Holiday meals prepared in a two-day period: two. (One for our Christmas Eve party, and one for just the two of us on Christmas Day.)
Familiar standby recipes used: three. (Gingersnap cookies for the party, flank steak and roasted root vegetables for us.)
Familiar standby recipes tweaked into new and exciting variations: two. (For [...]
I noticed it too late to do it right, but I did finally notice a number of people marking the winter solstice by telling family stories on the webjournals. It’s a really charming idea, and an especially appropriate solstice celebration. That’s part of what I love about the confluence of winter holidays, [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>Today is the day that Tim Pratt turns thirty. Thirty! The first thirty years have done right by you, Mister Pratt. I hope the next thirty are even better.
Now, to the scavenger hunt! I was going to take a literary tack with this, but figured I’d do something different. [...]
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Posted in personal | 3 Comments »>The timing of the Christmas tree (and the associated good cheer, etc) is particularly fortunate, since the end of the semester is making me a little melancholy. I’m looking forward to my courses next semester, and it’s nice to have a little break from the lecture schedule, but I’m going to miss these students. [...]
Posted in academic, personal | 1 Comment »>Where Christmas is concerned, I have very little shame. I love all the goofy decorative trappings of the holidays, without any reservation or hesitation. Christmas exploits all of my sentimental weaknesses all at once. This is one of those things about which I have no tendency for cynicism or over-intellectualization.
Today, the project [...]
Tags: christmas, christmas tree
Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>I had a dream last night that I was trying to present a conference paper in someone’s living room. It was a nice living room, but a little cluttered, and I kept having trouble getting my computer hooked up to the television display. The paper was apparently one with a lot of visuals [...]
Tags: dreams, technical difficulties
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