End of a season, beginning of another

So it's the end of my summer CSA season. It seems the people who started it up are exhausted and won't be running it again. As such, if I do another one next year I'll have to scout out another. I got hugs when I went for my pickup. People thanked me for posting recipes. One person begged me to take over the administration next year. But there's simply no way.

I followed sketchybrunette's lead and joined the winter CSA at another site. It's a monthly pickup, but I don't know if I'll be posting about that yet. It will feature root vegetables, dairy products, eggs and some pickled vegetables. And I suppose in the Spring there will be some early greens. (It runs for 6 months beginning in December).

This week's penultimate pickup (as I still have a fruit pickup left) includes:

Kale
White Potatoes
Habanero Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Broccoli
Calabasa
Butternut Squash
Honeycrisp apples

I see another Japanese curry in my future, and either a stir fry or a nice soup. :-) Not too shabby for the end of the season, eh?

Acadeeeeemia

So I had a telephone meeting with my dissertation chair this morning and it was great. We talked about time expectations, file sharing and draft protocols, my data set, what things from the data management course of hers I took that have proven useful so far, and my trip to the conference. It was so encouraging and refreshing. And she said she felt I had the right kind of temperament and inquisitive mind to be well suited for a University position.

She agreed that completing my work this time next year is realistic, especially when considering how little time I have between working f/t and teaching. Though she remarked that working at about 140% (well over 40 hours a week dedicated to some kind of work activity) was a good indicator of what I consider a "normal" work schedule. LOL

Tonight I have more papers to grade, and I'm under the gun to get them done. This is why I have not yet posted my pics from Sunday. Or my pics from Portland. Fear not, my beauties, they are on the way!

But I give you this, which relates to my post: