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Apr. 19th, 2011 11:54 amHappy Pesach, everyone who celebrates.
For anyone who doesn't, but feels in desperate need of matzah, I have extra this year... I went a bit silly in the shops. I get through one box at most, and needed about a half box for the seder and I bought a whole box more, just in case - no jam, though, just butter. I also have 22 eggs left of the 36 I bought yesterday - my mother calls passover Chag ha Beitzim with very good reason. Plus I have a kilo of cheese.
My mind is tumbling with recipes for finishing things. I can eat matzah brie with cinnamon and sugar and make toasted cheese on crisped matzah, for instance. The fact that these days I eat very little bread means that it will still take a long time to finish the matzah. But I have good coffee and I am happy to feed it to friends who have never tasted edible cardboard before. I'm very generous, that way.
On an unrelated note, I only have two Pesach presents this year - it's too close to my birthday for anyone to give me presents. Every few years this happens. Those two presents are, however, very cool: a mug from my mother and another portable brain. I can now take my whole brain to Europe with me. This includes my complete e-cookbook collection, a fact that will make some friends happy. Plus, I already have two birthday presents. I have a corner where they will sit and I shall open them on Monday, at 6.30 am. The very moment I turn 50. I shall also skip breakfast, because of my mother's enduring lament that I made her miss breakfast that day.
I'm not working today, really. My brain is certainly in pottering mode. Last night's seder has unwound me and left me all kinds of happy (thank you Canberra family!). I'm not not-working, either. I've got a nice pile of the most fun of the books I must read - the ones that don't require notes taken. I've got through three of them. My great aim is to get through five (or, in a perfect world) six by 4 pm tomorrow. At 4 pm tomorrow I pick up 18 more books, you see...
It would be lovely if I could finish all these books (the 8 I have, plus the 18 waiting for me at the library, plus the 19 still to come) by the day I turn 50 (I'm counting, now) but I won't. I should get through them all by the time teaching starts up again, however. These long days without so many small things that need attention are just wonderful for blitzing bibliographies.
I'm catching up with the study, in other words. And now that I'm catching up, I can admit that I was getting behind last term. All those forms, all that need to earn extra money, plus stuff. Lots of stuff. it's been a very busy few weeks - I'm glad to be in a quiet zone for a little.
For anyone who doesn't, but feels in desperate need of matzah, I have extra this year... I went a bit silly in the shops. I get through one box at most, and needed about a half box for the seder and I bought a whole box more, just in case - no jam, though, just butter. I also have 22 eggs left of the 36 I bought yesterday - my mother calls passover Chag ha Beitzim with very good reason. Plus I have a kilo of cheese.
My mind is tumbling with recipes for finishing things. I can eat matzah brie with cinnamon and sugar and make toasted cheese on crisped matzah, for instance. The fact that these days I eat very little bread means that it will still take a long time to finish the matzah. But I have good coffee and I am happy to feed it to friends who have never tasted edible cardboard before. I'm very generous, that way.
On an unrelated note, I only have two Pesach presents this year - it's too close to my birthday for anyone to give me presents. Every few years this happens. Those two presents are, however, very cool: a mug from my mother and another portable brain. I can now take my whole brain to Europe with me. This includes my complete e-cookbook collection, a fact that will make some friends happy. Plus, I already have two birthday presents. I have a corner where they will sit and I shall open them on Monday, at 6.30 am. The very moment I turn 50. I shall also skip breakfast, because of my mother's enduring lament that I made her miss breakfast that day.
I'm not working today, really. My brain is certainly in pottering mode. Last night's seder has unwound me and left me all kinds of happy (thank you Canberra family!). I'm not not-working, either. I've got a nice pile of the most fun of the books I must read - the ones that don't require notes taken. I've got through three of them. My great aim is to get through five (or, in a perfect world) six by 4 pm tomorrow. At 4 pm tomorrow I pick up 18 more books, you see...
It would be lovely if I could finish all these books (the 8 I have, plus the 18 waiting for me at the library, plus the 19 still to come) by the day I turn 50 (I'm counting, now) but I won't. I should get through them all by the time teaching starts up again, however. These long days without so many small things that need attention are just wonderful for blitzing bibliographies.
I'm catching up with the study, in other words. And now that I'm catching up, I can admit that I was getting behind last term. All those forms, all that need to earn extra money, plus stuff. Lots of stuff. it's been a very busy few weeks - I'm glad to be in a quiet zone for a little.