Recent Highlights in the Life and Times

[rebeccmeister]

Tonight I am slurping soup. It's not the sort of soup that would make one leap out of ones chair, exclaiming, "Oh glorious soup!" but it is hearty and filling and has leeks in it.

I had planned to go to the gym this morning, but I was so tired last night that I went to bed early and slept in late.

Today I heard a talk by a professor who studies voltage-gated intracellular calcium channels. I don't expect you to understand what that is. For me, it was a chance to reminisce about the neurobiology I used to do when I was an undergraduate. Back in the day. I still find the stuff interesting, but I'm just not motivated to study it myself.

We got a package with some new sharp forceps in it, which made me realize how dull my forceps were and made it so much easier to glue miniscule ants to tiny paper triangles (that is how one pins ants). And you thought your job was tedious at times.

As I walked home from campus, I saw J sitting in a bench and we had a lively discussion about teaching. I commented that graduate students who graduated from ASU always seem to have a harsher opinion of the undergraduates they teach than those of us who graduated elsewhere. J said it's probably because the former undergrads have a better idea of how lazy their peers are. I don't pretend to know why this is so; I just find it to be an interesting phenomenon.

Tonight I will read up on a certain variety of statistical analysis. Then bed, then rowing and trying to figure out what's going on with this San Diego boat situation.

Tra la.

Comments

[annikusrex.livejournal.com]

I had a sore throat today so I went home early and cooked and cooked and cooked. I made the fritata you made, with some sweet peppers along with the leeks. Then I made the butternut squash soup, also from Food and Wine, which is kind of odd but delicious, especially with the fried apple garnish.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the fritatta would be good with sweet peppers. It's quite a tasty little treat! I looked at the butternut squash soup, but there's another squash soup recipe I want to try first, I think. The only problem is that every time I go to buy squashes I get distracted by the spaghetti squashes and buy and eat them instead.

Oh, random question, too: does the combination of sour cherry/Maker's Mark/ginger ale have a name?? 'cause it's tasty.

[annikusrex.livejournal.com]

I actually only made a half recipe of the butternut squash soup; the other half of the squash went to "kumror korma" in that bengali cookbook we both have. Delicious, but the yogurt didn't mingle with the watery sauce very well. Good with cucumber raita.

As far as I know, the drink is nameless. CherMaGi? SoWhiGi? CherWhAle?

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

I need to try new recipes in that cookbook one of these days when I have time to go to the grocery store AND time to cook (what a concept).

I'm going to keep brainstorming names.

I hope your sore throat feels better--drink some straight whiskey to kill it, I say!