stunt_muppet

The only thing I can recommend if you want to try deep frying is to make sure you have an oil/candy thermometer. Meat thermometers (which were what I had) don't get up to the temperatures you need for frying, and if the oil gets too hot then the outside of whatever you're frying crisps up before the inside cooks all the way. Plus, if the oil burns, you can't strain it and save it for later frying.

"Having a tangible reminder" is a very good way to put it! I keep feeling like I need to be doing more, taking more dramatic action and being more involved in local activist efforts, but at the same time I feel like if I try to go directly from "spending my free time mostly at home" to "trying to organize and participate on things on multiple weekdays - even perfectly legal action", then I'll burn out and go to meetings for two weeks and then stop after that.

I don't know. There's a lot to think about, and my thoughts aren't super organized, and now that I've finally got my life to a place that I'm happy with I worry that that comfort is a liability now. But I don't want to not be happy!

One day I'll have to actually trace my thoughts out about all of it.