11:23pmBeth
heyyy
11:23pmMatt
Hey! Wasup?
11:23pmBeth
question for you
11:23pmMatt
Yeeeees?
11:23pmBeth
dont look it up
11:23pmMatt
Okay!
11:23pmBeth
but tell me if you know
11:24pmMatt
Well then I have a question for YOU:
11:24pmBeth
what is the difference between baking soda and powder
lol
11:24pmMatt
What kind of dog is Cujo??
I bet you don't know
11:24pmBeth
i dont know
you are correct
11:24pmMatt
Dude we just discussed this in my kitchen science class yesterday
11:24pmBeth
dang it! i knew you would know,
11:24pmMatt
Baking soda is a base used to leven stuff but you have to pair it with an acid for it to work
But baking powder is like half baking soda and half cream of tartar, so the acid is built in
And, Cujo is a St. Bernard. Isn't that crazy?
11:25pmBeth
i read that soda is sodium bicarbonate and thats it :) haha
11:25pmMatt
Cause when people always use "Cujo" to refer to a killer dog, you always think of like a rotwieler
11:25pmBeth
i had no idea
st bernards are super cool
11:25pmMatt
But it's an old steven king movie
(and book too I'm guessing)
I like St Bernards. They're neat!
Except for Cujo, he's scary
This conversation sounds like a blog entry to me!
11:27pmBeth
i'm not sure i've ever seen it
11:27pmMatt
I'm guessing you'd remember a movie about a scary killer st bernard
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Had my first school day of the new year today!
This quarter, my class schedule looks like this:
Monday:
Bar Operations Management 1:20pm-3:00pm
Kitchen Chemistry 5:00pm-7:45pm
Tuesday:
Advanced Food Preparation (Lecture) 8:00am-8:50am
Advanced Food Preparation (Lab) 9:00am-2:45am
Wednesday:
Advanced Food Preparation (Lecture) 8:00am-8:50am
Bar Operations Management 1:20pm-3:00pm
Menu Planning & Dinning Services 7:00pm-8:40pm
Believe it or not, I actually registered early - this crazy schedule was the only way to get all the classes I wanted this quarter. In fact, all of them except HMT 114 (Advanced Food Preparation) were only being offered in one time slot this quarter, so it's not like I had a lot of choice. The good thing about this schedule is I have reeeeally long weekends, and lots of time between classes (especially on Wednesday - yikes!) to get my homework done so that I can enjoy those long weekends. The bad thing is, so much for attending my weekly church activities on Monday and Wednesday nights this quarter... sorry guys.
I gotta tell you, I am pretty danged psyched to be taking nothing but food courses this quarter. I did really, really lousy last quarter, which was the first quarter in ages that I had financial aid, and thus the first quarter in ages in which I was a full-time student. Sufficite it to say life threw a lot of little curveballs at me before and during the first part of the quarter (such as being without electricity in my house for a week and a half) and by the time I'd gotten my head back in the game, it was too late to catch up. I still managed to pull out a B in my culinary class, but the other stuff I was taking, like English and a Dietician elective, fell by the wayside. So this time I'm taking classes that aren't only required for my major, but are classes that I actually want to take.
Bar Operations Management
Yes, believe it or not, that's a required course for Culinary Arts majors. Yes, we learn how to mix drinks in the class, and no, we don't use any actual alcohol in the class - it's a school for crying out loud! The actual consumption of alcoholic beverages holds little interest for me - having an older brother commit suicide due to alcoholism (back in 2001, in case you're wondering) will do that to you - but for some reason, the art of mixology and the process of brewing drinks fascinates me, so I'm pretty excited to be the class.
Kitchen Chemistry
This was the class I was most excited about this quarter; it's only offered at Sinclair once a year, by a retired guy who comes over especially to teach it, and I am all about food science. Well, all I can say is, I sure hope the rest of the class is more interesting then today, where we basically just talked a bunch about chemistry. Well, at least I know that if I can hold out to the end of the class, we get to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen.....
Advanced Food Preparation
So the way it works at Sinclair is, HMT 112 (Basic Food Prep) and HMT 114 (Advanced Food Prep) take place at the same time, taught by different instructors and in different classrooms, and we all spend one week practicing the menu (that the Menu Planning class from last quarter wrote), and then the next week, actual paying customers come in and we wait on and serve them, 112 handling the side dishes and 114 handling the entrees. So in other words, this is my actual cooking class, and I'm looking forward to it.
Menu Planning and Dinning Services
This class is pretty self explanatory (you learn how to write menus) so I won't say much about it, other then I wanted to take both this and the bartending class last quarter, but didn't sign up early enough.
