Biscotti!

Made some biscotti. Wanted to try out the recipe before making them for my mum when she visits. My dad is coming too! I sent an email to him all sad face and he told my mum to book his tickets too. My mum said he's a big softy when it comes to me and he's like, can't help it Oh daddy I'm going to make him a spicy Korean beef dish when he gets here.

The biscotti turned out great! The colours are very Christmassy. My pathetic cameraphone doesn't pick them up but they are actually red, green, and white. I've to bring them all to my placement as usual since I'm not suppose to eat them. One of the staff members told me that she has stopped bringing lunch to work on Mondays because she wants to eat what I bring. lol. I think I'll drop some in my neighbour's mailbox cos he helped me with my heater yesterday. P.S.: John, neighbour is lovely, cute, and gay. Time for another visit to Australia?

CRANBERRY PISTACHIO BISCOTTI

• 4 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons light olive oil
• 13 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons orange juice
• 2 eggs
• 1 egg white
• 32 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (omit if nuts are salted)
• 1 and 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 10 tablespoons dried cranberries
• 10 tablespoons pistachio nuts, shelled
• 4 tablespoons white chocolate, chopped

1. In a large bowl, cream together olive oil, sugar, orange juice, and vanilla with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
2. Mix in eggs and egg white one at a time, beating well after each addition.
3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt; gradually blend into the creamed mixture.
4. Stir in the white chocolate, dried cranberries and pistachios by hand.
5. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
6. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
7. Cover, and chill for 30 minutes, or until dough is no longer sticky.
8. Turn dough out on a lightly floured surface, and divide into 2 – 3 portions.
9. Form each portion into a flattish log about 12 inches long by 2 inches wide.
10. Arrange logs at least 3 inches apart on baking sheet.
11. Bake for 30 minutes in preheated oven, or until pale gold.
12. Allow logs to cool on the baking sheet until cool enough to handle.
13. On a cutting board, cut logs crosswise on a diagonal into 1 inch thick slices.
14. Arrange on baking sheet.
15. Bake for an additional 15 minutes, or until golden.
16. Melt some white chocolate in microwave.
17. Transfer biscotti to wire racks and dip tips into nutella or dark chocolate.
18. Drizzle white chocolate sauce over them.
19. Let cool completely.
20. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

Shall attempt cheesecake cookies tomorrow. I can bake without guilt now that I've finally finished my essays for this semester. Harry Potter movie soon and then parents will be here! Assuming my client has not killed herself and a new cameraphone is in the horizon, life is pretty good. Rosa seems to have gotten over the placement thingy so now I feel like I can be properly pleased with getting into my second placement. I'm ridiculously excited about starting there *_*

Alt tag: Popcorns found the safe.

HP fandom is the crossroad devil that collects my soul yearly.

Why do I find them attractive

Lucy, you're lucky you're not here or I'd have bought them and make you and David cosplay as H/D…

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE

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P.S.: Spice Girls spark speculation of comeback

Name the cat.

What would you name a cat who would eventually look like this:

Some current possibilities are:

- Crookshanks
- Uzumaki Naruto
- Kyuubi
- Knight Weasley

I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't give it an anime name so Popcorns won't be the odd one out. But Naruto… T_T

Thoughts?

I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Witchipes!

Aja was supposed to help me ask her flist for Harry Potter recipes but she has failed me so I made my own

Cauldron Cake!

I brought 12 to Doncare today and it is such a testament of their faith and trust in my cooking for them to even try it. I, for one, would never try food that is neon green. There was only one left when I went home lol A few HP fans came up to me and we shared a nerdy giggle.

The interview was yesterday. It went as well as it could have, I think. If I don't get it then it just wasn't meant to be. I do believe that everything happens for a reason after I've done all I have with what I have. The interviewer was really nice, which makes it doubly sucky if I don't get it. She said that she will let Rosa and I know of her decision by tomorrow so we will be walking around Doncare with our phones down our bras with terror plastered on our faces. I gave the interviewer a cauldron cake after the interview lolol she was very tickled. Rosa said that she would have preferred if it was any one of our classmates as she sees me as her best mate. T_T I made baked cheese olives for her, we decided we will try to celebrate no matter what.

If you don't see any updates from me tomorrow, I'll likely be hiding under my blanket stuffing myself with mac and cheese and self-pity.

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I will brave the heat for this.

Title tags.

Competition.

I'm feeling extremely torn and nervous at the moment. I received a call this morning from Austin Hospital offering me an interview for my next placement at their Child & Adolescent Mental Health unit. Naturally I was over the moon because child placements are really hard to come by and Austin is one of the best. I also had my evaluation session with my clinic supervisor and she gave me a glowing review – said I'm a natural at some skills that other therapists take years to train for, so that left me in a REALLY good mood all day.

Oh and, my blood test results are back – doctor said I'm at my healthiest and everything is in excellent range, so he's stumped. lol. *cue House music*

Anyway. My fantastic mood ended quite abruptly when I came home to a phone message from my placement coordinator saying that they will also be interviewing Rosa on the same day. I'm pretty sure they've only got one vacancy so Rosa and I basically have to compete for that one spot. I'm an ambitious person but I loathe competition. I think competition makes people ugly and it brings out the worst traits in me. I don't mind competing with people I dislike, or strangers, but I'm finding it really hard to sit with the discomfort of being in competition with Rosa, who is essentially my best friend in school and placement.

Reasons Why Rosa Is Awesome

- She was the one who listened to me have a breakdown over my thesis and encouraged me to switch to another supervisor and saved me from SO MUCH thesis angst.

- We have so much in common; she's the first person I've met in a long time since Lucy who enjoys and appreciates boredom the way Jimson and I do.

- She's completely introverted and is as much of a family person as I am. We are never at any parties we're invited to. lol.

- She's the only person I know who worries about public speaking more than me.

- She knows what I mean when I say I need to be alone.

- We have creepily similar taste in music. She knows all the lyrics to Destiny's Child's songs and we sing to all her pop CDs on our weekly 1-hour drive to Doncare.

- She has a JLo jacket and didn't laugh at my Eminem pants.

- Ever since I found out what a 'wog' means, I've been call her 'woggie'. The other day when she rang me, she said, “Hey, it's Wogsa.”

I don't want to compete with her. She's my friend. But I want the placement so much. SIGH. And I don't want to resent her if she gets the placement instead of me. I'm kinda hoping that I'd be offered an interview at my dream placement (dealing with very severely abused children) so I wouldn't care whether or not I get this one. OH WELL. NO USE ANGSTING. May the best person win I guess. WISH ME LUCK GUYS.

P.S.: Hopelessly hooked to Big Brother UK, been having recurring dreams of being in the house and forming alliances. They've got a sub-show called BB on the Couch where psychologists comment on the house mates. UK is too kind to me.

P.P.S.: Jimson leaves for Singapore for 5 weeks tomorrow. I think a lot of my anxiety about the Rosa situation is to do with my anxiety about not having him around. Being without family and ill is awful T_T