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I made my first soufflé last night. It was a Caramel, Pear, and Polenta soufflé. The recipe needs a bit of work but it was definately worth making again. The flavours were beautifully rich, deep and layered, but it was unfotunately a bit too sweet.

The original recipe called for ripe pears cooked in pear juice, but I couldn't fine pear *juice* at the store and got pear *nectar* instead. The recipe was mightily flawed on its estimations of how long a pear takes to poach (claimed 10 minutes) and by the time the pears were close to done (30 minutes), the nectar had become syrup. Next time I'll used canned pears in juice since the whole thing gets pureed anyway before it's added to the polenta. I think I'll also out the sugar and increase the orange essence in the polenta itself.

And as with most of my baked goods, it tasted a whole lot better than it looked. I have no pictures, but that's probably for the best.

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Well the good folks at DFAIT have just ensured that I will not be accepting any form of extention with them, or any future contract with them. For the second week in a row Boss-man decided not to show up. Howeverm unlike last week, it doesn't look like my time sheet will be signed this week, there are no other bosses. The big man is is on vacation and my boss is the ACTING DEPARTMENT HEAD! And he decided not to show up. I could forgive this if there was something wrong, but no, according to his emails he just isn't coming in. He isn't even making it to the Department Head meeting this afternoon.

You know, I am a firm believer that once I accept a contract, I see that contract through to the end, but I am so incredibly tempted to just walk out. Right now.

I am doing work that a trained monkey could do, and even they would be overqualified! I am commuting almost three hours every day so that I can feel my brain cells die and these ... people (I will not curse) ... don't even have the courtesy to pay me!

I swear I no longer have the patience for this kind of shit.