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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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Eating pizza in Budapest

November 8, 2011

I wasn’t kidding when I said that my camera contains an inordinate number of food pictures. Food, beer, and some communist statues. That seems to be the crux of my photographic evidence of visiting Budapest. You know what I didn’t realize Hungarians were so good at? Pizza. I ate a lot of pizza, and it [...]

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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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Quirky pancakes and sprinkled magic.

October 18, 2011

No matter how unseasonably warm everyone claimed it was, it was still London in October. I had been standing outside the Holborn underground station for 45 minutes, waiting for a friend. I had a general stressed-out feeling from all things grad school and I was buckling a little under the weight of my first real [...]

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Paris Photobooth: Exam Stress Relief

October 13, 2011

Graduate school in Paris has turned out to be a bit heavy on the graduate school and light on the Paris. Papers and exams, it seems, are universal concepts and they followed me here. Or, rather, I chased them here. Because I chose to come here and be a student again. Because I really thought [...]

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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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