School Update: Made it half-way the first semester!

I’m now in my second month of school and past the half-way mark. Things are going much better than a month ago. For one, I no longer feel like I’m drowning. School work is more or less under control. A big cause of stress at the job is nearly resolved. I’ve also started to participate in university events, tapping into communities I ignored during my first foray. Life is looking up, if only for a bit.

I’ve also kept baking. My interest in other hobbies are hibernating by circumstance. Programming because of work, reading because of school, same with writing, etc. I appreciate that baking is unlike anything else I do.

Among my recent adventures I made ice cream (without a machine), baked tons of doughnuts, produced snickerdoodle scones, whipped up some home-made Reese’s Pieces, improvised peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, accompanied those with maple cookies, and made sweet buns. That’s about half of what I made, and that’s just in the last few weeks.

It’s gotten to the point where I’m telling myself to tone it down. I have this rule now to only bake weekends. I’ve been very bad at following it. I keep stumbling on recipes, they look so good, and I always invariably have the ingredients on hand. Oh and a side note about the ice cream: it turned out surprisingly well. That recipe is a gem.