movin' right along

one class done, two more to go. today was the last day of english 401, the class i teach. only 19 of the 24 students showed up, so i'm only getting 19 evaluations. this could be good or it could be bad. the students that didn't come today are usually good and i enjoy working with them, so i am a little disappointed not to have evals from them. ah well. they're all too busy working on their more important classes. i gave them (what i thought was) an inspirational speech about having purpose in their lives. i probably touched nobody, but it actually reminded me of why i'm here in the first place. i'm forced to re-evaluate my own purpose here.

i'm sick of this semester, but i think that's the only reason i hate my work. generally i enjoy what i do, i just have the end of the semester blues. now that i've gotten some work done i feel much better. today a rough draft presentation is due at 1:10, then tomorrow i've got a final draft due at 9:40, and then i'm FREE to work on the rough draft until next week (the 18th). it will feel great only working on one thing at a time.

okay, time to get back to work. but wait! one last thing! here's a picture of my new hat. i picked it out, pete bought it for my birthday present. :) i've been wearing it all weekend and into the week.

stuck at the 'brary

surprise surprise. coco proves, once again, to be an idiot. i was being a diligent student and getting my work done at the library, and really wanted to take the 3:40 bus. BUT since i wasn't keeping track of time, i walked outside and what did i see? the 3:40 bus driving away. the next one isn't for another hour. ugh. i just want to go hoooome. i wish my car wasn't broken again.

also, i sort of lied to get out of a conference today (for a good reason!) with my professor, and then, of course, i saw him in the hallway exactly when we were supposed to be conferencing. lying always, always, always bites me in the ass. whatever. the good reason was that i didn't have anything to say to him because i hadn't done my homework yet. well, it's not a good reason, but it is a reason. i would have been wasting his time otherwise. oh my god, i am the worst graduate student ever.

mayo cookies

in an effort to further procrastinate, i decided to make something sweet this evening. so, horror of horrors, when i found, looking through fanny farmer, that every cookie and cake recipe calls for eggs, i thought i was through. i'm poor! i don't have any eggs! alexa has one egg left, and i felt bad using it for sweet-stuff purposes.

sooooo, here's the world's greatest no-egg fix:

mayonnaise! right, i know, you can also use applesauce, or bananas, or some oil and some baking powder, but i didn't have any of those things. but i did have mayo. it makes sense, since eggs and oil are pretty much the only things in mayonnaise.

here's the recipe (so, so, so easy):

1 cup of sugar
1 cup of mayo
2 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

combine everything in a bowl. roll into small balls and dip balls in some extra granulated sugar. press sugared balls with fork. put in 350 degree oven for 10 minutes.

this makes a lot of cookies.

and i snickered pretty much the whole way through that last paragraph. heh.

enjoy your mayonnaisey cookies!

UPDATE: so now that i have actually eaten one of these mayo cookies, i can better report back. basically, they taste like cookies you made when you were missing ingredients. they taste fine, and are especially enhanced by dipping in milk, and they are cute, too, but they aren't the world's greatest cookie, by any means. also, the texture is a bit cake-like. still, for cookies made on the cheap, they're just what the doctor ordered.

rent is duuuuuue.

It's that time of the month again! No, not menstrual time. That's right, RENT time! It's the first of the month, and I've got to scrounge up enough money to pay ye olde rente. Actually, I think I've got enough to pull it off and also have a little extra for spending money.

I just found out that there's a decent little Goodwill here in Dover, so I really need to check it out. Ever since I lost my favorite sweatshirt (doesn't ANYONE know where it is?!) I want a replacement.

new blog!

i finally have an excuse to start up another blog. not that it was terribly important to have a single one in the first place, but the new one will have a purpose, and that's a good feeling. writing this always feels a little aimless (jen, i think you're the only one who ever sees it anyway...basically it's just an ongoing letter to you).

the new one is for a class. the prof suggested we have a special place to put down musings on particular lines, maybe even words, in our reading. it won't be so much notes on the reading as thoughts on particular, isolated ideas or concepts within the reading. also, she said we could turn it into a blog, so i'll be doing just that. just in case you're interested in reading, i'm going to post the link here and in the profile of this blog. yip!

http://hercommonplace.blogspot.com/