Food & Fitness (or a lack thereof)

Snow day in Paris

February 6, 2012

Yesterday it snowed in Paris. After giving up on my plan to go running, I decided to out and look at the pretty and take pictures and try to appreciate it for about four minutes before I go back to my standard routine of loathing the existence of snow. Behold, a short (and incredibly shaky) [...]

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This post is as American as pumpkin pie spice

November 10, 2011

Let’s take a breather, shall we? I sat down to start typing and there are a million thoughts, and I couldn’t seem to find the focus to pick one. This is how my entire life feels right now. This is when I start baking. Even though I was only in Budapest for five days, I [...]

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Google Baking

October 25, 2011

How did travel work before Google Translate? I could wax philosophical about all the profound changes technology and social media are having and the good, bad, and ugly about those implications. But let’s just not, all right? In college I found that the best way to survive mid-terms and finals was with the help of [...]

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Eat it up (if you can)

September 26, 2011

“I lived in Ghana for a semester; Paris will be a breeze.” This is indicative of the simultaneously arrogant and naive things I thought before I came to Paris. When I left for Ghana, I had few expectations other than that everything was going to be really ridiculously different. In truth, things were probably nicer [...]

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Brownie batter is good for my mental health.

September 1, 2010

Last night I was watching television and a re-run of “What I Like About You” came on that ended with Val and Holly throwing chocolate cake batter all over the place. All I could think was, “Fuck, I really want brownie batter right now. Real bad.” So I changed the channel. I spent 30 minutes [...]

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The struggle bus to the gym, the movies, or just off the couch.

July 31, 2010

Things I Dislike Right Now: Scientology commercials The “Cardio Dance Party” class at my gym Shia LaBeouf The distance between my house and the county fair What I find most bothersome about the Scientology commercials is the fact that when I see them in the haze of my bullshit existence, I start to think, “Wow. [...]

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