I just heard back from one of my profs about my incomplete and final grade. This is her e-mail:
I have read your final exam and graded it as B+/A-. Your grade for the course is B+.
I want to let you know that I am impressed with the sharp sense of humor you've been able to maintain and with what you accomplished this semester in the face of so many difficulties. You definitely belonged in the class and if you had been able to participate more fully, your classmates would have benefited even more from your insight and wit. As you know, they greatly appreciated your presentation.
I wish you health and success as you continue your work. Please feel free to contact me if there's anything you'd like to discuss.
This is the class I REALLY struggled with, and I got a B+. YAYAYAYAY!!! And SUCH a nice e-mail from her!
That's wonderful, vw! Congratulations!
Teppy, were you on an antibiotic recently?
A couple of weeks ago, for a sinus infection. My tongue doesn't *look* thrush-y (it's normal tongue-pink), but it fucking hurts.
Sweet potatoes? I think of them as being less starch and more veg than regular potatoes. Maybe some squash-type stuff, pumpkin soup and the like?
Oh, yum. Sweet potatoes. I forgot about them. I think they straddle the line of veg-starch, because they have tons of vitamins and are less starchy than white potatoes, while still being kind of a starch.
Roughly chop a bunch of kale. Toss with salt, pepper, and garlic. Steam 5-7 minutes, or until just wilted. (This also works great with chard.)
My problem here is that I *love* steamed greens, but I have to have them with red wine vinegar. And that would kill my tongue.
I found a good (and good for you) recipe for colcanon the other day - which is basically mashed potatoes with cabbage in them. If cabbage is okay with you, I can post the recipe.
I'm not a huge cabbage fan. But thank you!
Edamame are probably pretty good for you. Soy is, like, magic or something.
I am an edamame FANATIC. Do they count as veggies, rather than starch? Or as protein?
They count as all three, for lo! they are magic beans.
Picks vw up on shoulders and runs around the thread.
You're Number One! You're Number One!
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That's a lovely email, vw! Yay you!
The boy just bit my ear.
What about some kind of soup, Teppy? I'm not sure if I could find an actual recipe, because I did my usual "read a bunch of recipes and then invent something," but I made soup last week with onions, garlic, chicken, chicken broth, potatoes, kale and broccoli and it was good. You can make almost anything in the chicken soup family without tomatoes and throw in a lot of vegetables.