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Just here for the L&O: SVU content… But I’m also very left leaning… (she/her). New Zealander with Canadian links.
Day job is consumer food science academic with a focus on food product development & packaging tech.
Day job is consumer food science academic with a focus on food product development & packaging tech.
Umm, No, it’s a bad idea to scrap home ec! Particularly as teaching food and nutrition is not only important for consumers to be able to make informed decisions it also feeds (pun intended) vocational pathways AND academic pathways that support our enormous food export industry.
Home economics is about nourishing a nation. So why is it being scrapped?
Home economics is about nourishing a nation. So why is it being scrapped?
The latest subject to be cut from the curriculum empowers people to question misinformation, make informed decisions and demand fair access to healthy food....
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October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Umm, No, it’s a bad idea to scrap home ec! Particularly as teaching food and nutrition is not only important for consumers to be able to make informed decisions it also feeds (pun intended) vocational pathways AND academic pathways that support our enormous food export industry.
My autistic-ish teen gave me a hand written poem for Mother’s Day. It was lovely and I was borderline tearful when I read it. And then when I hugged him he fessed up that he got ChatGPT to write it. I’m not sure if I should be impressed or something else!?
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May 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
My autistic-ish teen gave me a hand written poem for Mother’s Day. It was lovely and I was borderline tearful when I read it. And then when I hugged him he fessed up that he got ChatGPT to write it. I’m not sure if I should be impressed or something else!?
5 years ago today - my “this is totally fine” face as we headed into covid lockdown with half a house. Caught short renovating - no kitchen, living room, and limited bathroom facilities.
March 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
5 years ago today - my “this is totally fine” face as we headed into covid lockdown with half a house. Caught short renovating - no kitchen, living room, and limited bathroom facilities.
I’ve started studying for an exam to be a certified professional in my area of expertise… So I’m gonna own my nerdiness and state that I LOVE this textbook - it clearly articulates all the crap I already know and struggle to explain to my students.
March 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I’ve started studying for an exam to be a certified professional in my area of expertise… So I’m gonna own my nerdiness and state that I LOVE this textbook - it clearly articulates all the crap I already know and struggle to explain to my students.
Happy St Patrick’s day…. Pic taken this morning.
March 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Happy St Patrick’s day…. Pic taken this morning.
If you see this post a GIF from one of your comfort shows.
January 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you see this post a GIF from one of your comfort shows.
Well, that sucks… www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Crown Research Institutes to merge into three mega science groups
NIWA, GNS, ESR and numerous other bodies are set to be pulled together.
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January 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Well, that sucks… www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
I have lived up to the bad rep “Reviewer 2” gets in academic circles already this year. Did the second review on a paper yesterday and recommended rejection, which the journal has followed through on. Also, the paper I reported late last year for plagiarising me got retracted!?!
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January 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I have lived up to the bad rep “Reviewer 2” gets in academic circles already this year. Did the second review on a paper yesterday and recommended rejection, which the journal has followed through on. Also, the paper I reported late last year for plagiarising me got retracted!?!
Belated Christmas present, with matching t-shirt… 😎😁
January 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Belated Christmas present, with matching t-shirt… 😎😁
Even though we’re in the heat of summer… January is a knitting month. So, I pulled a skein from the stash (“Gamora” by Featherbrush yarns) and hit up Ravelry for a scarf pattern (Seaweed by Holly Marie Knits) and started that a few days ago for Miss 16.
January 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Even though we’re in the heat of summer… January is a knitting month. So, I pulled a skein from the stash (“Gamora” by Featherbrush yarns) and hit up Ravelry for a scarf pattern (Seaweed by Holly Marie Knits) and started that a few days ago for Miss 16.
This was me…
Day 4, Story 1 of #SVUSeasonOfLove💝
Prompt #36: The one present I always wanted, but never got.
🤱🏻🎁❤️
#Bensler #EO #SVU #FanFiction #EOfic
archiveofourown.org/works/61272469
and
m.fanfiction.net/s/14420295
Prompt #36: The one present I always wanted, but never got.
🤱🏻🎁❤️
#Bensler #EO #SVU #FanFiction #EOfic
archiveofourown.org/works/61272469
and
m.fanfiction.net/s/14420295
January 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This was me…
This year I’m going to try something different to simplify life - each month I pick one of my numerous hobbies, and I spend 30-60 a day working on it. At the end of the month, I switch to a different one. That way I can ‘forget’ the rest of my hobbies and not get overwhelmed.
January 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This year I’m going to try something different to simplify life - each month I pick one of my numerous hobbies, and I spend 30-60 a day working on it. At the end of the month, I switch to a different one. That way I can ‘forget’ the rest of my hobbies and not get overwhelmed.
