My co-worker, Marnee, gave me a recipe for butternut squash soup one day after seeing a tweet I wrote on Twitter that asked “Does anyone else like butternut squash as much as I do?” She came over to my desk and I jotted down her recipe. It goes a little something like this: Butternut Squash…
Today is March 2, 2009. New York City is in the midst of a winter snow storm. Let’s take a look out of my dorm windows. I’m located at NYU Palladium, on East 14th Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues. It’s definitely a winter wonderland… NYU, my university of choice, has issued a Winter Storm…
Above: Portuguese Water Dogs, Splash and Diver, appear on PIX11 Morning News with owner Elena Gretch. On the day of his Inauguration, President Obama announced to his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, and the entire world that the girls had earned their new puppy that would be joining them in the White House. After that…
Wow, I can’t believe the organizers of the NYU Violet Ball, our annual university-wide dance, still have a Polaroid picture booth (as evidenced above). While Polaroids do add a vintage feel to any dance, I feel that students would really love to have higher quality photos that they can easily access and tag online, possibly…
Above: If I don’t get a job soon, I’m going to have to find more inspiration from bathroom wall drawings. This one isn’t really reassuring. Is anyone else out there looking for a post-graduation job? Does anyone else out there have thousands of dollars in school loans encroaching on their life? Does anyone else out…
Today I found a new song via Pandora Radio that I really like! It’s called “Things” by a Brooklyn-based group called FannyPack. This song was released in 2003 on their “So Stylistic” album. I looked for about five minutes, but I couldn’t find any other videos to demonstrate the song, other than this one with…
My friend, Maria, told me a touching story about her family’s childhood goldfish and his silver fish friend. I’d like to recount that story. Floyd was the goldfish’s name, and his silver fish friend was Yobi. The two fish originally belonged to her brother, Christopher, who had them for about a year, but he left…
Shocking news: Decaf coffee has caffeine. That’s according to several studies. “If someone drinks five to ten cups of decaffeinated coffee, the dose of caffeine could easily reach the level present in a cup or two of caffeinated coffee,” says researcher Bruce A. Goldberger, PhD, of the University of Florida, in a news release. In…
Last night, my friend spotted a pack of Olay Regenerist 14 Day Skin Intervention on my dresser. Only one of the 14 packets were removed, so she asked if I was using it. “No,” I replied, “I just thought I’d try it, because some of my co-worker working on the Olay account at Saatchi thought…
Above: Project Happiness Syrah Red Wine from Trader Joe’s Everyone needs some happy red wine every now and then. That’s why I chose pRojECt hApPinesS Syrah tonight! And then I realized a disconnect in my knowledge between Shiraz and Syrah. I began to wonder, “Are Shiraz and Syrah the same type of grape?” The answer:…
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