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*bats eyelashes at friends list*

Would someone be an absolute doll and get me some hot chocolate? I'm in the middle of organizing

apocalyptothon assignments, I'm on a roll, and I'm loathe to get up. *smiles cutely*

(This isn't laziness so much as fear because the last time I got up, one of the kitchen chairs tried to eat my toes.)

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Question! Is there a reason the deadline is in June? Because I'll have graduated from college by then and the thought rather weirds me out. Is there any way to make it sooner? This has nothing to do with the fact that I am impatient and curious by nature.

I can get you a hot chocolate *recipe*... This was right there within a few entries of this post on my flist, so it seemed like they really ought to be matched up.

Perfect Hot Chocolate
Yield: 6 cups of hot chocolate

7oz (200g) bittersweet chocolate
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup evaporated milk
2 1/2 cups whole milk (or 2 cups milk and 1/2 cup additional cream)
1 1/2 cups water (optional)
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
sugar, to taste
freshly whipped cream, to garnish

To make the ganache, chop the chocolate into small pieces and place in a heatproof bowl. Bring the cream and evaporated milk to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat. Immediately pour the boiling liquid over the chopped chocolate, then let it sit undisturbed for 1 minute. Stir slowly until everything is smooth and blended.

Bring the whole milk and optional water to a boil over medium heat. Add the cocoa powder and whisk until dissolved. Remove from the heat and stir in the ganache. Let sit for 1 minute, then stir until well combined and velvety smooth. Stir in the vanilla, sweeten with sugar to taste and serve hot, garnished with a spoonful of lightly-sweetened whipped cream.

Mostly to give people time to get together a good fic. Part of it was because I know there's a good chunk of people who signed up who also signed up for

zombieficathon, which is due May 1. So it was either a choice of moving it up to April (which I don't know about anybody else, but I plan on writing as many of my requests as possible, so the more time the better), or pushing it to June 1. And if a little more time gets us better fic (considering that some of these require some decent research), all the better. :)

(I say that as calmly as I possibly can, because I'm so impatient that if I could get away with it, I would make the deadline yesterday. Heck, going over the requests just to assign 'em is giving me tons of ideas. *goes back to chewing fingernails waiting anxiously for June 1*)

Dou you want it faxed or emailed?

Tell me about it. I just finished working out who was writing who for

zombieficathon, and while it wasn't nearly as complicated as I feared, I'm pretty certain somebody is going to be pissed off.

Probably the person I disallowed for ignoring the basic rules, but there you go.

Ehehehe I look forward to my assignment. I JUST signed up since we have until tomorrow. I figure, why the hell not, the apocalypse is way too much fun not to write about.

Kitchen chairs are teh evil. Dean will shoot it with his shotgun ;)

Anyways, it seems many people have jumped to the handing out your request of hot chocolate so I'll give you some yummy mini-marshmallows.

Can't wait for the ficathon to start! (I soooo hope I can write something good).

Oh, sigh. Logic and consideration for other people. I guess I can go with that. :)

But, in the meantime -- you know all those fandoms we listed at the beginning that weren't chosen? What if, in the five and a half months before the deadline, we write something in one of those? Could we post them to the comm maybe?

Sure, I don't see why not. I doubt we're the only impatient ones dying for some post-apocalyptic fic (especially considering how many people have signed up so far).

Well, my current problem runs mostly along the lines of why would anyone sign up for a ficathon if you were going to be exceptionally picky about what you're going to write? "Well, I'll write Buffy, but only Giles when he was seventeen, and only on Tuesdays when it's a full moon and the wind is from the west." *headdesk* I mean, I'm pretty sure I can work with what I've got, but Jesus.

... Okay, yeah, that's kind of absurd. As I said in the rules for

zombieficathon, if you're going to be that specific why not write it yourself?

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