This is it. I'm going to be halfway across the world for the next two weeks. Keep updated here.

Yesterday, I turned in my resignation letter to my current employer. I quit my job ( Read more... )

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Stability |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Orderliness |||||||||||| 43% Empathy |||||| 30% Interdependence |||||||||||||||| 70% Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 63% Mystical |||||| 30% Artistic |||||||||||| 50% Religious |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Hedonism | ( Read more... )

I exhibit all these symptoms.

Edit: Link fixed. Now you can actually hear the song!

YES! The mystery has been solved, thanks to
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Help me solve a mystery.

Download this file and listen to it.

It's an excerpt from a This American Life (the best show ever) episode on NPR.

I want to know what the song in the background is!!! I know i've heard it before -- perhaps a movie theme. Do you know? It's been pounding in my head for the last few days -- comment if you recognise it!

Tonight, I cooked!

Spurred by a recent article in the Trib, I decided to make short ribs, that glorious (and relatively inexpensive) staple of slow-cooking. When it's cold outside, nothing says comfort like a slow braise.
And nothing says luxury like chocolate. So why not put the two together?

Root vegetable soup: parsnips, parsley root, & ( Read more... )

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It's been a long time since I've written in this blog at all, much less written about food. So I give you the following entry as a humble offering to appease you, Dear Reader.


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Every day until Friday is spent in grey slow motion.