Crunch Time

[rebeccmeister]

Yesterday was a whirlwind. I spent a good portion of the afternoon at Trailhead Cafe with scrottie, grading papers like a maniac, and prepping to teach today and next Monday. It took too long. Then I had a wonderful bike ride home, first along the Arizona Canal and then down the Crosscut Canal, right as the sun was going down. Once I got home, I cooked up a storm, making dinner for yesterday evening (cornbread and lentils, to go with some southern-style greens S cooked up Friday night) and this evening as well (roasted beet and lentil soup, plus Cafe Flora-style French Dip Sandwiches). It's my turn to host dinner for the Scrabble Society. Getting everything ready to go was fairly time-consuming, but I should be able to just heat things up and pop 'em in the oven after I get done teaching tonight. Then I should be off the hook for Monday dinners for a few weeks, whew.

After all that, I got back to work on preparations for the conference we're hosting this week. I still haven't finished writing my poster presentation, which needs to get printed, oh, by yesterday or so. I can tell I'm a little nervous because I had a terrible dream about the conference, where the first speaker went missing and the people who showed up wouldn't fit into the available space and ended up having to sit in an adjoining room. Then they fell to talking about all sorts of nonsense that had nothing to do with the conference. Most of my stage fright is because of our working groups, where us graduate students have to corral in a group of faculty and convince them that our paper topic is worth writing about.

Anyway. Back to work. Regardless of how the conference goes, I'll be relieved when it's over.

Comments

[scrottie.livejournal.com]

First speaker went missing... people talking about all sorts of unrelated non-sense... sounds like Frozen Perl! A pretty large group of people left to go see the Mall of American (bah!) about 10ish. I wonder which post-conference-traumatic-stress-disorder specialist Leonard is seeing. Hmm.

[global-keewee.livejournal.com]

Curious...what does a French Dip entail for a vegetarian?

Also, had to be the rain on your parade, but you're probably nervous about the conference just because you're feeling unprepared. Preparation goes an incredibly long way for stifling the nightmares!

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it does have to do with preparation. Things are coming together, though, and it will happen one way or another!

French Dip, in brief: roasted portabello mushrooms, caramelized onions, herbed butter, and cheese. Scrumptious! Oh, and all dipped in a "Mushroom Essence" broth (which is just that, mushroom broth made by simmering mushrooms and garlic together for a really long time).