Saket Vora

The weekend went fairly well. Took care of some errands on Saturday like get some groceries and get a haircut. I went by DeeDees for indian groceries, had some food there too. Later I met up with Nader and worked on 214 hw. I had my homework finished by Sunday afternoon — pretty good. On Friday Nader and I went over to Doug’s apartment and spent about 4 or 5 hours on the hw. Our midterm in 214 is on Friday, so my goal for Monday is to try to knock out most of the 278 (probability class) homework. It’s a tall order cause that class is really demanding, but I gotta get it out of the way. If the previous material weren’t bad enough, we’re getting into n-number of functions. Sigh.

Today I invited Mary and Matt over for dinner. It was the least I could do because they have been such good hosts to me.  I called mom and made sure I had the recipes straight. It was a little ‘Iron Chef’ in the kitchen. I soaked the rice, got the lentils and potatoes in the pressure cooker, then started cooking the onions and ginger and garlic, took the lentils out, got the channa masala going and the dhal makhni, got the pulao going, etc. Amit came over and we made some samosa filling and he started to wrap them. The dhal makhni (a North Indian Punjabi style thick lentil soup) actually came out really good. I had bought some naan at the Farmer’s Market on California Ave. in the morning, as well as some frozen ones. It’s surprising how good they’ve gotten the breads like that.

Anyway, dinner went well. The chana was a little dry. Mary had these amazing pumpkin ginger spice cupcakes she made. Divine.

NC State had a great win this weekend over UVA. Stanford lost. Carolina lost to the Colts. Chargers one. I’m already looking forward to college basketball  — apparently there is a lot more anticipation for Wolfpack basketball this season. Preseason #24, a highly regarded front-court, maybe #3 NCAA seed prediction…heh.