Saturday, February 28, 2009
I Do Not Exist!
I hung out with Hilda, Jackie, Jay, and Vlad and we read cards and danced and talked and it was great. Then Van came over and Hilda, Jackie, Jay and Vlad went to a party.
Hilda teaches me spanish sometimes! its really fun, I hope to learn more. She will teach me spanish, I will teacher her tarot. She has very strong energies.
I had my practical yesterday. I got on A on the written and an A on the baking part. I made a spongecake and remember to put the oil and vanilla in it this time (forgot the day before!) got an 8/8 on it and my chef said "wow, this is perfect. I couldn't make one better" then I got a 7.5/8 on my pastry cream, and then 6.5/8 on my pate a choux. So I got an A. I took my spongecakes and just made a 4 layer cake with the pastry cream and Van is going to bring chocolate icing so I can frost it and make a 4 layer boston cream cake. Haha. Yay cake!
I was just thinking about live TV. What happens if someone on live tv does something that needs to be censored? How do they do that?
And I just discovered perhaps the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my entire life. http://www.faeriecon.com/
Its in philadelphia. Or, philadelphia has one. The photographs are amazing.
I think I shall go sometime, only if Michelle will go with me!!!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Soup&Pants&FriedRice&Cake&Icecream&Bubbles&CDs&Strippers
Sometimes during the week, my buddy Vlad and I will sit around and watch movies and just have a great time. Yesterday we just sat in my room and blew bubbles and listened to music and ate cereal. it was really an awesome time. We wrote a wall of funny things that have happened and that we have said. Then we took a whole bunch of pictures. Today he gave me a sheet of paper with all of them printed on it. It was really great.
Girls night was on Friday. That was really fun. My roommates and I just watched Knocked Up and sat around and ate icecream and talked and had a great time. Some kid gave me shrimp fried rice and it was fantastic.
And then, last night, I went to Zac's birthday party. It was pretty awesome. I got in a borderline fist-fight with Zac and am covered in bruises and rug burn, Van some how ended up naked in the kitchen as my friend/brother walked in, Chux's mom tried to get with me, I ended up covered in green icing, and I have a new-found love for baked ziti. It was a really great time. I made a mix CD for Zac and it is freaking awesome. it goes something like this:
- Vampire Breath - Dr. Acula
- Safety Song -Tsunami Bomb
- Open Book - The Rakes
- Time Bomb - Rancid
- Love Demon - Los Gatos Locos
- Brown Eyed Girl -Reel Big Fish
- Julia - The Horrorpops
- Gentlemen - mewithoutYou
- Pretty Rave Girl - I Am X-Ray
- The Beer - Kimya Dawson
- Lean on Sheena - Bouncing Souls
- I Can Walk On Water, I Can Fly - Basshunter
- Hypnotized - Notorious B.I.G
- Your Retro Career Melted - The Faint
- Bruises - Chairlift
- Darkwave Surfer -Aural Vampire
- Days Go By - Dirty Vegas
- Gunpowder: A Ballet -Dr. Manhattan
- (this one was a secret song, I didn't write what it was on the list. its Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley)
Each song gets longer and longer as the CD goes on. its pretty awesome.
Then, this morning, I left from the party with Van and we went out to get breakfast. As I ate my sandwich, this old lady kept staring at me and wouldn't leave me alone. It was so incredibly frustrating and awkward. She kept looking at me as if I were the Antichrist or something similar. I nearly got up and started strip-dancing on her table, just to be obnoxious, but I didn't. Someday I will do something like that. but until then I shall sleep and it will be wonderful. Goodnight, blog.
OH! Today was Soup and Pants day, too and Vlad and I watched Stranger Than Fiction. Gotta love Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is delicious. A delicious ginger baker with tattoos. That will be me someday!
Friday, February 20, 2009
"A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.”

OH!
Those Pies Sure Do Put Up A Fight, Chef...
"Those pie sure do put up a fight, chef..."
"Yes. They do."
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Experience The Bittersweet, Taste Defeat, Then Brush My Teeth.
Today was damp and gloomy and I do not understand this weather.
See, usually, it snows, the snow falls, it goes on the ground, it stays there, and then turns to slush. Today its more like snowSLUSH! Before it even hits the ground. Its ground slurry. Just add to boiling milk, you'll have pastry cream. Ew. You know you're at culinary school when you say things like that. Haha.
So I had this long coversation with Vlad the other night. We sat and talked about death for a while, about being afraid to die because we don't know what its like to not exist. I decided that it can't be so bad. Everyone has to do it. Dying can be no worse than living. I don't know. It was just a conversation we had. I'm really not afraid to die anymore. Woot.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Beer by Kimya Dawson

The Best Thing That Could Be Happening
- 1. I'm actually doing well in school for the first time in a long time
- I'm actually enjoying the time I have at school
- I have some of the most supportive friends I have ever had. We can just sit around and bullshit, talk about important things, or go out. Anything.
- My family and I are getting along really well, despite the stupid shit I sometimes do.
- I have an awesome boyfriend that treats me well
- I'm starting to realize that I deserve to be treated well. This is new for me
- I get along with all my roommates and we have so much fun together
- I'm starting to get my life straightened out
- I don't hate myself as much as I used to
- I make awesome angel food cake
- I wake up with a smile almost every day
- I;m learning to work around the big problems in my life
- I'm teaching myself guitar and I love it. I can actually play songs now!
- My health is in check. I'm not really ill or anything
- I've learned to ask for help when I need it, I've stopped trying to do so much on my own
- I've removed a lot of drama from my life, so it things are a lot less stressful
- I've learned to start taking more chances and live life a little bit more.
- I don't feel ugly all the time anymore.
- I haven't smiled this much in a long, long time.
- I quit smoking for the most part
The Bads
- I don't really eat as much as I should.
- I drink too much, but I'm trying to stop.
- Michelle lives far away.
- I'm running low on cash.
- I wish I had better relationships with my siblings.
- I've lost quite a few friends recently due to arguments and dramatic situations.
Over all I would say that things are going very well. I'm happy with where I am in my life right now. Things really look like they're turning around for me. And, when it comes to the bad things, I can fix most of them with time. I can't control when Michelle comes back, but she will, I can't do a whole lot about the not having money, but I can try, and if those friends don't want to be friends with me anymore, there isn't anything I can do about that either so I just let it go. But, I can stop drinking, with a little help, I can talk to my siblings more, and I can start eating more, which I have already done. I get up and eat lunch with my roommates almost every day now. So it's all going to be okay.
Woohoo!