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it's the end of week 2 and we're away after week 4 and i haven't got accommodation! but i'm not terribly worried because i know God will provide at the right time.
school is insanely busy and if i was ever bored last year i certainly won't be this year. the chasing up of references and supplementary readings is endless! got some really keen-bean lecturers and i'm not complaining!
been dreaming a lot of my usual lotsaplot/saga type dreams. i realised this morning that if dreaming occurs during REM sleep and REM sleep is essential to waking rested and refreshed, then it's a good sign to be dreaming so much! must mean i'm getting lots of good REM sleep. heh... that's what i am gonna believe anyway.
we were in the lib yesterday when the husband suddenly suggested going for a spontaneous movie date :) so we were to see slumdog millionaire and needless to say, i missed india SO MUCH! i loved how he knew so much from living it, through necessity. like the benjamin franklin bit. and i must also say the cesspool bit was rather um.... i don't know, how accurate is that? i remember being in the villages and going on the ground, sans the large pool underneath. and as for my one and only encounter so far with composting toilets, i must say, the one we used was nothing like that. it was dry and smelled of grain. we used sawdust to "flush" and maybe salim should have invested in some too, that would have saved his brother somewhat.
today the husband woke up late so i drove to school myself for a full day of class. he took the bus to work. when i got home what did i see but a vase of freshly cut deep pink roses from our garden on my desk! awww!! *grin* this year i really enjoy having fresh cut flowers around the house which make the rooms smell and look gorgeous.. but i love them more when they're cut by my husband for me! who needs to spend $$$ on florists?
we also had a lunch date on tuesday at a new taiwanese place. it's a very interesting sort of cuisine, sort of maybe indigenous tribe cuisine? as opposed to more usual taiwanese fare. i had a cold, sort of noodle salad with julienned cucumber, ham or luncheon meat of sorts and carrots. yum! prices are good too, and i'm sure we'll be back. yay this is the second asian place i really like, the first being korean house. i just can't handle the ubiquitous unspecified "asian" noodle places which lace their food with what can only be copious amounts of MSG. i just can't handle it anymore. i go into MSG coma+headache+groggy etc. this also happens if i eat instant noodles and that is so hard to believe since i spent my childhood (and much of tertiary life) eating those very same noodles! maybe it's true once your body is used to fresh, healthy food unlaced with strange chemicals, you develop an aversion or reaction to it. for sure "instant" meals are nothing like freshly cooked from scratch, but i'm not that picky an eater, and i can still stomach even airplane food without much complaint. just no MSG.
i'm looking forward to the weekend. it's cold, grey and damp this week, very wintry, and i don't think my tomato plants are very happy about that! but we are getting a bread machine finally because we eat so much bread and at this stage much as i would like to i can't cope with baking all the bread we need. so bread machine it will be. it'll work out cheaper and healthier since we can control what goes into it. and certainly it'll be a treat to wake up to baking smells and have fresh bread for brekkie!
it was a long day 8-5 today and i'm still working on some assignments so back to that until it's time to pick the man up from work and retire together for the night... thank God fridays are short days!
school is insanely busy and if i was ever bored last year i certainly won't be this year. the chasing up of references and supplementary readings is endless! got some really keen-bean lecturers and i'm not complaining!
been dreaming a lot of my usual lotsaplot/saga type dreams. i realised this morning that if dreaming occurs during REM sleep and REM sleep is essential to waking rested and refreshed, then it's a good sign to be dreaming so much! must mean i'm getting lots of good REM sleep. heh... that's what i am gonna believe anyway.
we were in the lib yesterday when the husband suddenly suggested going for a spontaneous movie date :) so we were to see slumdog millionaire and needless to say, i missed india SO MUCH! i loved how he knew so much from living it, through necessity. like the benjamin franklin bit. and i must also say the cesspool bit was rather um.... i don't know, how accurate is that? i remember being in the villages and going on the ground, sans the large pool underneath. and as for my one and only encounter so far with composting toilets, i must say, the one we used was nothing like that. it was dry and smelled of grain. we used sawdust to "flush" and maybe salim should have invested in some too, that would have saved his brother somewhat.
today the husband woke up late so i drove to school myself for a full day of class. he took the bus to work. when i got home what did i see but a vase of freshly cut deep pink roses from our garden on my desk! awww!! *grin* this year i really enjoy having fresh cut flowers around the house which make the rooms smell and look gorgeous.. but i love them more when they're cut by my husband for me! who needs to spend $$$ on florists?
we also had a lunch date on tuesday at a new taiwanese place. it's a very interesting sort of cuisine, sort of maybe indigenous tribe cuisine? as opposed to more usual taiwanese fare. i had a cold, sort of noodle salad with julienned cucumber, ham or luncheon meat of sorts and carrots. yum! prices are good too, and i'm sure we'll be back. yay this is the second asian place i really like, the first being korean house. i just can't handle the ubiquitous unspecified "asian" noodle places which lace their food with what can only be copious amounts of MSG. i just can't handle it anymore. i go into MSG coma+headache+groggy etc. this also happens if i eat instant noodles and that is so hard to believe since i spent my childhood (and much of tertiary life) eating those very same noodles! maybe it's true once your body is used to fresh, healthy food unlaced with strange chemicals, you develop an aversion or reaction to it. for sure "instant" meals are nothing like freshly cooked from scratch, but i'm not that picky an eater, and i can still stomach even airplane food without much complaint. just no MSG.
i'm looking forward to the weekend. it's cold, grey and damp this week, very wintry, and i don't think my tomato plants are very happy about that! but we are getting a bread machine finally because we eat so much bread and at this stage much as i would like to i can't cope with baking all the bread we need. so bread machine it will be. it'll work out cheaper and healthier since we can control what goes into it. and certainly it'll be a treat to wake up to baking smells and have fresh bread for brekkie!
it was a long day 8-5 today and i'm still working on some assignments so back to that until it's time to pick the man up from work and retire together for the night... thank God fridays are short days!