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March 31, 2006

Chicken with grapes.

I don't usually post much about my students, but today I have a special treat. I asked my class to write a recipe for homework, so they could practice food vocabulary and informal commands. Some of them got the point, and wrote simple recipes on their own. Some of them clearly found a Spanish recipe on the internet. Only one, however, also put that recipe through a web translator into English on the same page. If you ever take a foreign language class, web translators don't work and the teacher always knows you've used one. Here you have it, Chicken with grapes:

Grease the chicken (already prepared for roasting) with the lard or grease of goose, salt it outside and inside and go you three slices of bacon, an in the breast, another in the back, and the third one put it inside the chicken. Coloquelo in a fishing boat or source of somewhat deep oven and put it in the oven, previously heated 5 minutes. Roast it to well stronger medium oven more or except an hour, according to the size, giving him several times the return so that be gilded either for all the sides. Al to return it recielo well with the sauce that go forming in the fund. When it be well roast and golden, saquelo, quitele the slices of bacon and the cords and carve it. While it is roasted, even and remove the seeds to the grapes and goal a grain of green pepper in each grape until exhausting the grains. Pair the remainder of the grapes by food mills to obtain a thick juice. Put the fishing boat, once withdrawn the chicken, on the medium fire, pour in her the juice of the grape and the cream. Add the grapes with the pepper and the leaves of tarragon previously washes. Remove with care and leave that cook 5 minutes. Rectify of salt, if were necessary, and throw it on the pieces of chicken.

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March 28, 2006

I can't think of a title for this post. I'm tired and watching Gilmore Girls.

Charlie's cat has a temporary home with one of Eliza's co-workers, but I think she still needs a permanent place to live. At least she is no longer hanging out by herself in an empty apartment.

Something I will not miss about my next door neighbors: the drunk friends who come visit and don't know which apartment "Mike" lives in. Mike's friends are never quite sure where he lives and tend to try my door first (because it's the closest to the stairs?). One of them just stopped by and drunkenly wanted to use the phone (I didn't let him), which was very disconcerting, since I wasn't sure he would go away.

Luckily, my nice former neighbor was upstairs finishing up the move and called to see if I was okay. Luckily, I tend to keep the door locked when I'm home- especially having talked to Charlie about his roommate's friends, who were the reason he decided to move out.

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March 27, 2006

Well, there's still one tiny neighbor...

My neighbor Charlie can't take his cat to his new apartment, so she's squatting by herself next door. I don't know how long this situation can last, but we certainly can't have another cat at my house. If you would like a little, cute, probably bad kitty, send me an email!

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March 22, 2006

Cookies!

My Kitchen Aid mixer has been used twice in the past week. Twice! Today I followed this recipe for home-made thin mints, Dave's favorite girl scout cookie. Pictures after the jump.

Just out of the oven, now cooling. At this point, Eliza called me and said we were going to Moshi, so I had to leave the cookies unattended with the monster cats. It worked out.

Heart-shaped, for extra dorkiness.

Now, dipped in the mint-chocolate coating, they just have to set in the refrigerator.

I hope they'll be good! They were rather labor intensive.

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Getting new neighbors

Two of the four apartments in my building will be empty as of April first. Our neighbors upstairs are going to their new house, which is very exciting. Our next door neighbors are just leaving (I hope both of them, and not just the slightly less destructive one), and as a parting gift, we found one of their chairs on fire in the back yard last night. Adventure! It will be a little more boring maybe- we'll have to have our own parties and burn our own furniture, instead of just watching -but I won't have to listen to someone playing the bongos loudly at all hours of the day, so that's something.

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March 18, 2006

Why the internet freaks me out...

I started out trying to figure out what happened to an old high school teacer of mine that disappeared halfway through my sophomore (I think) year (Mr. Monte, anyone?), and then started looking up old friends I hadn't seen in a while. (I'm just assuming that everyone does this, right?) Look who I found! Heh. The internet totally freaks me out.

FYI- Spring break has been very productive so far: I have six out of seven clean rooms in my apartment, plus two closets! And Dave is back from SXSW tomorrow. Finally!

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March 16, 2006

Mama sale

If I had $15, I think I would buy Mama's "I miss Lauryn" t-shirt. I've been admiring it since they got their new inventory, and I kind of do miss Lauryn.

Why haven't I started reading today? I'm not on vacation yet.

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Concerts I'd like to keep in mind, part two.

If I had $20 today, I'd love to go see Stereolab at Pearl Street. Dave and I saw them there a while ago and it was great- also, how we started to be friends with one of our favorite people, who was also there.

This Saturday at The Basement: Abeja and Our Lady of Bells.

Tuesday at Bishop's: Jose Ayerve and some other people I didn't write down.

Next Saturday (3/25) at The Elevens: The Fawns and Spouse.

Have I missed anything?

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This close to spring break...

My students have already assured me that no one will be in class tomorrow. Next week really ought to be spent reading and researching my final papers... and practicing Hebrew. But is that what I will do? I don't know. I don't have any better ideas.

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March 14, 2006

Little things.

Winterpills are having a busy spring and were away all weekend. Tomorrow, they head off again to SXSW. Dave got home yesterday and this morning I felt this little jolt of excitement when I saw his toothbrush in the bathroom.

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March 09, 2006

Funny, huh?

Yesterday, Dave came to pick me up from class and on the way home I said to him: "Is something going on tomorrow? March 9th... that sounds really familiar, like we have plans or something... Doesn't that sound familiar? March 9th? Maybe it's something for school..."

I realized this afternoon: it's the return of the O.C. That's the big, important thing I had going on on March 9th.

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March 07, 2006

Even while I write this, they're triangulating.

We're on a new schedule this semester. As it works out, I have big chunks of free time a few days a week, during which I can get lots of work done. This is nice because I get home from my late afternoon classes and am exhausted and can't do much at all. I especially like my Tuesdays and Thursdays, since my first class is Hebrew at 1:00, and I get to spend the morning reading and writing papers. However, the cats are seriously out to get me. They now want to eat dinner at 9:00 AM, instead of their usual 4:00 or 5:00 PM. They won't stop until everything that was once located on a shelf, a table, or hanging on a wall, has been thrown to the floor. They bite me and scratch me and meow at me incessantly. Last week, on a particularly stressful Thursday, I had to lock myself in the bedroom just to finish a presentation I was writing. All because the cats can't tell time. How can I teach them that?

(Rosa, helping us fix a drum yesterday afternoon.)

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March 05, 2006

Hey, NH-

Winterpills will be at the Red Door in Portsmouth Monday night March 6th. You should go!

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