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2+ years without a blog post. Whoops. Let’s see if I can provide a quick update.

Still in school.
Sept 2007 – Dan proposed
Juggled wedding planning and grad school – I don’t recommend it
Sept 2008 – Got married and went to Maui for our honeymoon
Yep, still in school. At least now I’m [...]

Ok, I have to join the rest of the baker-blogger world and share my experience w/ No Knead Bread. The rage was started when Mark Bittman wrote an article for the NYT about Jim Lahey’s method.
The recipe Bittman put into print varies somewhat from the recipe in the associated video (same link), but [...]

We signed the lease yesterday, and Dan cut Helen the Landlady a check for a hefty chunk of the security deposit. The girl living in the apartment now is leaving at the end of the month, so we’re planning to go back sometime in May to measure rooms and take pictures of the [...]

…but unless we find something better (pretty damn hard in this town), I think we’re living here come August. We get the 1st floor (it’s a duplex), one bay of the garage, as well as a ton of storage and our own washer/dryer in the basement. I don’t have [...]

My room smells better than yours.

I dubbed him the Beer Man. He showed up after I started to shovel off the balcony and thought, “there’s so much snow here I could build a snowman or something…”

My iPod, orderd last Friday night, arrived early Tuesday morning from China. Crazy fast work on the parts of Apple and FedEx. It’s super pretty – pics will be coming soon.
In other news, school has pretty much been more of the same. Biochem class and lab are driving me nuts, [...]

Edit: It shipped!!

If you could spend your time doing anything, what would it be? The stress of school/research got me thinking about what life would be like if I could afford, in both time and money, to be a total slacker with a life of leisure. I’ve come to the conclusion that if ever given [...]

I attended my first Michigan football game today, and it made me super nostalgic for Gator football. Yes, Michigan fans have fun and go all out, but their focus is more on tailgating than deafening the opponent’s offense every single play. In Ann Arbor, tailgating starts at 9am sharp, and eventually those individuals [...]