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The last time I posted here, it was about heading back to Minneapolis.
You may gather from the long silence that the semester has been damn near crushing with the workload. I'm tired all the time, and stressed quite a lot. Greek is very hard, Latin is challenging but mostly just a lot to do, the comp lit class has difficult reading (which is at least in English), and teaching Latin...
...well, I actually love teaching Latin. But needing to be chipper and focused and performing in front of the class at 8am five days a week, then grading and handling emails each of those five days as well, plus meetings with my supervisor and so forth, does rather add to the workload.
I'm not getting nearly as much writing done as I'd like. By a long shot.
Very tired.
In other news... Um. I dunno. I read various good books, mostly in snippets every morning on the bus (woo, ebooks on phone): The Stone in the Skull, Provenance, The Nightmare Stacks, An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, Ruin of Angels, probably a few others I've been forgetting. Continuing to enjoy Squirrel Girl. Really got into The Good Place. Went to a great picnic at Hidden Falls Park. (The falls were indeed hidden, but not well enough to keep me away.) Got to see Rob again for a week. Walked the dog many times. Bought some new (used) shoes. Learned to gel my hair in place against the difficulties of bike-riding, speaking of which, started using the bikeshare program here. Stocked a shelf at the office with pudding cups and apples and trail mix for all the nights I've been staying until 7 to get things done. Had a lot of fun conversations about grocery stores and high school graduation rituals and dogs with my Norwegian law school flatmate.
Very tired.
Gosh, I'm so very tired.
I should stop typing this and stagger home to eat something slow-cooked, and walk the dog, and then translate Latin until it's time for sleep.
You may gather from the long silence that the semester has been damn near crushing with the workload. I'm tired all the time, and stressed quite a lot. Greek is very hard, Latin is challenging but mostly just a lot to do, the comp lit class has difficult reading (which is at least in English), and teaching Latin...
...well, I actually love teaching Latin. But needing to be chipper and focused and performing in front of the class at 8am five days a week, then grading and handling emails each of those five days as well, plus meetings with my supervisor and so forth, does rather add to the workload.
I'm not getting nearly as much writing done as I'd like. By a long shot.
Very tired.
In other news... Um. I dunno. I read various good books, mostly in snippets every morning on the bus (woo, ebooks on phone): The Stone in the Skull, Provenance, The Nightmare Stacks, An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, Ruin of Angels, probably a few others I've been forgetting. Continuing to enjoy Squirrel Girl. Really got into The Good Place. Went to a great picnic at Hidden Falls Park. (The falls were indeed hidden, but not well enough to keep me away.) Got to see Rob again for a week. Walked the dog many times. Bought some new (used) shoes. Learned to gel my hair in place against the difficulties of bike-riding, speaking of which, started using the bikeshare program here. Stocked a shelf at the office with pudding cups and apples and trail mix for all the nights I've been staying until 7 to get things done. Had a lot of fun conversations about grocery stores and high school graduation rituals and dogs with my Norwegian law school flatmate.
Very tired.
Gosh, I'm so very tired.
I should stop typing this and stagger home to eat something slow-cooked, and walk the dog, and then translate Latin until it's time for sleep.
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But, gosh, I love my slow cooker so much. Especially if I can just dump some meat in with a bagged sauce and call it a good day.
Are there any particular recipes you like for slow-cooking? I have a little cooker, as is appropriate for one person, but a decent recipe usually gives me 1-4 meals of leftovers on top of its dinner portion. Especially when I do pork, which turns into endless pork sandwiches.
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Oh man, there are chili recipes in here. I love chili. It needs to drop like twenty degrees out.
There's a Coq Au Vin stew in here that was great, Sloppy Joes, BBQ Pulled Chicken sandwiches... Fade, I'm really hungry now, and I don't have anything in this house but yogurt and a few Graze snacks. I hope you're happy!
When my wife gets home later, I'll see what her go-to slow cooker meals are -- she does most of our cooking.
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I don't do a lot of soups, because usually I'm too lazy to chop things; usually it's a Meat Lump in a Sauce, and then I put it on rice or in tortillas or on lettuce or on buns. But maybe I should change that up a bit.