Yet more RL stuff

Can has second job at Orscheln's! \o/ Huzzah! Unfortunately, the hours are a bit screwier than I'd like, but I can live with it.

One of the consequences of the new hours is that Family Dinner Night has been moved from Thursday back to its previous Wednesday. We'd switched to Thursday because I work at the flower shop M/W/F, and don't get off until at least half an hour after everyone else. Of course, that's the cue for my new job to schedule me from four to nine on T/Th, which puts me getting off work a good four hours after everyone else. Between that, my hours of ten to seven on Saturday, and my brother working three-ish to between nine and midnight on the weekends, half an hour or an hour later on Wednesday doesn't seem too bad any more :P

Anyway, FDN tonight, and I had a rather bad time of it, I'm sad to say :( It's been four hours since it finished, and I'm only now really relaxed from it. It wasn't the food, or the company (or, well, it wasn't very much the company), but the whole situation stressed me out but good.

( Cut for potential social anxiety triggers? )

On the plus side, I'm probably going to have zatar bread ready in about an hour, which I haven't eaten in entirely too long. It's a bit different than most recipes I've seen, in that the zatar is mixed into the bread rather than put on top, but the person my source for the recipe got it from said it tasted authentic when made this way, so I'm going with it. 'Sides, I like the taste better. I may be tough, but even I cannot withstand the test of thyme at such a level that zatar bread is usually made. Perhaps it's a small cultural or family variance?

I reeeaaally hope I like it as much as I remember; I'll totally make some to bring to Quire on my snack night if I do.

( Trigger warning: Mention of sexual assault (in a trying-to-make-the-world-better way) )

It also looks like help_japan is going to have a lightning round and/or a second full round, so I'll possibly (probably) be signing up for at least one of those when they get here.

Oh, and I picked up the latest Tamora Pierce book! It's a collection of short stories, including a couple I'd been hoping to see (the story of a Shang warrior, and also that tree from the end of Wolf Speaker) as well as some I never knew I'd wanted to see but was delighted by regardless (Kitten! Mathematics! Non-Tortall stuff! Whee!). [TRIGGER WARNING for some of the stories: Religious stuff in "Elder Brother", "The Hidden Girl"; Injured animals (that heal) in "Mimic"; Emotional, physical abuse in "Lost". Probably some for "Testing", though I haven't actually gotten to that one yet; I got distracted after starting the one just prior to it, but it's got an intro that should give you an idea of what to expect? Er. Hopefully. I think that's about everything? It's all handled pretty well, IMO, as is the standard for Ms Pierce. If you're familiar with her other work, it's about the same level, I'd say. Tortall more than Circle of Magic, even.] Anyway, I've eaten it up so far ♥

Whoops; almost time to get the bread in the oven. Later, folks :)

Edit: Bread's out! And it looks and smells pretty much as tasty as I remember it <3 Though I'm going to have to remember to bake it in separate batches next time; the one from the bottom-most pan is a bit singed ^^a Time for a taste test, methinks :)

[minutes later]

Okay, I'm calling this a success X3 (Soooo good! Though, uh, less so if you don't care for thyme.)