Since I'm awesome at updating this blog, I've started another one just for the cupcake truck!
Since I'm awesome at updating this blog, I've started another one just for the cupcake truck!
Posted on April 28, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (0)
howdy! so there have been some pretty big & exciting developments in my life lately... i found out last week (with only four weeks to go) that i will get to keep my beloved job for a while longer! wow. it was a complete surprise to me, i honestly hadn't expected that to happen since things are so tight in the academic world right now.
also exciting: a couple months ago my friend Kristin moved back from SF. we're both avid bakers, especially of cupcakes, and we realized that, compared to NYC, DC, New Haven & Boston, Providence is sorely lacking in the fun bakery dept so we're starting up a little business of our own! we've been doing the Providence Open Market on Saturdays to see if people would be interested & it turns out that people are very interested! now our next step is to find a retail outlet. or several. or maybe even a truck...
i guess i'm going to have to finally get a drivers license now! (pictured above & in this order are: vegan s'mores with choco graham bunnies, cappuccino with chocolate frosting, fresh lime margarita & fresh tangelo cupcakes!)
Posted on June 06, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
i have been experimenting a bit more with the recipes in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. last weekend i baked the chai tea cupcakes for the first time & topped them with an improvised cocoa cinnamon frosting. i forgot to halve the recipe so now i've got a batch of cappuccino cupcakes in the oven to go under all that extra frosting. oh, darn!
i promised i'd tell you about my trip to switzerland... i'm still sorting through all the photos & really want to have them printed as a cool Blurb book. i took about 900 photos so getting them edited down to a managable (affordable) size is challenging.
i was there for 3 weeks, living in the corner of my sister's apartment in Baden, just outside of Zurich. we did a little traveling, i climbed an Alp or two, spent some wonderful time with my brother-in-law's family, ate my brother-in-law's delicious food, ate his mother's delicious food, ate so many wonderful things! and, oh, the endless supply of fresh bread, cured meats & tiny cups of espresso. heaven.
i returned home with a kind of feeling of detachment. not in a bad way, but in a "i stood atop a glacier & the world is very big & full of things i haven't experienced yet" kind of way. last year i spoke of feeling like Providence & i had broken up, i still feel that, but in a more positive sense. i had never left the US before, not even to Canada or Mexico, and i have only just begun to see what is out there. one of the things that excites me about working for myself is the potential for mobility. i can take myself & my work anywhere.
and i hope to do so!
Posted on February 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
hello. welcome back.
has it been a year? no. but almost a year. a tumultuos year that felt like many, many years. i turned 30 this past october & i was very, very relieved to say goodbye to 29. i hope that for some time i can continue to say that 29 was the worst year of my life. i would be incredibly grateful.
so. where am i now? well. that's what i'm trying to figure out. i've got just 5 months left of my beloved job in the rare books library & with the economy being so dreadful, i have little hope of staying on. in case you hadn't heard, i love my work. i've been getting some notice about it lately: a little spot in the Brown Alumni Magazine & i was profiled by Lawrence Biemiller in the Chronicle of Higher Education. it's subscription only, but if you'd like a link to the full article i can email it to you & here is the slideshow. i will be so sad to
leave the library & abandon the collection. i know that sounds
terribly dramatic, but i care about every little (or gigantic) book & object that makes its way in to my lab.
although i'm still job hunting, i've decided to get back to working for myself. it's a terrifying idea, but i certainly know how to market myself & with my recent press it seems completely logical.
okay, there's a little bit of a catch-up for now! next time i'll tell you about the 3 week trip to Switzerland i recently returned from...
Posted on January 31, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Posted on July 03, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)