bittersweet chocolate and pear cake | smitten kitchen

This looks SO good.


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You know how sometimes things pop up in your life repeatedly in a short span of time ( Read more... )

I have an interview for a massage job tomorrow morning. Here's hoping muscle memory kicks in ( Read more... )

Ok folks, I totally fucked myself by staying up until FIVE AY-EM this morning, and being an asshole and not studying a lick over the weekend ( Read more... )

So, my life is acting weird lately. Like, really weird ( Read more... )

"...a vast peasant revolt led by Li Zicheng, a postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as a part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court...[thus ending the Ming dynasty, and creating the Qing dynasty ruled by the Manchus, people from the north.]

A common Manchu hairstyle (called a queue):

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Ok. I'm home. When I was away (towards the end) I was homesick. Now that I'm home, I'm still homesick ( Read more... )

I just got back from the eye doctor*. Every time I go, they ask me if I have a thyroid problem. No, I say, I just live in wide-eyed wonder. I spent too much money there, but at least now I'll be able to wear contacts again and when I do have to wear glasses they wont hurt me. Someday, mark my words, someday I'll have health insurance with a ( Read more... )

First, tell me if I'm wrong, because this is a pet peeve of mine, and if I'm wrong I need to know: The popular phrase "Fuckin' A", it comes from "fuckin' aye" and would be the equivalent to "fuck yeah", right? That's how I always use it, and I hear a lot of people use it to mean the opposite.

Fortune Cookies(from a Valentine's issue of a Martha ( Read more... )

World AIDS Day

Tired and it's raining.
Meh. Must have coffee...

Later that day, our hero....(1:10p ( Read more... )