February 2012
9 posts
I have officially determined why I love Scott...
He essentially is the modern day Patrick Bateman, no?
Hey guys, why did the hipster burn his hand?
Because he changed the lightbulb before it was cool!
Reasons why I’m so classy:
I laugh so loud in little French restaurants that the patrons around me actually quiet down and look around.
I dribble hot chocolate sauce down the front of my shirt.
I respond, “pas probleme,” to the servers who say “merci beaucoup.” What am I reassuring THEM for?
I try to make a smooth exit but end up tripping over my heels.
I forget...
wah.
I officially want to crawl into a hole and cry. Never have I been so scared for the future of my education before.
Someone ought to shovel pints of ice cream down my throat… and I certainly wouldn’t count on any significant others to do so for me.
If I had froyo for lunch, would that be so bad?
January 2012
7 posts
In major grumps because Berkeley is a bureaucratic mess of a school and doesn’t even have enough room for its students to sign up for their major prerequisites.
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I must warn you
Now that I have moved my food blog over to wordpress (say hi here!), there is a high chance that this blog will become overrun with cats.
I apologize beforehand.
THE GREAT UNVEILING!
So, while it still isn’t very finished, I figured I would direct you all over to my new blog, Much A-dough About Nothing.
I haven’t figured out what I’m going to do with my tumblr yet, and in the meantime, I apologize for disappearing on you all like this. Forgive me, forgive me.
See you on the other side!
Sea change
Hi everyone!
I know I’ve been entirely missing in action, but this past month has been my slow and not too steady shift to Wordpress.
More details to come later.
December 2011
26 posts
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I'm home!!
And just my luck - I left my battery charger for my Canon in Berkeley.
So no photo spam just yet… though I will grace you all with this baby:
I have a big fat red pimple right in the middle of my forehead. Bringing in the New Year with class, baby!
P.S. My face isn’t really this fat, though it does comes close. I just realized that even though I used the fisheye/bulge effect, this...
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Christmas, like the Jews
Disclaimer: I duly apologize for anyone I happen to offend with this post.
Merry (belated) Christmas to all those who celebrate it!
Since my momma and I were cruising around DC while my baby brother and dad were in Tampa, we decided to do Christmas the way all my Jewish friends do - movie and Chinese food!
And where better to do that than Chinatown?
Every single Jewish friend of mine...
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Billy Elliot!
Hi guys! Happy belated Christmas and such!
I usually upload all my photos to a post first and then add the text, but I completely didn’t realize that I uploaded the photos in this post and hit “publish” rather than “save draft.” Sorry to those who just stared at a series of pictures for a few days wondering what I was off doing.
My head has been up in the clouds...
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Being good guests
Hi people!
Yesterday my momma and I, being guests of this fabulous city, went to visit some of the more well-known tourist sites of DC.
The first few days (before my mother arrived) were absolutely freezing, with this really cold and cutting wind. By the time my mom flew in from Florida, it had warmed up to a really sunny and pleasant high of 60 degrees.
Essentially, I got made fun of for...
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All over DC
What’s kicking, my friends?
This Thursday I had possibly one of the coolest gastronomical days ever while cruising around DC.
And by coolest, I may or may not mean that I essentially purchased three different lunches and then stuffed my face with two different desserts at dinner.
Is anyone surprised?
My godmother gave me her Starbucks birthday gift card, and when the barista told me...
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Carb Coma
Hi there!
I know… I’m so bad. Shame on me for disappearing for so many days…
I’m sorry, I’m sorry.
I have posts drafted and queued, I promise. They’re just not all… posted. But soon! Holiday cheer, holiday forgiveness!
A thin slice of cappuccino cake for breakfast
Plus a banana (or a few) for the road
My little cousin Olivia went off to Vermont...
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Revisits
Hey ho, party-o.
I’m having a bit of an off day. I’m not too sure what it’s from, my all day, the lighting has sucked and my photos came out badly and I’m probably unwittingly nursing a tummy-ache from a rather bad cupcake.
Or it could be because I stayed up until 5am last night reading a book and had to leave for DC by 10am this morning.
Whatevs.
I had a lunch with one...
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For everyone asking about my hair cut,
It’s not all that drastic, actually.
I didn’t have the balls to go all Emma Watson/Carey Mulligan/Ginnifer Goodwin on you all!
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Hitting the streets
Hey friends!
I need to start writing these posts earlier; I’ve been having to force myself to sit down, slap my face a good one or two, shrug off any semblance of sleepiness and blast Eye of the Tiger in order to prepare myself for TUMBLR TIME.
Ohh yeah, can you feel the music?
What’s up, iPhoto? How’s it going, tumblr?
I’m getting pumped…
Risin’ up, back...
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Eastern Market and the far East
Hi everyone!
I just need to get this out of the way: Kim Jong-Il is dead, so that makes Kim Kardashian the most powerful Kim in the world, doesn’t it? (via wellalright)
Continuing with the Eastern theme here tonight, I present to you the Eastern Market, which is DC’s oldest farmers’ market!
It’s open Tuesday through Sunday at 7th and C St. SE in Washington, DC and has...
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The Adventures of Stuart
Before I tell you all who Stuart is, I’d just like to say that the one downside to the holiday season is having to navigate shopping malls 8 days before Christmas.
