The local grocery store has an extensive variety of beer. Well’s Banana Bread Beer is worth trying and is a sweet departure from the oatmeal stouts I’ve been known to reach for.
Starbucks has a line of “Signature Hot Chocolates” now. The Caramel Salted Hot Chocolate, which is actually toffee flavored and topped with whipped cream, caramel sauce and sprinkled with sea salt, is sweet and salty albeit deiciously overpriced. Besides open wounds, salt seems to make everything better.
Why haven’t I discovered the song “Grace Kelly” by Mika sooner? I’d never even heard of the artist until a drag queen performance last week. I don’t know what to be bothered by more: the fact that there is so much great music out there that I’m missing out on or that my study schedule has forced me so far out of the main stream that I treat the playlists of drag queens as a form of melodious gospel.
My camera phone takes decent quality pictures of everything except food. For general picture messaging its great. In the kicthen however, even a beef wellington through the lens of my phone’s camera will look less appetizing than a “Tour of Italy” from that popular, local cucina italiana. I have decent quality pictures of the food I’ve been cooking and eating lately on my digital camera, though its all moot until I figure out how to transfer them from my digital camera to my laptop and then post them on here.
Its cheaper to fill our gas tanks with bald eagle heads than gasoline, lots of retailers are having huge markdowns and, perhaps most importantly, Linens & Things is going out of business. These can only mean two things: the apocalypse is near and the has gone to shit (that may be redundant.) Election day is soon-ish. I hope the President-elect shows up with a huge grinder of seal salt to sprinkle generously down on our economy.
Here are some personal opinions on parts of Barack’s plan for the economy. As a graduate student, the idea of having my tax dollars going to bail out irresponsible executives is haunting. I will have enough debt to pay back after graduation, and instead of allowing the economic dire straights looming on the horizon under the current administration realize, I would prefer to finish my studies and then enter a more opportune job market. Bipartisan oversight of the plan to fix our current economic crisis is something that I imagine everyone would fully support. The economy (and all its cute ups and downs) has a fear-reaching effect which touches us as a nation collectively; each of us is impacted the same way, with no special consideration for status as members of particular political parties. As such, it can only be responsible to approach oversight of the matter with as little politicizing as possible.
Oh, last Thursday a classmate was referencing a hypothetical and used the verb “motorboating.” I laughed hard for a little while and noticed that I was the only one really snickering. Could the rest of the class really have missed out on the cinematic splendor that was Wedding Crashers? No, probably not… the reason I was the only one to laugh was more likely because I’m actually a law student with the sense of humor of a 14 year-old junior high student.
