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The muffins came out rather dense; I'm blaming that partly on the oatmeal and partly on the fact that I was more or less making up the recipe as I went. They're more like apple-oatmeal-pecan paperweights. But they're very tasty paperweights, so at least I got that right, and the apple lightens them up a bit.

This week's composition was a news article, also known as a cut-and-paste project. I only had to come up with the titles and subtitles and photo captions. It was sort of fun, actually. So now that's done, and I can ship it off by e-mail tonight, along with the exercises for this week. I think I love whatever version of Mac Mail I'm using now; it has the option to send "Windows-friendly attachments", so I don't have to worry about Mac Word documents not arriving as Windows-readable Word documents. (They were still readable before, they just refused to admit it. They would open in Word just fine, but you had to tell them to open in Word because Windows didn't know to do that.)

Academically, I'm in pretty good shape for the shape that I'm in at the moment.

Let's see...tomorrow I have to run a couple of errands, clean up the translation from last night, and pack. I can do that. These short to-do lists are making me a little nervous, though. I'm always thinking I've forgotten something important.

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Oatmeal has a tendency to make things very dense and rock like when they cool. Especially if you used dry oatmeal in the recipe. When it cooks, it sucks all the moisture out of whatever you cooked with. So cooking with already once cooked oatmeal is more reliable because it has already been hydrated.