( Whining about being sick. )

"Going to MIT must have been like going to Hogwarts!"

I think I'll take this as a sign I haven't quite lost my touch for being a tour guide.

I was listening to On Point this morning, and as usual these days the topic was politics. Some fellow in Somerville called in to talk about how he had been undecided, but that a speech by Obama that he'd heard this weekend was so powerful it made him cry. As a result, he's decided that what the country really needs is a great leader, and Obama is ( Read more... )

So I don't spam everyone with my chocolate-related communications, I'm going to institute a chocolate filter. This will cover both my gushing about cool chocolate techniques and toys I've found, and information about chocolate sales. (If you have a burning desire to hear about one and not the other, let me know and I'll think about making two ( Read more... )

(For those of you who aren't interested, I will shortly be putting up another post to establish a chocolate filter. Since this is time-sensitive and the filter will be opt-in, however, I wanted to get this out first ( Read more... )

Since I'm doing the whole microbusiness thing (is that even a word?) it seems like I should be thinking about having a mailing list and a website. (Not even an e-commerce site; I won't be approved to sell outside of MA *anyway*, so the main purpose of the website is to provide information about my next sales and available products for custom orders ( Read more... )

Since I have a couple of chocolate bars with cool names, it would be really neat if the rest of them did too.
So I'm running a chocolate-naming contest. Anyone who suggests a name that I like enough to use gets a free chocolate bar. Two bars if you can actually produce a haiku of names for clever bag packaging. ;)

( Names and flavors )

After much poking around on the Broadway Across America site, it looks like the tour of Sweeney Todd that's starting in Boston in a couple of weeks really is a touring version of the recent Broadway revival. I cannot give a good enough review of the Broadway version; it was excellent, entrancing, and disturbing, and a masterpiece of minimalist ( Read more... )

My kitty was put down tonight.

( Reminiscing about my cat. Mostly for my own remembrance. )

We have pantry moths. We first noticed them on Tuesday, and they've been outstripping our ability to kill them. So today has been clean-the-kitchen-to-the-walls day ( Read more... )