cookies!

7:30 am
Blah. My cold is worse, and last night I took Nyquil, which was a good thing as it meant I actually slept, but this morning it is still in my system and I feel like garbage. Here’s the good news: I finally wrote the recommendation that has been hanging over my head for so long! The student is applying for something and there was a deadline of October 22. I emailed her it was done and she replied that her deadline has changed, they don’t need it so soon, and I am very glad she did not tell me that before because I would have put it off for even longer.
    I made some fabulous cookies last night. I don’t know why but I was restless and could not just sit myself down to spin or knit. That is often the case – because things are not set up comfortably in the living room for such pastimes? So instead I made fabulous chocolate/chocolate chip cookies. Did I say they are fabulous? Even G likes them, though when K took two into the living room to eat, he came back into the kitchen and put one back. Then I saw him go into the bathroom with the one in his hand and I heard the water run. He must have rinsed his mouth. I almost told him that if he didn’t like it he should give it to me (did I adequately express the fabulosity?), but I didn’t. I think he tossed it and rinsed out his mouth! I think he was terribly disappointed. Oh well. Too chocolate for his taste I guess. I made them with much less sugar than the recipe called for, which I guess didn’t appeal, but then I am the 90% chocolate fiend, while he likes Hershey’s “dark” chocolate which has like 5 bazillion grams of sugar. I will bring them in to work today, but I will forewarn the students. I do like to experiment, and they are often the “beneficiaries” meaning that they get what comes to them. If they want reliably excellent (and way way way too sugary) they can stick with the college’s cookies.
     I do like to write and thing about food! In fact I spend just tons of time thinking about it. I cooked up some goat meat the other day, and left a couple of pieces for the prof to try. I wonder if he did. He seems to like to experiment with food, and I think their family diet is pretty traditional. So I can supply the new and different, at least in these few instances.
    I think I’d better get a move on. I might actually make the 8:15 bus.
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