Crazy things
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icepixieI got a form in my departmental mailbox today asking me to give the secretaries my preferences for 101 class meeting times next semester. This seems so unreal. In August, I will be teaching two classes. This summer, I will be constructing a syllabus. CRA. ZEE.
Further craziness, in the crazy-amazing sense, is the chicken recipe I cooked up last night. It's not really a recipe so much as a "throw all these things together in the amounts you think proper and cook" kind of deal, but it is OMNOMNOMish nonetheless. I took two giant frozen chicken breasts and put them in a pan, added about an eighth of a cup of olive oil--maybe more--I drizzled, basically--then the juice of two navel oranges (I think a few tablespoons of orange juice along with that would've been effective, but I didn't have any), and a chopped-up third of a sweet onion. Then I sprinkled garlic and rosemary liberally over the whole thing, and cinnamon not so liberally. I let it marinate/defrost in the fridge for twenty-four hours before sauteing everything in a frying pan. For my leftovers, I tried dipping bites of the chicken in honey, and that was good as well.
Apropos of nothing: in an attempt to procrastinate on annotating articles for my 505 project, I had an epiphanic understanding of the circle of fifths last night. I finally get what it's doing, and why it's a circle, and why everything on the circle is where it is. I'm sure there's much more I don't get, but that's kind of awesome anyway. (The reason I was looking such a thing up trails back to the music from last Friday's BSG. I want the soundtrack nooooooow.)
Further craziness, in the crazy-amazing sense, is the chicken recipe I cooked up last night. It's not really a recipe so much as a "throw all these things together in the amounts you think proper and cook" kind of deal, but it is OMNOMNOMish nonetheless. I took two giant frozen chicken breasts and put them in a pan, added about an eighth of a cup of olive oil--maybe more--I drizzled, basically--then the juice of two navel oranges (I think a few tablespoons of orange juice along with that would've been effective, but I didn't have any), and a chopped-up third of a sweet onion. Then I sprinkled garlic and rosemary liberally over the whole thing, and cinnamon not so liberally. I let it marinate/defrost in the fridge for twenty-four hours before sauteing everything in a frying pan. For my leftovers, I tried dipping bites of the chicken in honey, and that was good as well.
Apropos of nothing: in an attempt to procrastinate on annotating articles for my 505 project, I had an epiphanic understanding of the circle of fifths last night. I finally get what it's doing, and why it's a circle, and why everything on the circle is where it is. I'm sure there's much more I don't get, but that's kind of awesome anyway. (The reason I was looking such a thing up trails back to the music from last Friday's BSG. I want the soundtrack nooooooow.)
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:02 am (UTC)::adds it to her recipe folder::
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-04 05:01 am (UTC)Your cookery sounds MAGICAL.
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:58 pm (UTC)Aaaaiiiieeee! Fear for my kids.
Your cookery sounds MAGICAL.
It IS. Are yoou too vegetarian for chicken anymore, or do you still eat it?
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Date: 2009-03-04 02:46 pm (UTC)Ooooh! Do you have ideas on what you're teaching yet?
I had an epiphanic understanding of the circle of fifths last night. I finally get what it's doing, and why it's a circle, and why everything on the circle is where it is.
Ever seen the Bagel of Fifths (http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/logik/Personen/blankertz/tomir.html)?
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Date: 2009-03-04 05:03 pm (UTC)I know what I'm doing for the spring 102 class, but less for the fall 101. (102 is going to be "Inquiry into Science Fiction." It'll probably focus on space travel, aliens, and colonization of other planets. Bradbury's Martian Chronicles will feature heavily. Farscape will likely make an appearance as well.) In the 101 course we're a lot more constrained in terms of content, but I'll probably try to put some kind of focus on environmental and alternative energy issues.
Ever seen the Bagel of Fifths?
That just blew my mind.