No, not garubula

Well I taught my first class of the semester today. Thirty-seven first year students. It was actually a breeze. Still wouldn’t want to be a full time teacher though. As I will be teaching roughly 140 students this semester I apologized to them beforehand as it is unlikely I will remember all of their names.

We had some unfortunate car trouble this week and needed to replace our alternator to the tune of $500.35. The car is almost 12 years old now so I guess these things are to be expected. I plan on getting a few more years out of it yet though.

In other news, I made duck l’orange the other night. My orange sauce was almost good enough to eat on its own but I don’t think I would ever buy a whole duck again. it is a greasy bird with less meat on its bones than a chicken. I was treated to Jennifer’s cooking today. She had the day off today and prepared a “golden fruit chutney” which had dried apricots, golden raisins and pineapple in it. She also made a homemade chicken curry and biscuits. It was all delicious. Tomorrow evening I plan on making parmesan and Swiss cheese polenta as well as chicken wings with a savoury chocolate barbeque sauce. Which brings me to a rather amusing exchange I had with a cashier today about an ingredient I was buying that she wasn’t familiar with:

Cashier: What is this?

Me: Arugula.

Cashier: I have never heard of arubula.

Me: No, not arubula. AruGULa, with a “g”.

Cashier (asking the cashier to her left): Oh, with a “g”. Cindy have you ever heard of garubula.

Me: No, not garubula. Arugula! A-R-U-G-U-L-A. Arugula.

Anyway I got my arugula.