Still working away on the sleeves, interspersed with working on my quilt (I really do need to do at least 10 minutes on it each day if I'm ever to get it done).

No jury duty tomorrow, I don't even have to call back for another week. Whoo-hoo! That means I can get my first week of teaching, plus an appointment at the new allergists', out of the way without having to think about jury duty.

Ran out to the field site today but had to cut the session short because of the stinkin' mosquitoes. We have the Asian Tiger Mosquito here, and the unfair thing is THEY COME OUT DURING THE DAY. Yes, you can't even avoid them by standing right out in the sun - they will find you and bite you. They are the most annoying organism I have yet to encounter. I'm going back out tomorrow, but remembering the Cutter's this time.

I was stuck at home most of the day because Eggbert had to go in for his 30,000 mile checkup, tuneup, and system flushing. I baked an angel food cake - from scratch. I had a dozen+ eggs that were close to their expiration date, so I figured even if it didn't turn out, at least it wasn't like I'd have used the eggs otherwise.

The cake turned out. I'm quite pleased. And it wasn't nearly as hard as everyone I've ever talked to had led me to believe. I wonder if angel food cakes could be the socks of the cooking world? Before I knit socks, everyone was like "oh, they're so hard to do...turning that heel" and after I had turned the first heel, I have to admit, I can't really see why they seem so hard. Different, maybe, but not hard. In fact, on the angel food cake, I'd rather separate eggs than try to cream butter. Creaming butter ticks me off, because the brand I buy seems to be harder than I remember the butter being when I was a kid. And doing the "let it sit until it attains room temperature" - I'm too impatient for that. Anyway, the angel food cake turned out. It is good. Really good. Moist, and soft, and fine-crumbed, and without that chemical taste that ones from the store have. Better enough than mix cakes that I might just figure that I'll make a real angel food cake whenever eggs are on a good sale.

And I have to admit, it gives me a sort of sense of smug pride to think that I can successfully make a dessert that is supposedly so hard and arcane to do. (My mom doesn't even make angel food cakes from scratch). Maybe I'll try a souffle sometime.