Monkey Monday: more looking forward 9 November 2009 8:06 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,eating,events,fangirl,friends,geekery,monkeys,nyc,politics,random,restaurants,school , trackbackFirst and foremost, happy birthday Liz! May you look forward to many excellent things as you join the rest of us in our fourth decade (sounds intimidating, doesn’t it? We’re olllllllllllld. And it’s awesome, I promise.)
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Next, I was right last Tuesday about my having near-future awesomeness to look forward to — Krishnendu’s lecture was fantastic, full of food for thought and Indian restaurant recommendations. Also it inspired me to make dal, because dude. It had been way too long.
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This week is also looking good on the looking-forward front, starting with the Food Systems Network NYC’s monthly open meeting tomorrow. The topic under discussion is the FRESH program (the acronym stands for Food Retail Expansion to Support Health, which is a clever way of phrasing “incentives for stores to offer more healthy food in underserved neighborhoods.” Which is maybe not entirely unrelated to the topic of my Food Sociology final paper, so I’m pretty psyched about that (especially since I thought better of spending six hours going to and from New Haven for a two-hour presentation on the topic last Wednesday).
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As I write this, I am looking forward to having chickpeas for breakfast, with leftovers for further experimentation in the form of soup or maybe something tried and true (punk rock chickpea gravy).
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I look forward to writing about the many awesome things I read this weekend because two of my NYU library books were recalled and are due by midnight today. Um, I should probably finish my note-taking so I can return them already.
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A slightly more long-term looking forward reveals the NYC Food and Climate Summit coming up on December 12. It’s brought to us by NYU (I’m guessing especially the Sustainability Task Force), Just Food, and the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, whom you may remember from such Tracy-endorsed events as last year’s Politics of Food conference at Columbia University. Registration doesn’t open until Wednesday, but you betcha I’m so there.
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Speaking of this Wednesday and registration, I should do a little more homework before my academic advising meeting. Like about whether I can go off the reservation and take more public policy-type classes. And also maybe something along the lines of intensive statistics kung-fu training. Because yes, I am just that much of a nerd.
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