Rambling at the end of the week

We made 60 sugar cookies last night ... well, we almost made 60 cookies.  They are currently chilling in the fridge, and still need to be baked in the oven.  Besides my brief panic attack that the recipe called for powdered sugar instead of regular sugar like I had thought ... it went well.  I'll make another few batches tonight while baking.  I did take some pictures - but my camera battery died before I could finish.  It's charging now.

Today is John's last day in his first lab rotation, and they're taking him out to some Italian place downtown for lunch.  Neither one of us have been there before, so he'll have to scout it out and see if we should go there together sometime.  We were talking about the lab and his experiences in the lab.  Yes, it was a good lab, and he could work in that lab.  But, rules or no, English is not the main language in that lab.  Even in the three weeks he was there, he'd come home frustrated because he'd made a mistake because he didn't understand what someone told him.  He doesn't need that additional barrier for the next 4-5 years.

He's super excited about his next lab - I think it's diabetes research - and from what he's heard, this lab will work him a lot harder than the first one.  On the one hand, this is good; he's been a bit bored lately.  On the other, he probably won't be able to get as much studying done during the afternoon, and will have to study more in the evenings.

I've been trying to find a good podcast to listen to while at work.  For some reason, I haven't really wanted to listen to music lately.  Let me just say ... Itunes is not user friendly at all when it comes to podcasts.  It's impossible to peruse or find ratings easily.

Either that, or I'm completely useless when it comes to Itunes.

I'm looking forward to the weekend.  Baking makes me happy.  Happier than cooking, anyway.  It's nice to have something really good as a result of your efforts.

In which I think about baking and John gets a computer

John got his computer in the mail yesterday!  He'd been using a Kindle Fire that I won this past summer in a contest.  Even though we both love the Kindle Fire, it's not a replacement for a computer.  So, after some research, he bought a refurbished laptop from eBay.  Getting that in the mail was a definite highlight for his day yesterday!

So, John is fairly sure that this lab is not the one he wants to stay in.  I'm hoping today goes better (since I'd hate for him to suffer through three weeks of lab if he's miserable the whole time!), but apparently the lady in charge of his training hardly speaks any English.  Which makes things a bit frustrating.

Oh well ... at least it's just the three week rotation instead of the seven week rotation!

As for me, I've offered to bake some goodies for the GSO's bake sale.  The GSO is the Graduate Student Organization for all the grad students, and they've been kind enough to adopt me.  Probably because I can bake better than John.  I don't have any problem bribing people with my cooking!

Their bake sale is next week; and John has two tests next week.  I'll spend some time this weekend baking up a storm, both for the bake sale and for John's classmates for one of their test days.

I'll post one of my tried and true cookie recipes in the next day or so.  With pictures once I actually make them!