Trying to get back into this...

[drenilop]

1. I had a really nice lunch with a mentor from my undergrad days. I'm thinking about leaving academia (or at least leaving the classroom) [and no, I don't want to discuss it], and he had some very good suggestions for options and strategies. And besides, he's just a lot of fun to talk to

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[ex_redrain]

Good good good.

And I took your idea of getting convenient foods for when things start to get loopy. Wise idea.

[drenilop]

Better than convenient, cook when you can and freeze things. Lots of stuff freezes well. I have tons of freezes-well recipes that I can give you if you need more, all on the inexpensive end of the price range. Do you own a crock pot?

[ex_redrain]

Yeah, though that requires cooking, which I royally suck at. I do have a Crock-Pot; haven't used it since I moved here, though.

[drenilop]

Change that! Get a whole chicken the next time they're on sale; 3-4 lbs will feed you for 5+ meals. To cook it, literally open the plastic wrapper, rinse it off and take out the giblets bag from the cavity, and plunk it in the crock pot. 8 hrs on low and you're eating wonderfully for days. Then when you get sick of plain unadorned rotisserie-ish chicken, you take the leftovers and make soup with it, in the crock pot again.

[misterthebull]

I'd take your class if I could.

[drenilop]

... Do you even know what it would be about?? :-)

[misterthebull]

Isn't it the European foreign policy class?

Plus, it'd have to be better than contracts, civil procedure, and legal research!

[drenilop]

Yeah, IR of Europe.... and compared to that, yes, it would be a big improvement. :-)