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June 28, 2007
There Must Be a Dead Body Somewhere
No, I just attempted some Sprinkles red velvet cupcakes this evening, the mix a birthday present (January, that's how much I love baking) from my friend Tiffany. We'll see how they turn out. I still have an aftertaste from the batter (Again, I love baking. Psych. Yes, I just used "psych." I may use "not" next, a term only marginally less dated. Just watch me.).
Anyway, I wanted to make some cupcakes for my fellow bar studying sufferers. Tomorrow is our last in-class day of ingesting new, substantive law, so I figured why not let them ingest some new, delicious cupcakes? Or why not poison them? Either way, works for me. NOT.
Also, I may be going a little crazy. This is what happens when you spend most of every single day for the last 6 weeks with your pert (or piggy-like, you say tomAHto, I say tomAYto) little nose tucked into the Conviser Mini-Review of G-dforesaken Law. It's like kismet.
In any case, I wanted to thank you for all your shoe recommendations. Dude, there are a lot of Keens wearers out there! I ended up going with these:
Studiously non-Teva like, and very much like many of the Keens you all recommended, no?
I figure they will be great in the Amazon, so if I'm thrown off the boat, I can still swim safely to shore in my 280g shoes. Sure, I will have already contracted dengue hemorrhagic fever, but whatevs.
Actually, despite my depression about my failed cupcakes and inability to master priorities in foreclosure, I am REALLY excited about my vacation! Last night I booked our hotel in Rio, and this weekend I plan to finish making the rest of the month's bookings.
And I have a question for you: the end of our trip will be in Buenos Aires, and it will be The Boy and my one year anniversary. Have you ever been to B.A.? If so, do you have any recommendations for restaurants for our anniversary dinner? I am really hoping to knock his socks off. Not that he will be wearing any! It is VACATION, man, no socks required! Psych. Over my dead body. We've got to go somewhere nice and rock this one-year milestone. Recommendations?
Posted by jen at June 28, 2007 11:57 PM
Comments
Hey!!! I have a pair of those too (although the name of them escapes me)! I have WAY to many shoes.
One tip from my experience anyway... Be sure to break them in before you leave while wearing socks. Trust me your feet with thank you.
I can't help you with the B.A. restaurant recommendation though, sorry. Shoes I can help with... traveling? Not so much.
Oh & I'm sure you'll do great on the Bar... If my stupid ex can pass in one try I'm sure you'll wow them! : )
Posted by: Carma at June 29, 2007 05:27 AM
Congrats on finding shoes. I've never been to B.A. nor can I think of anyone who has. If I do, I'll be sure to get some recommendations for you.
Posted by: Dagny at June 29, 2007 06:29 AM
Have no ideas on restaurants, but glad you found shoes you like, although I must stand firmly on my Keen recommendation. (pun intended) and no, I do not work for them or receive any sort of benefit from my disturbingly enthusiastic endorsement of them.
Good luck on the bar! I understand your mindset a little. My sister lived with me when she studied for hers, and I can tell you all your friends are looking forward to you passing that test!
Posted by: rg at June 29, 2007 07:44 AM
Congrats on avoiding the Teva monster. Well done. Now when you contract dengue fever, your feet will look nice. Very important.
Posted by: Librarian Girl at June 29, 2007 11:02 AM
The word psych is so cool. Not.
Oh, I am hilarious.
Posted by: -R- at June 29, 2007 12:43 PM
I want a real Sprinkles. Don't you have them? Couldn't you have just GONE to Sprinkles and pretended that you made them from the mix? That's what I would have done. Oh, how I long for Sprinkles.
Posted by: jonniker at June 29, 2007 02:46 PM
I can't believe it's been almost a year already! So exciting!
Also, Jonniker, Sprinkles is highly overrated (at least as a bakery). Their cupcakes are super dry and dense and there are much better places in LA. I'm curious how their mix turned out, though.
Posted by: Gwen at June 29, 2007 07:36 PM
OK. You want to talk about dated speak? In the last few months I had to hear students talk about "capping." I have not heard that term since the early 80s. But their parents are in their 30s and 40s and would have used that phrase back in the day. Don't you love how things come full circle. And monkeys could fly from my butt. Not.
Posted by: Dagny at June 29, 2007 08:17 PM
have a fantastic trip, and good luck with the bar! i'm so impressed with all your blogging during this nightmare- i've lived vicariously through you!
Posted by: jenny at June 29, 2007 08:47 PM
holy crap one year already? congratulations dude. i hope the vacation is even more amazing than you are hoping for.
Posted by: carolyn at July 1, 2007 04:04 PM
That picture gave me serious pause! Yikes.
It's totally gnarly.
Posted by: Meg at July 2, 2007 10:21 AM
My purse and I are celebrating our one-month anniversary today. He was expensive but worth it... I bought him a little nail file case. Nice, eh?
Posted by: laurie at July 2, 2007 02:45 PM