Filed under: food
Tomorrow is the last day of classes before spring break, making to-day the last day of Monday classes (for me, Latin and German) Consequently, our German professor, in the true spirit of language teachers all throughout the Western world, invited us to bring some food to class, and have a casual last day. So I, with my final handful of edits for my sophomore project still hanging over my head (I’ll do that tonight, I swear!), headed over to the campus store after Latin class to find something to bring: a brownie mix, and a jar of Maraschino cherries. The only thing better than brownies (aside, as far as I’m concerned, from most other pastries or sweets) is easy brownies, with cherries. It was only pointed out to me afterwards by a Mitwohnerin who is also in my class that the choice was felicitously in theme, with its resemblance to German Black Forest cake.
Strange thing about the house I live in, though: the laundry machines are in the kitchen. This not only limits our counter space (I would call it “negligible”), but it also sometimes creates an interesting mixture of smells from the two different activities. And to-day I was washing my whites. But, surprisingly, the smell of bleach (which I generally enjoy) is not at all offensive when layered with the smell of chocolate (which I always prefer to the taste).
And it’s wonderful. While my friends are hectic with last-minute paper writing (yes, I have one paper to write, but plenty of time–why worry?), I am catching up on my email, baking brownies, and spot-bleaching t-shirts. And all of this because I’m used to taking four classes per trimester, but with my sophomore project winding up before the last week of the term (all but those edits…) I have suddenly found myself with an unwontedly low workload. On top of which, I only have two exams, both on the first day of the examination period, meaning that I will have a nice, long spring break. I’ll hang around here for a couple days cooking, then I’ll go visit my friend at another school, and finally I’ll trek down to Maryland with my boyfriend, with the main motivation on my part of spending a few precious hours in my favorite town, Annapolis.
And after all of that, I’ll come back here and dive into five courses (including one audit) for the spring term. But even that will be good in its own way. The courses themselves are exciting to me, every one: German Drama, Greek Comedy, Latin Reading, French (nineteenth and twentieth century literature), and finally–finally–English poetry. Fine, then: I’m inclined to be positive to-day. I’m happy, I’m wearing baggy jeans, and now I’m hungry.
