Don’t you just love Julia Child? I absolutely adore her (and yes, I know she’s dead). She’s on my teevee all the time, cooking with Jacques or some other chef, and she’s constantly snarfling up the ingredients going into some dish or another. And she does it with that great sing-songy voice that only Julia [...]
I think the hardest thing about writing a dissertation is that it takes so damn long. I know, right? After six and a half years of graduate school, that’s my great revelation: writing a dissertation takes a long time. I’ll be accepting my Nobel Prize any minute now for this great contribution to knowledge. But [...]
Last week we had a repairman come out to the house to check out our dishwasher. We’ve had it three years this April and recently, it started making noises that suggested it was in dire need of medical assistance. Or at least a large martini. For $80, the repairman clucked and shook his head as [...]