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Skriven 2008-09-03 15:52:01 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13178 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
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Hi Hap,

->  hn> budget carefully to meet all the bills and come
->  hn> out on the plus side of the ledger. (grin)

-> That's the key to it--good budgeting.

 hn> Which we're having to do quite a bit of
 hn> right now as the school district paid Anne
 hn> too much money in the summer and took
 hn> it all back in the most current check (last
 hn> day of August) (yipes!!). Their story is that
 hn> contratct). We didn't have any objections
 hn> to paying the money back, but sure would
 hn> have preferred not to have it all come out
 hn> of a single check!


Sounds like the military. Hope you like rice & beans. (g)

-> ->  HN> There's also a neat train museum in Sacramento
-> ->  HN> consider that as well for future travels.

-> Mostly steam oriented or don't you know?

 hn> More than likely Steam, as it's
 hn> supposed to be covering the early era
 hn> of Califunny's history.


OK, wonder if it's one my dad has seen. Being in CA, I'm wondering if
his railroad friend Gerald Best had anyting to do in setting it up.

->  hn> TA usually, not teach. Happily Amanda
->  hn> has TA'd (Teaching Assistant) several

-> I understand that some universities use grad students as teachers for
-> the huge classes ofundergrads (usually freshmen) taking required
-> courses. Sounds like Amanda did well to avoid that.

 hn> She'd be certain to avoid that as she's not at
 hn> the main campus which is about 2 hours away.

It's too much to ask her to commute too.


 hn> She's at the Marine labs and while it's top notch,
 hn> it's fairly remote for any number of students. There
 hn> are several summer sessions, and the labs are much
 hn> busier during the summer months than the winter.
 hn> At least as far as visiting students and researchers
 hn> go.


More marine life caught in the summer too, most likely.  Gotta get the
critters for research while you can.

->  hn> free to spend all her time doing her research
->  hn> and working on papers for publication.
 hn> ->
-> Does she take time to cook decent meals or wait until you come to feast?
 hn> ->
 hn> She also has a job at the labs so she lives in the
 hn> Grad student dorm (has her own room) which has a
 hn> very nice, very large, well equipped kitchen. She's
 hn> starting to take an interest in cooking and she's
 hn> pretty good at making whole wheat bread by hand.

Decent!  I used to do whole wheat bread by hand, 8 loaves at a time.  I
suspect her output is a quarter of that, at best.



-> -> breakfast on week ends.  Part will be used for our own version of "egg
-> -> muffins"--whole wheat English muffin, cheese (real stuff, not plastic)

->  hn> We make those on occasion. Or we

-> We did similar years ago with real bacon and home made English muffings
-> back when the girls were small.  Then life got busy, the girls grew up
-> and Steve went on his anti bacon kick.  Now that the girls are gone,
-> Thomas's makes a 100% muffin, and there's turkey bacon, we're doing it
-> usually Sunday mornings.

 hn> If we're going to make a "fancier" breakfast, we
 hn> do it on Sunday Mornings too.

Saturday is our fancier breakfast; Sunday we go for aa quick but nicer
than cerealkind of one so we can get out the door for Sunday School &
church.

->  hn> shrimp farm! His Phd will be in aquaculture
->  hn> and he's doing his doctoral research in
->  hn> hormonal triggers to breeding in certain
->  hn> crabs (I think).

-> Sounds fishy. (G)

 hn> Most things in a marine laboratory do ! (grin)
 hn> Since Amanda's doing her research this season
 hn> with critters from San Francisco Bay instead
 hn> of the local ecosystem, she's been assigned
 hn> space in a "Quarantined" segment of the labs.
 hn> which is actually much nicer than her regular
 hn> space (which she still has). On this trip we

Interesting; does she have to "decontaminate" before going into that
area?


 hn> got to see that the lobster research is winding
 hn> down and there were only about 1 or 2 dozen
 hn> of the pretty blue lobbies there...they look up
 hn> and beg for food when you go by  their little
 hn> cubes!

But you can't use them for food. (G)


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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly@earthlink.net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


... Always butter up the SYSOP, they taste better that way.

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