I've graduated from sandwich breads to hearth breads. Yesterday, I baked pain à l'ancienne baguettes, which were quite tasty. Today, after letting it ferment further, I baked ciabattas from the same dough; they're still cooling.
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Rev. Phelps says thank God for dead Swedes and dead Americans.

Phelps's fellow travelers take note.

I sent in three grad school applications today, so that's nine down and one to go. For the tenth I'm waiting for the call for applications, and other than that it's pretty much ready to go.

It's dark and lonely and lovely in the woods. My roommate is gone for four weeks: one down and three to go. I like playing loud music at 3 AM, but also I ( Read more... )

You know what I hate? When I'm looking to listen to a CD from some band, so I look at one, and I think, "This one is really familiar. Is there another one that I know less well?" I look at another and another, and it's the same. And since they released only three and then broke up, there will most likely never be any more.

P.S.: My six-week post- ( Read more... )

Some of what we have to look forward to in the next four years:

• A new draft
• Economic stagnation
• Amateur abortions
• Severely eroded civil liberties
• Lost ground in the War on Terror

It might be good to think about grad school pretty soon, I thought, so now I have list of programs, application deadlines, and other requirements. The first application is due one month from today, with three more following two weeks after that. I have a list of 11 schools here, which seems like too many, but I'm sure I'm also leaving something ( Read more... )

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The background we hopefully all know by now: ( Background )

From out of nowhere, a high school friend send me an instant message:

Dustin: why vote Democrat?
Me: hey
Dustin: hi
Me: well, because bush doesn't understand the war on terror
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Well, maybe he went to the Camper Van Beethoven show.

I'm going tonight. I don't know what they sound like fifteen years after Key Lime Pie--I haven't heard their new album--but I have faith. I'm hoping at least for "Ambiguity Song," "Good Guys & Bad Guys," and maybe ( Read more... )