Archive for October, 2008

Date: October 28th, 2008
Cate: Complaints & Confessions, Gluttony
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

One of the greatest dilemmas in my life is trying to reconcile the simple joy of eating with the aesthetic of being thin. I find it more and more difficult to curb cravings and resist temptation. When the only exercise I get comes from walking to class, it is dangerous to give into late-night ramen, after lunch ice cream or Mexican food.

For some of us, food fascination is trying the new snack wrap at McDonald’s. For others, it could be watching Andrew Zimmern put down a beating cobra heart on the Travel Channel. It could be trying all the flavors at Baskin-Robbins (notice that the re-branding left out the 31?); finally getting reservations for El Bulli; getting something besides orange chicken at Panda Express; enjoying kaiseki that tastes just as good as it looks at Ursawa; having hummus instead of mayonnaise on your sandwich. The foodie culture and rise of foodie blogs has left me wondering: is what I eat a worthwhile utilization of my daily calorie intake?

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Date: October 21st, 2008
Cate: Complaints & Confessions, Miscellaneous
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What if Your Name Determined Personality?

This is Tila. She is a kindergartener. I stumbled into her at my local garage salon when I went to get my first hair perm, which is another story.

When I heard the hairdresser call her name, I reacted how anyone would: Tila? Like Tila Tequila?.

After I got over the surprise, and the pain from the flinch it caused (since my head was over the sink for a rinse), I felt some pity. Her generation might never make the association, but we will always know her as the Tila Tequila kid. What if someone from my generation becomes a teacher for her generation? There’s a moderately-lived workplace joke.

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