but even when comparing normal-rising-speed bread with the too-quickly-risen bread, I like the "undesirable" aroma of the quickly-risen more, just because it's how my grandmas used to bake their bread. So it's the taste of childhood.
you know, there are all these books about artisan bread talking how you should retard your bread as long as possible, to get the subtle flavors - basically making almost sourdough out of "normal" recipes
@JourneymanGeek it depends on how you like your bread. If you don't like the taste of too-fast risen bread, use less yeast. It will rise slowly even in hot weather.
@Tinkeringbell hey, that sounds nice. Like a good way to break up the routine, without it being too frequent. So why not spend the money, if you have it anyway and it's a rare treat.
Also, I'm using the term "graduate student" here, but I actually mean PhD students only, who, in Germany, are my coworkers. Not master students, with whom the connection is very different, like classmates.
And I spent a long time associated with that research group, because I only had a job there until 2012, but my first project failed to find any publishable relationships in the data we gathered, so I changed my topic and worked elsewhere while writing a dissertation separately, which took me until 2018.
she started the department in 2003, but basically still without grad students, and had the first "generation" with only three who finished around the time I joined in 2009. So I had seen them once or twice already.
I asked "how was it" and his answer was "Nobody has changed, except for the grey hair. The shy ones are still shy, the posers are still posers, the dorks are still dorks, and so on."
I meant more that there's a certain shape that's almost always a true positive for a baby bump and clearly not fat. But it doesn't work in the other direction - there are many pregnant women, mostly fleshier ones but apparently also skinny ones, who don't get that distinctive shape.
I don't know if they did any reunions though, we went to highschool in Bulgaria, around 90% of us went on to study in Germany, and then many of us also moved to other countries I think.
I've never had invitations reach me from my highschool schoolmates, even though I've kept my email from that time, and until recently also my Skype handle from that time, so they could have found me if they wanted
@Tinkeringbell I think that with thin people, it's easy to tell, because a pregnancy belly covered only by thin skin has a rather distinct shape. When the person has both a baby bump and some fat, it becomes difficult to distinguish.
I think that it's because I'm usually very thin - when I straighten up a lot, I used to have a concave belly. And I don't mean "straighten up" in the sense of sucking in my belly with my belly muscles, but reducing my (medically confirmed) lordosis with my back muscles, and stretching a bit upwards instead of slouching. So now part of the bump is filling that concave part instead of protruding.
@Tinkeringbell It should be, on average, yes. Currently, each individual baby is quite small, still around 500 g, but they each have their own amniotic sac filled with fluid.
They also know me as a thin person, of course. And when I wear a billowing summer dress, to random strangers I look, with my still-smallish bump, more like a stocky person than like a pregnant person.
It was also the first time I showed off my bump, wearing a real maternity dress and cinching it with a belt between the bust and belly to make sure it's visible. And this time, people actually noticed the pregnancy :)
Yesterday, I was at a social event, my PhD advisor celebrated her retirement and about 80% of her former students showed up. It was a very nice reunion.
