nothing else doing, I blog
Butternut squash soup last night was a bit garlicky but otherwise a raving success. Yay purees! More veggies will be meeting my blender this season.
Had the brilliant though nearly belated idea of using a hot compress to ease the chest congestion. Microwaved a hot/cold pack and had a lie-down: it made everything go all melty, which felt a touch better. I still slept poorly.
Stepped out briefly today, just to Walgreens for cough syrup, juice, and a box of cheesy goodness.
I picked up a book last night and found it so delightful that I finished it early this afternoon. It's a humorous novel about an Englishman's romantic misadventures in France, whose title was my automatic selling point: In the Merde for Love. Being a student of both cooking and ballet, it seems inevitable that I pick up some French, and maybe I could be serious and truly learn it. The French seem to have so delightfully many bathroom idioms.
MCTC has sent me email notices about an open house coming up. I plan to go, actually. The admissions staff will be there, wanting to talk to people, and I have several choice things to say. If they get their merde together and accept me to my program, I shall forgive the institution and enroll for the spring semester.
In the meantime, I think I am financially comfortable enough to take a break until January. Certainly I'll need a job while in school, but I've got a cushion here.
Watched the Burton Alice in Wonderland tonight, and I am still underwhelmed. Such a beloved story and venerated director! And I find it quite pretty and sparkly, yet unsatisfying. Even if one forgives the end credits song being sung by Avril Lavigne!
I also just watched an episode of an old Nickelodeon cartoon called Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. It's crude in several ways but it fills me with an unseemly amount of glee. I may have to hunt down their end credit song, which is a cute, happy-spooky instrumental.