posted 2005/08/20 at 23:29
Mancino's and Dairy Queen for lunch = good.
Fresh out-of-the-oven cookies at dinner = real good.
I caught myself in an old pattern of thinking just now as I was baking the cookies. Of course most other instructors on campus don't bring cookies for their students during class, let alone make homemade cookies, but there was a part of me that felt I wasn't lavishing enough attention on my students because I was only using basic recipes, and not going all-out with some super-fancy secret cookie recipe. Ah, I don't have any of those recipes anyway.
I ran into a bit of trouble while I was out earlier, though, because I had to go get money from a drive-up ATM, and when I pulled out of there my window wouldn't roll back up. Basically the whole time I was out I had my window all the way down, and even though I was staying in relatively nice parts of town you still worry about leaving your car open like that, you know? Anyway, Mark helped me fix the problem when I got home, although I have to say that I'm still taken back a bit sometimes when he uses words from his native country, like when he referred to the car's "bonnet." Given that I was an Anglophile there for quite some time, you'd think I'd not notice those things so much.
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