I don’t write a lot, but I think this is my favourite of 2024. archiveofourown.org/works/52824337
January 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I don’t write a lot, but I think this is my favourite of 2024. archiveofourown.org/works/52824337
Happy New Year from New Zealand!
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December 31, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Happy New Year from New Zealand!
Christmas Day evening here in NZ and I just won Fridge Tetris putting the leftovers away!
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December 25, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Christmas Day evening here in NZ and I just won Fridge Tetris putting the leftovers away!
Ok, so Lord knows I am an #SVU EO shipper… But Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, Elliot Stabler has had some ripper brain farts over the years. I’ve just been pondering that line from Fault where he says “I need to know you can do your job and not wait for me to come to your rescue.” 1/…
December 24, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Ok, so Lord knows I am an #SVU EO shipper… But Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, Elliot Stabler has had some ripper brain farts over the years. I’ve just been pondering that line from Fault where he says “I need to know you can do your job and not wait for me to come to your rescue.” 1/…
Hit me up with you fav SVU fics and/or authors. Particularly if they have not written much in the last 1-2 years. I need some escapist reading: angst, drama, and/or Bensler. Could also do Tuckson or Bensidy but not Barson or Rollisi (no shade to anyone who likes those pairs, it’s just not for me).
December 24, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Hit me up with you fav SVU fics and/or authors. Particularly if they have not written much in the last 1-2 years. I need some escapist reading: angst, drama, and/or Bensler. Could also do Tuckson or Bensidy but not Barson or Rollisi (no shade to anyone who likes those pairs, it’s just not for me).
My parents are visiting (we’re normally low contact most of the year). Dad’s at the stage of decline where he’ll ask one question. And then use that as an opening to ramble on about whatever’s on his mind. Usually it’s who has died, most of whom I don’t know and issues complaints.
December 23, 2024 at 8:52 PM
My parents are visiting (we’re normally low contact most of the year). Dad’s at the stage of decline where he’ll ask one question. And then use that as an opening to ramble on about whatever’s on his mind. Usually it’s who has died, most of whom I don’t know and issues complaints.
Christmas guests have arrived… So, I’m quietly writing a smutty fanfic on my laptop while my prudish evangelical parents are either side of me blissfully watching a Christmas movie.
December 21, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Christmas guests have arrived… So, I’m quietly writing a smutty fanfic on my laptop while my prudish evangelical parents are either side of me blissfully watching a Christmas movie.
Worked on one of my #svu fic WIPs last night, I think it’s getting there. Hubby asked me if Stabler nods (bad family joke after watching part of an ep with descriptive audio)… Nope, our boy’s doing a lot more than just nodding… 😳😎😜
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December 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Worked on one of my #svu fic WIPs last night, I think it’s getting there. Hubby asked me if Stabler nods (bad family joke after watching part of an ep with descriptive audio)… Nope, our boy’s doing a lot more than just nodding… 😳😎😜
So, cause I’m procrastinating, I’m re-reading my SVU fics from late last year, including the comments in AO3. And I’m all waxing lyrical in replies about how the big crossover at the end of S24 changed the EO game and I couldn’t wait for the SVU25/OC4 season and what might happen with EO… 😑
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December 16, 2024 at 10:14 AM
So, cause I’m procrastinating, I’m re-reading my SVU fics from late last year, including the comments in AO3. And I’m all waxing lyrical in replies about how the big crossover at the end of S24 changed the EO game and I couldn’t wait for the SVU25/OC4 season and what might happen with EO… 😑
I think I’ve decided the mysterious supposedly “Scandinavian” part of me is actually Icelandic and that I need to bring back this tradition in my family.
In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️
December 15, 2024 at 12:33 AM
I think I’ve decided the mysterious supposedly “Scandinavian” part of me is actually Icelandic and that I need to bring back this tradition in my family.
You know, it took nearly dying at the hands of a psychopath to tip fate’s scales enough for her to allow me to be a mother. I don’t want to know what she requires of me, for her to allow me love too.
anyone want to do a Two Sentence Tuesday fic challenge?
December 11, 2024 at 7:38 PM
You know, it took nearly dying at the hands of a psychopath to tip fate’s scales enough for her to allow me to be a mother. I don’t want to know what she requires of me, for her to allow me love too.
A! MAZE! ING! I had extremely high expectations of Wicked, having read the book, seen the musical and sung the soundtrack in my car literally 100s if not 1000s of times. And the movie exceeded ALL my expectations!
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December 10, 2024 at 9:27 AM
A! MAZE! ING! I had extremely high expectations of Wicked, having read the book, seen the musical and sung the soundtrack in my car literally 100s if not 1000s of times. And the movie exceeded ALL my expectations!