tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138259252009-07-13T23:55:38.983-05:00<a href="http://disasterkitchen.blogspot.com/2005/06/wiping-cookie-dough-off-walls.html">Wiping the cookie dough off the walls</a>CëRïSëhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18133935575651973096disasterkitchen@gmail.comBlogger551125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13825925.post-13536536569573912152009-07-12T22:06:00.000-05:002009-07-13T00:41:51.900-05:00

I had another amazing weekend, and I'm going to tell you all about it, but it's going to require sorting through 163 photos and videos (from only about two hours of the entire weekend; somehow we managed not to photograph anything else!*) and a fair amount of writing, and I'm not equal to the task at the moment.So, in the meantime, here's something a bit easier: the recipe for a pizza Ter and I

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I don't know what to say about Michael Jackson.Two Thursdays ago, as I was driving to Hermiston in advance of the coast trip, I heard the news on NPR that, at age 50, Michael Jackson was dead. I was stunned and saddened, even surprising myself by blinking away tears as I drove.It's not that I was a hardcore fan: I don't own a single album (though I was given the MP3s of Number Ones, several of

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I ordered checks early last week, and since they were promised to have shipped Tuesday morning, by Friday evening I was anxious for them to arrive. David was here, and I asked if he'd check the mail for me while I was working in the kitchen. As he came back from the mailbox, he called, "There's a box for you, and it looks like a check box, but it doesn't look like the sort of thing a bank would

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Ted already posted most of my favorite pictures from the Independence Day bash he and Hathor hosted yesterday, but here are a few he didn't (mostly of V, because I love that little Peanut--and she has the most irresistible fat creases!):Bonus: Video of V's signature faceplant: And here's the munchkin today on her official half birthday:In other news I've been underreporting (I've been seeing

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So, about that jumping out of a plane!My DVD from Skydive Oregon arrived today,* and for any of you who may someday be forced to watch it, I'll just warn you that there's a preponderance of smiling, bobbing, and a bit of jumping up and down. I was really thrilled to skydive, albeit slightly dampened in my enthusiasm by approximately 15 pages of waivers wherein I signed away all my rights (

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Here are camera phone pictures from today's adventures. Many more, and better, were taken, by people other than me--but these are fairly representative (primarily tide-pooling and four-wheeling!) :And, on second thought, here are a few from other people's cameras:

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Community! Thank you for your input on the glasses selection. I have ordered a pair (I don't think I'll tell you which, yet) and will probably model them here when they arrive in a few weeks (assuming that my ridiculous-strength prescription lenses don't make me look way too goofy--and that the frames don't overly highlight the crookedness of my face!).In the meantime, here's something else to

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Well, Internet, I survived jumping out of a plane, and it was mind-blowingly fantastic.I'll tell you more about it, but first I have something more pressing: I need you to help me decide which glasses frames look best. Here are the results of goggles4u.com's "V-try" feature, using a webam shot from this evening:These are my current favorite frames (all $12.99!)--based on this weird simulation,

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People. Last post was not my six hundredth; it was my five hundred sixtieth (I misread the second digit on my Blogger dashboard!). I apologize for this, and hope that we can celebrate my real six hundredth post when it actually rolls around (though I do appreciate even the premature congratulations).Anyway, now that I have that out of the way, here's the real news: Monday, David turns 30, and to

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Today is my six hundredth post. It would have been more impressive if I'd waited five days to post this; then I would have 600 posts on the blog's fourth birthday. Or, wait, is that less impressive?No matter.Here are some photos from the camera phone:Unnecessary quotation marks! (The second is my favorite; I drove one of those.)More roadtrip pictures! (Handcrafted soda at Hot Lips in Portland;

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Here are the final pictures from the roadtrip, from Minneapolis on:Friday David and I ran errands and then attended an evening dinner party with friends. Saturday we hung out downtown before helping set up for the wedding reception, rushing home to change, and then returning for the beautiful outdoor ceremony and reception in an elegantly transformed boxing gym.I don't have any pictures of this,

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Here is the third set of roadtrip pictures; as always, you can see larger versions and leave comments when you visit the full album:I also just realized that you miss the videos if you only watch the embedded slide show; be sure to check out Yellowstone Lake, the bear, bubbling mud pots, and more, plus the highlight of this particular album: cows on the road!The night we left Yellowstone, we

