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My, how quickly time flies... I'm now a resident of Arlington, TX and working under the guise of a great Chef at a neat company. I'm still not certain on how much I can really talk about the work we do, or who we work with, because it's fairly secretive. But I've gone to work for exactly 4 hours in the first week, waiting on a stupid drug test. Oh well. I'm in Lubbock now, seeing the family and friends. Whitney is as pretty as ever and, thank God, she...

I put up some pictures from class on Flickr......

Pizza Patron, a Dallas-based pizzeria, has been under fire lately for accepting pesos. How bigoted and ignorant can America be? Well, enough to hate on a company that from all outward-looking signs are very legit. It's sad when things like this blow up in the news, because it just underscores that many Americans haven't left bigotry and ignorance back in the past where it belongs. This isn't an immigration debate and it's not about nationalism. It's about Americans feeling they are superior than these poor little brown people who live...

The United States taxpayers have paid an estimated $357 Billion thus far in this Iraq debacle, the National Priorities Project reports. Remember when the President said in 2003 that he was sending $74 billion to pay for the war? (as in the whole thing!) The amount of money spent in Iraq (of which billions have gone missing or stolen), the United States could have: * hired SIX million new teachers * built THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND new schools * hired EIGHT million new police officers * bought a years' worth of gas...

Well, the Second Term Practical will go down in personal history as a moment I care to forget. The first half of my 2 hours was great. I drew Station #1; roasted chicken with pan gravy, glazed beets, potatoes au gratin, and green beans. The soup was beef consomme, a personal nemesis, but of all the stations, it was the easiest. So I had to just got and mess everything up. Nothing like having the easiest menu and getting the worst grade. One point lower and we'd be retaking that...

Merry Christmas Adam, Lee, Whitney, Elise, Kyle, Cayce, Patrick, Martha, Lauren, and Me! Here's hoping for an Apple phone! Apple's Keynote is at 9am PST....

Tuesday afternoon, I've got my second-term cooking practical. I like to make it very gangsta by pretending it's me against the world (!), but it's really not that bad. Basically, I'll enter a testing kitchen, have 150 minutes to knock out a soup, three sides, and a main entree. It's all gotta come out at the exact same time at the end of the testing period and I can't ask questions or receive any help. So it's a little tedious, but I feel some sort of confidence, though I'm...

I'm back in Hyde Park, NY after 12 days in Lubbock. It's kind of weird to be back, as I'd gotten semi-used to being in Lubbock. Part of the weirdness of this whole culinary school experience is how fast the program goes and how quickly time flies by. Honestly, each 3 week class feels like about 3 days, so being gone for 12 days, felt like months. I'm only here for 15 more days, which is strange, before my upcoming move to Arlington, TX until the end of June....