My friend Sharon is my year in the PhD program and is a super cool person. Although I have been kind of complain-y and unpleasant in the past few months (okay, maybe longer), she has not run away. In fact, she introduced me to rock climbing, which is really fun, and we and her fiancee Mike have had a lot of adventures lately - most of which involve food, of course. Right before I left for Las Vegas I tagged along on a beautiful March day (?!) to watch Mike be good at slacklining (I, as you might expect, am terrible at it) and for the hammock to swallow people. There was also that time Sharon gchatted me saying she had gone a little overboard on Thanksgiving food and would I come help them eat some? Woooo! Later in April again - horror of horrors - made an apple gallette, beer bread and regular bread, and I was able to partake in not only that, but the very fun game Dominion (even more fun with wine!). Turns out I had thought all this time that their apartment was WAY farther away than it actually is, which is my loss. Also, they have a patio and a grill! This summer is going to rock!
I also wanted to record for posterity the crazy day that happened a few Saturdays ago. We all went climbing, then got coffee/hummus at Make Your Mark, which I'd been meaning to go to. Then we hung around Bakery Square for an event plus giggling in the kid's toy store before heading to Alma (also on my wishlist!) right when they opened to eat a very awesome dinner. Plus they came to my place after and we made A) ricotta from some leftover half and half from the prior week's PhD defenses (using a cheese kit Sharon had given me a previous christmas, naturally), B) ice cream, tablespoons at a time, inside a tiny penguin cup, and C) "cocktail chemistry" aka using the set I'd received to initially make differently boozy caviar but eventually just to make a huge hilarious mess. Plus Sharon and I, both terrible at videogames, killed each other in new and unusual ways in the Portal2 multiplayer mode. All in all they spent like twelve hours straight with me and we still talk! It's pretty cool.
I also wanted to record for posterity the crazy day that happened a few Saturdays ago. We all went climbing, then got coffee/hummus at Make Your Mark, which I'd been meaning to go to. Then we hung around Bakery Square for an event plus giggling in the kid's toy store before heading to Alma (also on my wishlist!) right when they opened to eat a very awesome dinner. Plus they came to my place after and we made A) ricotta from some leftover half and half from the prior week's PhD defenses (using a cheese kit Sharon had given me a previous christmas, naturally), B) ice cream, tablespoons at a time, inside a tiny penguin cup, and C) "cocktail chemistry" aka using the set I'd received to initially make differently boozy caviar but eventually just to make a huge hilarious mess. Plus Sharon and I, both terrible at videogames, killed each other in new and unusual ways in the Portal2 multiplayer mode. All in all they spent like twelve hours straight with me and we still talk! It's pretty cool.
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