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Saturday Morning Check-Ins and a recipe for potato soup
First, sleep in, the sleep of a thousand dense black holes, the sleep of a dead baby log. SLEEPING SO HARD! Only finally awoken very late in the morning by the cries of the snoopy who needed his bathroom break. He must've thought we were dead
NEXT:
1. Writing prompt to give out on monday (most boring to-do item on the earth, I dread it)
2. Syllabus work
3. Pay bill to hospital for arm wound
4. Start reading this book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_and_Persons) SO STOKED
My first-ever of-my-own-volition foray into the world of philosophy. Moral philosophy! This guy doesn't think we are "individuals" in any kind of traditional ethical sense of the word. He's like, if you replaced each cell in my body one-by-one with each cell in Barack Obama's body, by the end I would be Barack Obama, but at what point does that change occur?? Surely no one single cell could mark the change between Yours Truly and Barack Obama, and yet by the end of the switcheroo we would inarguably be switched. Thus, people aren't really people. This makes him feel better about death and being an atheist.
AND YET he also believes there is an objective moral code. Like, a naturally-occurring, mathematically documentable morality undergirding the fabric of the cosmos. How could you believe this if you don't believe in God??? I really don't understand, that's why I'm gonna try to read the book even though I'm sure I'll burn out like 5 pages in. I think the belief in an objective moral code is INSANE, equally as insane as the belief in God. Will I have my mind changed? That's the fun experiment of a liberal arts education y'all
Then probably I will eat dinner
I made a wonderful potato soup last night that I look forward to eating again today. It's really easy and awesome and can be vegan or not vegan. It's a wintertime specialty! It's got fucking leeks in it!
FIRST:
- 4 cups of water, 2 boullion cubes, 3 cloves of minced garlic, and 1/3 cup tamari
- simmer for 20 minutes while you prepare the rest of the stuff
SECOND:
- 3-4 leeks, the white parts sliced and the green parts put in your stock tupperware in the freezer
- 4 big russet potatoes, peeled (if you want, also put the peels in the stock tupperware) and cut into big bite-sizes
- some olive oil or butter if you want to be decadent
- some dill, fresh or dried, like 2 Tbs
- 1/2 teaspoon carraway seeds
- a touch of milk, plain or soy (if soy use less)
- a few tablespoons of some kind of plain yogurt type vibe (tofutti sour cream also works)
Sautee the leeks in the oil or butter while you chop the potatoes. When the leeks are tender (like 5 minutes?), add the potatoes, some salt and pepper, and the tamari/boullion broth you made earlier. Bring to a boil, then turn down to a nice simmer. Simmer until the potatoes are tender, then turn off the heat. Put like 1/3 cup of soy milk in a cup and, using a ladle, add some of the soup liquid to the soy milk bit-by-bit (this keeps the soy milk from curdling). If you're using regular milk just dump it in, it won't curdle. Then add the dill, carraway seeds, and yogurt vibe, and stir it all up!
Can be served with a small handful of grated gruyere cheese in the bottom of each bowl, but this is not necessary and in fact I have never done it, but it's what my mother did growing up and I remember it being pretty awesome
Eat with crusty bread and a nice arugula salad with chopped apples and almonds!
DAMN THAT'S A GOOD SOUP
NEXT:
1. Writing prompt to give out on monday (most boring to-do item on the earth, I dread it)
2. Syllabus work
3. Pay bill to hospital for arm wound
4. Start reading this book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_and_Persons) SO STOKED
My first-ever of-my-own-volition foray into the world of philosophy. Moral philosophy! This guy doesn't think we are "individuals" in any kind of traditional ethical sense of the word. He's like, if you replaced each cell in my body one-by-one with each cell in Barack Obama's body, by the end I would be Barack Obama, but at what point does that change occur?? Surely no one single cell could mark the change between Yours Truly and Barack Obama, and yet by the end of the switcheroo we would inarguably be switched. Thus, people aren't really people. This makes him feel better about death and being an atheist.
AND YET he also believes there is an objective moral code. Like, a naturally-occurring, mathematically documentable morality undergirding the fabric of the cosmos. How could you believe this if you don't believe in God??? I really don't understand, that's why I'm gonna try to read the book even though I'm sure I'll burn out like 5 pages in. I think the belief in an objective moral code is INSANE, equally as insane as the belief in God. Will I have my mind changed? That's the fun experiment of a liberal arts education y'all
Then probably I will eat dinner
I made a wonderful potato soup last night that I look forward to eating again today. It's really easy and awesome and can be vegan or not vegan. It's a wintertime specialty! It's got fucking leeks in it!
FIRST:
- 4 cups of water, 2 boullion cubes, 3 cloves of minced garlic, and 1/3 cup tamari
- simmer for 20 minutes while you prepare the rest of the stuff
SECOND:
- 3-4 leeks, the white parts sliced and the green parts put in your stock tupperware in the freezer
- 4 big russet potatoes, peeled (if you want, also put the peels in the stock tupperware) and cut into big bite-sizes
- some olive oil or butter if you want to be decadent
- some dill, fresh or dried, like 2 Tbs
- 1/2 teaspoon carraway seeds
- a touch of milk, plain or soy (if soy use less)
- a few tablespoons of some kind of plain yogurt type vibe (tofutti sour cream also works)
Sautee the leeks in the oil or butter while you chop the potatoes. When the leeks are tender (like 5 minutes?), add the potatoes, some salt and pepper, and the tamari/boullion broth you made earlier. Bring to a boil, then turn down to a nice simmer. Simmer until the potatoes are tender, then turn off the heat. Put like 1/3 cup of soy milk in a cup and, using a ladle, add some of the soup liquid to the soy milk bit-by-bit (this keeps the soy milk from curdling). If you're using regular milk just dump it in, it won't curdle. Then add the dill, carraway seeds, and yogurt vibe, and stir it all up!
Can be served with a small handful of grated gruyere cheese in the bottom of each bowl, but this is not necessary and in fact I have never done it, but it's what my mother did growing up and I remember it being pretty awesome
Eat with crusty bread and a nice arugula salad with chopped apples and almonds!
DAMN THAT'S A GOOD SOUP
Comments
I wish I was eating video food with the Hot Dudes
I have to spell everything out
and explain why wikipedia isn't a source
and explain the difference between a book review and an essay
I guess that's why I am the teacher and they are the students
Can't believe I was 16 when they were born, I was totally already having sex and had gotten drunk and had gone through several different hairstyles and had climbed the 9 highest mountains in Colorado
WTF
TIME
MOUNTAINS
THESIS STATEMENTS
Bad essay thesis statement: "Dracula is about a vampire"
Good essay thesis statement: "The fact that Dracula is a vampire says a lot about nineteenth century Europe or whatever"
I want to do another book for you! Maybe over christmas break?
I mean, if you want me to
I could try to write an essay instead of a review