Productive?
Oct. 11th, 2002 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidWell, mostly, except for the time wasted surfing LJ and playing (a stupid solitaire variation of) Lost Cities.
Last night I got a sampling of all the kinds of dried beans Harvest has to offer. Except for mung beans, that is, since they have no place in ch ili in my house [1]. I got all 8 kinds of beans soaking, divided by color (white, red, black). They look kinda pretty sitting in bowls of water like that. Also started a couple of loads of laundry, desperately needed for me to be presentable at work today. And a batch of challah dough, with some kamut flour in it.
This morning, boiled the beans, and sauteed onions, mushrooms, and many colors of peppers. I still have to finish the chili (tomatoes, hot peppers, and spices), but the work-intensive part of it is done (hopefully the hot peppers won't take too long). I put the challah in the oven on time bake, too.
And I ran a meeting today, foisting off a huge chunk of work onto 4 other people. It took a while to pull the pieces together to give/show them, but the meeting went well. Pleasingly, the head of the department congratulated me on how I ran it.
Still left to do: the rest of the grocery shopping, changing sheets on guest beds, the rest of the cooking, straightening the house. Shabbat starts at 5:51 this week... (so it ends at 6:51, which really will be enough time to get to the performance on time!) [2].
[1] I haven't yet figured out what place mung beans have at my house at all, actually. If anyone has uses for them, I'd be interested to hear.
[2] Shabbat is getting earlier reasonably quickly, and the clocks change at the end of the month. I have to change the rhythm of my Shabbat prep from what I do in the summer, with the long afternoons I can fit all the cooking in, start to finish. More t o start Thursday night (though I do want to get to potluck), or cook while I'm at work, stuff like that. [3]
[3] Of course, it's easier when I'm not having lots of people over for both meals. And when not sick. Though this cold seems to be abating. Hoora y!
Last night I got a sampling of all the kinds of dried beans Harvest has to offer. Except for mung beans, that is, since they have no place in ch ili in my house [1]. I got all 8 kinds of beans soaking, divided by color (white, red, black). They look kinda pretty sitting in bowls of water like that. Also started a couple of loads of laundry, desperately needed for me to be presentable at work today. And a batch of challah dough, with some kamut flour in it.
This morning, boiled the beans, and sauteed onions, mushrooms, and many colors of peppers. I still have to finish the chili (tomatoes, hot peppers, and spices), but the work-intensive part of it is done (hopefully the hot peppers won't take too long). I put the challah in the oven on time bake, too.
And I ran a meeting today, foisting off a huge chunk of work onto 4 other people. It took a while to pull the pieces together to give/show them, but the meeting went well. Pleasingly, the head of the department congratulated me on how I ran it.
Still left to do: the rest of the grocery shopping, changing sheets on guest beds, the rest of the cooking, straightening the house. Shabbat starts at 5:51 this week... (so it ends at 6:51, which really will be enough time to get to the performance on time!) [2].
[1] I haven't yet figured out what place mung beans have at my house at all, actually. If anyone has uses for them, I'd be interested to hear.
[2] Shabbat is getting earlier reasonably quickly, and the clocks change at the end of the month. I have to change the rhythm of my Shabbat prep from what I do in the summer, with the long afternoons I can fit all the cooking in, start to finish. More t o start Thursday night (though I do want to get to potluck), or cook while I'm at work, stuff like that. [3]
[3] Of course, it's easier when I'm not having lots of people over for both meals. And when not sick. Though this cold seems to be abating. Hoora y!