Contralto Watch #1: Marijana Mijanovic
We’re expanding (the photo will, too, if you click it). — Where there is room for mezzos, there needs to be room for contraltos, as well. For anything that roughly falls into the “tall, dark, I-faint-at-her-chest-notes” category. And there’s no better start than Marijana Mijanovic, whom you seem to like just as much as I do: When I checked the search engine terms this morning, “Mijanovic” came up right behind “Malena Ernman” and “mezzo watch”.
From Anik’s Kitchen: Lemon Waffles / barquillos al limón
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At the moment, we’ve changed from summer heat to much cooler rain. Add to that my current attempts to chip off about two pages a day on the dissertation (not really working, but that’s a topic for another post), and you have the perfect situation in which you would be craving some comfort food.
Waffles are one of those foods that, to me, equal childhood memories - high stacks of waffle hearts on birthday party buffets where the table was still taller than you were. Or being allowed to help grandma to ladle the dough into the iron and waiting for the characteristic ‘zsshhh’ when the liquid hit the form.
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Small Steps vs. Doctoral Deeds
In the wake of once more rearranging my schedules to make more time for my dissertation among my other commitments, I also have to look at the way I write “Small Steps”. Having just one or two tired hours after midnight to compose a new chapter is not a good solution and does not ensure the quality I want to uphold for both my readers and myself.
I’m not going to take a complete break from fiction writing until I finish the dissertation - the “drop anything else and just write the thesis” approach is a luxury I could perhaps allow myself during my MA, but not anymore - but I repeat here what I already stated a while ago on miarroba: I can’t do more than two or (maximum) three updates a week.
