ION, I accidentally started looking at Petfinder earlier, and man, most of the local cats are actual rescues -- either strays or from terrible situations. I was really hoping my next cat would be less fucked in the head than poor Homer! Obviously, I'm not in any rush.
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I am gonna go for the longest posting streak ever until one of you brave souls convinces me I am not marcied.
I see you!
I think the pumpkin bread pudding thing sounds like it could work.
My theoretical understanding of impromptu bread pudding is to make a custard of the milk and eggs (beat the eggs, add twice as much milk as egg and beat that mixture til smooth) and pour that over the muffin bits, let soak, then bake. Which sounds like a good thing to do with leftover pumpkin muffins, yes indeed.
ok, whew - well I just did all that part of the pumpkin pie making. and despite you all posting, I am going to continue.
Add to that mixture 2 Tbl molasses and 1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk. stir, then pour into baked pie shell. cook for 45 min at 375 with foil on edges, then removefoil and cook about 10 more min.
I am downloading 11 books from Project Gutenburg to read in 2013 (January I plan to finally finish The Mill on the Floss). So far I have Anatomy of Melancholy, Journal of the Plague Year, The Tempest, The Scarlet Letter, The Pickwick Papers, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Five Children and It, and The Alchemist.
...I'm insane, aren't I?
a book a month is a great idea. I should do that with my tbr shelves.
found out that one of my advisees possibly plagiarized. this is a student who is in the middle of writing a dissertation. I am hoping that such plagiarism took place during the dissertation proposal and NOT on the major exam student had to complete before becoming a doctoral candidate. If it is the former, I can handle it in such a way that it may not need to go t a disciplinary committee. if it is the latter, the student may have to do a 4 month exam process all over again.
I haven't heard all the details yet, but maybe this needs to go through a disciplinary committee any way.
God. I don't need this bullshit.
pumpkin pie is in the oven and the broken up pumpkin muffins are in there also to get dried out more.
I fixed an earring, sorted the paper piles that were multiplying and found out the Call the Midwife special started 30 minutes earlier than I thought. Watching it now.
I figured out why writing one to the boss feels wrong. I bought the gifts. If he had given me anything other than what I bought and wrapped for the directs, then yes. Also, this was with company money. so no, I think no card for him.