the instructions), enough to mentally cover all the macaroni. Next, pour in just enough milk so that if you’re working with a small to medium sized pot you shouldn’t be able to see the milk. If you’re working with a pan… well I don’t know why you’d be working with a pan? SO FIX YOUR MISTAKE.

Now, slowly pour in your cheese sauce/powder thing. Do it slowly, don’t just dump all of it at once. You want to coat every layer of macaroni as best you can. This sauce/powder requires enough solvent (in this case, milk) to make it all work. Add a little more milk if you have to. You don’t want clumps of powder… that’d just be nasty.

At this point, add in some salt and pepper if you want. I like the pepper, I think it gives it a little better look, but that’s just me. Make sure you don’t make it too salty. That’d make everything taste awful. If you want some protein, this would be the time to had in cooked ground beef or a can of tuna. Don’t ever put in any vegetables though. That’s just weird. At this point, add in some shredded or grated cheese. You can’t use sliced cheese or a block of cheese. That’s just too little surface area to melt such a great mass. Keep stirring. You should start noticing that the cheese is awesomer (meaning: sort of sticky).

Now, it is safe for consumption. Don’t forget to turn off the heat!

PRO TIP: If you consume coffee, take out half of the volume of milk you would’ve used and substitute it with cream. Trust me, it makes things better.

Awesome Japanese-Style Curry

Stir-fry your meat. I recommend chicken or shrimp. Beef doesn’t work very well because I think stir-frying it just makes it too hard. Set your meat aside.

Now, stir-fry your veggies in a pan. Carrots, celery, broccoli, they’re all sort of good. Ideally you want something that’s pretty stiff uncooked. Tomatoes, for example, would be really bad. Beans too. Don’t do beans. That’s just odd.

To your large (slightly tall) pan of veggies, coat everything with a powder mixture consisting of: Chili powder, cumin, oregano, thyme, salt, pepper, and whatever else sort of spices you want. The important ones here are chili powder and cumin. Chili powder gives you a pretty good spicy kick for very little money, and cumin gives the smell and color you want (smells… cumin-y… color should be some variation of yellow-brown. Add some saffron if you have the money, but it’s not essential. I’ve never used saffron simply because of the cost.

Anyway, back to cooking. Let your veggies cook in the powder for about 30 seconds to a minute. Next, coat it with some flour. You’re not going to want to add too much flour. Cook it in the flour for another 30 seconds to a minute, and then pour in your soup stock so that you just cover your vegetables. I recommend chicken stock. It’s cheaper. You can use broth too. The thickness you want from stock is already present due to the starch in the flour.

Add in your meat.

After about five minutes or so, you should be noticing that the liquid has been thicker. If your liquid portion had already started to clump together, you probably added too much flour. Add more broth, or if you’re cheap, just add water and maybe a little bit salt. You don’t want to add too much and completely throw the reaction over the other side. Find a happy medium.

If you’re going to serve the curry and rice separately, then just let it cook for another 15 to 20 minutes. If you’re like me and you’re going to mix the curry in with the rice anyway, add in the cooked rice after the 5 minute mark and cook the curry for a total of 20 to 25 minutes. Stir a mixture of cold broth and flour in a small bowl with a fork and slowly pour it into your pan so that it just covers the rice.

PRO TIP: Eat this with rice. Obviously it tastes good. Add in your favorite hot sauce if its not spicy enough for you. I recommend Tabasco sauce or Srichacha.

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No, I’m not actually having kids. It’d be weird. ANYWAY.

I’ve been busy lately. So… yeah, nothing good to post. I’ve been watching “Community” for a while. It’s a good show.

I’ll… have something at some point. Not now.