Episode 55: Cooking My First Meal

Am translating Chaucer while watching Les Poupées Russes. The narrative feels more disjointed than L'auberge Espagnole, in fact, I've managed to get through nearly half the movie without actually figuring out what the heck is going on really. In a way, I suppose it's a metanarrative of sorts. I'm watching it because I loved L'auberge Espagnole, which totally made me want to move to Europe and rent an apartment with a bunch of ERASMUS students. The crazy things you do because you've seen it in a movie! Anyway, the extract from 'The Reeve's Tale' is proving a little more resistant to my efforts at translation than the previous extract from 'The Knight's Tale', and generally speaking, I'm starting to be a little worried about my translation tests. Anyway, I cooked my first real meal today, with Shen Ting's help. Like practically everyone I know, I like cooking, but I hate washing up. That about sums up my experience in the kitchen. Pasta isn't that hard to cook really, and I don't bother with making sauces from scratch, and I'd much rather just have olive oil anyway. I do believe I need meat to go with the pasta though, so that's something I'll have to get the next time I'm at Costcutter or Tesco. I'm still trying to decide if I want to go to Bath next Saturday, but I have decided to go to New Word Alive in Wales next April. The only attraction for next Saturday is Stonehenge really, but it's not like Stonehenge is going anywhere, so I'm wondering if I should stay in Warwick and read instead, seeing as I haven't actually read anything this weekend, contrary to my hopes. So now it's back to the second half of the movie and the second half of the translation...