Tomorrow: Baking and Cleaning and David Tennant

Things Wot I Have Done Today:

• sat through the MOST AWKWARD discussion section ever for poetry. I felt so bad for my TA - he was trying really hard, and we were just not clicking. Hopefully next week will go a little better. I shall certainly make an effort to be more articulate the next time around.


• gone to the library and gotten some books to add to Project Wodehouse. This may be foolish of me, given my current workload. I do not care.


• gone to the post office! My grandma sent me a package full of dried herbs. I now have nutmeg! And paprika, most wonderful of all spices. And rooooooosemaaaary.


• gone grocery shopping. I stayed within my food budget for the third week in a row! And that includes several things I didn't strictly need to buy but got anyway, like cornmeal and conditioner and oyster sauce. Most everything else was produce, go me. As a reward to myself, I'm going to Trader Joe's this week and buying myself a couple treats.


• made pasta and garlic shrimp for dinner. That turned out well - the garlic shrimp were delicious on their own, and I used enough olive oil that it made a great sauce for the pasta, too. I am also learning that there is no dish, ever, that cannot be improved by the addition of chili garlic paste. It is my favorite condiment EVER.


• Dusted the oven. DON'T EVEN ASK. IT WAS SO DISGUSTING. I just - honestly, that had never even occurred to me as a thing that would need to be done? WTF OVEN.

Things Left to Do

• Read Cold Comfort Farm (definitely need to be most of the way through this tonight, so I can get started on Rebecca. AUGH READING.)


• Read The Adderall Diaries. I guess you could call this supplemental reading - it isn't strictly on the syllabus, but our prof is making us read it because the author is coming in to talk to us on Thursday. Whatever, it's pretty interesting. But MORE READING.


• Watch the Doctor Who DVDs I got at the library today. I got one episode of Four (the one written by Douglas Adams), and all of Ten's first season, which somehow I have never seen. I smell a marathon! Gonna have to be, because I've got to give them back tomorrow.


• Smashing some orcs in DDO. I am back to playing my Paladin character, which is pretty fun - I'm certainly making more progress than I did before with a cleric or a bard. And his backstory is getting increasingly elaborate, I'm starting to really like him.