The Smoo: Archive

New Years!

I some how managed to ignore Photoshop all of 2009. Well, not all. I had exactly one .psd file as I went back through all my photos to add watermarks for internet posting. This WILL be different in 2010. Happy New Years! May the double digits be doubt the fun. (My only photoshop project.)

Jan 1st

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Dec 31st

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Dec 30th

Dec 28th

I need a frog.

Or should stop seeing movies with love stories, even if they are cartoons. I just enjoy that classic love story WAY too much. ribbit. ribbit. (ew. out of focus, but that’s what happens on spring break. Port douglas, Australia 9/2008)

Dec 28th

Dec 27th

Dec 26th

5 tags

My go-to cake.

Deep chocolate. Ganache. Pecans. Praline. What more could you want? I found this cake in the July 2009 Bon Appétit and haven’t forgotten it. I instantly knew that I had to make it… So, I made it for my Mom’s birthday. And then I made it again for Forth of July (which is was it was intended for) and then again, and again. It batted clean up on the dessert line-up at Thanksgiving,...

Dec 25th

Dec 24th

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Dec 23rd

Dec 21st

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Oh, the Midwest!

While baby-sitting today, I went to get a glass of water and chose a cup from the Horseradish Festive in Collinsville, IL. They went. Enjoyed it, and are going to next year’s. I wish I had remembered to take a picture of the cup. There’s always tomorrow.

Dec 21st

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Hawthorn, VIC

I don’t really know what I’m doing, or who’s reading this. My tagline says “I like to write,” but that I haven’t done. I’m working on it. Eventually. I’m slow at getting acclimated in every aspect of my life, and apparently Tumblr is just another thing that takes time. So, for now, I will show you how I spent the Fall of 2008. I realize that was...

Dec 21st

Blogsecret

13429.) I’m tired of being single. (via blogsecret) Who isn’t?

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

Stuff Journalists Like →

Dec 19th

Dec 18th

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“The developing mathematics of fractals may soon become the scientific way of...”

– Jeffery Steingarten’s “It Must Have Been Something I Ate”

Dec 18th

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And what are you studying?

“Journalism and math,” I answer. I think I need a new way of approaching this question. People applaud, but then say, “Math?!” and they aren’t questioning my ability, but why I’d ever want to work with numbers. I like numbers. They have one answer: right or wrong. Alive or dead. Green or red. Empty or full. Yes or no. There isn’t a maybe, a sorta, an...

Dec 18th

Dec 17th

“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fish burger...”

– Lyndon B. Johnson (via lightblack)

Dec 17th

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Dec 16th

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Ohhh college students...

I still don’t understand why it took a 3-week-long game of email tag to get into the 8am Calc2 class I needed for next semester. Who takes Calc2 at 8am that doesn’t have to?! I on the other hand, have an internship that locks me out of the other, more convenient, time slots. Oh well. I won. Got my 8am. Yes!

Dec 16th

http://podcast.y98.com/kyky/2087063.mp3 →

Y98’s Philips and Co redid “Party in the USA” into “I Can’t Wait for Christmas Day.”

Dec 16th