Time Management

I've had lots of time on my hands recently... You can only spend so much time productively job hunting each day so the rest of my time is left pretty much wide open. So I've managed to find a couple things to fill up the time.

One of things I miss from the US is the food channel... so to improvise I have found a solid 2 hour block of cooking shows on in the afternoon. First off is Ready Steady Cook - a show which I am trying to get onto and was supposed to be in the audience for. For some reason they canceled the taping so I am on hold till I hear back from them. :( This show is a competition between two chefs who are teamed with two audience members who bring in random ingredients. The chefs have to come up with a menu from the ingredients (which they don't know until the taping) and then have 20 minutes to make 4 dishes. After that the two chefs make 3 additional dishes from another set of ingredients in 10 minutes. It's fun to watch and they are quite entertaining.

Next up is Alive and Cooking. This show is a bit odd and the host is quite different, but its a cooking show nonetheless. After that is Huey's Cooking Adventures, where an older gentleman makes different dishes from different areas of Australia and the world. He is a bit of a Paula Dean without the extreme need to fry everything.

All of the shows use very Australian ingredients which aren't really used in the states so it's fun to see how they are prepared and used in cooking.

In the evenings my nights are a mix of basketball, work, relaxing and an occasional night of salsa dancing. I think I posted something about a year ago about this - but my flat mate dances as well so we've been going down on Thursday nights to put in a couple hours of dancing. It's been great so far, however our usual dance partner is moving to Perth so the next couple weeks might be interesting... hopefully we'll be able to find someone suitable to dance with that isn't too hideous. :)