fandom...yumm...

[timepiececlock]

Well, I did it! I joined the Band of Buggered forum. :) After months and months of... not joining. Look fun. I already know a lot of members there from LJ or Crumbling Walls, so I don't feel alone.

The last thing I need is another forum obsession to substitute for my glaring lack of a real social life, but I can't help it! The internet and promises of shirtless Spike have pulled me in. Also, fic! Fic and vids.

Fic and vids.

Fic and vids. Say that out loud, what does it remind you of? Making me think of something... Something food. Something with "taters"? Or "and grits"? What are grits anyway?


Crap. Now that won't leave my brain for hours.

On another note... Left over Chinese fried rice is both disgusting and satisfying. I think it helped that I added chicken.

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[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

Fish and chips, maybe?

And Yay!!! WBoB rocks. Have you posted yet? I'll go join in the gay sex orgy... hehe. You're gonna love it.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've posted a few times. Less than ten. But I'll be worked up my stars in no time! Right now I'm "Not Lurking Standing About".

[corngirl-jo.livejournal.com]

Left over Chinese fried rice is both disgusting and satisfying.

Hmmm, had me thinking back to the fried rice I traditionally get at the Master Works in the Ocean County Mall, NJ. Luke warm and greasy and I get it every time. Cause despite being disgusting, it's absolutely satysfying. So, gotta nod along here. {nodding my head}

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have this on/off relationship with Chinese food. I love it fresh and hot, but it leaves me feeling woozy afterward. And left overs... they certainly fill my stomch, and they taste ok, but if you wait too long, the grease makes everything soggy.

Mexican food, though... I could have Mexican food every day for the rest of my natural life, with minimal complaint.

[caille.livejournal.com]

Hello, lovely Rashaka! Have people already asked you about your on-line name? Should I already know what "Rashaka" refers to, if I weren't so culturally clueless?

Umm, I don't know if you know this, or if you want to, but see, on WeBoB, my nick is "ObscureRelic". (It's from "Becoming" - that's what the archeologist guy said Giles was known as - an expert on obscure relics.) I chose a different name because I also moderate at another board, and I was afraid that if it was known by some folks that I was actually posting more at WeBoB, it would be uncomfortable. Ire would be raised. Umbrage would be taken.

Of course, now that the world is ending and it's raining fire, I feel you deserve something real, so I wanted to give you my real fake nick. (But we'll hold off on the actual ConCordance, 'kay?)

Now...the important stuff. Grits.

Grits are small broken grains of corn. They were first produced by Native Americans centuries ago. They made both "corn" grits and "hominy" grits.
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Corn Grits
Falls Mill mills locally grown whole white hybrid corn. The corn is dried to a 14% moisture content, then each kernel is cleaned with forced air. The kernels of grain are run through the mill stone where they are ground to a certain texture and then sifted through two wire mesh screens. The three products sorted are white corn meal, white corn grits and the bran that pops off. There is a fine bran still in the grits product. This bran will never soften up with cooking. Depending on personal preference, the bran can be left in or removed by rinsing the grits before cooking. Yummy!

Hominy is made from field corn that is soaked in lye water (potash water in the old days) and stirred over the next day or two until the entire shell or bran comes loose and rises to the top. The kernel itself swells to twice its original size. After the remaining kernels have been rinsed several times, they are spread to dry either on cloth or screen dryers.

http://www.grits.com/discript.htm

Delicious. But I'd have gone with fish 'n' chips, like green.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Maybe it is fihsh & chips. But something tells me its different. But definitley food.

Thanks for the grits definition! Quite informative. :)

Umm, I don't know if you know this, or if you want to, but see, on WeBoB, my nick is "ObscureRelic".

Thanks. You know, I think I'm going to make an LJ memories post just with a list of LJnames = BoBnames that I can referenece later...

I chose a different name because I also moderate at another board, and I was afraid that if it was known by some folks that I was actually posting more at WeBoB, it would be uncomfortable. Ire would be raised. Umbrage would be taken.

Ah. I was modding at CW, and that's defintiely my main forum. I retired as a mod though, because of a bad patch of extremely instense school work. I'll probably ask them to let me backin again when the winter quarter's over. I don't expect I'll be as active on BoB as I am even still on CW, but that's ok.

Umbrage. I like that word. ::notes for future reference::

Of course, now that the world is ending and it's raining fire, I feel you deserve something real, so I wanted to give you my real fake nick. (But we'll hold off on the actual ConCordance, 'kay?)

Awww... thank you! And I'm totally hands off on the ConCordance. Or so I think. I don't really know what it is, so i'll just have to pretend I'm not doing it. ;)

my name

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Should I already know what "Rashaka" refers to, if I weren't so culturally clueless?

Nah, the only reason you'd really guess it would be if you're recently read Kipling, and you were very bored and very intuivite at the same time. I've explained my name a few times, but most people don't ask. I use the same name for almost everything. Email, fanfic, LJ, forums, etc.

::searches around:: I had this great explanation for my name on CW, but I can't find it now.

The name I use most of the time is Rashaka, and sometimes its Eos Rashaka, or Rashaka Eos, etc. Ive seen a few other people with "Rashaka", like on Winmx, or big download sites but not that many. I think I'm still the only person with my name on ff.net-- if you type in my name, I'm the only result that the search engine turns up. :g:

Rashaka is a name I created, a twisted version of "Raksha" which means 'demon'-- I got that mostly from The Jungle Book (Kipling). It was the name of Mowgli's wolf-mother. But I've also seen in two other books reference that used the name word base for the term 'demon' or a name of a demon species. I said, "cool!", and added an extra syllable, and there it was.

I added Eos (Greek diety of sunrise) in the beginning, so my name could be "dawn demon" or "demon of the dawn", or something cool. Then I eventually stopped using the Eos part, because it was faster and easier to remember to just say Rashaka.

I did all this long before I ever saw an episode of Buffy, or knew who Dawn's character was. I actually created my online name so that I could use it in anime fandom.

I like your name here... I've been looking at it wondering how to pronounce it out loud. What made you choose it?

[duelingrose.livejournal.com]

Shaka Shaka-desu! Did you make your mood icons, or did you just find them... if you did make them... how did ya do it? ^-^

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I didn't make them; wisteria did. I don't know how she set it up, but I think there's instructions on the LJ website. If not, you could just post a comment in her journal and ask for specifics.