Sorry I've been absent as of late. School has been insane. Just took my two exams today and then just two more papers and I'm done with this summer semester. Oh yeah, and I'm going away tomorrow. I started a new job too, but I get to work remotely and write about childhood nutrition which is awesome! Getting paid to do what I love? Um, sweet. And I ( Read more... )

My group for Food Production did a bunch of prep for the brunch we have to do tomorrow. I was wondering why my arms are so tired, but then I remembered that I peeled/skinned and chopped 18 lbs of watermelon today all by my lonesome.

As the tightly stapled chapbook slips ( Read more... )

Start with an unlikely beginning and a mouthful of things that don’t need to be said. How old is the part of you that knows better? How long would you wait? How many times are you willing to change the names? Make what you will of the light at the end of the hall, the lips curled in surprise, but deep in your veins you know there’s little left of ( Read more... )

This weekend Chris and I went up with my family to Boston for my sister's graduation. We stayed with his mom and stepdad and saw friends and family and had a really good time ( Read more... )

Dear Acid Reflux,

I am not amused. I don't know where you came from, but please go back, ASAP.

Thanks.

My first blog review, sort of, courtesy of some random person on Chow.com in a thread about recipes for cancer patients ( Read more... )

“And he was one of the ones they found,” she said as she sipped her tea. For a second, I thought she might bless herself, not that she ever does that. “Goodness, every bone in his body was broken. Can you imagine what that must have looked like ( Read more... )

I want to get a harp mostly so I can play Leonard Cohen songs on it. "Sisters Of Mercy" just came on and I was reminded of one of my (many) favorite lines...

We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right

Dude, the Easter Bunny at brunch totally thought I was of Easter-egg-receiving age, despite my alcohol consumption. My younger sister didn't get an egg but my nine-year-old cousin did. You'd think that being in my mid-twenties, I'd have had time to get used to this, but no. It's still pretty hilarious (if not annoying at times) to get mistaken for ( Read more... )