Wednesday “whoops” redux 17 September 2008 11:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : silly, mishaps, random, fangirl, school, geekery, Warren Belasco , add a commentSo regular readers of this blog will know that I have been sooooooo excited about school for awhile now, like at least since getting in. My eagerness was such that I programmed my class schedule into Google Calendar when I first registered in May. Only it turns out the gods of the Internet adjusted for time zones when we moved…. which is why, at 7:35 tonight, when I started recognizing some other food studies first-years in a flood of people emerging from the direction of the classroom where I thought I should be going, I finally figured out that my class was at 4:55. Gah! (I didn’t figure out about the time change earlier because I had to rearrange the rest of my schedule on short notice, but I made those changes after leaving the Pacific time zone.)
The good news (and the reason I don’t want do-overs for the whole friggin’ day) is that I did something fun and geeky before going down to NYU campus to eat dinner (mmm, pizza) and finish my class reading (urgh, academic sociology). (more…)
Monkey Monday: a little school update. 25 August 2008 8:00 am
Posted by Tracy in : good news, fangirl, geekery, school, Marion Nestle , 1 comment so farSo school starts the first week of September, with orientation type activities the week before that (i.e. starting tomorrow). I’m still trying to figure out the exact details of new grad student fun and games (so far my quest to obtain a student ID have been fruitless) but in the meantime I’ve turned class registration lemons into delicious metaphorical lemonade, I tell you what. (more…)
Monkey Monday: NYC trip, garden update, and more! 19 May 2008 8:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden, travel, fangirl, events, pictures, baking, eating, books, Marion Nestle, school, cooking , add a commentFirst and foremost, readers, if you like my banana bread recipe, I’d really appreciate your giving it (and me) some love over at Not Quite Nigella’s banana bread recipe collection roundup, which got an amazing 79 replies. If you don’t like my banana bread recipe, there might be something over there that’s more your speed — heck, there may be something over there for you even if you don’t usually like banana bread, the responses are that diverse! However, if you never, ever like banana bread, then you should under no circumstances click that last link, because there is nothing there for you. (But seriously, check it out. And vote for me!)
In other news, I had a great time in NYC, (more…)
Spices are magic. 2 May 2008 10:35 am
Posted by Tracy in : fangirl, events, geekery, pictures, vegetarian, vegan, cooking , 6 commentsMagic, I tell you! There is phenomenal cosmic power in my overflowing spice rack, a collection I’ve been building up for years and literally across continents (encompassing not just where things were grown, but also where they were purchased), but mostly bulk and occasionally packaged spices from stores all over Eugene:
Four ways of looking at Trader Joe’s 5 February 2008 10:34 am
Posted by Tracy in : politics, fangirl, environment, sustainability, responsibility, convenience, friends , add a commentI’ve mentioned repeatedly that I’ve been a month or so behind on all kinds of stuff since my trip to Nepal, which is why it was January before I caught up to the fact that it was open season on Trader Joe’s in early December, and I’ve been concocting a reply ever since. Today I’ll finally be discussing the two blog posts that got my attention, and sharing a few other pieces from even more way back in the day, just to add to the fun. (more…)
