What's cooking??

I have aspirations concerning cooking...

I'd like to have a semi-orderly life in which I cook stuff on Sunday and eat leftovers for a couple of days a week, at least.

The image is actually of Hubby and I cooking together -- but today he's gone out, so it's me. Instead of Hubby to keep me company, I'll watch season 2 of 30 Rock -- and I'll try not to feel too much like Liz Lemon.

I'm going to try three recipes, Chili's salsa, Red Lobster's cheddar bay biscuits and Red Lobster's clam chowder. I'm also going to make some chicken pasta salad from leftover pasta and part of a cooked chicken I bought at the grocery store. The rest of the chicken will be in the fridge for salads...

I'll let you know how the stuff turns out :).

Out with the old... updated with photos

Out with the old chair...
In with the new... Super Mom, I suspect you'll have some company in your chair :).

New rules for buying books...

I've bought exactly three books recently --

One was an inexpensive paperback, just because I wanted it. It was a quick read by one of my favorite authors... I couldn't resist.

Otherwise, I've decided that books need to fall into the 'non-disposable' category.

That means things like cookbooks and professional books get to come home for good. They're books that I'll use and refer to after I've read them. If the book is just a "for fun" book -- it has to come from the library -- or be borrowed :).

So -- I've added two permanent books to the household recently -- a cookbook, and a book of recent essays about the ethics of war... So, food and dissertation materials can stay :).

What are your rules, if any, about bringing books into your home??

Out with the old...

the old couch and chair, that is.

At the Queen's last lily-related vet appointment (blood work, all normal!!), we mentioned that we had a couch and chair that we were giving away for free.

Turns out the vet's son works with him --and just got a new apartment but had no furniture. They came to get it yesterday. It was fun seeing the vet in another context -- and meeting his wife.

So -- the vet saves the Queen's life -- then takes our old furniture the next.... ya gotta love it.

Sometimes I wonder...

... if we have anything to complain about concerning our students.

I had a meeting with super dean -- the routine kind. She's smart and easy to work with, so no troubles -- but, we were discussing a part-time instructor.

We hadn't seen the instructor at Doom days. The instructor hadn't picked up their keys.

Super Dean decided to call and check in with the instructor -- to be sure they were planning to teach their Saturday class.

It's a good thing, because the instructor didn't realize that class started THIS Saturday. Somehow, they thought class started the Saturday of Labor Day weekend....

Really, I have to wonder -- and, I wonder how that first class is going to go? She finally contacted the instructor on Friday night.

RBO -- the week

• Some asshat has parked his truck on the NEW landscaping, twice. Both times it was early -- so it wasn't a desperation park.
• I won't sign add slips for students who miss the whole first week of class -- yep, that makes me a bitch. I used to do it and the students who added were always 10 times more work -- I don't want to deal with them.
• I got my first real haircut in over a year last night -- YEA!!!!
• Today we're going to the State Fair -- the local mecca of tacky dressing, food that's bad for you and people sculpted in butter.
• The last time I had my tennis shoes on was NYC... from NYC to the state fair, I do kind of live a diverse life...
  

Time to day "NO"!!!

No, I won't sign add slips.

If they haven't been in class, or bothered to come for a syllabus etc... they don't get added to the class.

Somehow they think my signature is automatic...

and I usually have to tell them two or three times before they understand.