Josh Rosenberg

we're studying

2008-10-09T01:05:00.003-04:00

geography, and art and ...

culture

and psychology, and social studies and science

Life is beautiful

2008-10-08T21:35:00.001-04:00

And I am grateful for those things in my life that make it that way

Debate, massive piles of work, dinner

2008-10-07T22:32:00.003-04:00

I tried a recipe for lentil soup tonight, as well as a recipe for Frittata

Spiced Red Lentils
Heat coconut oil or ghee in a pan, add diced onion and minced ginger, brown about five-seven minutes over medium-high heat, add turmeric and chili powder for about one minute, then add washed red lentils, and cook over low for 30-40 minutes. It is important to cook the lentils over quite low heat - nothing more than simmering. Here is the part I particularly like - take a ladle and add coconut oil, butter, or ghee, add cumin and curry powder and toast over an open burner about one minute, add minced garlic for one minute more, then dunk it into the lentils until the steaming sound ends. Add yogurt and salt. Notice I added no amounts here, because this is mostly the beginning of these recipe enterprises, and is more for my own documenting than for your pleasure. . . but I shall "season" in time.

Frittata
If making Frittata, don't just scramble the eggs then stick them in the oven if your recipe is two parts like mine. Instead, follow the recipe closely, if you are not yet a solid cook such as me. This recipe didn't work, but I will give it another whirl later.

Obama wasn't clicking like he did the last debate :( But I think it was a good debate, as these have been so far.

Back to the books, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology both have tests this week ARGHGHG!

Soft

2008-10-07T15:54:00.001-04:00

It is okay to be a commoner
There's something wonderful
about trusting those words
It's okay to see the world clearly

Study Break and Matzo Balls and Yom Kippur on Thursday..

2008-10-07T11:14:00.003-04:00

In the midst of midterms I am thinking about how inconvenient that it is also the High Holy Days, and that my Yom Kippur, though I will get to go to services, will be perhaps lessened because of the commitments of schools.

Why do more than one thing at a time? Such is this life.

Also in this life is Matzo Ball Soup. Basic recipe:

Combine two eggs with two Tbs of oil, mix well and whip it up, add 1/2 cup Matzo Meal, 1/2 tsp salt, mix, if too thick add very little cold water. Put into refrigerator for about 10-15 minutes, while you boil broth: chicken broth with some carrots, celery and onions, a nib of ginger and a small bit of garlic, and pepper. After the matzo mix has rested in the fridge, wet your hands and make balls about an inch in diameter: drop the balls into the boiling soup one at a time, turn the soup down to medium for about 3-4 minutes, covered, then change to a simmer for twenty minutes or so, covered. Turn off the stove and let sit for another 15-20 minutes, garnish with some kind of herb and add some salt if it is needed!!

Barack Obama is close in N.C. polls

2008-10-05T23:01:00.002-04:00

Barack Obama visited Asheville today - huge, huge event for the town!

Soccer has kept me busy, school has kept my mind really engaged, excited and active

'tevs

Read the site that the Obama link takes you to.

James Taylor "Copperline"

2008-10-05T22:59:00.001-04:00

Even the old folks they never knew
Why they called it like they do
I've been wondering since the age of two
Down on Copperline

Butternut Squash Soup

2008-10-05T22:45:00.003-04:00

Part 1 Roasted Winter Squash - America's Test Kitchen
Heat oven to 400 F, brush olive oil on cut side of squash, place squash cut side down on pan, bake for 50 minutes or so, turn squashes over and add some salt/pep and bake another five, or brush with soy sauce and maple syrup in equal amounts, add some cinnamon additionally for the five minutes.

Part 2 Make Butternut Squash Soup
I ought to have used a recipe after the squash cooked amazingly good - this was a local Butternut and tasted real good. I spooned the squash from its skin into the blender, added Orange Juice, soy milk (due to owning no half/half or milk), blended it smooth. Meanwhile I heated about two cups of chicken stock in a pot - this is for the 1/2 of a medium sized butternut that was blended - then mixed the squash mixture into the stock.

I tasted - the squash flavor was deep and good, but it didn't come together. I added the rind with cheese of Emmenteller Swiss, let it simmer for about twenty minutes, then added rice vinegar. With some fresh pepper, it "came together" pretty good.

Six updates

2008-10-02T18:25:00.003-04:00

I still love refereeing soccer

I was really well-trained from the Olympic Development Program Region III camp I attended in Montevallo, Alabama this summer

The blog of the director for referee training at that camp is fantastic

UNC-A is pretty good - classes are great and I hope to be on the Dean's List. My science classes make me happy to be an in-training scientist

New house-mates are great

Winter is coming, though I have yet to find evidence to prove this!

Likin' Fall, and a new move, and an incredibly short re-cap

2008-09-30T23:27:00.003-04:00

I moved. Into a new house, with two young-ish people, married. One teaches and the other is attending a masters program to become a teacher. I like them, I love the atmosphere, the mind is happy and so am I!

The BlogAsheville party was cool.

Bag packed up, shoes tight tied, I hope that I do not get in a fight.

2008-09-27T19:39:00.001-04:00

I'm driving to Extravablogiversapaloozathon down town.

Pics followin' l8r

w00t!

2008-09-26T15:51:00.000-04:00

"This year's festivities will take place in the Courtyard between Lexington Ave. and Carolina Lane behind Top Floor Studios. The party starts this coming Saturday at 6PM with the Awards beginning at 8PM sharp. The event will be a fundraiser for the outstanding AHOPE, which provides services for the homeless here in Asheville. BlogAsheville is requesting a donation of $10 per person but we hope that those who are able, will give generously. We look forward to seeing you there."

