{"id":2473,"date":"2010-12-21T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2010-12-21T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:07:32","slug":"end-of-the-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/end-of-the-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Saturday the 11th was the blizzard; all last week it stayed cold. Then last night, we got a few more inches of snow, that changed to freezing rain. Now it&#8217;s about about 32 degrees, and seems like we&#8217;re getting all set to have the same kind of grey, slushy Christmas we had last year. Yuck.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"grey Christmas\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Z24uOlpbKq0\/SzUtIOr21pI\/AAAAAAAAF2s\/3uIaZ2_blU4\/s400\/greyxmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2009 grey Christmas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting a few random emails that the cookie boxes have made their way to their destinations &#8211; one really nice one from Lea,with all the cookies in their baggies spread out on her table; so nice for me to know that they arrived still in cookie form, and not as bags of crumbs. Cookie trays and cartons have been delivered to folks here in town.<\/p>\n<p>I have 10 more papers to grade, for my 30-student course. I have to do the students&#8217; final evaluations, and submit grades for that course, plus do the same for a 6-student independent study, then I&#8217;ll be on Christmas vacation. I expect this will occur at about 4:00ish on Thursday afternoon. My boss is having a cocktail party &#8211; I&#8217;m going to take some artichoke quichettes.<\/p>\n<p>So now I can start thinking about Christmas dinner &#8211; we&#8217;re talking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/Braised-Pork-Loin-with-Prunes-233544\">pork roast<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waitrose.com\/recipe\/Braised_Red_Cabbage.aspx\">sweet sour red cabbage<\/a>, potato-celeriac mash, and cookies and creme caramel for dessert. And then of course, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolwoods.com\/2010\/12\/16\/new-year-brunch\/\">new years<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Saturday the 11th was the blizzard; all last week it stayed cold. Then last night, we got a few more inches of snow, that changed to freezing rain. Now it&#8217;s about about 32 degrees, and seems like we&#8217;re getting all set to have the same kind of grey, slushy Christmas we had last year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,100],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}