Also, Jude Law is soooo nice on the eyes, oh my gooooodness.
Okay.
So this morning, Olivia’s father took us out to a brunch of dim sum at Mark’s Duck House in Arlington! However, being a vegetarian, that limited me...
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No kitchen, no problem
Howdy folks!
Just to clarify; I’m not actually in DC. I’m in McLean, VA, but the city is like 15 minutes from the capital and I could bike over to Georgetown in maybe 30-45 minutes depending on how fast my legs want to go.
So basically DC. We’re not too picky here.
Also, before I go on about my day, I wanted to announce that there are foreseeable changes to my blog in the...
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From the Berzerk to the District
Holy moly, I’m exhausted.
This semester has been long, hard, and painful (that’s what she said), but I am so relieved it’s over. I survived, even if it was barely by the skin of my teeth, and now I’ve escaped to the other side!
Literally.
(Well, sort of literally in the sense that I’m on the opposite coast other side type… you get what I mean.)
This last...
Forgive me, foodies.
I’m sorry I’ve totally fallen off the blogging bandwagon again. Truth is, it’s finals week and I’ve spent a total of 3 nights in my bed this past week. Also, stress.
To lug around a camera with me in order to photograph my meals is laughable - my priorities right now are as follows: study, breathe, sleep, eat.
Plus, I’ve developed quite an intimate relationship with...
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This is what finals week does to me.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the physical manifestations of being:
Loopy
Fried in the noggin’
Stir-crazy
Wacked
Braindead
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Balls and Bollywood
I’ve been a mess all day today.
I’m not too sure why, though it could be because it’s almost finals week and I’m psyching myself out. But that’s just a sad excuse.
Not sad enough for failed apple-craisin cookies balls, though!
You see, I feel like the only genuinely productive thing I did today was go to the gym. However, my shin splints were decidedly cruel to me...
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December! (6 days too late)
Seriously. What in the world is going on?
How can it be December already?!
I think I spent too much of this semester with my head up my butt because here I was, innocently watching a Macy’s commercial, when all of a sudden I realized it’s December.
I’m going to go curl up in a ball of panic.
What happened to the nice warm sunshine of summer? (Well, in all fairness, I live in...
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Give me a pizza that!
Aww yeeee. (Am I the world’s corniest person or what?)
I have a confession to make. I’m actually at my econ review session right now and I may or may not be multitasking by reading some of those super silly iPhone autocorrect screenshots.
And I may or may not have nearly just peed my pants laughing. Right in the middle of a very somber debate about tax cuts. Oopsies.
Anyway.
...
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Lothlorien
Hi guys!
I know I’ve fallen behind on my posts, but it’s officially finals season and I really need to hide my butt in the library for this next week.
Howevaaah, because I love you all and have some time before my next review session, I’ll give you a quick update.
The weather this weekend has been stunning. And that really really REALLY annoys me. Why is it every time I...
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Burma Superstar!
Guys, I am super excited about presenting to you my dinner from tonight. It’s almost embarrassing how giddy I am (blame it on reaching “fat happy cat” mode).
But first, let’s get my boring lunch out of the way.
It’s been super windy lately, and I think some winds have even been knocking down trees and causing power outages around the Bay Area.
During Chinese...
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The consequence of laziness
…just happens to be getting up way earlier than intended. At least this morning.
Ever since daylight savings, I’ve never bothered to reel my alarm clock back that one hour. I don’t know if it was just laziness or great foresight for the future (when we’ll inevitably have to add that hour back on), but basically, my alarm clock is an hour fast.
Do you see were this is...
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What would a tax cut do?
Depending on whether you’re a supply-side economist, a mainstream economist, or a really grumpy, tired, and freezing cold college student, your answers may vary from
decreasing the government deficit
increasing the government deficit
what’s that? I can’t heeeeear you!
I’ve spent a good portion of my evening going over these miserable questionnaires from hell (aka my...
November 2011
22 posts
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Statistically significant
This post brought to you by a much-needed Statistics study break.
I’m currently wallowing in a pile of papers and tables and numbers. I would make some super corny joke about p-values and other measures of significance, but my brain is bordering on fried. (Is it just me, or do I whine a lot on this blog?)
Anyway, since I’ve been off my detox, I haven’t actually wanted anything...
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Whaaattup blogosphere!
Sorry, that was obnoxious. But I also come bearing amazing (well, amazing in my opinion) news: I’m back! With new equipment!
It’s been a while, darling readers. I’ve missed you all so much. How have you guys been?! How have I been?! How has anyone been?! I’m incredibly excited to be back, even though we’re coming up on finals week, and I really just want to curl up...
Happy belated belated Turkey Day, folks!
It’s been so lovely being home (and also very expensive).
I am attaching the lens to my new camera in T-5 seconds.
ONE MORE DAY!
Good thing my flight is at 6am tomorrow morning! Who doesn’t love getting picked up at 4am for the airport?
Darling readers,
How mad would you all be if I moved my blog over to wordpress?
I go home in precisely one week
Which means in precisely one week (plus a few extra hours for me to drive home from the airport, unpack, cuddle with my kittypie, etc.), I’m back on the circuit.
How terrifying.