accountability.

This grimace pretty much sums up how I've felt about school lately. All that grotesque lip-cheek action says "you don't make me accountable for the level of my work, so why should I keep trying so hard?" I should know better, but when your heart's not in it, it's hard to produce stimulating, insightful work. Hence, my general level of slacking around. I've been doing just enough to get by and by getting by I mean getting an "A+" regardless (yeah, they exist), which seems to be the norm around here. Well, this game doesn't seem to work outside the Portuguese department because my Spanish prof called me out yesterday on the quality of my recent analysis/homework. Basically along the lines of "this is some sophomoric work, you can do better, what's going on anyway, huh?" yadda yadda. It's interesting how an outsider needs to recognize your weaknesses before you feel motivated enough to sort them out yourself. SO! From now until the end of the semester, I'm gonna whip myself into shape and try to crack out some decent work. If only so I can prove (thanks, pai) to Mr. Español my potential to create some OK papers.  

In other best effort attempts, I've been on a major soup binge lately. I've put together three different soups in the last week and a half! All very yummy. I made this garbanzo bean, tomato, and rice soup tonight. With curry powder and some leftover kale. It came out with a sort of strange flavor, but I liked it and I needed to use up my garbanzo beans. I've been trying to eat more healthy and make more dishes from scratch. I ate this with some flat bread/fried dough ala Andra-style (homemade, too!) and red bell pepper hummus (more garbanzo). Foi muiiiiito bom!