Photo of the Day: Photog in training

How do you get a five year old to sit for a photo?

Give him a camera.

Grad work with Goats

A teaser for my audio slideshow. spent a few hours at a petting zoo in a Chicago village. good day as a j-student.

And the prerequisite picture of food.

Feedback's appreciated.

Eating Chicago

Some tasty Thai food to bolster courage before interviewing for an audience research.

Vietnamese spring rolls

Real dumplings are really good

Thai iced tea

Spring rolls

Delicious, spicy curry.

And to finish, a coffee with Darth.

You know you're a nerd when

you set up the tripod and lighting for a head shot.

Financially Sensible Meals

This is not one of them.

With my impending single living on the horizon - eleven days and counting - I've realized things are going to change. After a year of living at the Burrow (post-college-ish), I've become accostumed to making giant serving sizes of meals.

This is one serving for one of the Burrow-dwellers

not all of which are necessarily cost effective.

Today's sponsor - Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

And given my student status, i'm going to need more cost-effective meals.

Read: I'm going to be eating a lot of yogurt. And my days of aspargus-chicken pie-making days are numbered.

When Bad Icing Happens to Good Cakes

This happens every time i make a cake.

It doesn't matter how long i wait for the cakes to cool, how long the cakes are cooked, or what kind of icing i use.

The cakes falls apart.

But this is a whole new level of fail. At least the others wait until the layers are complete splitting open.

I comfort myself with the knowledge, not every dessert needs icing.

I give you the Turtle Tart. Cookie, caramel and chocolate makes for one delicious trip to heaven on a plate.

Better get your hands on some before they disappear.

Get it? because some one's hand is in there. hah. too funny....

Summer lovin'

I'm goal oriented. I get it from my German grandfather. So without further ado, my summertime goals




Learn to use this

Have had this for a while, thanks to Keels for telling me to join. Now, going on almost two years, i figure i should really sit down and figure out all its nifty tricks. so watch out for lots of useless updates.

Get better at this

I'm working on upgrading to a dslr with hd video which will bring its own mess of new things to learn, but i really need to focus on using the light, switching the iso and f-stops, and using the lens to its full awesomeness

Eat more of these

I have found i really love fruit. not so much with the veggies. So i'm working on that. these were for the summer pesto-pasta salad that the boys enjoyed.


now if they could just work on their cleaning skills...

Wear this a lot

Can you see that? It says Northwestern. As in Northwestern University. As in holy s$!t Northwestern! The sweatshirt was a going away present from the lovely flamingos, who i will be missing this summer.

(The lovely ladies of 13, plus Patrick)

So there they are, some goals for the summer. I'm certain they will change as my methods quarter at NU starts in twenty days. AHH!