That's right. I spent my Friday night baking miscellaneous foods for future consumption. Eddie helped me make 4 handmade pizzas to freeze, and I also just rolled out 26 cinnamon rolls using 1/3 of Mom's metal muffin recipe. In addition, we started a pan of baked ziti which just needs to be thrown in the oven whenever we want to eat it. For one of the pizzas we also made a pesto sauce, and its topped with fresh tomatoes and garlic. The other three have fresh jalapenos, red onions, tomatoes, garlic, green pepper, and parsley on them. We actually cooked one of the other frozen pizzas we had made last week for dinner today, and it came out pretty well, though it stuck to the pizza stone. I guess we'll need to flour it or something next time, as the dough just sticks to it once it thaws out.
Tomorrow, I'm thinking about trying my hand at some more Indian food. We cooked channa and roti last week, and though the channa turned out well, let's just say that my roti sort of ended up like tortilla chips instead of flat bread. One of the MatSci students who lives in the building next door, Praneet, said he'd come over and help me make it. He was over here for a bit today and commented that he hadn't seen anyone cook by "following the rules" before and enjoyed watching Eddie and I scamper around in the kitchen.
Yesterday, I got a book in the mail that I orderd last week called Knowing by Michael Munowitz. Dr. Samulski at UNC had recommended it to me, so I took his advice and got the book. I've just gotten started (about 50 pages in), and so far it's been pretty decent. It's supposed to be a layman's explanation of the physics of everything, so it delves into things like gravitational force, electrostatic force, nuclear binding energies, space-time, quarks, strings, etc. I'm still not convinced that the layman could just pick it up and understand what's going on, but he does leave out all the equations and sticks to simply explanation, which is good. I'm also concurrently reading Carl Sagan's Cosmos, as I bought it for $1 with Joel in Myrtle Beach a few years ago and never read the whole thing. My hope is that these books will stimulate my line of thinking into the very nature of scientific investigation, and who knows, maybe even provide a basis for some of my fellowship essays that will be due ever so soon (starting November).
Having been away from homework for such a long time, I got a hankering for some intense academic exposure on Thursday night and dove into my first homework assignments in my Thermodynamics course and Differential Equations one. I must admit, I was quite a bit rusty in both subjects, having not thought of either subject for well over a year, so it took me several hours to finish my work, but I'm convinced that of what I've done I have all the correct answers. After I get my homework set for Quantum Mechanics on Monday, I can finish all my homework though Oct 6 and take some time to work on those fellowship applications. It's definitely a bit of a different approach to what I've been doing the past 3 years, but it will be nice to not have to rush to finish assignments the night before they are due. Plus, homework doesn't seem so bad when you're doing it at a time when it doesn't have to be finished the next day. I do find it strange that all the courses I'm taking include a homework component of roughly 35% of my grade, which was rarely the case in my undergraduate career.
Lastly, I got an email today saying that the cover article in the Carolina Arts and Sciences Magazine covering my trip to Guyana with Naman, Rez, and Ivana was finally published, and I'll be getting a few copies in the mail soon. They always post each magazine online, so I would imagine that in a week or so, I can post the link so everybody can read it and admire the pictures from the photo shoot we had last April. I've read the first draft of the article, so I'm anxious to see how the final version is.
Anyway, that's about it for now. I'll try to post something more after the end of the weekend. Take care everybody.
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::tear:: that was so beautiful! I'm glad you're applying yourself so well to your studies already. perhaps some of us could benefit from that example :). well, I'm chatting with you online now, so there's really no point in continuing this comment. really. later juice!
Well, I must say I am a bit envious of what you have in your freezer vs. what I've found in mine today. OK, so I could do something about that instead of just looking in now and then with the hope that something might mysteriously appear.
Now, would you recommend "Knowing" by Michael Munowitz to stimulate my neurons and maybe increase the number of synaptic connections, or is it too late? ;-)
Uncle Bob
Outstanding. It's good to see you cooking! I've been so busy at my apartment that I haven't been able to cook that much. And the girls aren't interested in cooking stuff either. Oh well.
My mom made me curry cubes. She made the gravy/curry base for a lot of dishes, using onions, tomatoes, a bunch of spices, etc. She then freezes it in ice-cubes tray. When she wants to cook dinner, she gets the vegetables in teh spot, tosses in 2 or 3 curry cubes, and she's ready to go! You should try it.
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, is simply oustanding. I think every college student should read it.
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