February 2012
At wits end.
Ten more days to go, you can do it.
I am grateful for.
Crema grilled cheese, macaron, and english muffin for snack during class on Tuesday. Parmesan Goldfish for my PAF meeting on Wednesday. Beautiful Ad Rem Tulips randomly in class and Harvard Thinks Big on Thursday. A beautiful vase I hopefully will manage not to misplace on Friday. A Raspberry Chocolate Sweet cupcake and Din & Tonics concert on Saturday.
Is it Christmas? Or am I just the...
20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone... →
I still remember my English teacher’s pet peeves: the use of “unique”, the misuse of “nauseous”, and fewer vs. less.
And so it begins.
It’s going to be amazing.
“So often, I feel saddest when I’m happy, because I’m thinking about how that...”
– Lingbo Li
squishable | they're giant round fuzzy stuffed... →
Thanks to a comper for this new discovery. It’s a pity they don’t have an elephant :(
But the hedgehog is a close second.
Nerd Valentine →
That feeling of exhausted emptiness, when you’re high on adrenaline and you can’t imagine its over, when the clapping and bright lights, the smiles and handshakes finish and you’re exiting a building you’ll never again enter - it all feels like a dream, a sprint, a crazy production where everything was thrown aside for the birth of this project, each frame, each tenth of a...
“Why do people do it? It’s like trying to fuck a dog. There’s no...”
– In reference to Americans speaking French. Courtesy of my lovely french roommate.
January 2012
A Rant About Women | Clay Shirky →
Interesting piece on female assertiveness.
Courtesy of my Parisian roommate
Different words for penis en Francais.
1. Penis (standard term)
2. Verge or phallus (medical term)
3. Bite (colloquial term)
4. Queue (dirty term)
5. Zizi (for children. “Jouer à zizi-panpan”: to make love)
(from a reply to an email i sent him with David Leibovitz’s list of different words for a sink)
Everything adds up for a morning of anxiety - all of the things I need to do and haven’t, the rattling of my roommates door from the wind that won’t stop, the feeling of heaviness that sits on my shoulders and chest, the feeling of guilt that by needing support I’m preventing S from doing what he needs to do most - his thesis.
There are beautiful yellow tulips on my desk that...
First snow of 2012
Turned around and the world is blanketed in a beautiful layer of white. So, so beautiful.
The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More →
Interesting article on the economics of poverty.
Leaving home.
Everyone is leaving so soon. Grandparents tomorrow, me on Saturday, mum on Sunday, jie in a few weeks. Home is this place, this house, this ideal that is always here. And that is a comfort, each time that I leave.
Peace and happiness to you and your family.
something that is so endearing to me about the OR: the ubiquitous presence of clogs. comfortable shoes, yes please.
(and yet part of me cries for having no reason to buy expensive pretty shoes #spoiled).
To 2011.
It’s been quite a year - it’d be impossible to recount, but highlights include -
A california visit from my sisters, a new class of puddles, another successful Wenchuan, an incredible summer in Istanbul (and a visit from S), a wonderful trip to Oregon with my family, a unseasonably warm fall, a semester of finally loving my classes (plant labs, dissections, immunology research and...
December 2011
Walnut cake with fig apple compote.
The cake (adapted from Gourmet)
1 1/4 cups walnuts (4 1/2 oz), toasted (see Tips) and cooled 2/3 cup sugar 1 stick unsalted butter, cut into pieces 4 large eggs 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Butter and flour an 8-inch round cake pan.
Combine flour, baking powder, and...
