A few weeks ago, Kristi and Blaine bought a new grill. So obviously, they invited us over for dinner. It was such a good time, that the next week they invited us again (smart people, them). The second time around, I volunteered to bring dessert (because I love to make dessert and yet, it’s hard to not end up eating…
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Don’t Call Me Lawrence
This week I got a letter from UT’s financial aid office telling me that my desperate plea for free money was stalled since my social security number on my student file didn’t match the one on my application. I made some phone calls, found out who had it wrong, and I am in the works of getting it fixed so…
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The Flood Gates Open
My birthday is in the middle of September. In Wisconsin, where I was born, you did not go to Kindergarten unless you were five by September first. No exceptions. I knew how to read by the time fall rolled around and when it became obvious that the public school system had zero intentions of letting me start in the fall,…
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Recipe and Lame Jokes
So, a couple of you requested the recipe for the Chocolate Cake of Doom and Death and Destruction (or 3D Chocolate Cake – wow, I’m so unbelievably lame). Like pretty much every cake I make, it’s from the Cake Mix Doctor cookbook (I only have the chocolate version, but I check out the original one from the library all the…
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It May Take You Longer to Read about My Weekend Than it Did to Live It
I have felt just overwhelmingly busy for the past few weeks. School entered the frantic breakneck pace that always comes during the last month of school and I couldn’t even justify reading for pleasure on the bus. I had to study and let my library books wither and die in my book basket and the free on-bus wifi go to…
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