Panorama of my desk – folders of library school apps I need to read, textbook I need to select readings from, partially eaten lunch, coffee travel mug that was home for cleaning over Christmas, now back in the office
The public schools already long-seeming Christmas break because of the way the holidays fell got extended by two days due to extreme cold. Today, Wednesday, was the kids’ first day back. At work, everyone was saying, “oh I just want to get back to normal”. Somebody on facebook said today was her first alarm clock morning in 20.
I got in by 9:00, and thought I’d have time to work on the syllabus for the new course, but instead it was kind of endless student registration and other problems. I had to host a webinar at 11:00, and that went fine – I was just the MC, not the talent.
I guess I got enough done on the syllabus. Didn’t leave till after dark, anyways.
I was going to make US Senate Navy bean soup for dinner – I left the beans soaking in the morning – but I thought it would probably take too long. So we had leftovers – squash and leek tart with goat cheese from Monday, a few slices of leftover pizza that Mark had, and veggies & dip. Wedge-shaped things and stick-shaped things. I started the soup, and as I got the veggies out to cut up to go with the the dip, I also go out all the ends I’d been saving for veggie broth – Mark gave me some dried out garlic, and there were parsley stems and the dark parts of leeks and thyme and a half-frozen parsnip. And all the vegetable trimmings I made for the soup and the dip veggies – like onion ends, and more celery and the carrot peels and stem ends – all went into the broth, too. Looks and smells like a good batch.
So the fridge is getting back to normal, too. We’ll eat the soup tomorrow.
