I should be grading papers, so it's meme time

[mamculuna]

(from various folks)

SIX NAMES YOU GO BY.
1. Nancy
2. Mamcu
3. Miss Nancy
4. Jampa Chodon
5. Miss Uh (for students who know my last name but don't want to try saying it)
6. Aiyi Nancy

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW.
1. Glasses
2. Long t shirt/nightshirt although it's almost 4 PM (paper grading day)
3. Wedding ring

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT.
1. To lose 20 lbs
2. To go for a walk
3. Not to read any more political idiocy this week

THREE PEOPLE WHOM YOU HOPE WILL DO THIS MEME.
Select yourselves!

THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT.
1. Yoga at the men's prison
2. Watched "Good Wife"
3. Slept with the ceiling fan on for the first time this year

THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE.
1. Bill
2. My brother-in-law
3. Allie, who cuts my hair

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW.
1. Grade the rest of the papers
2. Walk by the river
3. Check Lyric Opera dates in Chicago (unless I do that tonight)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS.
1. Peaty Scotch (Isle of Jura Superstition is what I've liked recently)
2. Tonic water (but am abstaining, b/c has artificial goop in it--unlike Scotch, of course)
3. Kefir, esp. raspberry

THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY.
1. New Yorker cartoon
2. Cat spat on deck
3. Warm weather!!!!

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Fever Tree (http://www.fever-tree.com/availabilty.php) claims to do additive-free tonic water if you want.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds good! And it appears to be at Whole Foods. Thanks.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Hooray to warm weather. It hit 90 here today! (And Friday, it's back to the fifties.)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Wow, 90 up there! That must be amazing your garden.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

It just started getting warm over the weekend so I haven't even done my spring cleanup. This weekend!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that a week of this (which we've had) has warmed up the ground enough to plant tomatoes a couple of weeks early. Headed off to buy manure tomorrow...

[star-cabaret.livejournal.com]

Ooooh do you buy your kefir? I make (ferment? grow? raise? lol) kefir in my closet.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I've been buying it, but thinking about making it. Can you use the bought kind as a starter? Do you need to keep it warmer than the average room?

ETA, almost immediately: so I googled and find that I need kefir grains but not a super warm space...and much more! But would love to hear how you do it, or a link to directions you like.

[star-cabaret.livejournal.com]

Not a super warm place, but my apartment stays below 82 most days, so it's pretty fine. Lately I've been ignoring it, but it's doing fine. Honestly, it's the easiest thing: put the kefir grains in some milk and leave it somewhere dark and cool like a cupboard away from windows, put something over it so it can breathe but nothing can get in, and wait a day (or you can leave it for a couple if you want it really thick).

Much more? I use a stainless steel strainer, though I'll get a plastic or bamboo one next chance I get. All you need is somewhere clean and non-reactive to let the grains go to work and something clean and non-reactive to strain it. I spent like $10 getting some off eBay and have been making it for 3 weeks and it has been fine from the get-go.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's easier than yogurt, even. I'll try it.

[star-cabaret.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaay easier. I gave up on making my own yogurt since I don't eat it that much and it was too much trouble for how much I eat.... But kefir is extremely easy.