The start of the year has been busy (when isn’t it)?
MLA was in San Francisco. A terrible storm and a terrible neck kept me from attending in person, but I am lucky Zoom allowed me to see presentations and attend the Atwood meeting.
Speaking of Atwood, I got the Atwood journal finished in the middle of the month, all 264 pages of it!
Eight students won writing awards this month; two were mine.
Dante and I ventured into “the city” to see the Ramses exhibit. Even though they timed the entries, it was overcrowded and uncomfortable, but I’m still glad we went.
We celebrated Martin Luther King Jr day by watching the new Puss in Boots.
I greeted five new classes of students, scaring off tons of Health Science students with my announcement that we don’t use five-paragraph essays in professional health science writing and that I expect them to proofread.
I was late to office hours for the very first time. UCD has given undergraduates the right to park where teachers do, if they pay a little bit more (Karma, do you have to pay to park at UCD? Yup! Almost five dollars a day!), and I had to try three different lots.
My students had their first stand-up special.
I’m working to keep up a few of my New Year’s Resolutions. I want to make one new recipe each week & try at least one new cocktail recipe per month. Since I’m about to be overwhelmed with grading, I did a lot of new recipes this month to balance out my upcoming failures:
New Recipes: Spiced Roast Chicken with Tangy Yogurt Sauce; Berry-Jam Fried Chicken with Savory Cornbread; Mustard and Rosemary Pork Tenderloin with Fried Apples; Saucy Chicken and Peppers with Manchego Polenta; Slow Cooker Chicken and Stuffing; Red Wine Chocolate Cake; Pork Medallions with Red Pepper Sauce; Ginger-Sesame Pork Burgers with Slaw; Thai One-Pot; Air Fryer Turkey Parmesan Burgers
New Cocktails: Moonpool; Lemon Basil Martini; Death in the Afternoon; Corpse Reviver 2; Lemon Lavender Sour; Blood Orange Irish Mule
