Got up early this morning to polish off my latest batch of work for Simone. Since it’s Saturday, and drizzling, everyone else was asleep, so it was very easy to get some work done. Once finished, I moseyed on down to the floor kitchen for second breakfast. Jukka, the resident Finn, was there, just finishing … Continue reading
I scooped up a paycheck from Drexel and headed straight for the grocery store. I had myself a meal today. Not pictured are the heaping bowl of cornflakes and small omelette I made for myself after polishing off what’s pictured. One of my favorite things about Munich is that buying a bottle of beer is … Continue reading
There are people who live to create culinary delights, a good part of whose days are spent running thought experiments on flavor combinations, the load balancing of calorie types, and of course, where and when to procure groceries for cooking. Then, of course, there’s another type of person. I had heard tell that Germans love … Continue reading
Just to assure everyone that my life is spectacular, I post this picture. Yes, I took it specifically for my sister. Em, this thing was five bucks. No, I did not devour the whole thing myself. I needed many, many reinforcements. All is well in Deutschland. And Switzerland evidently knows what’s up, too. More pics … Continue reading
So what you do is: You go to the Aldi with your friends, and you scope around for some dece food. You’ve already been to Penny Markt this week, naturally—just yesterday, in fact—and so you’re pretty well provisioned already. For example, you have these badass balls of meat that you just plop into boiling butter … Continue reading
Today’s my dad’s birthday, and of course I’m not in Chicago to spend it with him. Birthdays and holidays are important to him, at least more so than they generally are to me (which isn’t saying much, I suppose). If I understand the situation correctly, I think he values the timing of action over its … Continue reading