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April 10, 2007
Lights at the End...
31 days til graduation, and I'm starting to see some lights:
1. An oven light.
Slowly but surely, my complex is removing all my reasons for moving, providing first a new dishwasher, then giving me the green light on painting, and now a new oven. WITH AN OVEN LIGHT. I am loving it so hard.
Of course, in order to procure said oven, my original one had to die. 2.5 hours into the 5 hours of cooking required for the $30 sweet-and-sour brisket I was making for My First Passover. Oy.
2. Campfire light.
The Boy and I headed to Big Sur for some lovely camping after I finished seminar paper #1. We couldn't find any paper for our fire, but my 1995 U.S. atlas worked like gangbusters! Adios, Tennessee through Canada and Mexico!
3. A fire under my feet.
Our Rand-McNally fueled pyre set my shoe on fire. For real! I tried like hell to capture the smoldering on film, but Miller Lite is a powerful tonic, my friends, and this is the best you'll get.
3. The light of love.
There is The Boy of course, and I think I made the official conversion to Lover of Cooking when I purchased my first expensive pot as a tax refund reward to self last week. I read Not Martha's review of Dutch Ovens, and when I couldn't find the Chefmate she mentioned, I splurged on the Mario Batali Dutch Oven in Pesto at Crate & Barrel. I tried to carry that monster the 2 miles home but wimped out when my pit stains became visible at about 1.75 and had The Boy come pick me up. In any case, it's just awesome to have a pot that has an even bottom surface so that I don't have to tilt the pan to ensure even browning.
Anyway, I have been cooking a ton over the last week for Passover -- bread-product-, soy- and corn-syrup-free cooking. And somehow, I only have one recipe to share that ROCKED my world, to my absolute surprise: Cauliflower-Leek Kugel. Cauliflower? Who knew?
Of course, there are still some dark clouds on the horizon: two more papers to write, oh, I don't know, THE BAR EXAM, and the fact that The Boy's job is in San Francisco and mine is here in LA, which Sucks Beyond Belief.*
But at least there are some lights along the way, right? Right?
Aw, fuck it, it sucks.
*Long-distance lovin', that's what we're planning on, in case you wondered.
p.s. AGAIN, I deleted your comments in deleting spam. I have to figure out a better system, but that comes after finals.
Posted by jen at April 10, 2007 08:38 PM
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Awww, that does suck. But yay for the other lights (including both #3s - but I won't tease you about that, it being so close to graduation and your mind is on other things).
Posted by: SpaceCase at April 11, 2007 07:19 AM
You set your shoe on fire? That is hilarious!
Don't freak out about the bar exam. It is really not as horrible as everyone says it is. Although it is pretty rough. Anyway, if you want advice/reassurance, let me know. And I have done the long distance lovin' thing too, and it worked out fine!
Posted by: -R- at April 11, 2007 08:11 AM
Setting your shoe on fire is for amateurs! I set my fingernail on fire during a camping trip when I was 13. Umm, well, I caught my Shield O' Nail Laquer on fire.Thank the Goddesses of Girlieness for the 14 million layers of red polish I had carefully applied during a boring fishing excursion...I was able to extinguish the flame before it actually reached my fingernail. I've almost managed to avoid camping ever since.
Congrats to you and your various lights!
Posted by: SusannahS at April 11, 2007 10:17 AM
I don't know how you have managed to survive all this time without an oven with a light. Natasha likes to think of mine as her personal TV.
Posted by: Dagny at April 11, 2007 02:14 PM
You big BOOK BURNER! And shoe burner. To tell you the truth, I can't decide which one is more disturbing. Books, or shoes, which one means more to me?
Posted by: Librarian Girl at April 11, 2007 06:36 PM
That's why I ordered my Batali pot from Amazon, for not only was it cheaper, but it was shipped TO MY DOOR. Hence, no carrying except from doorstep to kitchen.
Posted by: Gloria at April 12, 2007 10:02 PM
I just finished reading your ENTIRE BLOG [sans comments].
My whole life now will consist of reading the blogs of other people that I found through reading other people's blogs.
How sad is that?
*sigh*
Hey, congrats on graduation! I had two friends who went to law school... really really smart people.
They lasted one year.
You RAWK!
[I also call my guy 'The Boy' cuz he's younger than me. How weird is THAT?]
And I have lived EIGHT YEARS without a light in my oven. IT CAN BE DONE.
[But I go through a LOT of flashlight batteries.]
LOVE the cats.
Do you realize that at the start of yer blog you didn't cook and now you do???
I'm just saying.
;)
Posted by: The Other Ruth at April 15, 2007 02:45 AM