You're quite right, that kind of thing being helpful. (See, I have been an attentive daughter and listened to my mother over the years.) If the recipe's not too complicated, I think I can manage well enough now.
And it would feel good to feel useful, really.
(Also, during the school year, I have two exceedingly bored house elves at Spence, and while baking is not their best skill, they're quite competent. More satisfying to have my hands doing the work, of course, but if your committee winds up short on quantity come autumn, they're an option.)
I mean. I assume I'll be busy with other things then. (I am still nervous about teaching, but we've talked about that. And today was all right, but I rather wish I had a sort of mental sheepdog to keep me in line. I keep losing the ends of my sentences part way through.)
On the book, yes. Your talkative host meant I got through the very tail of the epilogue. Which was better than the other epilogue, by a long shot, but it does rather gloss over how one gets from the end of the book to happily ever after.
I'm still thinking about way it ends. Before that. Finding the hoard of magic and opening it up to everyone. About generosity of spirit rather than scarcity. Hope rather than fear. (Not just this one, but I've been thinking about that other one I was reading, the Tey, and a couple of others.)
Right. Stars for me for a bit, I think. And more thinking, maybe.
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Date: 2014-07-14 03:33 am (UTC)You're quite right, that kind of thing being helpful. (See, I have been an attentive daughter and listened to my mother over the years.) If the recipe's not too complicated, I think I can manage well enough now.
And it would feel good to feel useful, really.
(Also, during the school year, I have two exceedingly bored house elves at Spence, and while baking is not their best skill, they're quite competent. More satisfying to have my hands doing the work, of course, but if your committee winds up short on quantity come autumn, they're an option.)
I mean. I assume I'll be busy with other things then. (I am still nervous about teaching, but we've talked about that. And today was all right, but I rather wish I had a sort of mental sheepdog to keep me in line. I keep losing the ends of my sentences part way through.)
On the book, yes. Your talkative host meant I got through the very tail of the epilogue. Which was better than the other epilogue, by a long shot, but it does rather gloss over how one gets from the end of the book to happily ever after.
I'm still thinking about way it ends. Before that. Finding the hoard of magic and opening it up to everyone. About generosity of spirit rather than scarcity. Hope rather than fear. (Not just this one, but I've been thinking about that other one I was reading, the Tey, and a couple of others.)
Right. Stars for me for a bit, I think. And more thinking, maybe.