May 2, 2020

OK--missed another day. Oh well.

I spent a good part of yesterday and the day before working on my review of Janek Wasserman's Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas (Yale University Press, 2019). I was motivated to resume work on the review when I opened the latest New York Review of Books and saw that Janek's book is reviewed in the issue. That's major press for a book like this--an academic book published by a university press. I think I'm finally happy with my review (I started writing it about a month ago).

Last night, AR came over and we splurged on takeout. We ordered from JuJu the following:

pork ribs
cauliflower
curry mushroom soup
General Tso's chicken
pork belly dumplings
pork and shrimp dumplings
bing bread

Total, with tip: $95.38--and worth every penny.

Went for a 2-mile jog yesterday. Studied French. Read half of Peter Hunter Blair's history of England. Read from Donaldson's Beowulf. Dinner was scrambled eggs and a small salad.

Talked to my cousin JH. Talked about cooking and food and her father's turnip stew.

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