Recursivity. It’s consuming my life.
What I mean to say is the students are learning about recursivity. And TAing is taking over my life. We just had the essays turned in today. And we had our meeting to plan the midterm today as well. All I can think about is that in the next 11 days I need to have 75 papers graded, 75 more homeworks graded, I need to write half the midterm, hold my this-week sessions, and hold study sessions next week. On top of my actual school work. What a whiner I am.
School work is actually going pretty good, I think. I’m starting to get not-ahead (as opposed to way ahead, or actually behind) in my reading, which I don’t like. I may be able to catch back up again at some point, but it’s certainly going to have to wait till this TA stuff has crested. Oddly, after my midterm stuff, I think the real Laurie-doing-lots-of-work stuff hits the fan. As in, I need to figure out what my final project for 200A is. Though the bulk of my 260 work is going to get done in the next few weeks anyway… I lead discussion next week, and we should be gathering our data this weekend or next weekend or both. Whoo. I’m going to be glad to have October over for so many reasons.
Lawyer Hall Soup!!
In much more chipper news, I made soup tonight. I’ve been thinking about replicating the fabled-and-delicious Clare Hall Soup which was for some reason a daunting undertaking. (I can’t help but point out that the link above seems to suggest the soup is different every day. Unless something drastic has happened, this is categorically false. Clare Hall Soup is the same soup every day, which only slightly modulates in color.) I pulled out my trusty Constance Spry (I love that book!) and found the only recipe she had for pumpkin soup, banking on the idea that Clare Hall Soup was orange because it involved pumpkins. I’m still not entirely sure that’s true, but that’s neither here nor there. At any rate, a surprisingly little amount of work went into the soup and as quickly as I could boil potatoes and then throw them in a blender… I had soup! And fairly Clare Hall-y soup at that! I’m really quite chuffed. Proud foody picture to prove it!
Anyway. It’s going to be a heck of a long week. And I’d better get some sleep if I’m going to manage to plow ahead tomorrow. Phew.