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Yesterday was a nearly perfect day- every item I bought at the grocery store was on sale, they were running a special $5-off with a discount card promotion and I got a 10% discount just for being a Columbia student, I solved the NY Times crossward puzzle with unusual ease, I got a long awaited e-mail, and my dinner was unusually attractive (photogenic even, pictures are on facebook filed away under 'gluttony'). Today I just feel intellectually flabby and overall dissatisfied. Orientation was a two-hour long recitation of information on the website with lots of dire warnings about not finishing requirements when we should etc etc. I got to re-meet the other first years and was introduced to the terminal MA students. Now I'm restless and slightly disoriented from having spent the late afternoon dosing and dreaming strange things (do I need counseling for having dreamt that CJ is my brother?).
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Tomorrow there's a party for philosophy grad students and friends. I'm planning to bake a carrot cake to bring along. It's kind of homey and hippie-ish at the same time- a tie to Ithaca which I've been missing since flipping through a Moosewood cookbook and talking to ES. Hopefully it will be pretty enough to be photographed along with my other culinary triumphs. I'm trying my hand at chickpea samosas over the weekend.
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Tomorrow there's a party for philosophy grad students and friends. I'm planning to bake a carrot cake to bring along. It's kind of homey and hippie-ish at the same time- a tie to Ithaca which I've been missing since flipping through a Moosewood cookbook and talking to ES. Hopefully it will be pretty enough to be photographed along with my other culinary triumphs. I'm trying my hand at chickpea samosas over the weekend.