Comments on: Stress + Food

By: brenda

brenda — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:21:18 +0000

See, it came out kind of hostile. I don't actually have to lecture, but I do manage to run a tutorial every week without actually dissolving. TAs are kind of luck of the draw: often people are teaching things that aren't necessarily in their area. U of T film was the worst because there is no film MA so the TAs were all from English and Theatre, and there's a lot that doesn't translate across disciplines.

Also, a friend of Alex's works for Flock.

By: Lemon

Lemon — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:06:34 +0000

I am projecting my own bad TA experiences out into the world like war flashbacks. I've had categorically bad TAs in almost all my classes that have had TAs. It becomes so constant that you wonder if there's something about the position that makes normally competant people, smart people, graduate students to boot, into high-schoolers reading their essay in front of the class.

I was winning my war on my bad spelling/keyboarding until I started beta-testing this Flock browser. It loads multi-media in a quarter the time of Safari and Firefox, but doesn't give me access to the OS-rooted spell checker that I have come to love and rely-on in Safari.

By: brenda

brenda — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:34:33 +0000

Kev: Sweet, thanks. I might just go ahead and order it. Any cookbook with soup that good is probably worth my money.

Dan: Uh, thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm assuming/hoping you're just projecting your own TA issues, and you don't actually assume I'm a stuttering incompetent.

Jen: Thanks for the actual vote of confidence.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:43:35 +0000

Ouch. Brenda would never be that kind of T.A., clearly. Have you met her? Also, you spelled ‘explanation’ wrong. Are you one of those students who somehow makes it to university and struts around all pretentious but can’t spell basic words?

By: Lemon

Lemon — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:17 +0000

Are you turning into the awkward TA that stands in front of the lecture hall and gradually stumbles through an explination of Feminism that borrows 90% of it's exact wording from the assigned reading?

Pleas say no. Please say you can complete a lecture without looking like you need to pass out or throw up. The world needs more TAs who can Teach and Assist and not just Take Adeepbreath.

By: Kevan

Kevan — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:09:59 +0000

I have a few recipes on my iPod with me out here, but sadly, that isn’t one of them. I can tell you that it was the Curried Butternut Squash Soup from the Chez Piggy cookbook. http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/item/books-978155209296/1552092968/The+Chez+Piggy+Cookbook?ref=Search+Books%3a+‘chez+piggy’&sterm=chez+piggy+-+Books

The cookbook is seriously worth the money, but alternatively, you could find it, and covertly copy the recipe.

By: brenda

brenda — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:08:27 +0000

Alex and I are borderline obsessed with figs, mainly because we’d never had one before (in a non-Newton context), and we like pretentious food.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:04:42 +0000

I was at my parents’ house recently, looking in their fridge (why else would I go there), and found an entire box of fresh figs. I had to ask what they were. I was like, “THIS is a fig? I’ve never seen one before. All I know is Fig Newtons” and then my sister said she said exactly the same thing. They’re decent though. Weirdly mushy. Taste like the inside of a plum.