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Am hoping to incorporate some non-required reading into my life this semester.

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 Want to buy a Neutra for me?

I do have a birthday coming up in March.

This one would be perfect – it’s thirty minutes from school and it is for sale!

And don’t tell me that backyard isn’t just begging for a grad student lawn party.

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Some good stuff for the new year

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Swiss cheese toasty: a toasted slice of whole wheat, dijon mustard, walnuts and swiss cheese. Put it under the broiler so the cheese melts on top of everything.

A little toasty makes me an exponentially happier person in the mornings.

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This excerpt from Mike Daisey’s show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.

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Keeping up with my Google Reader for the first time in months because of these tumblers/blogs:

Old Love

L.A. in Bloom

Southern Foodways Alliance

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Resolutions, which include cooking more and perhaps picking up that old, abandoned blog, cooking con booze.

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I am really trying not to make this blog a long list of youtube videos.

It’s just, I really love youtube videos.

Really really love them.

And I’m also really trying to make this one go viral.

There’s only a few more days to make it happen, because it’s Christmas-themed.

Go forth and forward people!

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Damn if it isn’t the saddest book I’ve ever read – and  genuinely one of the best. Edith Wharton can be viciously funny in that oh-so-awesome Victorian way. See descriptions of Carry Fisher and young Silverton below:

 ”She looked down the long table, studying its occupants one by one, from Gus Trenor, with his heavy carnivorous head sunk between his shoulders, as he preyed on a jellied plover, to his wife, at the opposite end of the long bank of orchids, suggestive, with her glaring good-looks, of a jeweller’s window lit by electricity. And between the two, what a long stretch of vacuity! How dreary and trivial these people were! Lily reviewed them with a scornful impatience: Carry Fisher, with her shoulders, her eyes, her divorces, her general air of embodying a “spicy paragraph”; young Silverton, who had meant to live on proof-reading and write an epic, and who now lived on his friends and had become critical of truffles; Alice Wetherall, an animated visiting-list, whose most fervid convictions turned on the wording of invitations and the engraving of dinner-cards; Wetherall, with his perpetual nervous nod of acquiescence, his air of agreeing with people before he knew what they were saying; Jack Stepney, with his confident smile and anxious eyes, half way between the sheriff and an heiress; Gwen Van Osburgh, with all the guileless confidence of a young girl who has always been told that there is no one richer than her father.”

House of Mirth, Chapter 5

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Which reminds me – this hipster Ethan Frome adaptation-also funny! Watch it!

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Over the River Shannon. More about starling science at Wired.

via Quite Continental

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A present from California’s own creepy animal.

Blue Bottle!

Just when I was missing my home coast.

Finally, a reason to get up early. Coffee this good cannot be rushed.

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Here is some sweet choreography for you to rip off in your next vid.

DO IT!

xoxo

r.f.

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