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Here are the Yellowstone pictures (click here for larger images and to leave comments):Believe me when I say I pared this selection down a lot. Yellowstone is unbelievably photogenic, especially in the perfect weather we enjoyed for the majority of our stay. If you've been there, you know that these photos don't begin to do it justice. If you haven't been, hopefully this will inspire you at least

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So I'm in Walla Walla! David and I arrived Tuesday night, and I'm settling in nicely. Heather has even offered me a bike for the summer, and once I've picked that up I'll feel even more at home.Friday night, David and I uploaded the 2400 pictures we'd taken on the trip, and although Paul and Ter saw all of them (we set Picasa's slideshow timer to one second per image, and even so it took close to

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Believe it or not, I am not only typing, but actually publishing, this from a vehicle speeding down I-80 in Iowa! I feel like I'm living in the future, and it's amazing. (Who was it who said that sufficiently advanced technology always feels like magic--?)David and I are nearly two weeks into our roadtrip, and will be arriving back in Mpls Thursday evening. We'll spend the weekend there,

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A few firsts for today, in order of occurrence:Running to and around both lakes and back with A, during which we averaged a spectacular* 8:30 pace over 9.43 miles!Noticing that Band-Aid now embosses their boxes with brailleWatching Doubt at the Riverview (pretty good, very well-acted, and definitely thought- and conversation-provoking)Carrying half a dozen local organic eggs (safely) home from

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People with straight hair love to tell we curly girls how lucky we are. One of my favorite comments, from a former boss, was, "Boys like curly hair, because it's wild and sexy!"Be that as it may (and I feel it rarely is, at least for me...), the curly-haired generally carry a lot of baggage. My adviser's hair is even more tightly curled, and less ruly, than mine, and after a dinner at her house a

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Today, three colleagues in the department found out that they had won fellowships for next school year. This particular fellowship is granted through the University and is designed to fund the final year of dissertation writing. Our department could nominate three people, and for the second year in a row all three were granted fellowships. It was very exciting indeed.During dissertation workshop

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Hathor convinced me that I should go ahead and post these pictures, even though I was concerned that they might make my life seem a little bit too awesome:Awww. Being spoiled feels so good!Here's another thing I'm loving recently:See how the steam from my morning Stash Chai Spice is wafting in the breeze from the kitchen window? Like all the other windows in my house, it stayed open all night

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Things That Are Awesome VI (Current Events Edition)It's possible you've seen all these before. But if you haven't, behold!On swine flu:On Obama's first 100 days (click for full article):And, finally, on birds and science and dancing (read story here; see video here):

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This past week has been a little nuts.Wednesday, I gave a two-hour lecture on Picasso to the prints class for which I've been TAing this semester. (My friends at school said, "What do you know about Picasso?" The answer is, before prepping this lecture, basically nothing--especially about his prints. Now, after a whole lot of reading and PowerPointing, I know a little bit.)Monday, I had to

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Today it hit 65°F! Sixty-five! I could feel the sun on my skin, which I exposed--heedless to those it might blind--when I went running in shorts and a tank top. I did my afternoon reading in a sunbeam on my back porch:Uploading that picture from my camera phone, I found a few more--my lunch at the Palace Cafe:...And unnecessary quotation marks spotted on the trip (not all of them, either!):

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Last weekend, as you may already know, I was in New Orleans for the annual national conference of the Pop Culture Association/ American Culture Association, giving a paper. The trip was ridiculously, ridiculously expensive (conference registration was $125, after the $55 association membership fee, in addition to airfare, hotel, and food) and rather stressful, as these things are, but was still

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Especially on the days I'm trying hardest to write, I find myself doing a lot of staring out the window. Here's what I saw today:Gymnast Squirrel from Disaster Kitchen on Vimeo.

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Because I am supposed to be re-writing the paper I gave a Dry Run for on Wednesday (which I had already re-written, you may recall, following dissertation workshop the preceding Friday), in anticipation of my New Orleans conference presentation this coming Friday (for which I fly out on Thursday); and because the Wednesday after that my students hand in their final papers (which I will have just

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