Monday:
Bar Operations Management 1:20pm-3:00pm
Kitchen Chemistry 5:00pm-7:45pm
Tuesday:
Advanced Food Preparation (Lecture) 8:00am-8:50am
Advanced Food Preparation (Lab) 9:00am-2:45am
Wednesday:
Advanced Food Preparation (Lecture) 8:00am-8:50am
Bar Operations Management 1:20pm-3:00pm
Menu Planning & Dinning Services 7:00pm-8:40pm
Believe it or not, I actually registered early - this crazy schedule was the only way to get all the classes I wanted this quarter. In fact, all of them except HMT 114 (Advanced Food Preparation) were only being offered in one time slot this quarter, so it's not like I had a lot of choice. The good thing about this schedule is I have reeeeally long weekends, and lots of time between classes (especially on Wednesday - yikes!) to get my homework done so that I can enjoy those long weekends. The bad thing is, so much for attending my weekly church activities on Monday and Wednesday nights this quarter... sorry guys.
I gotta tell you, I am pretty danged psyched to be taking nothing but food courses this quarter. I did really, really lousy last quarter, which was the first quarter in ages that I had financial aid, and thus the first quarter in ages in which I was a full-time student. Sufficite it to say life threw a lot of little curveballs at me before and during the first part of the quarter (such as being without electricity in my house for a week and a half) and by the time I'd gotten my head back in the game, it was too late to catch up. I still managed to pull out a B in my culinary class, but the other stuff I was taking, like English and a Dietician elective, fell by the wayside. So this time I'm taking classes that aren't only required for my major, but are classes that I actually want to take.
Bar Operations Management
Yes, believe it or not, that's a required course for Culinary Arts majors. Yes, we learn how to mix drinks in the class, and no, we don't use any actual alcohol in the class - it's a school for crying out loud! The actual consumption of alcoholic beverages holds little interest for me - having an older brother commit suicide due to alcoholism (back in 2001, in case you're wondering) will do that to you - but for some reason, the art of mixology and the process of brewing drinks fascinates me, so I'm pretty excited to be the class.
Kitchen Chemistry
This was the class I was most excited about this quarter; it's only offered at Sinclair once a year, by a retired guy who comes over especially to teach it, and I am all about food science. Well, all I can say is, I sure hope the rest of the class is more interesting then today, where we basically just talked a bunch about chemistry. Well, at least I know that if I can hold out to the end of the class, we get to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen.....
Advanced Food Preparation
So the way it works at Sinclair is, HMT 112 (Basic Food Prep) and HMT 114 (Advanced Food Prep) take place at the same time, taught by different instructors and in different classrooms, and we all spend one week practicing the menu (that the Menu Planning class from last quarter wrote), and then the next week, actual paying customers come in and we wait on and serve them, 112 handling the side dishes and 114 handling the entrees. So in other words, this is my actual cooking class, and I'm looking forward to it.
Menu Planning and Dinning Services
This class is pretty self explanatory (you learn how to write menus) so I won't say much about it, other then I wanted to take both this and the bartending class last quarter, but didn't sign up early enough.
Friday, January 2, 2009
True Story
Me & Richard are on the bus this morning, headed to the bus hub by the Salem Mall. As the bus starts to pull into the hub parking lot, a female RTA employee starts running towards our bus, grinning and screaming and waving, and our driver, recognizing her but unsure of what's going on, starts slowing down but keeps going forward. As the woman gets closer, it becomes apparent that A) she isn't going to stop, and B) she's headed right for the front of the bus, so at this point our driver starts putting on the full brake. Just at the bus lurches (finally) to a complete stop, the woman reaches the very front/side corner of the bus (on the driver's side), slaps the side window (with her hand) where the bus driver is sitting, and then collapses onto the ground.
Everyone on the entire bus sits there in stunned silence for a moment, looking at each other trying to figure out what just happened. Did we hit her? I don't think we hit her but the bus did kind of lurch right there at the end and, did we hit her?!
And then the bus driver says, "You are NOT getting worker's comp for that!" Relieved laughter fills the bus as the woman, laughing herself, gets up and saunters off.
Do things like this happen regularly around anyone else?
Thursday, January 1, 2009
A New Year and A New Blog
So I was in the video store today, and they were playing movie clips - not a whole movie, but the ads they show on the Family Video "channel" - and they were playing a clip from the movie The Polar Express, which I have still never seen. And as I stood there watching the clip, all I could think was: Tom Hanks is a terrific actor, possibly one of the best American actors of our time, and an extremely talented man... but I could have died happy without having ever heard him sing. Seriously. Never once in my life have I been watching a Tom Hanks movie and thought to myself "sure, this is good, but do you know what would really make it better? If Tom Hanks just opened his mouth and belted one out in that silky smooth voice of his." And in retrospect, that was pretty good judgment on my part.
Hey, you ever notice how there's a million (approximately) different Christmas specials that they play every single year, and the one Christmas special that's considered to be the best, the most timeless, and the one by which all other Christmas specials are measured, A Charlie Brown Christmas, is also the only one that actually mentions Jesus? .....well, I guess there's also Nestor the Christmas Donkey.
Hey, you ever notice how there's a million (approximately) different Christmas specials that they play every single year, and the one Christmas special that's considered to be the best, the most timeless, and the one by which all other Christmas specials are measured, A Charlie Brown Christmas, is also the only one that actually mentions Jesus? .....well, I guess there's also Nestor the Christmas Donkey.
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