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Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 10/29/1980
Gender: Female
Expertise: do they think that cooks don't use this site? ever since i've started doing stuff on the web, no one EVER has anything related to the food industry on their list of occupations/industries. wtf? pastry cooks use computers too...
Occupation: Other
Industry: Hospitality
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Member Since:
11/27/2002
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| so if you've ever spent any time with me, you probably know that sleep is one thing that i never have trouble doing. in fact, my problem is usually that i fall asleep at inappropriate times/places (ie movies, bars, etc.). for some reason though, tonight i just can't get my eyes to stay shut. i don't know if it's the dunkin' donuts iced coffee i had at 4pm or the sudden hot weather, but whatever it is needs to go away - i need my beauty rest before a crazy weekend!
so the update.
- photo-a-day is going well and consuming disproportianate amounts of my time/energy. i love it.
- last fall's plan to go to business school is happening, only in a way i never imagined: i'll be a "partner" at HBS this fall. still adjusting to the change and trying to embrace it... thankfully i still have a few months before it all becomes real. crossing my fingers that affiliation with a school will mean that i can play intramural ice hockey next winter.
- still trying to find a work/life balance... am getting closer than i've been before but not quite there yet. argh.
- very excited for wedding season.
ok, 3:30am. time to try for sleep again.
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| pumpkinpie inspired me to start PAD. i posted my first one yesterday and a combination of general impatience and boredom at work has me wanting time to move much faster so i can take more photos and post them. i wonder how long it will take before i get into the phase where it becomes an annoying chore. separately, i've been enjoying life in the northeast recently. had a great st. patrick's day weekend - skipped town and skiied saturday afternoon at loon, went outlet shopping in north conway, yummy corned beef & cabbage dinner with a locally brewed brown ale - delicious!, and then stayed at the classy mount madison motel for the night. jda says it's technically a hotel - i say that any rural accomodation that is two stories tall and u-shaped around an outdoor pool only open in the summer is a motel by definition. sunday started early with dunkin donuts breakfast and a full day of skiing at sunday river. awesome northeast conditions going back and forth between sunny and clear and cloudy and snowing. kept the day interesting. a brief stop at the kittery outlets and back to boston. tricky nar props to zg for being driver & sunday river guide extraordinaire. el pelon burrito and fish tacos for dinner and then to the basement of zsquare for drinks, dessert, and often inappropiate conversation and gesturing with as. a great weekend that for once, felt much longer than the short two days it actually took up. | | |
| so back in november jon & i went to the beach and played frisbee on a beautifully cold and crisp saturday: 
then in december we went out to snowbird for a few days --- AWESOME.  
some pix from nye in nyc (where i flew solo w/ the wp-crew) - began the day with brunch - delicious chicken fried quail - at cookshop with the girls, then met up with everyone at th-d for drinks and later dinner at capsuoto.   
back in boston in january, we went to a black-tie fundraising gala for steppingstone: 
and yes, i'm wearing the same white scarf that i did on nye (but different dresses!). i got it made in shanghai this summer - the novelty hasn't worn off yet! the next week we went to a james bond party, so jon was thrilled to wear his tux twice in one week. unlike every other girl at the party, i opted not to be a "bond girl" in a cocktail dress and instead dressed up as the russian spy "onatop" from goldeneye with a squirt gun full of vodka (mmm... plastic-infused vodka...)  over president's day weekend, i made a quick trip to ny. in less than twenty-four hours in manhattan, i managed to eat lunch & heavenly levain bakery cookies, dinner at sakagura (see below), and brunch at cafe sabarsky. i am, not surprisingly, quite proud of myself for my efficiency. :) also discovered a great little bar in alphabet city with live jazz & no cover. i know; who knew? 
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| i know it's time to write because judydudy has updated more recently than i have.
as tanya said, it definitely is harder to update when you are in a
relationship than when you are single. especially when work
blocks xanga (bastards!) and you don't have internet at home (don't get
me started on RCN). on the flipside, it is sometimes refreshing
not to have internet at home b/c i force myself to do other things when
i get home -- yet somehow i still couldn't get my christmas cards out
in time this year. resolution #1 for 07....
crazy to think that '06 is almost ever. what a strange year.
went to bouchon for lunch today with mike (and ate a disugusting
amount: salmon rillette, gravlax salad, chicken soup, lobster blt
sandwich, roast beef sandwich, chocolat chaud, bouchons & vanilla
mousse cake. yikes. but all of it delicious). i
wanted to go to visit old friends and of course b/c i miss the
food. it turned out to also be a nice way to end the year -
seeing how far that place has come, that is. twelve months ago i
signed the contract and construction had barely begun. today the
place is bustling. i'm so proud of everyone - even myself for not
reverting to my anal nitpicky manager ways when i noticed little things
out of place. ;b as much as i enjoyed my time there, i must
say that i don't miss being in management right now. it is fun
and extremely rewarding... but it took so much out of me -- energy that
i'm much happier putting to use in my own personal life right now.
so onto that. went to snowbird for a last minute ski trip two
weeks ago with jon. got my ticket three days before we
left. i love being able to do that! had a RIDICULOUS
time. it snowed almost two feet the day we arrived -- the first
morning on mineral basin, i thought i had stepped into a warren miller
movie watching the amazing skiiers/boarders float thru the
powder. i was so excited to turn off the ridge and head down the
bowl like that myself. went about two feet before i was stopped
dead in my tracks by all the powder and had to literally dig myself
out. it was unreal. definitely the three best days of
skiing i've ever had in my twenty-year "career." pictures to come.
so other than the fact that boston is a bit too far from the wasatch
mountains, life there has been going well. it's been great to
reconnect with my friends living up there (and of course jon) - and
life got exponentially better the day that i discovered equator coffee
in boston (the california roasters that bouchon uses). :)
it's been wonderful to cook again -- especially in the kitchen that i
helped to design. i've been venturing into new proteins -- made a
nice duck breast one night and did a spicy lamb shank for xmas eve
lunch. yum.
in white plains at the moment picking up a few more things that i need
up there - namely classical cd's, girlie & foreign movies, and my
bamboo cutting board. don't know how i've gone so long without
those things!
have a happy new year everyone! and of course enjoyable
celebrations to ring in the new year. resolutions to come in the
next update.
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| i'm moving in with jon. yes, again. second time's a charm, isn't that how the saying goes? well, now it is.
it's amazing how many twists & turns life can take if you let it. i hope i'm nearing the end of my roller coaster bumpy ride. i guess it was exciting for awhile, but i'm definitely ready for life to be much calmer again.
please come & visit.
"we can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come... there is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold."
--- milan kundera, the unbearable lightness of being
one thing i have learned about myself: i was definitely not born for improv.
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