Biometrics

If you have had any contact with INS or USCIS you will know what that word means. Shame. Shame and long lines. When you get an appointment for biometrics you have to go in and have the finger prints of all your fingers in all possible combinations scanned and put into a government database so that they can identify your body when the zombies attack.
It actually wasn't so bad, the Kansas City location was a lot less busy and the staff and officers were much more friendly than at the office in Atlanta.
But friends, let me tell you, if you think that your drivers license photo was bad you haven't seen a greencard photo. They look like mugshots. I got to look at my photo for my future card and let me tell you it wasn't pretty. First you feel like you are being booked having had your prints taken. Second they don't let you smile. What!!! What's wrong with a smile? Well the problem I hear is that smiles on photographs mess up facial recognition software. Well the jokes on them because my natural state is smiling!!

I haven't had enough pictures of Hubii on here so here's a picture of him after he drove home in the snow.

I feel kinda lucky that 20 minutes from Weston in Leavenworth is a tiny Korean grocery with a small restaurant on the side. I ordered the Jampong. It's not great but it's ok. I really shouldn't order sea food when I live 20 hours from the coast. I didn't order the Jajangmyeon because I was feeling very cold. But if I ever need a fix they have it on the menu. I feel like it's a mini blessing.
Last night I attempted to make Panna Cotta.
I served it on fudge sauce. The yellow lumps are from the gelatin not dissolving well. It was ok, but this was a first attempt so I was just happy that it gelled at all (although I don't think that not gelling was a possibility).
Here is a photo I took of a Walmart near Kansas City:
Why did I take a picture of a Walmart, well because the facade reminded me of another supermarket that was just down the street.
It looked even more a copy where we were because the "Whole Foods" was also in green. Unfortunately it was too far for my bitty mobile phone to snap so this is just off the interwebs. I am gonna go get dessert while Hubii finishes this post.

Wifii has gone to get some Panna Cotta for us to eat, so I need to finish up this post. I've been really busy with end-of-semester work. I gave three exams this week and now I have to grade them. But the semester will be over soon and then we can start the next semester. It is enjoyable to interact with students and learn new things, but this week has been tiring.

Very sore body

This weekend was chock-full of fun activities for me (not so fun/ work related activities for Hubii). At least it started out well. Below is a picture of Hubii with his apple compote stuffed crepes. He loves pancakes, waffles etc so we make them every Saturday (he has been making his own every weekend since graduate school days I think).

Hubii doesn't usually dress up just for crepes though. He had to go to work that Saturday for a parent and prospective student open house for the college. But it was only till 12 so he was home by lunch.
After that he spent the day grading homework and exams :( Hopefully, in future semesters, once he has his lesson plans and exams mostly done, he won't have to work over the weekends.
I had a much more enjoyable weekend. As some of you know I have been playing in the Leavenworth Soccer league this fall. For all this season I was playing with a team that for the first few weeks lost all the games (though not too badly) and for the rest of the games had to forfeit as we were short. Just before the final league they decided that we could be broken up and divided among the other teams. I was given to the team that needed an extra lady. Well we played 3 games this weekend one on Saturday and 2 on Sunday and in the end I was part of the winning team! I was super luck, especially as I had been on a team that was doing so poorly all season.


Hopefully I will play again in the spring. By them I hope to figure out how to dribble the ball.

Little knobbly bones

Last Saturday we went to lunch with a professor who teaches at Hubii's work and the prof's wife and two girls. His wife also teaches at the college but as an adjunct. She is Chinese and found a great dim sum place (well great in that it had variety but not as good as Atlanta, which I guess is not as good as in Asia). But it was yummy!
And for the first time in my life I ate chicken feet. Fried chicken feet in black bean sauce. Not the tastiest dish in the world but a great way to leave nothing to waste. I didn't want to be gauche and take a picture of the feet at the restaurant so here is what it looks like on the menu.


After that we came home to prepare for the trick-or-treaters.We didn't have awesome costumes for the kids we just recycled last years costume and became generic witch and her cat. Unfortunately we started to late and didn't get too many visits. I would say 5-6 groups came by. The upside is that we have waaaayy to much candy left behind!