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Yesterday I went to the farmers market and got Bulgarian pastries, sweet potatoes, kobocha squash (why did I get more squash, we have the kraken squash at home), eating apples, cooking apples, mushrooms, rye bread, napa cabbage, kale, carrots, peppers, and winter radishes. Home, then P walked to Pigeon for a bagel sandwich and I made my lunch. Lunch these days is mushrooms, polenta, carrots, peppers, peas, and cranberries, cooked up as a sortof pottage. It’s good. We did the crossword, then stripped the bed and flipped the mattress. I had a call with my mentee, then made kale chips. Meanwhile, the weather picked up, and the power went out. That is the one unbeatable argument for keeping the gas cooker; it works when the power is out. P went to campus to finish grading, and I cut out some dish towel blanks. I read some of the inkmaking book P got me for my birthday, and when the light started fading at 5 I started mujaddara for dinner, since it wouldn’t involve opening the fridge. I miscalculated how quickly it would get dark in the kitchen and wound up doing most of the prep by candlelight. Throwback to my first week in the efficiency when they flubbed the transition paperwork and it took ages to find a notary and get the electric company to turn the power back on. Anyway the power came back midway through cooking, and I left enough for P and then watched Protector under covers. I don’t think I can hem dish towels and still read subtitles so that will have to wait until I’ve finished the series. Snack, sleep, dreamt of a recipe that was also a puzzle.

I finished Planet of Exile and started City of Illusions.