Archive for February, 2005

Domesticity and the Kin of the King of the Grains

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Having a kitchen lets me cook things and being able to cook things lets me be all domes­tic and stuff. Yesterday, I baked a cake from scratch; it was a bunch of fun and I’ve had cake to eat for the past day. Now I need to fig­ure out other fun stuff to cook and eat.

Speaking of cook­ing things, I have had a real han­ker­ing for wild rice of late. In order to sati­ate myself, I obtained wild rice and am cook­ing some right now. For those that don’t know, wild rice is a dis­tant rel­a­tive of tra­di­tional rice and is native to the Great Lakes region of North America. Rice is, of course, the King of the Grains.

Wild rice is great and now I have some; also, cake.

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Finale: No, Really

Monday, February 21st, 2005

Yesterday, the Liz and I went out for sushi at Kotobukiya and then went to a desser­t­erie in Harvard Square called Finale.

Liz and I both had the cheese­cake; she got the rec­om­mended wine and I had a flight of three ports.

Seeing as my poetic expe­ri­ence is very lim­ited, I doubt that I can craft words in a man­ner that will do jus­tice to the qual­ity to this dessert, but I will nonethe­less try. I began by eat­ing some of the berries which accom­pa­nied my cheese­cake to build my antic­i­pa­tion and then I took a small bite of the cheese­cake. Upon con­sum­ing my first nib­ble of cheese­cake, my palatte was engulfed in such splen­dor as to fill my very being. After the nib­ble of cheese­cake, I took a small sip of each of my three ports, which also left me a sense of won­der and awe. There was some sort of choco­late adorn­ment in the cheese­cake and upon tast­ing it, I had but one thought, “You must be kid­ding me.” Each bite of my cheese­cake and sip of my ports was as good as the pre­vi­ous. The glory of that dessert was such that I felt that my life had reached its apex.

I guess what I’m try­ing to say is that you absolutely must try the desserts at this restaurant.

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Valentine’s: Foiled

Monday, February 14th, 2005

The Liz totally fig­ured out my cin­der block plan before I could give her one. Having had my plans foiled, I shall have to fall back to giv­ing her some­thing else and then telling her the story of why I was going to give her a cin­der block. Maybe this’ll teach me to post my evil schemes on my blog (but prob­a­bly not).

I am fur­ther foiled by hav­ing a whole ton and a half of stuff to do today. Between my nor­mal Monday stuff and hav­ing a big prob­lem set due tomor­row, I am too busy for Valentine’s day. Luckily, I will make up for this defi­ciency by spend­ing time with the Liz tomorrow.

Note: There are two peo­ple named Liz linked to from my blog; I am dat­ing the one listed as “the Liz” (Sherv brought this ambi­gu­ity to my attention).

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The year of the Transformers

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

So I was watch­ing Transformers: The Movie again (yeah, I do this a lot) and I noticed a funny thing. The movie begins with the won­der­ful phrase, “The year is 2005…” So I say to myself, that’s now! This is the year of the Transformers.

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Just so we’re clear

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

I have met this girl; she is fan­tas­ti­cally awesome.

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Weekend in Ithaca

Monday, February 7th, 2005

I spent this past week­end in Ithaca, NY vis­it­ing Liz at Cornell. Ellen and I drove out late Friday and came back mid-Sunday. It was very chill and we didn’t do much but it was a good change of scenery and com­pany, which pleased me. I’m pretty sure that a good time was had by all. And I’m being lazy, so that’s all the blog updat­ing that you get for now.

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200th and Classes

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Well, today is the first day of classes of my last semes­ter as an under­grad­u­ate and this is also my 200th post.

This leaves two things to dis­cuss and I’ll start with the 200th post bit. 200 posts, hooray! Ok, that’ll do for that.

So, first day of classes, I guess that I might as well give a bit of a pre­view of what this term is going to look like for me. I’ve got my sched­ule nar­rowed down to only hav­ing classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I intend to use this fact to work on my the­sis on Mondays and Wednesdays and get three day week­ends as well. I’ve also got a pretty nice class load­out to go with my beau­ti­ful sched­ule. I am tak­ing 3.063: Polymer Physics, 11.125: Exploring K-12 Classroom Teaching, and 21M.600: Introduction to Acting. This term is going to be totally sweet.

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