Tardy to the party, good riddance to bad rubbish, guitar tuition, etc.

Good morning, lovely reader (I use the singular because I feel it's unlikely that anyone would read this tripe with a friend or loved one), I'm back with another slice of bloggy goodness. I'm typing this from the office, which I've been at since just before 7 this morning, and am squinting at the screen through eyes so red and bloodshot that I look like I've been on a two week binge with Amy Winehouse. Nevertheless, to paraphrase the Thing from the Fantastic 4, "it's bloggering time"...

Glee. A programme that I should, my all means, hate. But I don't. It's really good. The characters are lovely and well thought out, the plots (while ridiculous) are entertaining, and they produce some not half bad covers of great songs. I wish I'd realised this sooner. At the end of this week's episode I was genuinely thinking "hmm, yes, I could get into this Glee lark", and then the E4 announcer guy goes "and that's it for the current series of Glee". Talk about being tardy to the party... Now I am fated to scour the internet in search of every Glee episode, and to stay up until four in the morning so that I've watched every episode before series 2 comes along...

I've also had a rethink of some of the people who really got on my nerves, for one reason or another, and have decided "you know what? Fuck 'em". So that's that. I've already got one arse, I don't need any more, especially when they aren't nearly as perky as mine, and don't look quite so good in tight jeans. Facebook is partly to blame, allowing people to say things that they wouldn't dare to say in real life, with little to no repurcussions because it's hard (if not impossible) to punch someone in the throat via the internet. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I'm throwing you away like yesterday's jam...

Tonight I shall be teaching a guitar lesson to my mum's possibly perhaps maybe boyfriend, and I'm quite looking forward to it. I've got my acoustic guitar sitting under my desk, ready to teach him all kinds of chords, and notes, and other musician-y sounding things, although I'm slightly erked that he wants to learn Oasis songs rather than the Smiths-y stuff I had prepared. Oh well, I'm sure everything will be fine, so long as he doesn't do anything wrong and plays everything perfectly first time, without questioning that I'm fucking awesome and always right...

Here's today's vegan recipe: Ratatouille. It's simple, classic, healthy, and 100% animal free!

Ingredients
2 sticks of celery, roughly chopped
3 courgettes, cut into 2cm rounds
2 aubergines, cut into 2cm pieces
2 yellow and orange peppers, cut into thick strips
6 tomatoes, roughly chopped
20g pack fresh basil, torn
3 tbsp olive oil
2 onions, sliced
2 large cloves garlic, chopped

Method
1. Heat olive oil in a large pan. Add the onion and cook, stirring, for 4–5 minutes, until soft.
2. Add the garlic, celery, courgettes, aubergine and peppers. Cover and cook gently for 35 minutes, until the vegetables are softened.
3. Add the tomatoes and season. Cook, uncovered, for 20 minutes, until all the vegetables are tender. Stir in the basil just before serving.