a Much better day!

Met with my advisor first thing this morning. This is *always* helpful and inspiring, and I left in a very good & inspired mood. Since I was at uni I picked up my new student ID card for the term, and ran some much needed errands on the way home. I then got in several hours of uni work before heading out this evening to a swing dancing lesson. That was much fun. Alas, one of my friends was having a difficult day, but I think that we managed to be reasonably comforting. Came home and managed another couple of hours of uni work before deciding that I'm sleepy and in need of yoga & bed. I'm particularly looking forward to bed--we've managed to make time for some laundry, so the sheets are clean!

a Much better day!

Met with my advisor first thing this morning. This is *always* helpful and inspiring, and I left in a very good & inspired mood. Since I was at uni I picked up my new student ID card for the term, and ran some much needed errands on the way home. I then got in several hours of uni work before heading out this evening to a swing dancing lesson. That was much fun. Alas, one of my friends was having a difficult day, but I think that we managed to be reasonably comforting. Came home and managed another couple of hours of uni work before deciding that I'm sleepy and in need of yoga & bed. I'm particularly looking forward to bed--we've managed to make time for some laundry, so the sheets are clean!

today's baking

Tonight we have gaming scheduled, so I decided to bake a cake. One of our gaming group can't have gluten/wheat, so I looked on line for torte and other gluten free cake recipes, and, in typical fashion, opted to not follow any of them precisely, but rather make up my own version inspired by many of them. A high percentage of gluten-free cake recipes out there are for chocolate cake. Alas, I don't like the taste of chocolate. However, the others in the gaming group do, so I decided to make us all happy by doing one batter, flavoured two different ways. Today also happens to be Darwin's birthday, so it is appropriate, I thought, to do two cakes with a common ancestor, but very different mutations, baked in one pan.

( Darwin-Day Cake )

The downside is that the total time elapsed from starting the project till taking them out of the oven was over two hours, so now I need to frantically try to get some work done before tonight's gaming session!

today's baking

Tonight we have gaming scheduled, so I decided to bake a cake. One of our gaming group can't have gluten/wheat, so I looked on line for torte and other gluten free cake recipes, and, in typical fashion, opted to not follow any of them precisely, but rather make up my own version inspired by many of them. A high percentage of gluten-free cake recipes out there are for chocolate cake. Alas, I don't like the taste of chocolate. However, the others in the gaming group do, so I decided to make us all happy by doing one batter, flavoured two different ways. Today also happens to be Darwin's birthday, so it is appropriate, I thought, to do two cakes with a common ancestor, but very different mutations, baked in one pan.

( Darwin-Day Cake )

The downside is that the total time elapsed from starting the project till taking them out of the oven was over two hours, so now I need to frantically try to get some work done before tonight's gaming session!