We just got back from a sushi-making class (thank you, Groupon!), weather be damned. I can't believe how easy it is to make rolls! So fun, too.

And now we're going to try to unfuck the office. It is really scary and hoarder-like. We're going to try UFYH's 20/10 method and see how it goes.

I went through a sushi making phase, had some very pleasant afternoons outside rolling and eating sushi. But cooking the rice and all the cleanup took the joy out of it.

Yeah, I bet the cleanup is a pain, with the sticky rice and nori that flakes off, etc. But it was so easy! I am totally going to make sushi for whatever shindig happens next.

It's not that bad, the key is to do it immediately, before the sticky rice dries.

What Liese says, clean up isn't so bad. The biggest PITA is just how long it takes. It's for a night when you can linger over dinner, not a weeknight.

Sunday afternoons were for sushi.

So my here-to-for Mormon brother-in-law is posting Wiccan images on his Facebook and is currently asking for an herbalist or witch experienced in herbs. I wonder if his mother's grave is trembling (he's closer to her than I am). Then again, my MIL decided to tell the Mormon god to fuck off when her husband died and went back to Catholicism (nearly literally, the woman was an ascended master at grudges, and deities were just as liable to get into her bad graces as her own mother and brother and anyone else).

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Sometimes Art, well maybe "Art" just confuses the hell out of me. Case in point:

Next quarter we are doing a new musical. So new, we only have a partial script. It's being written, directed and choreographed by a new faculty member. Apparently it's a musical about the Amish. The director/writer/choreographer person is INSISTING that all technology is hidden. He doesn't want to see microphones. Speakers. Lighting instruments. No technology. Then he insists in alley staging (Imagine a shuffleboard court as the acting area. Then two rows of seating on the long sides, and acting platforms behind those seating areas). With the acting area only about 10-15 feet wide, it will be a sound challenge. Not showing speakers will make it damn near impossible. Now for the funny part. Having attended a Church of the Brethern college, in the middle of Amish country, USA, I actually studied the Amish in college. And I distinctly recall there being talk of Amish not dancing and playing instruments. So? You don't want to see technology, because Amish do not use any. But it's ok to show singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments? I dunno. Maybe it's a play about Rumshpringa? No clue. Script isn't done yet.

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Oh dear, omnis.

I am going to follow that up with my own work vent:

Student, the reason I have a policy against accepting late work or offering make-up exams is because this is a fast track course with a ton of work and there just isn't time for a student to do both make-up work and current work - besides, deadlines are deadlines. Perhaps it was a mistake for me to agree to waive that policy for three items that you missed but you generally do good work and those three things could potentially move your grade from a D to a B- and I wanted to give you that opportunity. I guess what I expected was that you would be at least somewhat pleased that I made an exception for you and that work - what I did not expect was that you would complain to the Dean, in a series of e-mails, that I wasn't letting you submit ALL of the work you missed. I am fortunate that the administration is supportive of faculty but the amount of time I have spent writing e-mails - and the number of people that you copied on the e-mails - is unbelievable.

End of the vent; start of the wine