The theme for this week is corn, and the new Graduate students’ orientation/Bootcamp I’m coordinating, and binge-watching Outlander before they take it down Thursday. And not blogging.
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Mark’s been in Chicago since a week ago Monday, except for coming to meet me in Milwaukee to see the Baseball Project, last Wednesday. So of course, I thought I could get out to the Farmers’ Market extra early on Saturday without him slowing me down. Uh uh, nope, naw. I left the house a little later than our usual 8:30ish; it was going on for quarter to 9:00. I got a big bag bakers’ dozen of corn, and some regular tomatoes (that I made into sauce), and cherry tomatoes, and lots of cherries.
I went to Costco, and got drinks and popcorn and pretzels – for the Bootcamp – and water softener salt – for me.
I went to the Atwood Fest and did some tabling to raise $$ for Friends of Sid Boyum, and then watched a bit of a couple of bands and came home. I had various plans for dinner, but didn’t execute them; instead I ordered a Pad Thai with tofu. And ate the whole order, myself. I’d ridden my bike for probably an hour and a half, and I was hungry, but it still meant that even though I started drawing lines across the container and saying I’d stop eating there, I kept right on shoveling noodles into my mouth, well beyond feeling full. I lay down on the couch and went into a food coma – and watched 2 episodes of Outlander when I came to.
In the morning, I wasn’t particularly hungry, ha, no surprise there. I went over my slides for Bootcamp, and then made cornbread with fresh corn kernals, for an in-front-of-Outlander breakfast, half an episode, before going to volunteer at Ride the Drive. Another afternoon of lots of riding, and burning off calories. This time I managed to be a little less of a glutton – and had roasted corn and broccoli salad and leftover cherry cobbler for dinner. And the second half plus two more Outlanders before bed.
Outlanders continued on Monday and Tuesday evenings; I only have 1 episode to go before I am basically caught to where I started watching, the last 3 – 4 episodes at the end of season 2. I might re-watch the season 2 finale tonight, and then I’ll be just like all the other fans, waiting for season 3. the corn theme continued as well, picture #5 is a corn chip at the instructor station in the meeting room where I’ve been teaching.
I just discovered that since I pay AT&T ridiculous amounts of money per month for UVerse TV, I can watch Outlander on my computer whenever want. The bingeing seems a little less sensible now. Except as an excuse to collapse in front of TV after a bunch of long busy days. Maybe that was always the point.