Input, Day 1

Today's atypical input:
- Watched "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" while working on a physics problem set.

- Watched "Diamonds are Forever" while reading about the use of pronouns, verbs, and adjectives in prescriptive English grammar.

- Listened to part 3 of a lecture on language development and autism.

- Watched sections of the French movie "Peau d'âne." Twice. (Twice more tomorrow, and twice more on Thursday... love/hate my job.)

- Read and edited a student's French lit paper about Candide.

Everything else was the usual, which includes reading the news, reading several cartoons and blogs, normal class content, and normal rehearsals. I'm not trying to catalogue literally everything that goes into my brain, just the stuff that isn't typical :)

In other news, yesterday I made modified snickerdoodles, and they came out really well:
Mix 1/2 cup of butter with 3/4 cup sugar. Beat in an egg and 1 tsp vanilla extract (which I didn't have, and therefore omitted). Mix in 1.5 cups flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1 tablespoon cinnamon. Drop balls of dough onto a cookie sheet; bake for 10-12 minutes at 375°F.
[Usually, Snickerdoodles are made without cinnamon in the dough. The balls of dough are rolled in cinnamon sugar so that they have that crackly layer on the outside. But I didn't have enough sugar, so I just put the cinnamon in, and the texture and flavor were perfect anyway :)]