I had this bag of carrots in the bottom of the fridge and the only way that we could eat them all before they went bad was to make a carrot cake, of course! This is actually the first carrot cake I have tried. I learned that you really do have to wait for the [...]

Tonight I made the “next” in my menu. (The menu below is not in any order. I make what I feel like making) I was not able to last night, so I guess that means two tomorrow :-P Here are the pictures of the Orange-Almond Biscotti. And yes, these were *really* good!

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I turn 30 soon. In (almost) 30 days. So to celebrate, I am going to bake 30 cakes/pies/cookies over the next 30 days.
Tonight: Chocolate Chunk Cookies

The rest of the menu:1. Blueberry Cream Cheese Roll2. Peach Cobbler3. Gingerbread Cake with Raisin Sauce4. Rhubarb Chess Pie5. Walnut Bourbon Pie6. ‘Better than &%#’ Chocolate Cake7. Black Forest Torte8. [...]

Today I am ‘back’ sort of. I have been on sick leave, and still technically am, but I also need to be around others and work. I am too quickly getting lost in the monotony of ‘other things’ beyond what is obviously important (vague, but well, has to be right now). I want to write [...]

WORK IN PROGRESSKonferens för doktorander vid Humanistisk fakultet 12 juni 2007
Humanistiska doktorandföreningen samt Humanistiska fakulteten vid Umeå universitet inbjuder till en konferens för doktorander den 12 juni 2007. Syftet med konferensen är bland annat:
•    att öka kontakten mellan fakultetens doktorander•    att ge tillfälle till en övning i att presentera sitt doktorandprojekt•    att kombinera intellektuellt utbyte [...]

i saw this tool (notice the little grey box on the top left of the page) a while back but have not tried it until today. it is a text analysis for a web page created by geoffrey rockwell. it seems interesting, but i have yet to make sense of the visualizations. what do you [...]

Do you ever feel like you are bowing under such a psychological weight that your body begins to physically bow as well? This has been such a strain and for such a long time that I can feel my body actually folding over…a reflection of a loss of energy and the (vain?) attempt to fight [...]

It is really not that cold today, only about 3. The snow is turning into mush and the hot water is out. Well, it really can’t be that bad right. No hot water, just shower at the gym until Monday when everyone comes back to work and can fix things. But wait…it is a bit [...]