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( My big fat Micro$oft wedding... which I am not having. )

Silence, by Lydia Waldman

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So we ordered these rings on the internet...


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Fun fact: if you make cornstarch-thickened egg drop soup and put red cabbage in it, it will start out purple and slowly turn blue if you refrigerate the leftovers. Really strikingly disturbingly hydrangea-blue. Or at least, it happened to our soup made with veggie broth; maybe chicken is more acidic.

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Yeah, I know this is several years overdue ( Read more... )

I've been in denial all week about how I've just got a mild cold and it'll pass quickly. The students are all absent with bronchitis. Yeah, that would explain why I have no voice, too. Eating lots of soup (egg drop remains the best) and drinking lots of tea and orange juice and hoping it won't get any worse than this ( Read more... )

This weekend, so far, has been for a lot of things.

I made black beans. Did laundry. Went with
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I made homemade seitan yesterday out of vital wheat gluten, something I've been meaning to try forever but hadn't gotten up the nerve. I was encouraged by the fact that our local Fresh Grocer (24 hours, under 0.5 miles' walk) carries vital wheat gluten but not my favorite brand of cheap refrigerated TVP ( Read more... )

I get chastised for walking too fast pretty frequently, whether it's when I'm walking with my sisters and accidentally leaving them behind, or walking with students to the train in serious car country. I like walking fast - it's one of the vestiges of living in New York that I would really hate to lose. And, of course, it makes it easier to catch ( Read more... )