the cosmic background radiation distribution is not smooth,
and neither is my social life. It intrigues me, the way events clump. I'll do very little but read or work around the house for a few days, and then suddenly social-ness happens. I had lunch today with sean and a friend of his that I've only heretofore known online, and that was cool. The guy reminds me of someone who was a student of mine from years ago and is now a friend, so much so that I almost asked if he were related to him. It was also interesting the commonalities in our backgrounds, the most I've known with anyone other than sean. Kinda cool and somewhat odd (the extent of the commonalities, not the guy...).
Yesterday, I had decided that I would make some shrimp gumbo, so after I got back from lunch I went to the store to get a few things I needed that I didn't have, and I made the first gumbo I've made in many years. Making the roux actually reminded me of being at the farm with my grandparents many years ago, since it was my grandmother who taught me how to make a roux out there when I was a kid. While I was peeling shrimp, Brantley called and asked what I was doing: "peeling shrimp," probably not an answer he gets all that frequently to that question. Anyway, he wanted to get together, so I told him to come on over whenever he wanted. Brave soul that he is, he came over for dinner. The gumbo was good, but nothing specially memorable. It may, like some of those types of dishes, be better the second day, so we'll see tomorrow since there was a lot left over as Peter and Lucy didn't come for dinner.
It was good to see Brantley since I've not seen him since he got back from London. All in all, the day was a nice break from the intensive reading and thinking I've been doing recently. I may try to go to the country tomorrow since the chance of rain is lower than it's been in forever (essentially). On the other hand, I don't know that isolation is exactly what I need right now. I *would* like to get the bathroom tile finished, though, and I can do math as easily up there as here. I need to start on my condensation of de Beauvoir's "Ethics of Ambiguity," too, but so far I have had no motivation to do that at all. Actually, motivation for a number of things has been somewhat lower-than-desired recently. Quien sabe...
We watched some of the second season of "Fry and Laurie" after dinner, and I found a clip I can use in English next year, so that should make next year's class happy (-er than they might otherwise be).
Oh, and just before lunch Dar called from Scotland, and it was way cool to hear her voice!
Yesterday, I had decided that I would make some shrimp gumbo, so after I got back from lunch I went to the store to get a few things I needed that I didn't have, and I made the first gumbo I've made in many years. Making the roux actually reminded me of being at the farm with my grandparents many years ago, since it was my grandmother who taught me how to make a roux out there when I was a kid. While I was peeling shrimp, Brantley called and asked what I was doing: "peeling shrimp," probably not an answer he gets all that frequently to that question. Anyway, he wanted to get together, so I told him to come on over whenever he wanted. Brave soul that he is, he came over for dinner. The gumbo was good, but nothing specially memorable. It may, like some of those types of dishes, be better the second day, so we'll see tomorrow since there was a lot left over as Peter and Lucy didn't come for dinner.
It was good to see Brantley since I've not seen him since he got back from London. All in all, the day was a nice break from the intensive reading and thinking I've been doing recently. I may try to go to the country tomorrow since the chance of rain is lower than it's been in forever (essentially). On the other hand, I don't know that isolation is exactly what I need right now. I *would* like to get the bathroom tile finished, though, and I can do math as easily up there as here. I need to start on my condensation of de Beauvoir's "Ethics of Ambiguity," too, but so far I have had no motivation to do that at all. Actually, motivation for a number of things has been somewhat lower-than-desired recently. Quien sabe...
We watched some of the second season of "Fry and Laurie" after dinner, and I found a clip I can use in English next year, so that should make next year's class happy (-er than they might otherwise be).
Oh, and just before lunch Dar called from Scotland, and it was way cool to hear her voice!