July 21
This morning I slept in until almost 10:00am. It's so nice being able to sleep in on a Friday morning! It's a new experience for me in college. :-D I ate breakfast this morning, bummed around the room for a while, then decided to go for a "long" run today. I decided that I would set out this afternoon to run completely around Lake Ginninderra, which I had heard was an approximately 10K run. I enjoyed the run, but when I had completed the loop, I was disappointed to notice that I had only run for 33 minutes -- clearly the lake loop is only 4 to 5 miles, and not 6.2 as it had been rumored. To get the distance in, I ran out and back along a road near campus until I had run for a total of 47 minutes. I don't know how fast I was going, but I hope that I ran about 6.5 or so miles in all. It was definitely my longest run since February, although I still have some endurance building to do before the city to surf race on August 13th.
On my run I passed a picnic table in the park where a couple was eating food, and feeding the birds some of their scraps. It was cool to see the group of birds crowded around the table begging for food. A pair of black swans (the only swans that they have here) with their like, 3-foot long necks were looking eye-level at the food, and occasionally pecking at it. I saw a purple swamphen grab a french fry-looking thing that the guy threw to it, and wander away from the other birds to eat it's treat. There were coots and probably some moorhens and black ducks mixed in with the group also. Later, I passed a couple of people sitting together along the shore. I couldn't tell if they were eating food or not, but there was a trio of Australian ravens within mere feet of the people, looking for any handouts. When I'm running, it's not uncommon for me to run within five to ten feet of some of these birds, including magpies, magpie-larks, ravens, black ducks, moorhens, australian wood ducks, and swamphens. It's really neat to see them up so close like that.
Later this afternoon I went up to the bookstore and bought the textbook for the exercise science class I'm taking. Then I went to the mall and bought some food items that I needed, including pasta sauce, some fresh veggies (onion, pepper, zuchhini, carrots, and green beans), as well as some stuff to make pumpkin pie with.
After I got back I made myself some supper (i.e. I reheated some rice I had made two days ago), and then made a pumpkin pie out of a butternut squash (called butternut pumpkin here) that Kate (one of the girls on my floor) had. I used a recipe I found on the internet to make the pie, and I don't know what I did wrong, but it didn't turn out looking or tasting like a normal pumpkin pie. It definitely wasn't sweet enough, and it was a very light orange color. I googled a few more recipes after I was done making it, and I found several variations. I think I know what I did wrong now, so I'll have to see if I can make a real pumpkin pie in the future.
On my run I passed a picnic table in the park where a couple was eating food, and feeding the birds some of their scraps. It was cool to see the group of birds crowded around the table begging for food. A pair of black swans (the only swans that they have here) with their like, 3-foot long necks were looking eye-level at the food, and occasionally pecking at it. I saw a purple swamphen grab a french fry-looking thing that the guy threw to it, and wander away from the other birds to eat it's treat. There were coots and probably some moorhens and black ducks mixed in with the group also. Later, I passed a couple of people sitting together along the shore. I couldn't tell if they were eating food or not, but there was a trio of Australian ravens within mere feet of the people, looking for any handouts. When I'm running, it's not uncommon for me to run within five to ten feet of some of these birds, including magpies, magpie-larks, ravens, black ducks, moorhens, australian wood ducks, and swamphens. It's really neat to see them up so close like that.
Later this afternoon I went up to the bookstore and bought the textbook for the exercise science class I'm taking. Then I went to the mall and bought some food items that I needed, including pasta sauce, some fresh veggies (onion, pepper, zuchhini, carrots, and green beans), as well as some stuff to make pumpkin pie with.
After I got back I made myself some supper (i.e. I reheated some rice I had made two days ago), and then made a pumpkin pie out of a butternut squash (called butternut pumpkin here) that Kate (one of the girls on my floor) had. I used a recipe I found on the internet to make the pie, and I don't know what I did wrong, but it didn't turn out looking or tasting like a normal pumpkin pie. It definitely wasn't sweet enough, and it was a very light orange color. I googled a few more recipes after I was done making it, and I found several variations. I think I know what I did wrong now, so I'll have to see if I can make a real pumpkin pie in the future.
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