ALSO!

I did get an A+ in my beverage class.  That put me at 8 A+s and 6 As for the year.  Nice turn-around for a dropout.  My mom drove out to meet me in Providence.  We ate more awesome food than I could have without her, and she got to see a pretty good deal of the area.took the really long way home, time wise, not distance wise, hung out with Aunt Sharie, her cousin in law who talks about porn at the dinner table, and his daughter, who has to deal with her dad bringing up porno movies at the dinner table.  Lovely.  Made a nice pork tenderloin with celeriac-tater mash, spare grass, and a little mirepoix+puffed quinoa salad on top, and for breakfast the next day, a grits casserole with chevre (Vermont Creamery, the stuff we had a school...  SO tasty), grilled oyster shrooms, radishes, bacon, parsley, scallions... I dunno.  It was pretty smangin' but I thing the flavor of the chicken stock was way too assertive for the dish.  Whatever, they want to know next time I'm travelling so they can come eat my food.  That's it, back to the Scotch.