The best reward and the biggest paycheck

2008-09-25T15:01:00.001-04:00

is a calm mind.

Gas attack

2008-09-24T16:57:00.002-04:00

Yuh huh, I'm addicted to oil, but so wh..

woah.

Asheville (my town) is going through a crazy, crazy gas shortage.

I read an informative brochure last week that urged everyone (independent of the shortage) to ride a bike for trips within two miles - something that I do regularly [school (UNCA), grocery (Greenlife), bank (Bank of America), food (Wendy's, Golden Wok] but am particularly emphasizing now.

A view of the future? I'm getting ready now (tuning my bike and pumping my tires!) and staying calm, as I do not have to drive until Saturday morning for my soccer refereeing gigs.

Debates

2008-09-20T23:42:00.003-04:00

A. Living in a so-so neighborhood very close to where you work/live/play
B. Living in a great neighborhood a moderate commute from where you work/live/play

Which is better? Leave me your wisdom.

That's good by me

2008-09-18T22:18:00.001-04:00

Calculus test = beaten, destroyed, wa-hoo-de-hooooooooooooooooo.

Not sure about Asheville, I am sure about Asheville

2008-09-17T23:48:00.001-04:00

I am not sure about Asheville
this town in the South
(the Paris of)
I love the mountains and the feel
but I'm not sure about it still.

Fall, attachment, differences to Spring!

2008-09-16T22:34:00.004-04:00

I remember in the spring when I was not payed
for my soccer games
I returned to Michigan and didn't worry
and got a check more than two months late
I didn't care

Now in the fall at a middle school game
They say to me with total and complete honesty
"You will receive a check within three days"
I always do, but I worry about it now
And I check my mailbox early

I think this is because the season Fall, not the season Spring

What's new Pikachu

2008-09-16T20:41:00.001-04:00

I'm ready for winter time man, really

Good Morning

2008-09-15T07:46:00.002-04:00

Test in Molecular Biology
Doubler-header JV and Varsity soccer with two great referees
Get grades from last week's jazz

500th post

2008-09-13T01:36:00.003-04:00

I'm going to write about a few of the things that are currently on going, as well as reflect upon the 499 entries that precede this entry, and also write on some things which have passed.

Soccer refereeing has exploded: I was told that I'd work seven days a week if I wanted, between High School, USSF, and Middle School, and it is true. This is the first time in my adult or other life that I am making enough money to feel that I am a bit o' an adult: all-the-while attending UNC-A full-time! This is not as startling as it sounds, because every commitment is after 4:30 pm, and the pay is very, very good, and many others at UNC-A work full-time with demanding hours. But I love, love it woah.

I was nominated for a BlogAsheville award. In "Most in Need of a Redesign". Sad.

School is goin' strong, with 18 credits life is busy. Statistics, is an easy class! Calculus, is not a hard class, even though this time as my second attempt due to my C- grade not transferring. Sad. Two Biology classes, are great. My transfer class with the wonderful Dr. Dwight B. Mullen of local fame is a joy.

This is my 500th entry: cheers!

My grandmother passed away just more than one year ago and I wish to officially note the passing, as it is a bit o' a Jewish thing to remember after one year, or perhaps we all do this "one-year rememberance" though to different degrees. I smile when I think of you Bubby.

My brother is at Boston University playing soccer. His profile on their athletic site.

Cheers. And I do believe hard work and intelligence pay off. Cheer-io. Over, out, be neat, wash your feet

Not Asheville-Hendersonville; Asheville-Greenville!

2008-09-10T14:36:00.003-04:00

When I blogged this weekend jokingly about Asheville and Hendersonville becoming a corridor much like the Raleigh-Durham area I did not expect it to, uh, mean a thing. My notion was honestly founded on the local soccer club's roots in Hendersonville, but current headquarters in the south-east Asheville area. Something I never imagined is the corridor may extend to Greenville, SC!

Today Asheville blog Ashvegas writes: "A new name for the local newspaper? Consider: The Asheville-Greenville News-Times.

Not a blog today but --

2008-09-10T14:17:00.002-04:00

The small interrogatives of my life,
hopping, chirping, flitting about,
eluding me since my childhood.
Tiny as birds, light as grasshoppers.
But when I grew up, I made them into heavy affirmatives
like fattened ducks or chickens that come home to roost
and can't rise up and fly:
Whatness, Whyness, Whoness. And birds even heavier than those:
Whereness, Awareness, Whither and Die.

-Yehuda Amichai

And the crowd goes

2008-09-09T22:30:00.002-04:00

...

not wild.

So we get word that what will probably be the largest government bail-out ever is occuring: the common stock of Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac will be worth nothing!

MY generation we have to say, the word on the street is, we feel

not much

:(

Three little birds, sort of

2008-09-07T01:07:00.002-04:00

1. Current-day science 100 years from today will look like the work of barbers in the 1700's: doctors "bleeding" patients is pharmaceuticals with side effects. I feel this because our conception of biotechnology is so young. We relate to DNA like the 18th century scientists related to the cell through a microscrope - primatively!

2. Hendersonville and Asheville will form a corridor like Raleigh-Durham, Minneapolis-Saint. Paul, Dallas-Ft. Worth, and also will exhibit the tension each of those possess: conservative Hendersonville to liberal Asheville is conservative Saint Paul to liberal Minneapolis.

3. Asheville is good.