--- title: 'Bananas' date: 2023-02-20 permalink: /bananas/ tags: [home, post] --- We had super overripe bananas, and I had seen a recipe, and so I got it in my head to make a banana cake. I am not a baker, so this is a rare event. R. came into the kitchen while I was whisking the dry ingredients together, said nothing, and left. He was back in the classroom today for the first time after last Monday here, and so I didn’t think much of it. He’s got a lot on his mind, I thought. Later he mentioned being super excited about the cake, and amazed that I made it, and so I asked what was up when he walked into the kitchen before. He stared at me for a second and said: “You don’t bake. And I associate baking with a few things. And so my brain literally went: - She’s making biscuits. - Is she making biscuits? - She’s not making biscuits. And then I left.” I wish I could fully explain why I love this sequence so much.