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[yuuago]

☆ Reading Wednesday: Somewhat in the middle of reading a poetry collection, Calling down the sky by Rosanna Deerchild. I say "sort of" because I've kind of put it on hold for now, since I'm having difficulty focusing. It's very strong poetry and I really love her style (it's, hmm, I guess you could say it's both sparse and conversational at the same time - very minimal in form, and with a very strong "vocal" note to it). The subject is (mainly) the experiences of survivors of the residential school system, and it has a really raw note to it.

...Aside from that, I've been listening to an audiobook of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, mainly. It's been ages since I've read the book or watched the film, and I've forgotten almost the whole thing, so it's really interesting to experience it again.

☆ Delicious things: polenta with sausage and mushrooms. And blackberries for dessert. The polenta we used was storebought, and all through supper mum kept going on about how it isn't the same as how it was when her Friulian relations made it when she was a kid, blah blah blah preservatives. Well, I do have a book of Friulian recipes, and the polenta looks like one of the few things that it's possible to make from scratch without altering the ingredients (so many of them require ridiculously specific stuff that you can't get in this frozen wasteland). So... maybe we'll try that some time soon. If we're feeling adventurous.

☆ Night-driving lesson #2 went well. Once again, I did not crash into anything. I did forget to turn the headlamps off after we were done, though. Going to have to remember to... not forget that. Um. That would be bad. Oh well, IT'S A START.

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[dhampyresa]

POLENTA!!!

[yuuago]

It's delicious. I want to eat allll the polenta, man. I can't believe what I've been missing.

[kiraly]

*waves cheerleader pompoms about your night-driving success* Yaaaaay! A lot of the little things (like remembering to turn your lights off) will become habit eventually. (Though I'm lucky, my car makes noise at me if I open the door without turning the lights off, heh.) I'm glad it's going well for you so far though, that's always good. <3

Blackberries...mmmmm you're making me want some now. Even though it's so hard to find good quality berries here (regardless of season, tbh, they go bad so fast!) Maybe I'll start keeping an eye out for good ones though, I've reached the point I do every winter where I'm just sick of oranges but nothing else is consistently good.

[yuuago]

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IT'S.... Not as hard as I thought it would be, which is kind of a relief.

[(Anonymous)]

Polenta is one of our traditional foods. The way we do it, you just need cornmeal, water, salt and like 5 minutes so it blows my mind that people talk about "recipes" and "feeling adventurous" around it xD You can then put a variety of things on or around it, but I usually just mix in any grated cheese I happen to have. It's really one of the easiest and fastest foods to make. (I'm sure I'm just as clueless about simple foods from other places though, so it's all good.)

LK

[yuuago]

It's very much Not A Thing over here, so it's basically one of those completely unusual things. xD

[idleleaves]

I'm going to have to look up that poetry - the way you've described it makes me think it'll be something I'd enjoy. Hope you're able to focus better soon so you can go back to reading.

[yuuago]

<3 Hopefully you'll like it, if you do look for it (and are able to find it). I find that First Nations stuff can be tricky to get a hold of - I'm really lucky to have a local library with a great FN/I/M collection.

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