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Five pleasant things...
May. 22nd, 2002 09:23 am...to balance out some of the accident-related negativity taking over my journal.
1. We met with the insurance adjustor last night, and he made us a much better offer for the Mazda than we were expecting.
2. I made two cakes for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curiousangel to take to work: my standard homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing, and a lemon sponge cake with a lemon-sugar glaze, which is one of my mother's recipes that I'd never made myself before. Despite the fact that his department is small, the pans he brought home looked like they'd been scoured by locusts. They seem to have been popular. (Note: must remember that lemon cake would be a good thing to serve trinker, who dislikes icing.)
3. We discovered a Mongolian barbecue place near our apartment, and it shows great promise. The ingredients bar is more inventive than the ones I used to go to in Portland - it includes things like squid and bok choy and baby corn, and you can have solid seasoning ingredients (sesame seeds, fresh ginger, chopped peanuts) instead of just solutions (e.g., gingered water). Mmmm. Lamb and mushrooms and bok choy and tomatoes, in garlic-ginger-chili sauce. Mmmm.
4. I talked withtherealjae about the mystery novel I want to write, and she didn't laugh at me. It's the first time I've told anyone any of my ideas about the story, so her reaction was an auspicious beginning. Even if she is all crushed out on me and therefore a suspect critic.
5. We hit the 75-subject mark this week for our spirituality & HIV study. We're halfway there! ...or at least, halfway through Data Collection Point One. I can't wait to start analyzing the data. There's so much here - I mean, way beyond what we'll need to test our original hypotheses. We'll be writing papers from this data set for years.
1. We met with the insurance adjustor last night, and he made us a much better offer for the Mazda than we were expecting.
2. I made two cakes for
curiousangel to take to work: my standard homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing, and a lemon sponge cake with a lemon-sugar glaze, which is one of my mother's recipes that I'd never made myself before. Despite the fact that his department is small, the pans he brought home looked like they'd been scoured by locusts. They seem to have been popular. (Note: must remember that lemon cake would be a good thing to serve trinker, who dislikes icing.)3. We discovered a Mongolian barbecue place near our apartment, and it shows great promise. The ingredients bar is more inventive than the ones I used to go to in Portland - it includes things like squid and bok choy and baby corn, and you can have solid seasoning ingredients (sesame seeds, fresh ginger, chopped peanuts) instead of just solutions (e.g., gingered water). Mmmm. Lamb and mushrooms and bok choy and tomatoes, in garlic-ginger-chili sauce. Mmmm.
4. I talked with
therealjae about the mystery novel I want to write, and she didn't laugh at me. It's the first time I've told anyone any of my ideas about the story, so her reaction was an auspicious beginning. Even if she is all crushed out on me and therefore a suspect critic.5. We hit the 75-subject mark this week for our spirituality & HIV study. We're halfway there! ...or at least, halfway through Data Collection Point One. I can't wait to start analyzing the data. There's so much here - I mean, way beyond what we'll need to test our original hypotheses. We'll be writing papers from this data set for years.
