September 24
Woke up late again today. I need to put an end to the cycle of going to bed late and waking up late. Discipline! Nothing too eventful for this past week. My Role of Religion in the Middle East Conflict class has started, and we have to do a lot of reading for it. It is a good thing though; it forces me to read a lot of things I should read anyway. The package from home that my mom sent me finally arrived as well! It was great when I opened it — so many spices from home and two DVDs. I was able to watch the NC State vs. Virginia Tech game (we played surprisingly well I thought, but lost due to stupid penalities) and an episode of Battlestar Galactica (the best show on TV). My corridor is planning a trip to Norway for the first week of November. They found a house we can rent for a week for just 350 euros. It will be a good chance to be in the nature and go hiking. On Thursday I gave a shot at making dosa, a typical South Indian dish. Think of it like an Indian crepe…except the batter is rice-based and it isn’t sweet. The dosa batter was ready made and tasted fine, except it was hard to spread properly in the pan. I also made the masala for it, which consists of onions, potatoes, and garlic.
The masala turned out great. The others in the corridor liked it too. Today I made cookies for everyone too. Chocolate chunk with white chocolate chips and hazelnut. We don’t have an electric mixer so it took forever to mix the dough properly. Then after I was taking them out of the oven Marion told me that Laure has a mixer. D’oh! I’ll keep that in mind for next time.
Someone made a hacked version of DirectConnect that operates inside the Lund University network. Excellent. I have finally caught up on all the Battlestar Galactica episodes I’ve missed, and now will be anxiously waiting for the second season to resume in January. So far Battlestar Galactica has had a marvelous second season. It’s just a shame that many people thumb their nose at it for being in the ’sci-fi’ genre and don’t even bother to take it seriously. Oh well. It’s their loss.
Well, I’m gonna go to sleep for now, and make Sunday very productive!
