You know what’s a great example of an extraordinary item? I’ll give you an example: you having fun between now and exam day. That should be an extraordinary item. Something that’s both unusual and infrequent. You should not be having fun.
Hah.
7 hours ago- take a cooking class
- learn to sew (had this on my list last year, woops)
- alter a thrifted dress
- learn to do makeup (also had this one on my list last year, sadly)
- reach my fitness goals
- study for the cpa
- make a delicious fruit tart
- make braised beef short ribs & beef stroganoff from thomas keller’s ad hoc at home
- bake a cake using my crate & barrel three-tier mold
- finish the murakami books i’ve yet to read
- read more non-fiction
- purge clothes, then sell/donate
- go on a challenging hike
あいつ。
2 days ago— Nicholas Kurti, as mention in Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking
#ube ice cream from john’s. still prefer magnolia brand. (Taken with instagram)
If your house were burning, you’d no doubt be faced with the toughest question ever: What to take with you? As The Burning House project — whose best submissions arrive in book form in July — helpfully points out: “It’s a conflict between what’s practical, valuable and sentimental.”
So? What would you take?
One night during junior year a fire broke out in my apartment complex, though it was a small one. I had a talk with Quynh about what I would take in the case of a fire, and it’s nice seeing that others think about this, too. Currently, I would take:
- letters
- SS and birth certificate
- wallet
- MbyMJ black backpack
- MbyMJ bag
- watch
- nail polish (just because they’re convenient to grab since I put them in a container)
- laptop
- iPod
- BlackBerry
- Steve Madden heels
- Dolce Vita booties
- red Zara dress
Hopefully I’d be wearing something cute so I’d at least have one nice outfit left. I also would mention Kafka on the Shore or Hardboiled Wonderland, but I left those at home in socal.
