Amelia and Denis cooking class

A couple nights ago Denis and I made ellen_fremedon's yummy squash recipe, with a little phone assistance from her. We couldn't agree on whether to cut the squash in half (I was right, you do), and if so what way to cut it (Denis was right, lengthways.) We overcooked it a little because our oven runs hot so next time I think we will reduce the initial time in the oven, but otherwise it went well (nothing burnt) and is super yummy.

( Recipie for those of you who don't have it. )

On Denis's intial trip to the grocery store he mistakenly bought butternut squash rather than acorn so now we have two butternut squash(es?) ready to be eaten. Any recipe or preparation suggestions?

Take 2 of Amelia and Denis's cooking class will be Thanksgiving. We are attempting to do a traditional meal (maybe with a few Croatian things thrown in) for the first time. Should be interesting.

Bask in baby cuteness (and poop)

( These pictures were cuter before I read the accompanying email )

Boring week update

My week has improved in fits and starts. I recieved about a million-and-a-half emails from students in anticipation of passing in their second papers today and answered about a million of them. (I gave up on anything sent after noon Wed.). I did end up sending a couple of "emergency" emails about citations [not a citation emergency, OMG] after I learned that 1. they had not learned how to do footnotes in freshman english and 2. some of them didn't know that word processing programs make footnotes for you so they were doing them manually with superscript and the footer. First I sent them a link about the form and content of footnotes, and then I literally sent an email that said "go to the "insert" menu, then to "reference" then to "footnote" etc. etc." Question of the week is: when did you learn how to do footnotes? High school? Freshman english? From a cranky, clueless TA?

Good parts of my week included our department's Mid-Atlantic Symposium tryouts Wednesday night (I was not presenting, but the five grad. students who did gave excellent, interesting papers), yummy kebab lunch with Hannah, Rachel, and Chris today (needed it after painful section this morning, the students were all exhausted from paper-writing and I was irritable too, we ended early), and Thursday night curling. Yay curling! Thursday night was nice and chill, I hope to go back. I had hoped to see Danni there, but perhaps she couldn't make it out of work on time. Maybe next time Denis will come too, he had a work party (with free drinks) celebrating the end of the fiscal year. I drove out to the club myself, the car felt so empty.