Ladies and gentleman: as of midnight last night, I have officially finished applying to grad school. Everything is submitted. For those keeping track at home, that includes three professors’ recommendation letters (and wasn’t THAT a cause for premature graying), transcripts, tailored statements of purpose, writing sample and the accompanying images, resumes, GRE scores, application forms, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘odyssey’
21 Jan
the dilema of our times
Temperatures aren’t supposed to break out of the negatives today . . . Unless it starts to snow. Which’ll warm it up. And I’d say, “Thank goodness for my chai lattes” . . . But I already drank it all. And I need more star anise and cardamom pods to make more. To leave the [...]
24 Dec
live blogging: buche de noel edition
3:14: I think the mushrooms are my favorite part. Look how cute their little tops are. Meringue domes + meringue stems, attached with a little melted chocolate. I can’t resist. They’ll go on the cake right before we eat it, along with powdered-sugar snow. And I think we’re done for now. 2:31: Mushrooms, outta that [...]
23 Dec
my precious
Hello, hello, hello. I have missed you. You know that feeling when you’re driving to the airport and half-way there you realize you’ve forgotten something? Let’s say it’s your travel journal or contact solution. Maybe the present for the people you’re visiting. It’s nothing crucial, like your passport or wallet, nothing you can’t buy there [...]
23 Nov
pie today, pie tomorrow
Let me tell you: this pie was torture. This pie was the second circle of Hell. I hated making this pie. And yet. As much as it pains me to admit it and though I fully concede that hellish processes do not always lead to breathtaking results, they often do — and this falls squarely [...]
17 Nov
eating through chicago
B and I went to Chicago this weekend — or, as I have taken to calling it, ChiacGOING. Because we’re always GOING there. Get it? In typical fashion and in no way deviating from the norm, the trip was a total food glut. A rolly polly, happy glut. On the drive in, we made straight [...]
26 May
ketchup [catch up] from france; or, this blog still exists!
Oh man, friends. What a rough couple weeks, bloggly-speaking. As predicted, beret-wearing and croissant-eating took up entire days, leaving absolutely no time for blog-writing, which is a shame, because now that I’m back stateside, I’m going to spend the next couple entries making you very hungry, rather than spreading it out organically. Sorry. Anyway, on [...]
7 May
the last week’s last day
OH my GOSH. Has it been forever or WHAT. I do, however, have some fairly (I think?) good excuses for the long absence, namely: we’ve been undoing the house for a summer alone since at least this time last week. B is winging west for a very fancy externship in California, and I’m heading east [...]
23 Apr
the consummate chocolate chip cookie (i know!!!!)
Hide the children. Grab a bib. There’s nobody here but us cookie monsters. So about these consummate chocolate chip cookies . . . they are unbelievably good. They are buttery and sweet, but the sprinkling of sea salt on top also makes them enticingly — addictively — savory. Because you’re meant to shape and bake [...]
22 Apr
the consummate chocolate chip cookie (i hope)
Quick! If you were going to make a THE ultimate chocolate chip cookie, the Last Cookie, the one you would request on Death Row and the one for which all other cookies were mere preparation — what would you put in it? Ah ha! But you are not allowed to include walnuts, pecans, nuts of [...]
