Fake beef

Yes, my father is right: don't forget the zinc gluc. Fortunately for both parties (because it validates his analysis and because it keeps me healthy), I bought a couple of bags of Cold-EEZ a few weeks to keep at home and in the lab. Phew.

Just when I thought I had taken away my own favorite time of day (lunch break) right out from under my own feet (because I'm trying to avoid meat with uncertain origins, which is everything at the UNH dining halls), Holloway Commons had vegan soft tacos with plenty of fixin's. (That apostrophe is there in place of the 'g' and is not connected to the pluralizing 's'.) I ate the first with fake beef (not bad), brown rice and some corn-and-edamame stuff then went back for a second, in which I replaced the edamame mix with tofu cacciatore because it had lots of peppers and onions in it. Delish, even for someone known to love his meat dishes.

We're getting a brief survey of thermodynamics in baby physics and though it's good review for me, I have vowed to keep my mouth shut and let the other students have a chance at answering questions since I have already seen the material. That is difficult for me; I always feel like it is my responsibility to provide the answer to an instructor's question which gets stressful when I'm also trying to take notes. No problem now, though, because I think our foray into thermo is over, at least for that course.

Back to work!