December 2011
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New Years' Resolution: Explore the Philippines →
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A few days to go and its almost 2012, new year and another 365 days of endless opportunities to travel and learn about the Philippines. That’s right, I’m specifically talking about traveling in our OWN country, discovering how magnificent and enchanting the Philippines is.
Before, traveling used to be for those who have the luxury of time and money but...
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2011 in Review
Best Reads:
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Lit, Mary Karr
Carrie, Stephen King
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom
Good Films:
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Black Swan
American Violet
My Name is Kahn
Windfall
Plastic Nation
Concerts:
Ke$ha
NKOTBSB
Travels:
Spring Break in Canada: Toronto, Niagara Falls, Windsor
Ann Arbor 2x
Columbus many times:...
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December 23-29
Last minute Christmas shopping/stress/buying more things for myself than for the people on my gift list.
Tried Leinenkugel’s Fireside Nut Brown Beer; Blue Moon’s Winter Abbey remains the winter seasonal brews champion for me, but this might take second place.
Culinary Adventures: Sweet Potato & Califlower Soup, Saag
Filipino Christmas Party
Gifts with Mom and Sister = 1...
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imperilled asked: HE GAVE ME AN A TOO. I just about died of happiness.
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page...”
– Cornelia Funke (via ihrtbks)
“When we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit...”
– ― Ursula K. Le Guin (via oh-sayitaintso)
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Must Make: Winter Zucchini Bread Pancakes →
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“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing...”
– Virgil Garnett Thomson (via quote-book)
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A Christmas Story, 1941 →
There was tension in the house. Guests were on the way for the holiday — but the husband hadn’t told his wife who they were. So in the days just before Christmas 70 years ago, the two had a quarrel.
This wasn’t your average household tiff. The year was 1941, the quarrel occurred in the White House, the combatants were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the guests were British Prime Minister...
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A Grinchy Proposal
Sister and I set out this afternoon on a mission to buy gifts for grandma, cousin, and father at the most unpleasant place in the world, the mall.
Mission #1: Grandma’s Gift Card for Aladdin’s Eatery: we committed a huge fail, buying one $30 gift card and one $20 gift card. We thought we’d get a $10 bonus card, but the rule was buy ONE $50 card, get the $10 card. So now we have...
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Sweet Potato & Califlower Soup
First, confession: after three days of successfully eating a vegetarian diet, I fell off the wagon at the holiday party on Thursday. Mrs. T makes this wonderful Buffalo dip that contains chicken and I fall for it every time. As of Friday I am back on the wagon, but I predict I’ll probably buckle again during the Filipino Christmas party tomorrow. This is difficult.
Second, I made a version...
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December 15-22
Flowers in the Attic the movie with Amanda. FABULOUS.
TWINChristmas. Received a Ke$ha hood from Twin!!!!
The Strange Night of the Reslife Holiday parties.
Brunch at Southside Diner & Twintrip to Toledo!
HOME!
Planned trip to LA with sister - coming March 6-13, 2012
Thrifting with sister. Bought: one sweater, one sweater dress, one Betty Boop doll for grandma, and whatever domestic...
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Cranberry Guacamole
In my efforts to practice being vegetarian in the safe environs of home (rather than the precarious environs of the college dining hall), I have made another wonderful dish, local food movements be damned!
12/21/11 Lunch
Ingredients:
2 avocados
1 jalapeño
1/2 onion
1 tomato
handful cranberries
juice of one lime
sugar and salt to taste
With my French Chef knife I cut up the jalepeño,...
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Vegetable Spaghetti
12/20/2011 Dinner
I’ve recently decided that I don’t like beef very much, save perhaps for actual hamburgers, and so when I went to make spaghetti yesterday, I was pleased to know that we did not have any ground beef in the house. I grabbed all the vegetables I had recently purchased and made a vegetable spaghetti.
Ingredients:
1 Onion
1 Green Pepper
1 carrot
1 zucchini
1...
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Cashier at the grocery store (probably 18 years old) asked me, “what is this??” when she rang up my spinach.
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Spoiler Alert: The minister is Hester's baby...
Taylor Swift should have read this book and then maybe she wouldn’t have committed this epic error.
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7 Foods Food Safety Experts Won't Eat →
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December 9-15
Lunch at Bayleaf Indian Restaurant with the brilliant Ivonne G.
Being one of the last/nerdiest two students present at the English department holiday party
Dessert buffet with REACH
I guess that’s real snow?
Sisterhood & My Name is Kahn (highly recommend)
Late nights in the Science quad
Poli Sci + English honors exams
Lunch at the 50’s diner & Strawberry Shortcake!
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University of Vermont Frat Asks Members: Who Would... →
ARE YOU JOKING.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A University of Vermont fraternity has been suspended while school officials, national organization leaders and police investigate allegations that a survey was circulated among members asking them who they would like to rape.
Members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter would not discuss the allegations Wednesday.
A student reported the questionnaire to school...
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Love Letter to College Students →
I’ve been there.
Books piled up in a stack beside you. Nodding off to the glow of the computer screen. Neon strips of highlighter scraped across your forehead, leftover not from a raging highlighter party the night before but rather the all-nighter spent spooning Shakespeare term papers and mind-rattling interpretations of Samuel Beckett’s best works.
Some of you are halfway. Knees sunk deep...
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via light-essence)
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“If an individual is not an author, what are we to make of those things [s/he]...”
– Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”
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“All that I know is that
I don’t know how to be something you miss”
– Why am I in love with this Taylor Swift song??
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My brain has literally run out of thoughts.
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December 2-8
Watched documentary Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. Mixed feelings about it.
rainrainraindespair. Rainy night twin dinner date at Sips.
New boat shoes. I’m pretty sure they make my feet look huge.
Cold weather.
Car trouble :(
Obsessively listening to piano compilation of Christmas songs on repeat for three straight days.
Weekend Wishlist:
Yummy Indian food for lunch with my faculty...
“Once I begin the act of writing, it all falls away—the view from the...”
– Gail Godwin, “How I Write”
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via thatkindofwoman)
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My Saturday afternoon study goals
1. free write 1000-word essay/first-draft. 2. read 35 pages of Absalom, Absalom! 3. edit 10 pg paper for Friday
What did I actually do?
1. free write 1000-word essay/first-draft 2. read 25 pages of Absalom 3. spend $53 on kohls.com for 4 sweaters. 4. write this post. 5. Quit an hour before dinner to take a nap.
I had so much potential between goals one and two.
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November 25-December 1
Catching up with M. Troy & K. Croak over pizza, cupcakes, chex mix, hummus, & white merlot. Catching up with all those HS personalities, unbeknownst to them.
Coffee with B.T. & a little bit of shopping.
Ordered “Jam Session” purple vest from NY&Co. for $20 with Free Shipping!
Subway: Twin Thanksgiving Dinner tradition
Submitted applications to OSU &...