Today was Melbourne Cup Day. The Melbourne Cup is a famous horse race, similar to the Kentucky Derby. It is actually a public holiday so much of the city was off work but I was not. I didn't really have an appreciation for the Cup and had lots of work to do so I didn't mind going into work. I have a few active papers I'm working on with the hospital dataset but more importantly I have job/post-doc applications due in the next month. I submitted the Flagler application today (yippee!) and am furiously trying to finish the Hopkins post-doc app by the end of the week for an internal review by the Hopkins committee. I've identified a couple more post-docs to apply to so we will see what happens.
I haven't been doing as much exploring lately. I had a couple plans that fell through but a couple more are the books. One of my housemates may also join me to Cairns in Jan so that will be fun. My friend from work told me that you can only swim in certain parts of Port Douglas because of the jelly fish and crocodiles. She said it so nonchalantly "salt water crocodiles are the worst, they will eat you for sure." Guess I will need to figure out which parts those are. In the meantime, we are going to have a Thanksgiving dinner at the house so I need to get working on a menu. I was trying to explain biscuits to my housemates but they call cookies biscuits so they thought I meant something sweet, I'm trying to describe light, fluffy goodness - you understand.
Hope all is well in the States. I sure miss everyone and can't wait to get back to some of my favorite things and people!
Tell them it's a fluffy scone. I can't think of an English equivalent. Want to see pics from Port Douglas. Saw it on tv and it was one of the few places that immediately sent me online to see how much a vacation would be there (and I'm not a beach person). It was divine looking. Take care of those knees and ankles, kiddo. RB
ReplyDeleteHow are your knees?
ReplyDeleteRB - I recently got into yet another conversation about biscuits the other day (while eating a scone, actually) and we determined that biscuits are often more savory than scones and, like you said, more fluffy. I also googled it and the main differences are in sugar and fat used- scone use butter and either cream or soured/plain milk and traditional biscuits use either shortening or lard and buttermilk or plain milk. Hope to have some this week so we'll see how it goes...
ReplyDeleteIn other news - the knees are much better. Slammed one into a file cabinet the day after I fell but other than that, no problems :)
Glad to hear it. I hope you get the Flagler thing. Those campus buildings are nice. Nothing like a rich man and his campus.
ReplyDeleteYeah, scones are like a slimmed down version of a biscuit. In all the times I visited the Uk, I never came across anything like a biscuit.