Bake Off

Today was the Potsdam Food Coop's Holiday Bake Off.  I entered my vegan banana carob chip bread in the new category (vegan desserts).  IAfter dropping off my entry (thanks go out to Derek for cutting everything into pieces for me!), I went to a festival at a local synagogue.  Some friends from my knitting group had told me about the event and suggested that I stop by.  I bought a yummy looking poppyseed roll, chatted with my friend about felting the mittens I just finished, and then went downstairs for some lunch.  I had a huge serving of kugel (if I'd know the serving would be that large, I'd have had soup instead!) and some potatoe latkes with a few people that I knew from the coop.  My knitting group actually meets there, so I'd been there before, but this was my first non-knitting event!

It was funny to leave the synagogue and run into everyone I had lunch with at the coop voting.  I enjoyed the Bake Off, and it's a charity event.  When I was full from tasting desserts so I knew who to vote for, I looked at the donated baked goods to see what I'd like to bid on.  Unfortunately, everything I was interested in was already bid higher than my price range (last year the cookie platter went for $200).  Derek bid about $25 on a fruit tart, though.  He must really like the Potsdam Community Center which is the organization that will benefit from the event.

I had a job interview last week that was promising.  I liked the organization, and I hope that they liked me.  It was interesting to interview at a place where I feel that I won't need to watch everything I say.  The majority of my previous jobs have been for rather conservative firms.  I liked my previous jobs (the longevity I've had at previous places shows that), but I haven't always had similar opinions to the people I work with.  It's should be an interesting change.

I should probably start holiday shopping soon.  By missing November to surgery, my internal clock is very confused.  The fact that it hasn't snowed, yet, has helped, since all the locals had told me that the ground would be white by the first or second week of November at the latest, and it would stay that way through spring.  It's for the best that it hasn't happened, yet, since my mittens are upstairs still drying ;-)