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food and books and freezy cold
Jan. 16th, 2004 01:53 pmi am unacustomed to cold like this, so cold it doesn't feel like cold - it feels like pain. I am not going outside today - just opening the door for the FedEx guy was rough, and anyway, I don't have classes to go to.
I thought our heating bill was high last month. Now the thermostats are set higher and the heat is keeping it just warm enough to sit in a pile of blankets. Last night we tacked a blanket over the door and piled old sheets along the bottom of it to keep the cold from seeping in through the teeny cracks. I can hardly see any space around the door, but if you stand next to it there's practically a breeze.
I had miso soup with my lunch today, as hot as I could eat it, and stirfry with chinese noodles leftover from last night. We made the stir fry in the wok, which I hadn't used in a while. It makes this great hissing sizzle, because you get it really hot first, and then oil it up, and throw in the vegetables and start stirring. I'm making pizza dough later and I want it a little warmer in here then so that it will rise well. The cold makes me hungrier than usual, which is saying something - and I already want more coffee with hot chocolate mix and little bits of kelly's darkdark cocoa.
I read for my reference class today. Bibliotherapy and reference interviews and the ethics of information. What do I do if a patron asks me for books on how to build a bomb? What about distressed teens looking for books on suicide, or some guy who wants to learn how to freebase cocaine? (Do people really ask questions this telling? They do sometimes.)
I already know from experience how to deal with the patron who doesn't know anything about the book he wants except that he remembers it was blue, but it's kind of fun to read about it anyway - because they really do have requests like that and you really do have to make them comfortable asking the question anyway. So the reading isn't so bad, so far.
I am mostly warm but my hands are cold, so I'm going to go make something hot to hold in a cup. Mmm tea. :)
I thought our heating bill was high last month. Now the thermostats are set higher and the heat is keeping it just warm enough to sit in a pile of blankets. Last night we tacked a blanket over the door and piled old sheets along the bottom of it to keep the cold from seeping in through the teeny cracks. I can hardly see any space around the door, but if you stand next to it there's practically a breeze.
I had miso soup with my lunch today, as hot as I could eat it, and stirfry with chinese noodles leftover from last night. We made the stir fry in the wok, which I hadn't used in a while. It makes this great hissing sizzle, because you get it really hot first, and then oil it up, and throw in the vegetables and start stirring. I'm making pizza dough later and I want it a little warmer in here then so that it will rise well. The cold makes me hungrier than usual, which is saying something - and I already want more coffee with hot chocolate mix and little bits of kelly's darkdark cocoa.
I read for my reference class today. Bibliotherapy and reference interviews and the ethics of information. What do I do if a patron asks me for books on how to build a bomb? What about distressed teens looking for books on suicide, or some guy who wants to learn how to freebase cocaine? (Do people really ask questions this telling? They do sometimes.)
I already know from experience how to deal with the patron who doesn't know anything about the book he wants except that he remembers it was blue, but it's kind of fun to read about it anyway - because they really do have requests like that and you really do have to make them comfortable asking the question anyway. So the reading isn't so bad, so far.
I am mostly warm but my hands are cold, so I'm going to go make something hot to hold in a cup. Mmm tea. :)
